14 Weeks

14 Weeks! (sorry about the scrubs, they don't

make for the most attractive picture!)

On August 24, we went back to the doctor's for our 14 week check-up. Our friends Tiffany & Kirk had recently gone to their perinatologist's appointment, & we were pretty sure that they were going to be able to find out the gender of their baby, since she's about 14 weeks along too. But, their little baby wasn't cooperating, & they weren't able to find out! So, Jeff & I took this information with a grain of salt and decided that we wouldn't ask the doctor to do an ultrasound, we would just wait until our 18 week ultrasound to find out.



The doctor did a quick heartbeat check, & the baby was zooming away at 156! The doctor had mentioned that she took a look at the perinatologist's results, & asked if we were able to find out the sex. We told her how the doctor waited until the end of the exam to ask us if we wanted to find out, only to tell us he wasn't able to tell us & that our baby looked like a girl, & that was because either it was a girl or because the little boy parts hadn't popped out yet. So at that point, the doctor started referring to the baby as a "her", & told us how she was able to find out the sex of her two children at 12 weeks along.



After that point, Jeff said "The baby's a girl- even the doctor thinks it's a girl." Looks like little Jeff is having a change of heart in his prediction, eh? :)



Our next appointment with the perinatologist is scheduled for Sept. 24, so I had scheduled our OB appointment for that day as well. But then we had a long surgery scheduled for that day at work, & I had to change the OB appointment to Sept. 23. Sooooooo, it looks like that will be the day that we find out the sex of Little Baby Register!!!



I'm feeling pretty good these days; no more nausea, which is great!!! But I do tend to get a daily headache- the doctor said that maybe it's because I'm not eating enough protein & I'm having a blood sugar crash. So I need to work on that & drinking more water, in case that's the culprit too. I seem to be getting some of my energy back, because this past weekend I was able to clean the house! It took a lot of breaks, & the whole weekend to complete it, but I DID IT!



Thanks for all the love & prayers, & keep 'em coming!

Love,

Ashlee, Jeff, & Baby Register