16 week photo

I'm still in shock over how quickly time has been moving. Sixteen weeks just sounds crazy to me!

My visible uterus! And feeling movements to boot!

I've been able to palpate the edges of my uterus since around 10 weeks, and while I definitely feel thicker around the middle (despite no actual weight gain yet), I still feel like I look more food-belly than baby-belly.

Well, to my surprise, when I woke up this morning--just a day shy of 16 weeks--and stretched in bed I could SEE my uterus. When I lay on my back, lift my butt up off the bed/floor, and "suck in" a bit, it becomes so obvious. So, of course after yelling for Art to come take a look, I captured a picture :)

Taken from my chest level, looking down...



And now, on top of that excitement, I've been feeling what I'm chalking up to be fetal movements these past few days. I only notice them randomly when I'm quiet and still, but I can't imagine these quivers/taps could be anything else. Last night Art and I spent some time on the couch quietly laying with his hand on my belly, and we both felt the same quiver/tap in the same spot to the right. I'm convinced it was the baby :)

Ultrasound is scheduled!

I scheduled the ultrasound today--exactly one month from now on October 15th. I'll be 19 weeks and 2 days along by then, so we'll get to determine the sex! I'm so excited to get to see in there and view what's growing, and I'm so excited to have Art by my side for it too. Just the week prior to that will be the first midwife appointment he'll be able to come to and the first time he'll hear the heartbeat in person. Things are definitely starting to feel even more real!

14 week photo

Here we go: the second trimester!

Officially 1/3 done

And here I am entering the second trimester. I can't believe the time has flown by so quickly and we're now a third of the way to parenthood. It's so incredibly scary and utterly exciting simultaneously; the result is just mind blowing. The words to describe this level of anticipation are very difficult to find, especially when they get muddled with so much mushy love stuff.

I feel like we're both on the same page with just about everything imaginable. So far this has been an awesome experience.