Baby Crib

Now that we know what we are having, a Boy, we thought it would be ok to start getting things in preparation. Fatima's mom wanted to help out by getting us some of the furniture for the nursery, so this past weekend she bought and had shipped the crib for us, Thank you! We recieved the crib on Thursday (that was quick) and now it sits in our living room waiting for us to possibly get the carpeting replaced in the nursery (the previous owners ripped the hell out of the carpet at the entrance of the room) and then assemble it. Here is a stock photo of the crib.

Kitty likes the crib, still yet to be seen if he is going to like what will be going into the crib! We have an appointment with the carpet guy today to get an estimate, any ideas for color and type?

Our Baby Boy at 20 weeks!

So we went to the OB today to have our half way point Ultrasound and we found out that our baby is a boy! It took about an hour for the tech to figure that out, but none the less we are going to be proud parents of a new boy in just about 20 more weeks (give or take a few weeks)! Here is a picture of our soon to be new addition.

Baby Boy at 20 Weeks

You can see more pictures in our flickr feed which can be accessed by clicking on the pictures to the right of this post.

Its a BOY!

We will post proof later tonight! Still at the doctors, we will post more later! Anyone have suggestions for a name?

What's it going to be!

We will be finding out if our baby is a boy or girl in T - about 1 hour! We will keep you posted!

16 weeks in Doctors Appointment

So we had our 3rd doctors appointment where we got to meet Dr. Beyer, another of the 4 doctors in our doctors practice. She was very nice and gave Fatima a good tip to help with her heart burn (Pepcid not Tums). The doctor asked the usual questions about how Fatima was feeling and what not and then proceeded to do a "belly check". I guess thats OB for use the doppler machine to check the heart beat.

Here is what we heard!

A healthy 150 bpm!

After that Fatima had some more blood drawn for a test to check for Downs Syndrom and Neural Tube Defects, sounds scary but we are not high risk for those things! Anyways, our next appointment is in 4 weeks with Dr. King and we are excited because this is when we get another Ultrasound and find out the baby's sex!

Also, we got a baby present from Fatima's Mom! She sent us our first onesie! She also sent us a receiving blanket (which we will take with us to the hospital), a frame, mini picture album, a rattler ducky, little baby socks (a years supply!), and 2 baby shirts! Thanks Grandma!

Check out the pictures in our picture gallery!

Chinese Birth Calendar says...

So, I was talking to a friend at work who has had a baby recently and she asked me If I knew what the gender was. I told her no and then she mentioned that she had fun reading all the different theories out there on how to figure out what sex your baby is going to be. Sounded interesting so I looked up what the Chinese had to say about it and turns out that there is a 83% chance that we will be having a boy! Check it out here! I think it would be fun to look for other old wives tales on how to predetermine the sex and I will post what I find in the coming days!

2nd Doctors Appointment

Yesterday, Fatima and I went to our second doctors visit and got to meet doctor number 2 of a 4 member practice. Fatima is now 12 weeks along and based on that fact and the fact that this is our second visit the appointment was brief. We got to the office and Fatima made her donation in the restroom and then we went into the examination room. The Nurse that saw us back explained briefly what this visit would entail and left us to wait for Doctor Cheng. Once by ourselves I joked that when the doctor uses the Doppler to try and listen to the baby's heart that it would be strong "Lakes have strong hearts" and he would hear it right away! A few minutes passed and the doctor came in and asked us if we had any questions. We had asked so many the first time around that we really didn't have much to ask him during this visit so he went right into checking the baby's heart beat. When he placed the Doppler on Fatima we immediately heard the very loud (chug,chug,chug) heartbeat at a healthy 160 beats per second. Fatima and I had a good laugh about that, which was also amplified! Anyway, overall it was a very good visit (and extremely short)!

On another note, Fatima and I decided not to get a genetic test that might give us some early warning of Down's Syndrome. The doctor explained it to us and also pointed out that we were not at a high level of risk for it but that it would be good to do and that if it was positive they would do some things differently during the pregnancy. I wonder if anyone else has an opinion on this and whether that was a good decision?

By the way, I plan on getting a recording of the heartbeat next visit! I just wish I had remembered to do it this last time, it was so clear and sounded really strong!