Nudge, nudge

This past weekend was spent celebrating my old man's birthday. My parents took Chris and I and Kurt and Lauren and Bob to Red Lobster to celebrate the January birthdays (Chris, Kurt, and Lauren). Then we made them play Scattergories (my dad hates the timer on that game and Chris makes crap up) and ate ice cream cake.

The next morning Chris and I were up at 5 am for some reason. I started playing my Nintendo in bed. And then I felt a weird sort of nudging around my belly button. Holy crap I can feel the baby! I woke Chris up and he got very excited. I was happy to finally feel him/her.

But now he won't stop! I do believe that he's practicing or headbanger's ball in there. Cool feeling. A little flippy floppy. Utterly bizzare. And I challenge anyone who has felt this moving to not realize that there's a little person in there, even at 5 months. Yippee!

It's a.....

I haven't written in awhile because I find myself whining too much.

I was a little worried that I haven't yet felt the baby kick. Chris' friend at work can, and she's due a month later than me. Of course, she's had 2 other kids so she knows what to look for. I thought maybe it was because I'm rather a larger individual, but it turns out that my placenta is in the way for me to feel anything. Stupid placenta.

Do I want a boy or a girl? As i have said before, either but not both (that doesn't mean twins; if you can't figure it out I'm NOT explaining it).

Today we went to get the major ultrasound. 20 weeks baby. I'm halfway there. My attendance prize for going to the doctor is a cooler and ice packs for my breastfeeding kit later. Yes, I'm breastfeeding. It's good for my health and good for baby. I promised my coworkers already that I'd be like Hannah from the Office season 3 ("put away your udder!").

I got few baby things for Christmas. My mom said she didn't want to just buy a bunch of baby stuff for my Christmas - that's saved for next year. I got a few unisex outfits and my mom made me a boy outfit and a girl outfit. She wants to have a granddaughter because girl clothes are more fun to make. But the little boy outfit was adorable too. Let's just have babies so we can get baby clothes.

So what are we having? I have no idea. The bugger is apparently head first and ready to go (not yet! 4.5 more months!), but crossing her legs. i say her, because I'm hoping that keeping her legs crossed means that she'll be a very modest girl (unlike her mother).

Chris was disturbed to discover that the amniotic fluid is mostly made up of urine. I won't tell him that the baby inhales and exhales the fluid. It's good to know that we all started life floating in our own piss.

The ultrasounds didn't show us much. Chris nodded when the sonographer (he keeps saying 'stenography') said "here's the Femur" and "look at the abdomen", but didn't have a clue what we were looking at. I saw some things, white lines, you know. The important part is that baby is healthy and growing at a normal rate. She's also got a really large tummy, and Chris and I both love fat little babies, although I really don't want to give birth to a fat baby. She can just grow into herself AFTER she's born.

We are trying again in a few weeks, but honestly if I don't find out I'm not too worried about it. We'll find out soon enough!