Our little monkey....

Yesterday I had an ultrasound at my 22 week doctor's appointment. Baby Josie's heart looks good and strong. The doctors seemed very happy with all her valves and veins, she received an A+! She is such an overachiever already!

Josie is currently (not)tipping the scales at a whooping 1 pound, exactly. She is measuring a day or two ahead of where she needs to be (again, what an overachiever). And the best news of all.....Her head is NOT the size of a cantaloupe, as I had expected. Apparently....she has a normal sized head (as of now) and all of her measurements were right where they need to be. I fear, knowing her Daddy and myself, Josie may have a giant globe like head that I am expected to push out of my body. Her Daddy and I both seem to be large in the head department, so trust me...it's a valid fear. But...so far so good!

I have attached two ultrasound photos of Miss Josie! Sorry they are somewhat poor quality. I took a photo (with my phone) of the ultrasound pics, so it's a photo of a photo. Yeah...I am that hi-tech.

The first picture is just Josie's sweet profile (and normal sized head). The second is my favorite. Those are her little feet up by her head! Right now she is folded like a little taco, with her feet positioned up by her head (such an overachieving future gymnast)!





It's amazing how much we love this little monkey already!

Ending Radio Silence

I feel like I haven’t written anything in forever. I guess the truth is I don't have much that is blog worthy right now....At least that doesn't involve information has to wait and wait and wait to be said. I kept saying this blog wasn’t just an IVF blog, it was supposed to be about other things too, but it seems that the only things truly interesting in our lives right now revolve around IVF.

I choose to make our process very public and blog about everything that has occurred. Most people knew the day we were supposed to find out if our IVF had been successful. Family, friends, co-workers and those who read our blog (all 2 of you) followed along while we went to appointment after appointment. Once we found out whether we were pregnant or not, there would be no way of hiding our answer to those we encounter everyday. But……we have been able to keep our news off the blog. Which for me, really means radio silence…as I can’t seem to find anything else to blog about.

I have great fears about telling people about a pregnancy so early. But, what is too early? I believe ten to twelve weeks is the norm, right? But, like I have said before, nothing about this pregnancy has been normal for us. Also, I don’t think I can continue radio silence on the blog……it’s much too boring. So…today, at 7 weeks…I would like to introduce you to Baby Bice…………



We are expecting a SINGLETON (thank you God) baby due November 19, 2011. The actual baby is in between the two + signs, that blob on the top which looks like a giant head (which we will expect our child to have) is actually it's yolk sac (saying those words makes me gag). We graduated from the Fertility Specialist on Tuesday and have already started seeing my regular OB! We couldn't be happier and the doctors say everything is going perfectly so far! We got to see a beautiful and strong heartbeat and it relieved so many of my fears!

Yes....I realize it's very early (stop judging me)...but I can not (in good conscience) continue the blogging silence.