Edema?!

Is it already late enough in my pregnancy for Edema? Yesterday after working all day, I changed into shorts and saw my ankles, or lack thereof, for the first time all day. I wanted to cry! What happened to my poor feet? After pondering a lot about how I could be swelling already in my pregnancy, I relized that I am just about 7 months pregnant now. How can that be? Time has passed so quickly! I feel like I still have so much time to prepare for our little angel, but she'll be here before we know it!

I have been getting more and more comments lately about my belly or my weight, which make me laugh. Yesterday I had a lady ask if I only had 6 more weeks and then told me that I hadn't gained any weight. I know that is meant to be a complement, but it's hard for my mind to accept it. For one, I know I've gained 30+ pounds already and I know that some of my pregnancy cloths don't fit any more (I'm sure I just shrank them in the dryer, right?), so you want to smack them. But, the more I see some ladies that are due around the same time I am, I really am smaller than I thought, at least in the belly. I'm sure it's just because of my long torsoe, but I also hope and pray that maybe she really did get Jeff's genes and be a 6 or 7 pounder instead of my families genes and be a 9-10 pounder. I do continue to pray, though!!

Too cute not to share!

Week 27

Today we had another prenatal and everything still looks great! Mom needs to do a little work to make sure she stays healthy through delivery, but nothing of concern. Jacinda is doing fantastic, but doesn't seem to like to have her heart listened to as she seems to hide and move around a lot when they bring out the doppler, so cute and stubborn! :) Mommy says she gets it from Daddy, but Daddy says she gets it from Mommy. Perhaps it is both... Jacinda is growing rapidly and measured out at 28-29 weeks. Mom is also rapidly growing by adding another 4 pounds to the scale since the last appt. and Laura was nice enough to give the total weight gain so far... not something Joanna wanted to hear. Again, nothing to be concerned about, mostly just depressing when she hasn't reached the real weight-gaining time yet.

We were informed today that at the next appt. we'll start to go every 2 weeks and we'll be at 30 weeks! Only about 10 weeks left at that point. Reality sure is starting to set in and our excitement is building, especially when we think about only having two full calendar months left to prepare.

Third Trimester Begins

This week begins our third trimester. It is so hard to believe that our little angel will be here in only 3 months! To bring you all up to speed, we are having a little girl and we have named her Jacinda Naomi. We are hoping that she will have her Daddy's brown hair and her Mommy's blue eyes. We have had three ultrasounds to date and everything looks great! Mommy and Jacinda are both very healthy. Jacinda likes to show off on the ultrasound stretching out and showing us all her little parts. She stretched her legs out at the last one so we could see her whole leg. We've also gotten to see her little face, but they were out of paper last time so we weren't able to get her first portrait. It is so amazing how much we are able to see on that old 2D machine, you can even see her little eyelids! I can see why parents want to see their little one on the 3D or 4D ultrasound. Truly a miracle! Here are some pictures of Joanna's pregnancy so far:

We're pregnant! 8 weeks Gestation (you can pretty much only see the heartbeat)

20 weeks

25 weeks