Starting Week 11th!

I dont know how much you can see it in these pics, but I can totally feel a belly coming!  It's round and hard!!! hehehe... by the way, she refused to wear the white shirt...

Renee's first ultrasound!

I know I should have published these earlier, but I had some computer issues... but better late than never!

This is Renee being very excited about her trip to her first appointment with Dr. Hoffman... Look at her dreamy eyes!

By the way, the awesome Dr. Hoffman ( a woman...) said what will now be one of my favorite quotes of all time... "It has been scientifically proven that women's brains shrink during pregnancy... so you have to be extra nice to Renee", hehehehehehehe.... I wonder if a male doctor would be allowed to say the same thing??? In any case... I love it!

1st ultrasound

So we went to get the first ultrasound done today... very exciting!!! I took a video where you can see the heart beat. The baby is 27 mm long and it is 9 weeks and 3 days old, so now the new official due date is May 25th, crazy close to our original estimate! I will let Renee type in the more emotional details, hehehe...

Renee starts her 10th week...

I figured I had as much right to post here as Renee... so I will stop by from time to time to give a little bit of a male perspective into this situation...
So Renee at this point has completed her 9th week and has entered the 10th as of yesterday. I think in medical terms they would say that she is 9 weeks pregnant... I would say she has already completed 10 weeks of pregnancy and is on the way to the 11th,  but maybe I'm too much of an engineer... it's like January, is it the 0th month or the 1st? Should the year 50 A.C. be the 1st century or the 0th? In both these cases you are in the 1st one, but you haven't quite completed it... so... medically speaking they are using the inverse concept... whilst in February you would say that it is January until you finished February, in which case you would say that you are in it but only once you are in March... hehehehe....Who the hell cares anyway...

Back to what's important, here are her latest bump pictures. Not much of it yet but after having dinner with Raul and Claudia last night, I think she will be starting to show more in the next few weeks... there should definitively be something obvious by Papita's wedding on Nov 6th...

She does still sleep a lot (every afternoon after arriving from school), and if she doesn't have a chance to nap, she gets a bit cranky... yes she does... oh oh oh, Im gonna get it!!! the cat is out of the bag!!!
hehehehe, nah... its all cool.. I can see the exhaustion in her eyes... poor baby! I would be cranky too if I were so tired all the time... plus, she is sweet cranky, like a four year old that wants to stay up all night with the adults, not nasty cranky like a school secretary that hasn't had sex in a long time...

Who's a cutie pie????

October 20, 2010

Today at yoga, as I was stretching into my downward dog I felt really connected with BABY. I could feel that everything I was doing was good for not only me but baby too. We also end each class with a 5-10 minutes of meditation and this was another time that I felt the baby really part of me. I could actually visualize the baby living inside me...crazy, right?

Then, as I came out of yoga Joao was waiting for me with Fina. We walked through the park together hand-in-hand talking about my inability to straighten my legs completely. Joao mentioned that on his was to pick me up he was thinking about where we live, how we walk each Wednesday to the community center while the late night kickball leagues yell and scream, and how he will get to share this memory with our baby. He was saying how he cannot wait to tell our baby about how he would pick "mommy" up from yoga when she was pregnant, Fina would walk happily aside, and the fall air was crisp and fresh....I LOVE JOAO!

Anyhow, today's blog is really about becoming more emotional about the pregnancy and I want to always remember this moment.

I started my 9th week today!

Today I enter my ninth week! Which I just learned is just considered 8 weeks and 1 day in doctor terms... why do they make this so complicated??? The baby is so many weeks old based on conception, but count it from the first day of your last period just the same... but only count the week number once you complete the week... damn! Ninth sounds so much better!

Im starting to feel soft and bloated all the time now... soft and fat... bloated, not sexy! Like Stay Puff the marsh mellow man! I just did Yoga, I should feel ab muscles...

Baby is getting webbed fingers and toes according to my book... Ten days to ultrasound!

Yoga!

Just got done with Yoga... trying to stay fit and flexible... haha
12 more days until the ultrasound!

At 8 weeks!

So we finally got our act together and with the help of an awesome camera that we got from my mom (Vicky... this is Joao writing) we will start recording the weekly progress of Renee's love mountain, well hill at this time...)

Who is getting a teeny tiny bump???

Here we go, I think I can see something in there!

 

At 6 weeks!

Somebody is Glowing!!!