I had my second visit with my OB, Dr. DiMarzo, on Friday. Yup, still pregnant. Dr. DiMarzo is all business. Here’s the routine: I deposit a pee sample, and get my weight & blood pressure checked. Dr. DiMarzo comes in, squirts some goop on my belly, listens for the heart beat [...]
Last week we toured the local day care center, Kindercare. It is located less than a mile down the street from our house, on the east side of Genesee here in University City. It was amazing – they have six big rooms in the building, one for each year of growth from 0 [...]
Ahem… to bring the conversation back to babies…
Our blood test results for the first trimester screening came back today. My non-individualized, age-group risk for Downs syndrome is something like 1:285. There is another less common chromosomal disorder, trisomy 18, for which the risk is much lower, that I was also tested [...]
So I like computers (most of the time, they can be a really frustrating hobby) and we have a bunch, of different flavors and such. So I have music and photo files scattered around all of them, especially since I have run my main windows PC out of disk space.
I picked [...]
So if you have just noticed a new category of Parenthood and a whole bunch of posts, well, we are expecting a child (of currently unknown sex) and have been blogging about it in a hidden category. Pretty much everybody knows by now, so those posts are now public.
It looks like I [...]
I had decided that after the first trimester screening, assuming it went well (which it did), we’d start telling folks at work and everyone else who didn’t know yet that I’m pregnant. Over last weekend we told some friends who did not yet know – when we told TJ at breakfast, another friend who [...]
Here are two pictures from the 13 week sonogram, about 7 centimeters long.
Today I dragged Tad to my first trimester screening appointment. The appointment was for 8:30am, but they said to be there by 8. Since it was at the hospital, which I have not been to before, we got there a bit early, and had a real challenge finding where to go. Turns [...]
Unless my stomach has suddenly developed its own heartbeat, I am still pregnant. I met Dr. DiMarzo, my OB, for the first time today. My expectations were moderate: he was selected for me because I’m a very practical person and am treating this pregnancy thing like a science experiment. I was told [...]