I'm only 20 weeks pregnant and I'm already learning a lot from my baby. First lesson of the day was that life doesn't matter how much you plan. I had spent days planning a fun photo shoot with my sister as the photographer for my husband and I to announce the gender of our baby after our 20 week ultrasound. On top of that, we arranged to have bouquets of flowers delivered to each of our parents to let them know as well.
Well baby did not want to cooperate with my plans. The first ultrasound picture brought tears to my eyes. My baby was sucking its thumb in the fetal position. HOW CUTE!! Except, other than minor movements, baby would just not reposition so we could see the majority of its vitals and its gender.
While I should be eternally grateful that everything we saw was perfect. 10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 legs, 2 arms, functioning brain, 4 chamber heart, 2 kidneys, bladder, proper blood flow, strong spine and 1 stubborn thumb sucker. Of course, a little bit of the nervous nelly in me is concerned there's something wrong with the baby's legs and that's why it wouldn't move them. But I'm sure it's fine. Just cozy in the fetal position. The midwife even said "well this one clearly knows its a fetus because it just will not leave the fetal position." Pretty funny. Kind of.
The weight part was OK today. 2lbs less than the gym scale yesterday so that was nice. But I'm up 4lbs since the last appointment. Right where thy want you to be but I was kind of hoping to be a bit under. I know, I'm supposed to be gaining weight, but it's hard. I look at my growing belly and hear the comments of me "popping early" and there's only so long before you start to think "am I growing too fast?"
Another difficulty today was that the midwife did say it was a bit early for me to have the back pain I've been experiencing. I'm starting to get concerned that my previous back injury is going to effect my pregnancy and labor. I made an appointment to see a chiropractor the same day we find out the gender so hopefully both appointments will be a bit better than today.
The biggest silver lining here (besides knowing the baby looks healthy right now) is that I've finally started feeling the little stubborn nugget move. The ultrasound showed that I have an anterior placenta, which explains why I hadn't felt the baby move yet. Whew! What a relief.
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