Wednesday, February 21, 2007

due date change

So the doc decided to move my due date forward to April 21 -- my original due date and coincidentally the date I was due to be born on as well! With the change of due date that means Ben is only measuring about 1 week and a few days ahead, so that's not so abnormal or scary. :-)

Jeff and I completed our Childbirth class and the Baby Basics class and just have one more left: Breastfeeding 101. I think we learned a lot. We got to take a tour of the Family Birthing Unit (or whatever fancy name they call it!). It is very nice. This is an exciting time and its so hard not think 24/7 about Ben and what having him (in all senses of the phrase - labor, delivery, bringing him home, living with a newborn day-to-day, etc.) is going to be like. I am so glad that we will have family and friends around to help us after Ben is born.

We have two more baby showers coming up - one is being thrown at work, and one by some friends from our church here in Athens. I am sure they will both be great!

Anyway, sorry if you wanted to learn about things other then the baby...there simply isn't anything else in my head!! :-)

Thursday, February 08, 2007

lots of love for lots of baby

Well, Ben is a big baby. We had an ultrasound on Tuesday (28wks 5 days) that confirmed that he is still growing ahead of schedule...2 weeks and 2 days ahead to be exact. They estimated that he weighs about 3lbs 11 oz right now which puts him in the 81st percentile...he should weigh about 2lbs 10oz. Dr. Rosemond thought that by the time we get to 37 wks Benjamin will be over the 90th percentile. If that is the case, then they may want to induce me to ensure that he does not get too big. I go back for another ultrasound on April 5 to determine how big Ben has gotten and whether or not we need to do anything to bring about labor.

In anycase, we got some great shots of little Ben that we want to share!

Ben's face and arm - 3d/4d

Ben's foot - 2d

Ben's profile (he looks like he is laying on his back with his hand over his head) - 2d

Enjoy!!! :-)