biblical names: a 4,700 year old pine named for him

(watching jeopardy while blogging. my guess is moses. abraham? answer: methusala, who i knew was very old, but i thought was female. oh well.)

am feeling interesting. i have officially become intrigued with the change, and a little more convinced that i am, indeed, going to be somebody's mom in a little bit over 6 months. six months ago, it was april. i was overwhelmed at work, and having jr high school friends over for bbqs where we all drank too much tequila.

and now its october, and i'm in my 14th week of pregnancy.

i am past the nausea, for which i'm amazingly grateful. i am also all the way out of my regular lisa clothes, except for the potato sack dresses of which i am so enamoured.

i am in a bit of trouble with the doctors, as i've somehow managed to lose 4 pounds in 7 days (which is so unfair, as its certainly nothing i could have done not pregnant!), and my blood pressure is sinking back down to lows that no one is comfortable with, which has me, once again, on the couch with my feet higher than my head, but...

i had my 1st trimester screening on wednesday. given that my dr didn't give us any photos at our last appointment, the sonogram technician was able to print out a few while she chased the baby around my uterus trying to get a good sightline of the structure behind its spine. would you believe that andy and i have produced a bit of an uncooperative baby? i know, who would have guessed?! at one point the technician looked up and laughed and said "its tilting its head at the exact angle that makes seeing what i need to see impossible." so she took the sonogram device and just poked away at my belly, trying to get it to move. it was all i could do not to laugh, but given they needed me to have a full bladder, it was really in my best interest not to.

anyway, i finally got to look, and listen to the heartbeat, which was so loud i thought somebody was moving something in the next room over. the baby, when i got to look, was lying on its back, feet up in the air, making little hiccup movements. i couldn't make out its arms so well, but there were five little polka dots hovering in the center of the sonogram: fingers!

it is now 3 inches long, no longer a plum, but a rather good sized apple. i will know the results of the screening sometime late next week, and we have elected to have the amnio sometime the week of november 4. although i am convinced that i am having a girl, others are not, so i've given up on thinking of names since andy vetoed phoebe.

andy is also claiming that scanning the ultrasound photos is "a huge pain", so until i get him to cooperate, you all will be photoless. bomb his email. i dare you.

Comments

i knew the answer to that one!

you can't name it apple...Gwyneth took that one...

i would like to battle andy!