And You Just Thought I Needed To Go On A Diet....

Here's the latest member of our growing family!

We went for our first doctor's appointment this morning. Everything went great and all is well. We really weren't positive how far along I was, but now we actually have a due date.

February 1st, 2008

So that puts me at 17 weeks. Even though I knew the due date was sometime in early February, for some reason I just hadn't thought about already being 17 weeks. I'm almost half way done! (Especially with my track record of early babies!)

We were all there for the appointment except for John David since he was at school. Julia was VERY excited when we told her what the sonogram was. She and John David both have really wanted another baby. For quite awhile recently, they kept teasing me that I had triplets in my tummy. They didn't even know I was pregnant, but they thought that was funny. At least I only had triplets - Daddy had sextuplets! Hahahahaha! Anyway, I was relieved to see only one baby in there today. =)

At this point, we don't know for sure if it's a boy or a girl, but the lady doing the sonogram is pretty sure it's a boy. We'll have another sonogram 2 weeks from today. Hopefully, we'll know for sure after that one. I was excited to find out anything today because I had thought that we were just too early for that. I guess not!

The baby currently weighs about 6 ounces. Not much to account for all the food I've been eating. John affectionately calls me "The Ravenous Beast" whenever I'm pregnant. He thinks it's so funny that I'm always soooo hungry. I tease him back that he's sympathy eating with me. Then I ask him when his baby is due. He always answers "A few months after yours". Hahaha. You're so funny, John Clay.

The only disappointing news we found out is that it's likely I will have to have another c-section just because I had one before with Aulora. I've been hoping to have a natural birth, like I did with Julia. My doctor said she would think about it and that I was a good candidate. Apparently, there is only one doctor in all of SA that allows a normal birth after you've had a c-section. There's a 1% chance that the old scar would rupture during birth. So if we didn't go with a c-section, it would be a very monitored birth. I'm sure I don't even know what all that entails at this point. I just know that recovering from a c-section was horrible! So we'll just have to wait and see about all of that.

Crystal, I guess we'll be twinkies and it will be a race to the end. I remember whenever I was pregnant with John David and it was all so new. I loved going to my parents' house to watch "A Baby Story" (they had cable - we didn't even have a tv!). I watched it constantly and John made fun of me. He always thought the show would be so much better if they had several women in side by side rooms, all competing to be the first to have their baby. Maybe that little dream will come true for him. Wouldn't that be fun......