It is official, and in case you have been living in a cave of some sort, Lindsay and I are expecting a baby. Baby Holmwood, affectionally known (this week) as Mango is due on or around the 19th of October.
At 11 weeks there wasn’t much to see
At 17 weeks I looked like this:
Just 2 weeks later, at 18/19 weeks:
Crazy!
I am officially 19 weeks pregnant today, and am starting to have a serious looking baby belly. I wonder if an un-serious baby belly looks like this:
The past few weeks I have started eating again after vomiting my way through the first 14 weeks. Angel hair pasta and pesto as well as fruit is all I want to eat. That and TimtTams (Australia Chocolate biscuits for the Dutchies), but thats the baby’s doing. Eggs, no matter how delicious they look, make me feel sick.
Being 19 weeks pregnant meant it was time for an ultrasound. I was supposed to go to the radiology department at the hospital… but I decided to do things my own way. Instead we went to the lovely North Women’s Imaging clinic. No idea if I was allowed to or not… and its not like I will mind if I am told to have another ultrasound. The staff there are soooo nice and they do mostly pregnancy ultrasounds so they are really good at what they do.
We went there this morning, and I wish we could go everyday!
This is baby Holmwood at 8 weeks gestation:
And then today at 19 weeks:
The sonographer was lovely, pointing bits out as she went.
Here is Mango flexing its spine
2 little hands, the one of the left you can see it has spread its fingers out.
The sonographer then had a hard time trying to get some good images on the baby’s head.
Every time she tried the baby would dig its head deeper into my bladder, and further into my pelvis, out of the reach of the ultrasound. We eventually got a good image, but I was sure my bladder would burst in the process!
We then got to see the baby’s face with the 3D ultrasound.
It looks like a blob, but if you look towards the top right you can work out the cute little face.
Here is another with chubby little cheeks:
And for the grand finale, Baby Holmwood/Mango started to suck their thumb!
So clever!
And yes, Mango remains an ‘it’ because it kept wriggling and facing the wrong way or putting its legs in the way. Must have Decates blood, a stubborn trouble maker before it’s even born!