I swear my stomach popped out overnight. My pants were starting to get snug and then I woke up this morning with a belly. Looks like I will moving up my maternity clothes shopping trip. I think at some point I will have to make the pilgrimage to Mass for nice maternity clothes. My previous maternity clothes will not work for two reasons. One, I didn't work then so they are not really up to the job environment. Two even if they were, I weigh 40 pounds less now. Well, maybe not for long. Ha, ha.
I think Baby X should be a little over two inches now. I remember being obsessed with every detail during my first pregnancy. Now I just touch base each week to look for milestones. Plus I already get the whole "your body is no longer under your control" thing that freaked me out the first time. Speaking of milestones. We have a heartbeat, we have seen it is growing on schedule and this week I found out that I am not a Cystic Fribrosis carrier. I thought I had been tested during IVF but apparently they only did Tom. And I didn't consider it until I found out it was a possibility on Jeff's side. Without me being a carrier our odds of this baby having CF are so greatly reduced that I have ruled out invasive testing at this point. Well because people I am AMA. That's advanced maternal age. Isn't that happy? That's what you get after turning 35. And all bets on the chromosomal abnormalities are off. So I am having the first trimester screen done. That involves bloodwork and an ultrasound to look at the nuchal fold. I opted out of all of these the first time. And our date is set for our 18 week ultrasound which I have opted to have with a fetal-maternal specialist. I don't have any anxieties that something is wrong. We are just trying to have as much information as possible.
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