Personal Life Post: GENDER ANNOUNCEMENT!!! + First Official Baby Bump Pictures

I know your all dying to know....

Today was the big day!!

After an early morning doctors appt...

I'm here to annonce that the little baby bundle of joy is

A GIRL!!!!

She has her knees to her face in this shot. Flexible much?

My head literally turned a sharp 180 to face Alex when they said "girl" and he had the biggest "full mouth of teeth showing" smile going on. And he isn't typically a smiler LOL He got his wish!

They literally took 120 pictures of her today... to check her kidneys, spine.. etc etc and make sure everything checks out as A - OK. Luckily everything is fine!

I'm kind of bummed that they gave us the worst shots of her to take home ever. They took a couple amazing ones but the ones they printed were ehhhh. We have a shot of her opening her mouth to yawn but it is kind of scary to be honest. She was punching and kickings and flipping the whole time and the woman running the ultrasound was like.. whoa whoa wait stop hold on lol. I'm personally used to her moving a lot.. especially at 7:30pm. She really tends to do Zumba workouts at that time from what I feel.

NAME WISE:

We had a name specifically picked for a boy (Rayden) but we left the girl's name semi up in the air since there are so many pronunciations and spellings.

It is currently still up for debate but the front runner name is Ava and second place is Vanessa.

We both like Ava and since Alex's siblings are Allen & Angelynn while my sister is named Anastasia it definitely goes with the flow. (I'm obviously not cool since I'm not an A... but whatever... S rocks too. I have so many a's inside of my full name regardless.) Because it is so short I'm confused if it should be the first or middle name.

We shall see.. I'll announce the finalized name whenever that happens.

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Okay, here it is... I was wearing a decently form showing white tee yesterday so I figured it would do. So finally... time to display

THE BABY BUMP! (Currently. Pictures taken yesterday)

Impressed? LOL Not sure if I met your expectations!

Still the same clothing sizes from my last update.

I tried to use my finger as a guide to show where... it should start.

That's where the baby kicks and where my abdomen has stiffened.

I was actually told by a couple friends on campus yesterday that I don't look pregnant.

That is EXACTLY what every pregnant person wants to hear hahaha.

I don't care too much about "glowing"... just say I look the same :D (in denial of getting fat)

Weight Update: (That rhymes!)

At week 18 I have gained... another pound!

Sadly I'm not the type to get excited when I put on weight LOL

Though this is healthy temporary weight, I'm happy for the baby.. but not directly happy to see the numbers go up. I worry about gaining too much or too fast more than worrying about not gaining enough since I have plenty of time left (currently 4.5 months done) and usually month 7 is when you really start packing it on.

Alex on the other hand loves every ounce/pound I gain... I guess the "more to love" saying is appropriate. He is just too excited for the baby for his own good.

Just to make sure I'm on track and doing well I found this helpful pregnancy weight gain calendar online and entered my own info for it to calculate.

My results:

Pretty accurate because I am weighting in at - 91.4 lbs this week.

More results.

This chart shows what I (under the "your" column") mostly likely will weight at the end of each week from what the generator calculated.

Sooo.... I should be about.. 108? When the baby pops out?

Hmmm we shall see how accurate it is as time goes on!!!

I can deal with being 108-110... it's roughly a 20 pound weight gain.

Better than the 40 pounds the doctors were saying. That just sounds a bit excessive and scary.

30? I'd be okay with but have this face O_O but to me.. as long as the little one is healthy why the big estimate LOL

The baby should be 6-7lbs in the end! We don't want a 10lbs baby now do we?

I know I don't haha, imagine pushing that!!

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THE BABY BAG:

My future mother in law used her 50%off coach discount (she gets crazy discounts for so many different stores and different brands... so lucky) last night and brought me home the baby bag I picked out & wanted to use :) My sister has two coach babybags (she likes to deck out my mom & I with coach as well) so I had to join the club. Love the long lasting quality and size.

I wanted a standard black with the washable easy clean fabric.

The inside is teal/aquamarine hehe.

Thank you everyone who sends well wishes and support to me on a daily/weekly basis :)

Aside from having a overactive tumbler and kicker on my hands (or shall I say in my belly) everything is going well!

Lots of sleep, lots of food... and this school semester is still going very well.

The negativity is still annoying but not important! And I'm still very happy.

Until the next update...

:)

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