Boy or Girl?!?! Do we leave it a surprise......

This is the question that is boggling inside mom & dad's head.  We are fast approaching the 20 week mark (half way done) and soon will have the next chance to see you through a ultra sound.  At this 18 week 4 day mark we have the option to find out your sex, but do we want to leave it a surprise till the end?!?!?!  Through many discussions and thoughts from others mom & dad are still in the mind set to not find out, but time will tell.

Mom will admit it has not been a easy road so far through nausea, stomach pain, faintness, drowsiness, braxton hicks contractions and etc. but makes the surprise all that worth while in the end, and all they want is a healthy baby.  Many say it is the best SURPRISE in life and meeting baby Weldon will truly be the one of the happiest days.

Cute gift from Aunt Amy & Kris, plus one looks like Jet!

The ultra sound is this Friday and will it be a boy or girl?  

Week 19: Head-to-toe I grow-n-grow!

Fetal development in pregnancy week 19

~length
10 in | 25 cm

~weight
8.5 oz | 240 g

Your favorite womb-hijacker is suddenly huge, at 10 inches in length!
Pick your jaw off the floor mama. Yes, your wee baby IS bigger this week, but only because we're now able to measure their little legs which have straightened out enough to be measured accurately.
Just in case the random medical details weren't confusing enough already, it's standard practice to measure fetuses from head to toe in the second half of pregnancy, rather than from crown to rump as we did in the first half.
Week 20 is actually when most people transition the measurement over, but we thought you'd appreciate knowing a week early.
This week your lil' fetus will start digesting the extremely appetizing diet of amniotic fluid and baby wee, as they are now capable of swallowing, digesting, and passing the fluid as far as their tiny "large" intestines.
Fortunately for you, the solid waste by-products will build up slowly into a tarry lump of baby-poop and won't be coming out while they're still in your womb.
Some time shortly after your tiny poop factory is born, this fun lump will become the first in a verrrrry long production line of baby poops.
What finally comes out - commonly known as "meconium" to the science world, will be black and sticky. By the time you're done dealing with their tar poops, you'll be relieved to see that first sweet-smelling-but-runny breastmilk poop.

18 Weeks & 6 Days Belly Bump

Baby W is growing!!  Yet some days it feels that you are not there but others days Mom looks down and says, "Wow!"

Is that Movement I Feel ?!?!?

Last night while laying on the couch trying to make it through another session of the Braxton Hicks Contractions, mom felt a long butterfly sensation (or that is what most say) come across her upper tummy.  It felt so soft and innocent but defiantly could feel you swimming across the tummy!  It made suffering a few hours of not being able to move worth it to just feel Little Weldon move to indicate you are OK!