Ultrasounds and Baby Classes

Little Miss Sophia showed her cuteness to the world again last Friday when we had an ultrasound. This ultrasound was just like the 20 week level 2 US. They went into detail to see how the little miss was progressing. Sophia was doing her usual dramatic hand-over-the-forehead-woe-is-me-scarlett-ohara pose during one of the shots. She was also kicking like mad. It was actually really amazing to feel her kick and be able to watch it happen on screen at the same time. She got the same comments from the ultrasound tech as before... "perfect", "adorable" and even got a "do you see that cute little nose?!" comment. Eat your heart out, gentlemen. =-) The ultrasound tech had to replace the film about 3/4 of the way through the scan because she was taking so many photos. Turns out that Miss Sophia has already turned and is head down! Hurrah. I'm sure there is potential for her to move again but it's great to know that she's made it down in to launch position.

Vince and I had our regular doctor appointment today where we got the results of the scan. Miss Sophia is currently about 3.5 lbs and doing well. The gestational age showed her to be 30 weeks, which is a week ahead of where our due date was originally. That puts us at October 9.... which coincidentally is John Lennon's birthday. Again, the doc is not changing the due date but seeing her at 3.5 lbs and knowing she's a week ahead of schedule is all great news to the doctor. All is well with me, although I gained a bit more weight than usual... I'm usually at the two pound mark in a 3 week range but I gained 4 pounds.... in a week! My blood pressure has been holding steady at home, which is great. No proteins present but the doctor is taking it week by week. We took my BP as we left the office and it was a good 125/75. Hurrah!

As a side note, because life hasn't been crazy enough, we took our Infant Safety/CPR class last night at the hospital. Loads of great information that we hope we never have to use on our child or anyone elses. We got some great hands on experience with a lovely little plastic baby modeling a sailor feminine pink & white stripe out. Although CPR is serious stuff, you have to admit that the plastic baby makes you giggle just a bit...

Over the course of the next week, I'll be loading up on veggies and staying away from ice cream. I swear, I only had two...