Little Baby Wood

I really wanted to start this around week 10 of my pregnancy when we finally told everyone - but Little Baby Wood (LBW, as Ben and I have been saying for the past 7 weeks) had other plans. LBW's plans were for me to never.ever.ever sleep and be so exhausted I couldn't lift my head off the pillow. But, I'm feeling much better now, and it's the perfect time for my first blog post, because last Friday we found out: IT'S A GIRL!!

We weren't supposed to find out until October 4th, but my 16 wk appt was on Friday. I have been absolutely dying to see the baby (I had an early ultrasound at 9 wks but that was it). For some reason I felt like the only way to know everything was ok is to see an ultrasound. I asked at 12 wks and they said no -long story. So, I spend most of Friday morning crying at the thought of not getting to see the baby and ended up giving myself a migraine. awesome. I took Ben with me bc I was fully prepared to cry and pitch an absolute fit if need be. :) I knew someone would need to be a grown-up in the Dr's office, and if they said no again it totally wasn't going to be me.

Because I haven't been feeling well (no big deal, just turns out pregnancy isn't comfortable, who knew?) they ordered an US to check me and the baby. I was beyond excited and couldn't get to the lab fast enough. I asked the tech if she could just look while she was already checking everything else, and LBW was moving like crazy!! I wanted to be able to see the baby swimming around, so before the appt I drank a coke. It worked! LBW definitely gave us a good show. It was hard for the tech to tell so she checked everything else first. Head, heart, kidneys, my favorite part was seeing the spine and ribs. She looked like a little fish! Finally, at the very end the tech agreed to check again -she finally had a good view and before she even zoomed in I could see plain as day, GIRL!!!!

Funny - ever since I saw her sweet face, I have been sleeping like a baby. :)

Ben and I are beyond excited!! Ben's Mom and I have been shopping and saving receipts for a while. This little girl already has half a closet full of the cutest things ever. I absolutely cannot wait to watch my husband melt for this little girl. Last night we spent a little while just sitting in her room in the middle of her huge piles of clothes, just talking about how excited we are.

We have decided on Elsie Ann for her name, though we haven't decided on the spelling of Ann. Elsie Ann, Elsie Anne....not sure. Mine is legally "Ann." But, f you know me decently well you probably know the "Anne, Anne with an E" debacle that 4 year old me created after seeing Anne of Green Gables. I have no idea what I was doing watching that. anyway.

Later I'll write more about how we found out, and told everyone, etc...

For now, a picture of my sweet baby! I can't wait for her to get here!!

 -LJ