We had our first appointment today. It wasn't as long as I thought it would be. We talked with the doctor and he set my due date at April 2, I think to avoid an April 1 due date. He said that the baby can come anywhere withing the three weeks prior or one we following that date. My mother will be here the week ending on April 2 so I think it would be cool to have the baby that week, while she's here.
We need to call tomorrow and set up an ultrasound to confirm dates, make sure there's only one baby in there and to check for viability. We'll get that done at the next available slot that fits our schedule. After that, we won't have another ultrasound until 18-20 weeks. The coolest part is that we'll be able to see the heartbeat and we'll be able to videotape it! Way cool!
Dr. Nickel knows that we want to wait to find out the sex of the baby and supports that 100%. He also supports my desire to go for as natural a childbirth as possible, but will give me meds if I want them.
Oh, if you want to know the definition of the term my sister told me to look up, change the spelling by dropping the second 'y'. It essentially is an enzyme which, among other things, is found in sperm and breaks down a layer surrounding the egg, allowing for a single sperm to enter and fertilize the egg. I'm sure this isn't entirely accurate, but for my non-medically trained brain, it works.
Not much else right now. More after the ultrasound!
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Owen's Growning Vocabulary
Spoken words:
mama, dada, mommy, daddy, max, kitty, cat, dog, all done, gramma, papa, dude, please, bye-bye, hi, hello, hi there, water, hot dog, night-night, there, right there, book, read, truck, Isabella, Katie, Greggy, Mikey, Austin, Scott, Dan, Cissy, Nick, pbj, milk, (ba)nana, apple, baby, belly button (sounds like baby...), Wiggles, wake up Jeff! (really unintelligible, but he's consistent in what he says so...), ahoy, uh-oh, potty, uh-huh, no, diaper, yippee!!, teddy, choo-choo, car/truck sound, yummy-yummy (numma-numma), did it!, do it, more, that, two, three, bubbles, fishie, la-la-la, backpack, duck, ball, wipes, max, hat, eat, bear, this, a, the
and the list keeps growing...
Animal Sounds:
dog (different sounds for big and little dogs!), cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck (though he sometimes confuses it with a rooster...), rooster, snake, monkey, elephant, tiger/lion/bear (anything that roars)
Signs:
eat/food, please, thank you, milk, apple, water, more, fishie, all done
Favorite Songs:
Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (Wiggles song), Hot Potato (Wiggles song), Monkey Dance (Wiggles song), Twinkle Twinkle (can sing "how I wonder" and "up above the"), ABCs (knows "w"), Old MacDonald (sings "E-I-E-I-O" unprompted and will do the animal sounds with prompts)
mama, dada, mommy, daddy, max, kitty, cat, dog, all done, gramma, papa, dude, please, bye-bye, hi, hello, hi there, water, hot dog, night-night, there, right there, book, read, truck, Isabella, Katie, Greggy, Mikey, Austin, Scott, Dan, Cissy, Nick, pbj, milk, (ba)nana, apple, baby, belly button (sounds like baby...), Wiggles, wake up Jeff! (really unintelligible, but he's consistent in what he says so...), ahoy, uh-oh, potty, uh-huh, no, diaper, yippee!!, teddy, choo-choo, car/truck sound, yummy-yummy (numma-numma), did it!, do it, more, that, two, three, bubbles, fishie, la-la-la, backpack, duck, ball, wipes, max, hat, eat, bear, this, a, the
and the list keeps growing...
Animal Sounds:
dog (different sounds for big and little dogs!), cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck (though he sometimes confuses it with a rooster...), rooster, snake, monkey, elephant, tiger/lion/bear (anything that roars)
Signs:
eat/food, please, thank you, milk, apple, water, more, fishie, all done
Favorite Songs:
Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (Wiggles song), Hot Potato (Wiggles song), Monkey Dance (Wiggles song), Twinkle Twinkle (can sing "how I wonder" and "up above the"), ABCs (knows "w"), Old MacDonald (sings "E-I-E-I-O" unprompted and will do the animal sounds with prompts)
2 comments:
Oh, biology geekdom at its best. This is so cool!
-Suzanne
Yeah. Have you been reading Michele's blog? It's very interesting and enlightening.
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