I can eat hot dogs!!
Hooray! The Root Beer Stand, Reds games, and Skyline are now at the top of my list of things to do this summer! It doesn't get more exciting than that, folks :)
Oh wait...
Well, we also found out that the baby hard at work growing inside of me is perfectly healthy. I guess that's pretty ridiculously exciting, huh? Oh, and also, WE GOT TO SEE HIM/HER! So really, the hot dog thing is about the 3rd most exciting part of the appointment yesterday.
The 12 minutes that I got to lay there and watch my little one up on the screen were magical. It was just as awesome as it was with Brooke, just as exciting. Actually, don't tell her, but I think it might have been a bit more exciting, mostly because it put a very real spin on this pregnancy. Seeing that tiny little thing squirming around in there made things very real, a feeling I've been waiting for for quite some time now. This little guy or girl (still Team Surprise on the gender!) was moving all over the place during the ultrasound, a sign that this one may be even sassier than Miss Brooke.
Baby Reeder is, in the OB's words, "perfect". He/she has all of the right parts and they are all in the right places. The tech & OB saw no signs of birth defects or abnormalities. Heartbeat was a steady 152 bpm; watching the heart flicker on the screen is one of my favorite parts :) He/she weighs a whopping 14 oz. already. The average for this point in pregnancy is 12 oz... Surprise, surprise, the Reeders made another giant baby. (For the record, Brooke was only 1.5 oz above average at her ultrasound...ruh roh!) But the head is within the normal range for now - hooray for me!
We came home with a few pictures of the little one to show his/her big sister. She kept pointing to the pictures saying "baby", which was completely heart-melting. Without further ado, here are the best ones we have.
The standard profile shot. You can see a little bit of the spine and ribs, as well as a clearly outlined head. The little thing jutting out is the back of the baby's upper arm - I'm pretty sure the baby was rolling away from us here.
And here is the more hi-tech photo. Say what you will about 3D pictures, that they are creepy or weird, but I think they are flippin' awesome. Look at that cute face! It's not super easy to see, what with the giant umbilical cord in the way on the left, but the munchkin had his arm up over his face in a very dramatic fashion, so you can kinda see tiny fingers towards the top of the head on the left. And there's another blurry hand right below the mouth. Precious, no?
Relief is an excellent word for how I'm feeling today. Of course we had no reason to believe anything was wrong, especially since Baby Reeder is having parties in my belly all day long. But I still walked into that appt with a bit of trepidation. Knowing that the baby is perfect and I am doing everything right is so comforting!
Less than halfway until we meet face-to-face, kiddo. :)
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