...I had ANOTHER ultrasound!

While I LOVE having them, it is crazy how many I have had with this pregnancy; at least I think it is crazy. Let's see...

1. 12 weeks - we couldn't hear the heartbeat at our first appointment
2. 18 weeks - we were in a car accident - had the u.s. at the hospital e.r.
3. 20 weeks - the normal u.s. that you have where the tech measures everything to make sure all is going well.
4. 22 weeks - doctor wanted to help me to feel the movements and thought if I saw the baby move then maybe I would feel it too. (I didn't feel the movement until later that night.)
5. 24 weeks - my placenta was laying low, so they wanted to see if it would move up...it hadn't by this appointment.
6. 32 weeks - checked the placenta placement again and it finally moved up!!
7. 36 weeks - nurse midwife (I think she was) couldn't tell the position of the baby, so she wanted to check if the head was down and how big the baby was measuring.

So, we had this last ultrasound on 7/31/09 and the baby is head down (awesome!) and is measuring approximently 6.5 pounds. I was 36 weeks and 4 days along and the baby was measuring 37 weeks, so just a couple days farther along. Tech thinks that if I could all the way to 40 weeks, the baby could be about 8.5 pounds, which isn't too bad. She said the baby has a lot of hair and will have long legs.

The only stinky thing about this ultrasound is that the baby is getting so big that he/she doesn't have a lot of room, so his/her hands were in front of the face and we weren't able to get any more photos. Oh well! It was still fun to see the baby again!

I can't believe there are only a few weeks left until we get to meet this baby and find out if we have a son or daughter!!