first baby pics!

last week i had started feeling some wierd pains in my lower abdomen. thinking that they would go away, i didn't call the doctor. well, by friday i finally called. the nurse reassured me that they were probably ligament pains and they were completely normal, but scheduled an appt for me on monday anyway, just to put my mind at ease.

thankfully nothing got worse over the weekend and i went in monday afternoon. marsha, the nurse practitioner, didn't seem very worried about the whole thing, but was great at calming my nerves. i have seen her twice and both times she is just like the calm grandma that makes you feel totally comfortable. she found the heartbeat, after what i thought seemed like forever, but my mom and gabe both reassured me that it was quick. she then told us that she would check to see if the ultrasound tech had an opening and could get us in! I couldn't believe it...i was going to get an ultrasound before 20 weeks! so the gang all went next door and waited to see the first pictures of the baby.

so, here are a few of the pics from the first ultrasound. do you all see the size of that foot up there! those are going to be in my ribs in about 4 months and that might hurt. and this baby is a mover and a shaker. i think we might have a partier in there. the baby wouldn't stop moving the whole time that she was looking at it and she even kept commenting on how much trouble i was in for the coming months. yikes! we were her last appointment so she was just playing around and getting us different views. she also pointed out all of the major organs for us and we could count all of the fingers and toes. then, when i thought that she was done, she flipped a switch and put the ultrasound into 3-D and that is what the other picture is down on the bottom. that was when we could really see it move around. i know that the baby borders on an alien in these kind of pictures and i will try not to put another one on here, but i just had to show you the first one. she also told us the baby was measuring a few days more than we thought, about 14 1/2 weeks at that point.