Ultrasound Pictures and Video

Here are a couple of the pictures and videos they gave to us at our last ultrasound. Unfortunately they didn't burn the "It's a Boy!" picture onto our CD. I'll have to scan that one in and post it later. The videos are very short- just a few seconds each. For some reason they took forever to upload though. ?? Oh well! Enjoy! :)

Belly Picture

It's hard to read, but the sign says "Hollis Grant, 19 Weeks, Baby Boy". :) This was also my first "maternity" outfit to wear- a new grey sweater and black maternity slacks.

I'm REALLY Out-numbered Now!

That's right! It's a BOY! I had a gut feeling it was a boy, and my doctor, although never getting a good look, also thought so all this time. At today's ultrasound, the technician took a million pics and videos of our little one. (Yes, they will be posted on here soon!) The umbilical cord was in the way until we were just about at the end of the session. Out of nowhere the baby turned a little and she got a clear enough view that she could tell it was a boy!

So, Hollis Grant, welcome to the family! We loved seeing you wiggle and move today. You waved, and yawned, and stretched and kicked. At one point you had one foot up by your head, which we were pretty impressed by. You threw up one hand with the Texas Tech Red Raider sign, so we will have to work on turning that into the slightly different Texas State sign... We have plenty of time for that though. For the time being, we hope you are comfy and warm and realize how much we already love you. Your mommy and daddy couldn't be more excited! XOXO

CONFIRMED!

It IS the baby flutters I feel! I have felt it again several times- most notably at 2am on Monday morning (Nov. 9) after waking up to cough up one of my lungs, and around 3-4pm this afternoon while grading papers and doing other teacher stuff. :) :) :) :) I feel myself totally losing my train of thought and just focusing on the feeling in my tummy when it kicks in (pun totally intended there).

How cool!!!!!!!!! :)

Flutters... I think so!

So it's currently week 17. We didn't find out if Baby Harbin is a boy or girl yet, but we might be able to find out on Nov. 16 at my next ultrasound. Even more exciting than that is the realization that I think I've experienced the "flutters" of this little baby making itself nice and cozy in its temporary home! This is the second night this week, while laying on the couch watching TV, that I felt a funny feeling in my abdomen. Everyone says it feels like gas... well... this didn't quite feel like that. It did kind of feel like a couple of little bubbles, only it didn't hurt, and it didn't travel all the way through my intestines. Therefore, not gas, right?? If it continues to happen, I guess I'll know if what I felt was the baby or just an odd case of something else.

On a different note, (as pregnancy has made me more ADD than I ever thought possible), my friend let me borrow Jenny McCarthy's book Belly Laughs. I read the entire thing in one night. So funny, and thankfully very honest and frank about certain things pregnant women really wonder about! I loved it! I laughed and I cried. PS- DON'T watch Grey's Anatomy while pregnant. #1- Your emotions are even more out of control than usual, and #2- they seem to always have a story you feel you can relate to, making it harder to avoid the tears. Tonight's episode included a story of a preemie who started to thrive after Kangaroo therapy (resting against a bare chest to feel the warmth and heartbeat of another person, usually the parents, but this time it was cutie Dr. Krev.) After the Allen family's recent loss of their son, who had been born about 14 weeks early, I broke down, sobbing madly! So pregnant+Grey's=bad combo.

Every day I feel more and more love for this little tiny person. No matter what all your mom or your friends tell you about their pregnancies, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't "click", until you go through it. Sometimes it feels so incredibly surreal that I'm afraid I'll wake up and it was all a dream. But luckily, I wake up, and I see my little belly and realize that we really are almost half-way through this pregnancy! We are just a few weeks away from the mid-point. Can't believe it. Seems like yesterday, it was August, and I saw those two blue lines appear. Now it's November, and my pants don't fit so well, and everyone can finally see my bump, and I feel like it's rushing by. There are so many words, none of which I can think of at the moment, that could describe the many facets of my emotions. One word sums it all up though: blessed.

Love you all. :) Good night.