32 Week Ultrasound

Pudgy baby. It weighs a bit more than expected for 32 weeks, so the SUA seems to have no affect.

The tech took some great 3D photos too.

Letter Recognition

N recognizes one letter. The letter 'S'. When he sees a sign with an S on it, he points and says "Look Mom. Like Shrek!". Ok, I guess we've watched that movie a few times...

Chatterbox

Before I forget, I wanted to list a few phrases N uses regularly before he moves on to not speaking to me at all.

- "Hmm" (holding index finger to lips) "Aha!" (pointing up in the air). "I have idea!" However, when you ask what the idea is, he just looks blankly.

- "Come here. Follow me. I have to show you something." Which is followed by him looking quickly around the room to see what he can show you.

- "Will you play trains with me?" His voice gets quite high up at the end.. very cute and impossible to say no to.

- "I'm not closing my eyes." Said often at bedtime.

- "But I need (fill in blank)". The best was when asking him to take his finger out of his nose: 'But I need my finger in my nose.'

- "I'm not cute/handsome/smart/a monkey. I'm N!" I loved listening to him argue with a woman in Carson City that he wasn't cute.

- "Wow. That is kewel!" Yes, that's how he pronounces it.

And it starts...

Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?

and on, and on. At this point, I'm having fun trying to think up different answers for each "Why?", but I'm sure I'll tire of it soon enough.

SUA

So, according to my OB/Gyn, I have SUA, or Single Umbilical Artery. Normally, there are two arteries and one vein in the umbilical cord (who knew?). I only have one artery. Not that uncommon. Often it's not even noticed until the baby is born and they look at the umbilical cord.

According to the Dr. since everything else looked fine in the ultrasound, there is nothing to worry about (sometimes this occurs along with heart or kidney problems, but the 20 month ultrasound should show that). They'll do another ultrasound at 32 weeks to make sure the baby is growing, as there is a tendency for lower weight births.

Meh, but they had that concern for N and he came out just short of 8lbs.

Counting... for real

N is pretty good at reciting his numbers... well 1-29 anyway. I can't convince him yet that next is 30 not twenty-ten.

But I think he finally figured out how to count. He came up to me last week at daycare with a couple of dinosaur figures. Then said "Look Mom, I have dinosaurs. One, two", and stopped at two. Usually he'll keep counting for a while. But this time he held out each dinosaur individually while counting it. He looked really proud of himself.

Seventeen Weeks

Well, I'm now 17 weeks into this pregnancy. I wish I'd kept notes last time because I'd like to know if I was this exhausted. Good gravy, I'm falling asleep every night at 8:30 with N. Let's just say the house has looked better.

I think the nausea is finally gone at least. Once again, all food is wonderful and I want it "in my mouth" as N would say.