duke finally got to feel the biscuit move last night...awwww! so excited for jabbing elbows and little toes!

20 weeks!

hello again!

so the biscuit is on the move...now officially known as "the dance biscuit." the little bug is dancing on my bladder, that is for sure! it is the most amazing feeling ever. i feel so lucky to know it. i just cannot wait until the jabs are strong enough for duke to feel!

i went to see my acupuncturist today, she helped to relieve my heartburn and back strain...aaah! she told me that if you squeeze the pinky toe on my left foot, it helps to turn the baby. this is useful if the baby is breech, which the biscuit is right now. (it is also being used in western medicine now too.) she pinched my toe as she told me, then left the room. the biscuit started moving like crazy. it was awesome!

i started feeling the "flutter" for sure on sunday night, but i wasn't positive until i saw the little one on the screen. now i can feel it all of the time. totally where the hands and feet are...makes sense right?

we're headed to chicago in the morning...wish me luck for little swelling!!! hahaha

much love all xoxoxo t

biscuit belly 19 weeks 5 days

20 week ultrasound

hi everybody!

so the biscuit is 2 days shy of 20 weeks, and healthy as can be! at 11 oz, all other measurements are spot on. at my midwife appointment today, my uterus measured at 21 centimeters, which means it has grown 5 centimeters in the last 4 weeks. i have gained 2.5 more pounds. the heartbeat was 150 bpm. about the same as last time.

you can see the profile in the first picture, the face is mashed up against the back of my uterus.

the ultrasound tech was having a heck of a time getting the baby to turn so that she could measure the spine, eventually it turned. which was good for medical purposes, however made it quited difficult when we wanted a 3D pic of its little face. of course in all of the black and whites, the biscuit was looking directly at us. ah nuts.

at 20 weeks, the biscuit still kind of looks like ET, there is no chub to the cheeks yet. we did get a little wave though...it was so cute, duke waved back.

she had us look away at just the right moments, so we still do not know the gender. it will be a big exciting surprise. the tech said "she scans very well." duke and i gasped. then she referred to the biscuit as he later so...

wednesday is my actual 20 week mark, so i'll post some belly shots then. big difference from 16 weeks. half way there! xoxoxoxoxoxo love to you all ~t