No.2's first ultrasound and estimated due date - Oct. 7, 2008

So it is official. I have a small entity growing in my belly! LOL! Hopefully it is a baby - it looked like one on the ultrasound! No. 2 was moving around quite a bit and we could see all of his limbs and his head and his heart! Cool!

Joseph, and Jac and I visited the OB/GYN this morning and were given the great news that No. 2 is 12.5 weeks along! Whoa! I am so bad at date math but I got the conception date spot on! Unfortunately when I did the date math for a conception date of Jan. 28 I ended up with No. 2 being born around Thanksgiving! Man was I wrong. The doctor thinks conception was Jan. 26th and No. 2 is due Oct. 7th! Oh man! That is 15 months separation from No. 1 (Mr. Jac). Whoa! Almost Irish twins (I guess that is only fair since my Mother's father was Irish).

No. 2 seems so much more real now that we have seen him moving around. Sometimes I still find it a little hard to believe that there is a small human growing in my belly and at 12.5 weeks along he has arms and legs and a head and is moving! (BTW, I am convinced that No. 2 is another little boy, I don't know why, I just am!)

(We forgot to ask for the ultrasound pictures that the doctor took of No. 2 but I will try to get them and post them up!)

I now have an appointment scheduled with the perinatologist in Denver for a First Trimester screening where they look for chromosomal disorders such as Down Syndrome and Trisomy-18 (the appoin. is this coming Wednesday). They can also detect some other defects such as heart defects. This is a standard set of testing that is done but our OB does not do it - they have the perinatologists do it. That is good for me since it will give me a chance to talk to another perinaologist and get their opinion of the MTHFR mutation and chances for another IUGR baby with No.2.

After the appointment on Wednesday we may have a new estimated due date - we shall see! Stay tuned!