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About a year ago Murph and I entered the world of blogging to chronical our experiences training for the NYC Triathalon in July of 2006 and fundraising for the Leukemia & and Lymphoma Society. Something that I would likely be doing again this year as my personal connection to this cause just gets stronger every year, Murph and my cousin are Lymphoma survivors--hooray!--and my cousin's son is currently battling Leukemia--what is going on in the world?!?, but I am currently engaged in training for an endurance event of a different sort as I am pregnant.
Murph and I are expecting our first child in July of 2007! July 17, 2007 to be exact, if due dates with first children can be exact. And as we are experiencing this transformation in our lives and our family far away from many of our friends and family the blog is a good way to share a lot of what is going on. In fact, my mom (perhaps the biggest technophobe that I know) has requested it...I'll try to make it interesting.
After a gruling month of morning sickness in December, I am now 17 and a half weeks and feeling good. The changes are subtle and all of it is weird to me. Every few days I can feel the streching and shifting going on in my body and my clothes are not fitting me anymore. So this feels pretty pregnant to me but to most people I do not look pregnant yet--maybe a thicker version of myself but not pregnant. I'm sure that in the not too distant future I'll be wishing for this time when I can still move around freely but I am finding it frustrating not to have a round and obvious belly yet. People say it takes more time with a first so I'm trying to be patient.
I believe that I felt the baby move for the first time this week. I had just laid down in bed for the night and I felt a stirring in my lower abdomen. If I had to guess what the baby was doing to cause it I would say somersaults or log rolls. Which would not surprise me given the other times that we've been able to check on the little Foley-Murphy.
At our 12 week sonogram the technician was having to chase the baby around with the wand because it was moving so much. Same with each time we've been hunting to hear the heart beat, it seems to be an active child that knows how to move around. Could be interesting (painful, uncomfortable, hilarious?) for me as they get bigger and their movements are more obvious to me.
The big question is boy or girl. We are planning to find out and that should happen in the next few weeks. Everyone has their predictions and we have our guess but time and another sonogram will tell us if we're right.
Murph and I are expecting our first child in July of 2007! July 17, 2007 to be exact, if due dates with first children can be exact. And as we are experiencing this transformation in our lives and our family far away from many of our friends and family the blog is a good way to share a lot of what is going on. In fact, my mom (perhaps the biggest technophobe that I know) has requested it...I'll try to make it interesting.
After a gruling month of morning sickness in December, I am now 17 and a half weeks and feeling good. The changes are subtle and all of it is weird to me. Every few days I can feel the streching and shifting going on in my body and my clothes are not fitting me anymore. So this feels pretty pregnant to me but to most people I do not look pregnant yet--maybe a thicker version of myself but not pregnant. I'm sure that in the not too distant future I'll be wishing for this time when I can still move around freely but I am finding it frustrating not to have a round and obvious belly yet. People say it takes more time with a first so I'm trying to be patient.
I believe that I felt the baby move for the first time this week. I had just laid down in bed for the night and I felt a stirring in my lower abdomen. If I had to guess what the baby was doing to cause it I would say somersaults or log rolls. Which would not surprise me given the other times that we've been able to check on the little Foley-Murphy.
At our 12 week sonogram the technician was having to chase the baby around with the wand because it was moving so much. Same with each time we've been hunting to hear the heart beat, it seems to be an active child that knows how to move around. Could be interesting (painful, uncomfortable, hilarious?) for me as they get bigger and their movements are more obvious to me.
The big question is boy or girl. We are planning to find out and that should happen in the next few weeks. Everyone has their predictions and we have our guess but time and another sonogram will tell us if we're right.
posted by johnandrea at
9:20 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the blog! I was thinking 7/7/7 would be a great birthday!Lucky perhaps, easy to remember (let's face it, even with uncle Jim's list, we have a lot of birthdays to remember). And it's close enough to the Fourth that you are guaranteed ready-made celebrations.
Remember we called you thumper before you were born. How fun and exciting, those flutters that turn to kicks that will remind you you are not alone.
Happy Valentine's Day, Love Mom
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