Our appointment update... and we have picked a doctor for Ava

We had our 29-30 week appointment yesterday and it went very well! We heard her heart beat and everything looks good! We found out that with in the next week we need to have our 4D ultrasound or we will loose our window to get good pictures of our little angel who is quickly running out of room in my tummy! She measured my belly and said it looks right on with the size! I really want to have the 4D ultrasound it just seems so interesting and amazing to watch your baby before she is born and how they act.

We are now on appointments every two weeks!!! Getting closer! our next appointment is monday Nov. 24th!

We have also picked a pediatrician for Ava. I really liked the office and the doctor when I met her! Her name is Dr. Lynn Becks. She answered a bunch of my questions and more that I did not even think of! She will be checking in on Ava everyday that she is at the hospital after she is born! It was a very cute office and they had a lot to offer like a Saturday clinic (because most things happen on the weekend) a specialist that works closely with them! and a doctor on call 24 hours a day! all of their lab tests are done in house and the only thing they don't have is x-ray. But they do have a place to send her if she needs one! other than that we really just talked and she made me feel very comfortable about bringing Ava to her.

We are getting so close to the final 10 weeks!!!! Sunday is Ten weeks till we get to hold our Ava girl! Time is flying but yet sometimes seems to go so slow when I think about actually having her in our arms!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!

Tomorrow is 29-30 week appointment

Tomorrow we are going to have our 29-30 week appointment. Well that is what I am going to call it because I really have no idea what will go on at the appointment besides the fact that we are meeting one of the other doctors tomorrow. Dr. Warren so that we get to know all of the possible doctors that might deliver Ava if our doctor is not on call if i go into labor over a weekend or night time. I am glad that we will be meeting all possible doctors so that there will be no surpises the day of and I am also grateful that all the doctors will be farmiliar with us and know all the history of what is going on and everything about us so that she will not be surprised either.

I also have a pediactric appointment tomorrow to interview a doctor for Ava when she is born. I am hoping that I am comfortable with her. I really don't know what to expect. I loved my doctors when I was young and never had a bad exerience with them being rude or anything else and I really want to pick the right doctor for her! Its tough!

I will update on wed. after our appointment!!!!

hope everyone has a wonderful day!!

29 week update...

Ava's update!

She will not be 29 weeks till Sunday but I thought that I would go ahead and update for the weekend!


How your baby's growing:

Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To meet his increasing nutritional demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron. And because his bones are soaking up lots of calcium, be sure to drink your milk (or find another good source of calcium, such as cheese, yogurt, or enriched orange juice). This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in your baby's hardening skeleton each day.



Ava's development in pregnancy week 29:

Ava's in seventh month If you’ve been feeling butterflies moving around in your belly, it’s not just your run-of-the-mill pre-birth performance anxiety. No, it’s your amazing baby with a case of the hiccups: a fairly common occurrence at this point resulting from practicing breathing for their big birthday. In addition, to getting a round of butterfly-like hiccups, your little swimmer has arduously managed to accumulate enough baby fat to account for nearly 3.5% of their overall body weight. Yeah, compared to we adults, it’s not a lot, but when they’re little like that—it’s certainly a healthy (and warming) accomplishment in its way. Another fantastic accomplishment: your baby's spleen is now in charge of hematopoiesis—the 10 dollar name for the process involved in building up certain important blood components. Another fantastic-accomplishment: your little monkey has been peeing into their amniotic sac for a little while now (this is why potty training takes a while) and if you didn’t know, actually swallows it along with the rest of the amniotic fluid. Although the concept is nasty, their urine is sterile and as part of the amniotic fluid base, is replaced several times throughout the day. So if you didn’t know before, now you can tell people, that yes, you drank your own urine—you were still in the womb, but nonetheless, you’ve been there.


I actually started feeling a few of the hiccups around week 27-28 just a little! now I can really tell when she has them! It is amazing! The other night Dez and I just watched my belly move all around! We were just amazed at how much she was moving! I am thinking she was having a hard time getting comfortable sense her space is getting limited! We are about 11 weeks away from having our little girl in our arms and we can't wait! Time is going by fast but at the same time it is going by slow as well!

hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

This is a little out of order...

26 week picture...

this is a tad out of order but Dez had this on his phone too so I thought I would update it!

hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

27 week Photo... More to come!!!

I had Dez send me the photo that he had on his phone yesterday and we still have to upload all the other ones from the past weeks...

28 weeks!!! Wre in the 3rd and final Trimester...

How baby Ava is growing:

By this week, your baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.


Ava's development in pregnancy week 28:


Ava in seventh month You know how you’ve been feeling a bit like a barn with legs? Well, that feeling won’t subside before… well, you know, when you finally give birth. For the time being, you’ve got yourself a baby in the business of collecting fat and lots of it! In spite of the dubious joys of being a human-barn, this baby fat business is very serious and you’ve got to put up with it because it’s going to keep your little porker warm and healthy after birth. Other good stuff from inside: their eyes are doing lots of blinking this week because they’re now able to respond to light and dark. Also, their industrious little bone marrow is now a major construction site for developing red blood cells, while their super-cute adrenal glands are actually producing androgen and estrogen—which will stimulate your hormones to begin milk production. Can you say, “Moo?”


We are in the final trimester and she is kicking all the time now! Our next doctors appointment is on November 11th not this tuesday but next tuesday!!! things have been great lately! I can feel myself loosing a little energy already but not bad yet! hopefully I will be able to keep up some energy for a little while longer! I have become more and more obsest with fruits... Any and all fruits... we have about 12 weeks left till Ava's Due date and we can't wait!!! We want to see her so bad!!!

She is so active I am Amazed!!

So Ava is very very active! She is moving all around and my tummy looks so funny to watch!!! I am amazed at the whole thing. I am having a hard time getting all my work done(i eventually do) but i just want to watch her move around! I really cannot wait to see her for the first time! I am counting down the weeks and days! That's why i keep putting up a new counter when I update my week progress and hers.

12 Weeks Left!!!! I am going crazy waiting. It seems like a long time we have been waiting but I guess time is flying by as well! I mean just a few weeks ago we were about 150 days away from her due date and we are now in the 85 range. That is crazy it seems like it is flying and at the same time standing still.

We have our next doctors appointment on November 11Th!!!! I am not sure what all is going to be done or if it is just to meet another doctor because they rotate us around so that if my doctor is not the on call doctor if I go into labor over a weekend then I will know the doctor who will be delivering Ava and it won't be a shock to see a new face because I will know all the possible doctors we might have! they are all really sweet! although I really want my doctor to be the one to deliver her. I absolutely love this doctor she is so friendly and personable! But I am sure that either way it will be nice.!

Next thing on my list next week is to interview pediatricians and see who will be Ava's doctor. And i would also like to visit the hospital just to get familiar with it all! I want to be totally comfortable with me and my baby being there for a few days!

Other than that everything is wonderful and we are just counting the days until our wonderful baby girl gets here!!!