Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Worth the Wait

Why haven't I been running as much lately? Why didn't I do the Richmond half for what would have been my fifth year in a row?? Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words :-)



We're going to have a baby!! As you can tell from my Running Journey page, I don't seem to ever do things the easy way. Of course, this couldn't be easy either. Long story short, after 17 cycles and 2 IUI's, we are FINALLY PREGNANT! C and I couldn't be more over the moon :-)


 
 When I took my first test and found out I was pregnant, I went to the store and bought this bib. When C got home I gave it to him and told him we were going to need it in May!



 One of my best friends is due in December. I was 12 weeks here so we compared the big bump to the little bump!


I'm not really one for sharing ultrasound pictures...I think they can be a little creepy looking and are also extremely personal, but this was my first one at 7 weeks, where we saw the heartbeat and the baby for the first time. It was so tiny! The heartbeat was strong at 131bmp. Grow baby grow! The larger part at the top is not the head, it is the sack. The head is right underneath that.

We've had 2 more ultrasounds since then. The next was at 9 weeks and I started calling my baby "the blob" because that was all it looked like. The third was last Friday and it looks like a little person now. It was amazing. It was opening and closing it's mouth and waving it's arms all over the place. It also would not lay in a good position to get a profile picture, so we got a picture of it as if you were looking down on it. So it looks like a skull with a belly and 2 hands. It is all in there though!!

Next ultrasound isn't until January and that's when we find out what we are having. Can't wait to see if we are having a girl or boy and continuing to pray for a healthy baby!

I am going to try to run through this pregnancy though I know it will be few and far between. I've been rather lazy these last 3 months and have done a lot of sitting and eating. This kid tells me it needs food ALL THE TIME.

This will still be a running blog, but it will encompass a little more of my life outside of running, and how it all relates back to running and overcoming bumps in the road of life. I hope you continue on this awesome journey with me as I take this like I do everything else, one step at a time. :-)

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