Jake and I had our follow up ultrasound today to find out whether the baby was growing properly, monitor heart and blood flow, etc. Everything looked great, in fact the tech and doctor that I saw told us that the baby is measuring in the 47th percentile for growth, which is perfectly normal. NO we did NOT find out the sex of the baby. We decided against it. Don't be haters… I can here some of you swearing at us under your breath already… He/she weighs 2lbs and 14oz right now. The doctor's guess was that he/she would be around 7lbs, but said these things are hard to predict (as we all know).
Heart and blood flow looked great and the baby was active as can be. He/she did NOT like being pushed around, so wherever the tech went w/ that monitor the baby would follow it and kick / punch back. It was funny. Lots of rolling around. The tech also got a shot of him/her breathing and said he/she was "practicing breathing." Popcorn is probably practicing right along w/dad, who's trying to perfect his breathing technique for the swim portion of his upcoming triathlon. ;)
To be safe, the doctor said I should come back every 3 weeks. He didn't say that it was because there was anything to be concerned with, but only because once he receives a patient for monitoring he likes to keep them as his patients to be completely thorough. Fine by me. I'll take a peep at the little bugger every 3 weeks! That means when this is all said and done we will have had around 10 ultrasounds. Geeze!
Due date will stay the same for now. We were given 9/6, then 9/9, now 9/10 (but we're sticking w/ 9/6)… wouldn't you know Popcorn would be born on 9/11?? Why wouldn't he/she? It's a war baby!
No digital pics to this time… sorry!
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