Daddy's Turn

Since it’s been some time since we’ve had an entry here, and since I always seem to have something to say anyway, I figured I’d chime in with my two cents on this whole “pregnancy” thing.

Sarah’s finally hit the second trimester. She’s right at about 12 weeks and, thankfully, much of the queasiness is starting to subside. I’d read about this fact, but reality was much more apparent: “morning sickness” is a DIRTY rumor. She basically suffered from morning-, night-, mid-afternoon-, 2:15pm-, midnight-, and 3:45am-sickness. Luckily there were only a few audibly sick moments, but she informed me there was about a two month span that passed where the butterflies never took a break.

So, what’s mom doing now-a-days? Sleeping. A lot. Needless to say she’s become a real burden on our nightlife. I’ve begun reading more and more lately, so we’re usually in bed by 9pm or so. She tends to crash immediately. There’s been a mass influx of nap times and couch breaks, none of which I am complaining about by the way…

She also has completely quit sharing her food with me! I know, greedy right? I’ve actually lost weight due to the decrease in both alcohol consumption and Sarah Holland leftovers. Her weight gain is right on track, so things are looking good. So far, at the 3 month mark, she’s only gained about 3 lbs.

We had our first sonogram a couple of weeks ago. I went in with the expectation of just hearing the heart beat. I was informed right off that this would not be a possibility (they didn’t have the machine set up to do this). My dismay was immediately overturned to amazement when the doctor came in and flipped on the sonogram screen. I imagined it would take some time to see our child for the first time, but so it was that on 11/25/08 we got to meet “it” face-to-screen.
I imagined this would be much like the episode of Friends when Ross and Rachel have their first sonogram and Rachel immediately begins crying because she can’t see anything. I’ve never been able to make out what was a hand, and foot, or an eye socket in these things. Technology, however, has advanced quickly:

Then they clicked on the 3D image, and lo and behold it’s the most beautiful baby I’d ever seen:

To be fair, in actuality I really hope it gets Sarah’s looks. ESPECIALLY my swimmer lacked that Y chromosome.

Little H was really moving at first too! He/She/It took a short break when the OB/GYN first turned the screen toward Sarah, but a few shakes of Sarah’s belly by the doc (which was really funny to watch on the screen. Little H bounced around in the sac like a game of pong!) and it was right back to waving at us. We could even see the heart beating and watch the blood flow through the umbilical cord. I got sappy watching a screen; God help me when this thing is actually born.

I’ll try to post a little more often than we have been. We put a contract in on a house last week and are hoping for a 15 day close, so hopefully I’ll have news and pictures up soon.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!