14 weeks + Counting!

Welcome to our new blog everyone! Since things are starting to roll into action with the baby, we thought it'd be nice to share this exciting journey with everyone. Stephen and I are both really excited about welcoming the little one into the world, who has now lovingly earned the nickname of "Little Bump". We're excited to give the baby a real name when we find out the sex on June 29 though!

Right now I am currently just over 14 weeks pregnant, so I'm new to the 2nd trimester but I'm enjoying it so far! I've been really lucky so far with the pregnancy and just had a couple of weeks of nausea but nothing major, so that's been really great! We'll be posting a couple of belly pics as I start to grow more, I'm just now trying to get used to the idea of not squeezing in my jeans anymore!

Quick recap of things so far...

On March 12, we were spending the weekend in Cincinnati with our families and found out that we were expecting. We were so excited that we were there in person to tell our families and hadn't planned it, so it was a huge surprise for everyone I think! Stephen spent the day with his mom and I with my dad, later that evening, Stephen and I said that we had been shopping and wanted their opinion on something and then threw them each a baby shoe. Needless to say, everyone was so surprised, but SO excited! After we told Stephen's parents, we left for a while and when we came back she had already been baby shopping.



1st Ultrasound...

Our first appointment was about 3 weeks after we initially found out, so Stephen and I were really itching to make sure the baby was okay. We did an ultrasound and found out we weren't quite as far along as we initially thought, but all that mattered was the baby was healthy and had a great heartbeat that we could already see on the ultrasound. If you look at the picture, the baby is only where the white line is drawn, the tech even put "baby" on there so we could tell!


2nd Ultrasound...

At our following appointment 4 weeks later, we weren't expecting an ultrasound but we weren't quite far enough along to hear the heartbeat so we were pleasantly surprised! This experience was a lot different! The baby looked huge in comparison and had arms and legs and wouldn't stop moving, it looked like it was doing jumping jacks in there!



3rd Appointment...

Just had our 3rd appointment yesterday, no ultrasound this time but we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat which was very cool! It came in at 150 beats per minute which is really good! We've set up our next ultrasound appointment for June 29th, and we'll find out the gender of the baby then so we're very excited!

I think that's it for now, thanks for checking in and we'll keep you posted as things progress! After we return from vacation in a couple of weeks we'll be starting work on the nursery!