13 weeks + 5 days (1/3/2012)

First trimester down and I am entering the second trimester. Everything feels okay so far and the Dr. claims that he can find out if mini b is a boy or a girl this visit.  He looked at the mini b for a little while and couldn't seem to tell the sex.  He quickly bailed and asked a sonographer to come in to help. The sonographer looked at all angles and could not give us a definitive answer as she said it is extremely difficult to tell at this early stage.  Afterall mini b is not even 14 weeks old yet, so we are disappointed but look forward to our next Dr's appointment. 

10 weeks + 5 days (12/13/2011)

We are back in the Dr's office to have our second ultrasound and the first-trimester combined screening.  The sonographer needs to measure the translucent space in the tissue at the back of mini b's neck, but he/she was not cooperative at first and the sonographer gave me some juice and had me walk around.  After 10 minutes, the juice seems to wake mini b up and he turned to the proper direction for the sonographer to measure without a problem.  The measurement is good and thankfully I passed the blood test.

here is my little angel :DDDDD

Week 7 + 5 days (11/22/2011)

This is our first official prenatal Dr's visit.  Ultrasound was performed to check if mini b has a heartbeat and measure the size of growth.  Everything checked out to be normal and healthy. The sonographer described mini b as a gummy bear at this stage as his/her hands and legs are not fully developed yet.  We are thrilled to see our baby and can't wait till the next ultrasound.

After the ultrasound, I had my blood drawn.  It took the nurses quite awhile to draw 10 tubes of blood from me as my veins are too tiny.  They poked me everywhere and were so scared that I would pass out.  Luckily, they got enough blood for all the screening. The blood test came back all normal except deficient in Vitamin D.  The Dr prescribed me new prenatal vitamins and hopefully mini b will benefit from them.

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