Yeah!!! We got our new digital camera. This should make the weekly updates much easier and much more likely to happen.
Week 24 Mommy Stats
Weight: 120.5 pounds
Waist: 36 inches
Weight: 120.5 pounds
Waist: 36 inches
Friday, February 22, 2002
Wednesday, February 6, 2002
February 6, 2002 - 22 Weeks - Ultrasound Day
Today we finally got to see the baby. During the ultrasound we had at 7 weeks, it looked like a tiny smudge in the snow on the screen. Today we got our first glimpse of arms and legs that moved around and well, it just finally looked like an actual baby. It was really cool to feel it kick and see it happening on the screen. The baby was above average in weight for 22 weeks based on all the measurements the doc took. It placed in the 85th percentile for baby's at this stage. Yikes! The measurements also predicted that the baby weighs 1 pound 3 ounces.
You are looking down on the baby from above. The head is on the right and the two arms and hands are pointing toward the left.
You are looking up at baby from underneath in this picture. The body is to the right and the legs and feet are extending to the left.
Gender
March 6, 2002 - 26 Weeks - Success!!!
We weren't expecting to find anything out today, but it was a slow day at the doctor's office and we were trapped there for an hour waiting for the sugar to kick in for the glucose tolerance test. So, the doctor suggested that we take a quick peek to see if we could find out the gender. Well, the face was pointed toward my spine so we didn't get good pictures of that, but it meant that the area of interest for finding out whether it is a boy or a girl was aimed right at us. The doc said that while he never gives a 100% certainty with an ultrasound, it's as close as it's ever gonna get. He also said he's never been wrong. It looks like all the predictions were correct!
February 6, 2002 - 22 Weeks - Ultrasound Day
We were hoping to get a definitive answer on whether we had a boy or a girl, but it was more interested in squirming away from the doctor poking it with the ultrasound wand. So, from what the doc could see, he said he was leaning towards it being a girl (since there were no signs of any boy parts in view). At this point he says he has a 65% certainty that it is a girl. He'll do another ultrasound when we're just past 7 months to see if we can find out for sure.
Pre-Ultrasound Predictions
Ancient Chinese Gender Prediction: Every pregnancy website out there has this calendar on it. It takes the lunar age of the mother at conception and the lunar month during which conception occured and uses those items to determine the gender. According to this ancient method, we're having a girl.
Scientific Statistical Prediction: This method takes into consideration the date of ovulation and the last date you did what it was that got you pregnant. The idea is that male sperm swim faster, but die off more quickly. Female sperm take their time getting there, but live longer. The closer the date of ovulation you snuggled a little too close, the better the chances of a boy. Based on this method, the chances are better that we're having a girl.
Dream Prediction: This is the old tried and true, what does the mother dream about method. I've only had one dream in which I could actually tell the sex of the baby, and in that one it was a girl, but the previous two predictions might have had something to do with that!
We weren't expecting to find anything out today, but it was a slow day at the doctor's office and we were trapped there for an hour waiting for the sugar to kick in for the glucose tolerance test. So, the doctor suggested that we take a quick peek to see if we could find out the gender. Well, the face was pointed toward my spine so we didn't get good pictures of that, but it meant that the area of interest for finding out whether it is a boy or a girl was aimed right at us. The doc said that while he never gives a 100% certainty with an ultrasound, it's as close as it's ever gonna get. He also said he's never been wrong. It looks like all the predictions were correct!
February 6, 2002 - 22 Weeks - Ultrasound Day
We were hoping to get a definitive answer on whether we had a boy or a girl, but it was more interested in squirming away from the doctor poking it with the ultrasound wand. So, from what the doc could see, he said he was leaning towards it being a girl (since there were no signs of any boy parts in view). At this point he says he has a 65% certainty that it is a girl. He'll do another ultrasound when we're just past 7 months to see if we can find out for sure.
Pre-Ultrasound Predictions
Ancient Chinese Gender Prediction: Every pregnancy website out there has this calendar on it. It takes the lunar age of the mother at conception and the lunar month during which conception occured and uses those items to determine the gender. According to this ancient method, we're having a girl.
Scientific Statistical Prediction: This method takes into consideration the date of ovulation and the last date you did what it was that got you pregnant. The idea is that male sperm swim faster, but die off more quickly. Female sperm take their time getting there, but live longer. The closer the date of ovulation you snuggled a little too close, the better the chances of a boy. Based on this method, the chances are better that we're having a girl.
Dream Prediction: This is the old tried and true, what does the mother dream about method. I've only had one dream in which I could actually tell the sex of the baby, and in that one it was a girl, but the previous two predictions might have had something to do with that!
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Weeks 18-21 Pre-Digital Camera
Weeks 18-21 Pre-Digital Camera
I decided to consolidate the earlier pictures that didn't come out as well onto one page.
January 10, 2002
18 Weeks
18 Weeks
No Mommy Stats
January 17, 2002
19 Weeks
Mommy Stats
Weight: 113 pounds
Waist: 31 inches
January 31, 2002
21 Weeks
January 17, 2002
19 Weeks
Weight: 113 pounds
Waist: 31 inches
January 31, 2002
21 Weeks
In the Beginning
The very first site I made was to keep the family updated while I was pregnant with our then unknown boy or girl. It went live on February 6, 2002 and it was pretty basic. I took a screenshot to preserve how it looked:
Monday, February 4, 2002
A Time to Refocus
I am writing this entry in July of 2020. Our family blogs have been scattered across several homemade sites, and a few blogspot sites. Many of these sites are using old technology that has started to fail and we are losing access to these memories. I am going to move all of them to this site, so that they will run again. In so doing, we will lose the original look and feel of those sites, so I will post a screenshot to the first post from each site.
The blogs started before my daughter was born, while I was pregnant. They continued until she was 11 years old and my son was 5.
I then took a 7 year break from blogging, mostly when Facebook came along. If I can get all of the blogs moved, I will try to then catch up on the intervening years. Please enjoy!
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