Hiccup!

Tuesday (10/23/07) We had a follow up appointment to the amino last month. Her parents met us at the doctors office since the doctors were going to do another ultrasound.

After waiting about half an hour they finally took all of us back for the ultrasound. Apparently Morgan was a bouncing little girl on the way to the doctor but must have gotten bored in the waiting room like Sarah and I did and fell asleep.

By the time the ultrasound started Morgan didn't move once... except every 30 seconds she would twitch, the ultrasound tech said that she had hiccups. Sarah said she had felt motions like that before but never knew what they were. She also twitched her hand but that was about the extent of it, shes going to be a professional sleeper just like her daddy! :P

The ultrasound took a good 45 minutes, and the tech took lots of pictures as well as looked at many of Morgans organs (haha that rhymes). She has all 4 chambers of her heart, both kidnies, lungs, and all the other organs looked good too. They also did a blood flow thing that showed us her circulatory system as well as the umbilical cord and all of that looked good too.

Of course she wasn't being very cooperative because she was asleep but we did get a couple pictures over on the right hand side of your screen. They took a really good one of her nose and lip but didn't print that one for us. My father in law was amazed by the ultrasound, he hadn't seen one in 20 years and was just in awe by the entire thing.

Oh also they said that she weights 1lb 9oz's but couldn't measure her length because she's all bunched up. Aside from that not much else going on, I'm still waiting to feel that first definite nudge from her that Sarah thinks i should have felt by now... maybe i'm just trying too hard. :)

Later,
-James/Sarah/Morgan

Crib

On Tuesday (16th) we received the crib, Sarah and I put it together, it wasn't hard just confusing because the instructions were not that good. But it's together and it's very nice and I should have any problems putting Morgan in it. In other news Sarah had another appointment with her OB on the 19th, she measured her tummy and it's gotten bigger since the last time we were in to see her. Also took a measurement of Morgan's heart rate and it's 123bpm, which the doctor said was normal, i asked if it was okay that it's gone down some, and she said thats normal during the middle of pregnancy and that Morgan may have been sleeping also. And lastly Sarah's gained 8lbs since our last appointment, although shes not back up to her pre-pregnancy weight the doctor said she should only gain about 1lbs per week instead of 2 so told her to keep an eye on what she eats.

Finally they put her on a bunch more vitamins because her body doesn't process folic acids correctly, so she has to take 5 of each of these a day, folic acid, B-12, B-6 and a baby aspirin on top of her pre-natals. So she's an official pill popper now. :P

Morgans been a pretty active little girl, shes been running a muck allot lately according to mommy, I think i felt her on Tuesday but I'm not really sure if i did or not. At any rate I'm sure I'll feel her soon enough.

oh and on Tuesday (23rd) we've got an ultrasound, so we are pretty excited about that. it's just a follow up with the genetic councilor and to make sure that Morgan is still okay from the amino hopefully they will give us some pictures and I'll post those as soon as i can get them scanned. And we will update everyone, last time we saw her she was only 18 weeks, she will be 24 by Tuesday.

talk to everyone later.
-James/Sarah/Morgan

Amazing...

After 3 long weeks, On Friday the 5th Sarah and I received the greatest news of our lives. It turns out that our little baby girl does NOT have OI... It is absolutely a miracle that we could be so blessed that she is healthy in that respect. We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who had us in their thoughts and prayers over the last few months.

Now I guess we can get back to worrying about normal "new baby" stuff.. Oh in other news 2 of our 3 pieces of furniture for the baby room came in, the changing table and chest of drawer came in. The crib is on back order but shipped on the 4th so we should receive it at any time. I'll upload some pictures very soon.

Love ya,
-James, Sarah and Baby Morgan