Moving Right Along - Finishing Up 1st Tri

Status: 12 weeks, 6 days

On Monday (at 12 weeks on the dot), we had our 12 week appointment with Rachel, one of our midwives. Everything checked out fine, and we are happy to be getting over the hump of the first trimester.

Something you all may have noticed is that there aren't any ultrasound pictures. If you haven't noticed, it's something you will now (especially since I've mentioned it)! Like I said earlier, we are treating this pregnancy very differently than we did our first. One of the main things you will notice is that we aren't having ultrasounds. Our midwives have opened our eyes to the overuse of ultrasound in pregnancy. We understand that there are instances where ultrasound is a wonderful and necessary tool, but it is not for us at this time.

For those of you who are disappointed that you won't get to see Waffle before his or her birthday, we will be having an ultrasound done. Because of my previous c-section, it is deemed medically necessary to determine that Waffle's placenta has not implanted over my previous scar. So sometime well after we have reached the 20-week mark, we will go for an ultrasound. Joel also wants to find out if Waffle is a boy or a girl, so we might try to find that out as well.

Back for round 2!

Status: 10 Weeks, 1 day

We;;, we enjoyed the whole pregnancy and baby thing so much, we decided to sign up for round #2! We are due in early May (for those of you that like specific dates - that's May 9th, 2011), and are very excited to be adding to our family.

We learned a lot during our experience with Eli, so this blog may bring up things that you may not (or maybe you do) expect to see. We welcome questions and positive commentary!

And for the blog title, well....Joel likes to tell me "my eggo is preggo" (quoted from Juno), so our little one's working nickname has become waffle!

We look forward to sharing this journey with everyone as we expand our family!