Journeys With a Pregnant Lady

The Power of Silence

I didn't realize the power inaction has sometimes. With my month off from talking bout the pregnancy I didn't know people would start thinking that there was something wrong with the pregnancy. One of our friends emailed after my last post and wrote that he was glad that the pregnancy was still going well and that he thought there might have been something wrong.

I'm sorry my laziness made everyone worry.

Let me get you caught up on everything that has been happening besides the most recent ultrasound.

Kim no longer vomits all the time. She has been known to partake in a little vomiting from time-to-time in the past month, but nowhere near the levels that she had been at before.

The crib has been chosen and ordered. We went with a nice Canalli crib, the Claudia to be exact. The picture is of a wood colored Claudia, so you will have to imagine it in white. These Canalli cribs a very highly rated but there is only one place within like a hundred miles to get them, luckily there is one just down the highway.

This should be a safe crib fulfilling all the requirements outlined in a previous post.

I have started the room that we will be moving into, which will open up our current room for me to prepare for our little girl. I had to paint, which I hate, and I had to put a new floor down. It turned out to be easier than I thought. Armstrong Laminate flooring is the way to go. Although I have only finished 99.9% of it and we haven't put it through the ringer yet. Here is a camera phone image of what the floor looks like.

Probability of a Girl... 100%

Thursday the 22nd marked the 20th week in the pregnancy, and it also was the day of our second ultrasound. Now I'm not going to lie, I was still very skeptical of the test we took earlier in the pregnancy to determine gender. Now, I believe in the test, but there were too many variables left to us to screw-up. I also wasn't sure how many grains of salt I should take this ultrasound with. But combining the two tests together I feel confident in saying there is a 100% chance of girl around February 9, 2006.

You might be wondering... Where is the next ultrasound picture? Well, the little girl is already defying her parents and would not cooperate for a side-view-take-home-picture.

The ultrasound went great. There are many measurements they have to take of all the going's on inside our daughter. Her weight is 12 oz. and she now measures as 5 days older than our do date. So Feb. 9 seems to be right on target. But when it came to the money shot... The shot her parents were waiting for... she said, "enough" and decided not to cooperate. She was facing in a direction that the nurse couldn't get a shot.

Oh well, the most important thing was the organ and bone measurements. We'll have plenty of pictures once she is born.

Long Hiatus

So after a very long pause... I'm back.

Hopefully I will salvage some of the popularity that I had before. Please spread the news to the "Friends of Him" that Him is back and ready to go.

Sorry.