Born on Broadway

We will be delivering at Riverside Methodist Hospital.  On our way to our second appointment today, I noticed that our hospital is partly located on North Broadway.  While it's physical address is Olentangy River Road, Brian and I are happy to report that our baby will be born on [North] Broadway!  (Unless we are not in the vicinity of Riverside and baby decides the time is NOW and comes wherever we are...I suppose that could happen.)  But the plan is Riverside!

Our appointment today was amazing!  We learned that my blood type is O+ which is the same as the majority of the population and poses no particular risks to baby, and we have also confirmed that there is only one passenger aboard the mothership.  We pretty much confirmed this with our first appointment, but you never know if one little guy or gal is hiding in there!

We are entering week thirteen today and for the very first time we heard the perfect whoosh-whoosh-whoosh sound of our little baby's heartbeat.  It was incredible!  Our doctor said that the heartbeat is sometimes hard to find, but as soon as she put the doppler on my stomach the heartbeat was there beating at 150 bpm!  We were very proud of our cooperative little wee one, we even heard a random noise which the doc informed us was a little kick!  That made both Brian and I laugh!

After we heard the amazing sound of our baby's heartbeat, I was whisked away to give blood to test to see if I am a carrier of any cystic fibrosis genes and then we headed down to Maternal Fetal Medicine where we had a detailed ultrasound to test for any signs of down syndrome or trisomy 13 or 18.  This was a special treat because we got to see our little baby again!  Had we not done this test, we would've heard the heartbeat and headed on our way, which also would have been satisfying, but being able to see our bambino was a bonus!

On top of it all, our initially cooperative wee one was not being cooperative at all, and it took nearly 30 minutes to get the baby to move in to the right position to get the correct measurements.  At one point, the ultrasound technician was trying everything to get our baby to move, and what did baby do?!  Baby moved alright - 180 degrees the opposite way!  (Child stars are so difficult to work with...)  Fortunately, once baby did get in the right position, we were informed that all appears to be perfectly healthy and normal, so aside from poking and prodding a little bit our bun is still cooking away! 

Doing the ultrasound was simply incredible.  Our baby has grown so much over the last month!  It is amazing!  We saw perfect little fingers on perfect little hands, and baby even open and closed its hands while we were watching!  Baby also open and closed its mouth AND our ultrasound technician said that we may have a thumb sucker in there because baby put its hands toward its face multiple times in what looked like the start of sucking its thumb!  Brian and I both sucked our thumbs when we were little, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if Baby is too!  Sorry, Baby...

While we did the ultrasound we saw the funniest image of our little bambino loungin'!  Now, I'm not talking about just relaxin' a bit.  No, ladies and gentlemen, I'm talking about straight up chaise lounge pool side loungin'!  Baby had its both of its arms by its head and was completely stretched out!  We, again, couldn't help but laugh at the thought!  Apparently, living in the womb is the bomb-dizzle!

Last, but certainly not least, we have another appointment scheduled in four weeks and another appointment scheduled in six weeks.  The second appointment will be a big milestone - we will be finding out if we are having a little girl or little boy, in addition to making sure all is healthy and baby is growing as it should be!  SO, that means if you are interested in voting in our baby boy/baby girl poll, you must have your votes in by May 29th!  (It's right there to the right on the sidebar!)

What a day!  It was so exciting to see our growing bun again, hear its little heartbeat, have the reassurance that all is going well, and have a few laughs as a family along the way!

Enjoy the ultrasound photos below!

Here baby is sitting indian style getting his/her meditation on!

How precious is that little profile?!

Our baby is facing us here.  Don't you love the buddha belly?!

Here is the loungin' pic - legs stretched out, both arms up by its head!
 I wonder if there's a baby hammock in there too?!

Here is baby's little hand waving hello!

And here are baby's little fingers!

I think our baby has quite a sense of humor after seeing what's been going down inside the womb!  We are so looking forward to meeting this kiddo outside of the womb, but we're content with him or her to keep on cookin' until it's time!

You just can't help but smile, can you?!