The Pregnancy Itself

We have been very lucky during this pregnancy. The Muffin has had very little morning sickness and for the most part has been able to go about doing her normal activities. There has been a few things that have been going on that have been a little unpleasant and straight up embarrassing but we won't get into that. The best part for us so far has been feeling our little Oreo move. This little Oreo is a mover and even the Brownie has felt the baby move on a very regular basis.We thought it would be fun to share a few ultrasound images with you. We know that they can be hard to see but we thought what the heck.

                                    
They seem to be the same picture but in the second one the Oreo is actually sucking it’s thumb, so cute!!!!

During this pregnancy we have been asked a few standard questions 1. How have you been feeling? 2. How far along are you, when is your due date? 3. What are you having? 4. Where are you having your baby? 5. Are you ready for when the baby comes?  We will take a moment to answer these questions.

1.For the most part we have already answered question one so we won’t go into any more details.

2. Time has really gone by fast for us we are now 34 weeks(7&1/2 months) and only 6 weeks left to go to our expected due date. Our expected due date is April 5th. And as most of us know this can be very unpredictable once we hit 36 weeks we are considered safe to deliver. They will let us go to about 42 weeks without being stressed for the safety of the Oreo and the Muffin.

3. This has been a big question for us. We decided very early in this pregnancy that we were not going to find out the gender of our child. For the most part we have been supported in this decision and more often then not people have been excited for us that we have decided to wait. Has it been hard not to know? In some ways yes and in others no.

4. Most people are surprised that we are not going to the hospital to have are child however, we are not having a home birth either. We were looking for something in between the two options. Lucky for us we found one such place. Its called the Utah Birth Center.

www.utahbirthcenter.com/

Some of the reasons that we decided to choose a birth center are: limited medical intervention (unless absolutely necessary), more control of labor and delivery process, ability to eat and drink, access to many other options during delivery such as tub, shower, birth stool, etc. Yes, this means no epidural but we feel this is best for us. Feel free to check out the website below the picture.

5. We continue to prepare for the Oreo and we appreciate the many baby items we have received from family thus far. Look forward to future posts showing our preparations for the Oreo :)