18 weeks and 3 days.

For the past 18 weeks and 3 days, I have been growing a little person and today I feel like it is official. This technology is incredible and sure puts an end to weeks of worry. Still trying to wrap my head around it.





It has been hard to be excited these last 4 months because we experienced a miscarriage earlier this year and an ultrasound confirmed that so today 's ultrasound was a little nerve wracking because I honestly could not believe there was something inside...but there most certainly is because we have seen him moving and jumping around. The first image we got when Jackie put the wand on my stomach was a perfect little hand and write next to that a little beating heart. Hey, we need hands and hearts. At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center they do a very extensive ultrasound at 18 weeks to check over 50 areas of the baby and are able to catch 75% of genetic abnormalities in this ultrasound. There was nothing. This little dude is perfectly developing with a very impressive little brain, heart, hands, feet, and everything in between that you can see when they are 9 ounces including his boy parts. No, we don't have a specific name. That we will wait for until he is here with us come July 10 (give or take).

So it is real. It is more mind blowing now than it has been thus far because we have seen him and he is for true god life (as Harriet would say meaning "for real").