I am a very ticklish person. Well, turns out my uterus is no exception! This past Monday, Mr. Fetus suddenly decided that moving every once in awhile was boring, and he started moving around almost constantly. But I guess he is still small enough that his touch is very gentle — and [...]
Today I start week 20 of my pregnancy, which is technically the halfway point, although you’re not really pregnant until about week 4, so halfway should really be week 22. To complicate matters, I had my March visit with Dr. DiMarzo yesterday, and he told me a more accurate due date is probably August [...]
At Mom’s request, I have annotated the two ultrasound pics that Tad posted the other day. Here you go:
JUST KIDDING! No, we are not going to name him that. Our chosen name will be kept a strict secret until birth (certainly until we’ve picked one). But you guessed it! It’s a BOY! This morning we did the level 2 ultrasound, aka anatomy scan. They checked out all [...]
Tad’s been trying to get me to post a blog entry that didn’t have to do with being pregnant, so here goes.
Last weekend we drove out to Borrego Springs on Saturday morning for the Tour of Borrego bike ride. Borrego is about two hours east-ish from us on the edge of the Anza Borrego [...]
Lots of folks have asked me about how my exercise routine has had to change to accommodate my pregnancy. Believe it or not, not very much. The American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ACOG) had a 1985 recommendation for pregnant women to keep their heart rates (HR) below 140 beats per minute (bpm). [...]