We went in today for our next visit and everything seems to be coming along swimingly. Danielle is doing great, rarely feeling ill at all and DLB is growing just as is expected. Our visit today was remarkable because it was the first time we have been able to hear the heartbeat with out any problem whatsoever.
Wheao, wheao, wheao, wheao, wheao.
The beating is so fast it's amazing. I tried to figure out a song that had that fast a beat but the only ones I know of that fast are nameless Techno songs. Little did we know that DLB was attending a rave in there. Maybe the black lights and glow sticks will look cool in the ultrasound.
The first sound was truly amazing, hearing our baby for the first time. The little heart that we have loved forever, much longer than these 19 weeks, was pumping the blood that was building its mind and body in preparation for meeting us in just 5 more months. Growing stronger and bigger with each beat, it's tiny, tiny muscles working overtime to run the greatest construction project imaginable. It really leaves you dumbfounded how God can create like this and awestruck that we could have any part in it, and yet it has gone on for all time. To us it seems like the most amazing original celebration of life there has ever been. And it is.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Give new parents a scanner and watch them go!
We went to Target tonight to register for the baby registry and had a great time a-shopping and a-scanning! We had to return to customer service 3 times to empty the memory on the little scanner thingy. Not really but man, can we pick out the goods! It's so fun to imagine your baby being the one that is pictured on the box looking as cute as can be, you just want it all!
Since we have decided to opt for the surprise of boy or girl at birth we obviously had to go with alot of greens and yellows. Fortunately there is a lot of cute frogs and ducks and animal themed infant gear and we were able to find plenty to furnish the nursery. We are going with a Noah's Ark theme so animals fall perfectly in line with that.
We will also be going to Babies-R-Us soon in order to make sure we did not miss anything we need in order to give DLB a perfect 1st year and get prepared for a wonderful life.
Since we have decided to opt for the surprise of boy or girl at birth we obviously had to go with alot of greens and yellows. Fortunately there is a lot of cute frogs and ducks and animal themed infant gear and we were able to find plenty to furnish the nursery. We are going with a Noah's Ark theme so animals fall perfectly in line with that.
We will also be going to Babies-R-Us soon in order to make sure we did not miss anything we need in order to give DLB a perfect 1st year and get prepared for a wonderful life.
Let me tell you a little Story.....
Our friends Angel and Cody had a gorgeous baby girl on October 1st, 8 lbs and 20". Her name is Story Jane which is a little different but it already seems to be the right name for her. 3 days before she was born Angel thought she seemed to be in the wrong position and asked the doctor, who is our doctor as well, to check and sure enough Story was breech, waiting to introduce her best assets to the world. The plan had been to do a normal birth and that changed real quick as she had to have caesarean. I told her to just do handstands to get her out of the birth canal and then flip her real quick but she went with the c-section. Story is so beautiful and perfect and her older sister Gabi is so excited to teach her all she needs to know.
I have not had a whole lot of experience with little babies, or really until the last few years kids at all. I couldn't wait to hold her and Danielle says I looked like a little kid myself, all eager and smiling. Holding that tiny new life was so amazing and pulled at my heart in such a new way I felt so impatient for our own new life to join us. She looks like her sister and is just as adorable. She would make the cutest faces and I told Danielle I think I found a bigger goofball than Gabi. Danielle asked if I meant the little baby or the grown man holding a baby with tears in his eyes. I meant the baby but I think Danielle found the biggest goofball.
The abrupt change in Story's birth made us both realize that even the best laid plans sometimes get sidelined at the last minute and we definitely need to try to be ready for anything, good or bad or just different than planned.
I have not had a whole lot of experience with little babies, or really until the last few years kids at all. I couldn't wait to hold her and Danielle says I looked like a little kid myself, all eager and smiling. Holding that tiny new life was so amazing and pulled at my heart in such a new way I felt so impatient for our own new life to join us. She looks like her sister and is just as adorable. She would make the cutest faces and I told Danielle I think I found a bigger goofball than Gabi. Danielle asked if I meant the little baby or the grown man holding a baby with tears in his eyes. I meant the baby but I think Danielle found the biggest goofball.
The abrupt change in Story's birth made us both realize that even the best laid plans sometimes get sidelined at the last minute and we definitely need to try to be ready for anything, good or bad or just different than planned.
Doing an Irish jig
So we went to another doctors visit this week and we have really no new developments other than everything seems to be fine as far as the baby's development. Danielle's sugars still seem to be a bit high so they upped her dose of medicine a little and told her to watch her diet. Most days her blood checks seem to be fine but there are still some spikes. Please pray that everything continues to be fine and her diabetes stays in check.
It seems our little bundle of joy is already practicing on being a pain in the "womb". Seems there is this little microphone that uses doppler radar to hear the baby's heartbeat and DLB doesn't show up on it. Meteorologists use doppler radar to track huge thunderstorms over hundreds of miles yet this little baby that is just inches inside Danielle has developed some sort of stealth technology to hide from it. We can either look at it as practice for hide and go seek with mommy and daddy when DLB is a toddler or be hopeful that the scientific part of the brain development is hyperactive and will later prove to save the world from cancer. Or at least intrusive doppler radar.
So anyway, the happy side effect is we get to get the ultrasound out and see our baby. Not being able to hear the heartbeat always gives us a scare since Danielle can't quite feel the baby we obviously assume everything is groovy but you never know. Actually Danielle has been feeling the little flutter that she is sure is not a gas bubble, but seems to be the baby moving around but we really can't be sure yet. So the nurse gets the wand out, squeezes the super special goo on her belly and, lo and behold, DLB is doing a full on Irish jig for us. Arms and legs flailing, fingers moving, full on dancing away. Looked alot like Michael dancing backin the 80's but with more style.
I have to say I understand love at first sight and ever since we saw our little egg sack in those first pictures I can't explain how much my heart grows and my life expands every time I see those tiny little movements, the heart beating, the little body growing inside. March 24th is so long away, yet I know that time flies by so quick that it will seem like no time at all.
It seems our little bundle of joy is already practicing on being a pain in the "womb". Seems there is this little microphone that uses doppler radar to hear the baby's heartbeat and DLB doesn't show up on it. Meteorologists use doppler radar to track huge thunderstorms over hundreds of miles yet this little baby that is just inches inside Danielle has developed some sort of stealth technology to hide from it. We can either look at it as practice for hide and go seek with mommy and daddy when DLB is a toddler or be hopeful that the scientific part of the brain development is hyperactive and will later prove to save the world from cancer. Or at least intrusive doppler radar.
So anyway, the happy side effect is we get to get the ultrasound out and see our baby. Not being able to hear the heartbeat always gives us a scare since Danielle can't quite feel the baby we obviously assume everything is groovy but you never know. Actually Danielle has been feeling the little flutter that she is sure is not a gas bubble, but seems to be the baby moving around but we really can't be sure yet. So the nurse gets the wand out, squeezes the super special goo on her belly and, lo and behold, DLB is doing a full on Irish jig for us. Arms and legs flailing, fingers moving, full on dancing away. Looked alot like Michael dancing backin the 80's but with more style.
I have to say I understand love at first sight and ever since we saw our little egg sack in those first pictures I can't explain how much my heart grows and my life expands every time I see those tiny little movements, the heart beating, the little body growing inside. March 24th is so long away, yet I know that time flies by so quick that it will seem like no time at all.
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