An Announcement
Oct. 29th, 2007 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinI still need to do lots of updating about our vacation and other things, but, first things first:
PreZ and I are expecting our second child in March, and Dashiell will be getting a sister. The baby is due around March 20th.
The test results from the amniocentesis came back today, and everything came back normal, and that's what we've been waiting on before making a public announcement. We also found out the gender this time. PreZ really wanted to know, and being that the amnio gives 100% certainty in that regard, rather than the "is that a wiener or a hamburger?" gazing at the fuzzy ultrasound picture, we opted to find out this time.
The amniocentesis, obviously, is so that we would know for certain whether or not this child will have any genetic issues. After Dashiell, we just wanted to know for sure, even though the chance of it happening again is extremely minimal. The amnio itself I had Friday just over a week ago, and wasn't actually near as bad as I had expected, thankfully.
Anyway, at this point I'm 19 weeks and 5 days pregnant. I'll be 20 weeks, and thus already half way through this pregnancy, on Wednesday. So far so good... I'm certainly glad to be well out of the first trimester with the all-day nausea, and I'm thankful that I was actually in the second trimester when the dates for our vacation rolled around. The tickets to Australia had already been booked before I got pregnant, but the timing ended up being very fortuitous in that way.
Wheee!
PreZ and I are expecting our second child in March, and Dashiell will be getting a sister. The baby is due around March 20th.
The test results from the amniocentesis came back today, and everything came back normal, and that's what we've been waiting on before making a public announcement. We also found out the gender this time. PreZ really wanted to know, and being that the amnio gives 100% certainty in that regard, rather than the "is that a wiener or a hamburger?" gazing at the fuzzy ultrasound picture, we opted to find out this time.
The amniocentesis, obviously, is so that we would know for certain whether or not this child will have any genetic issues. After Dashiell, we just wanted to know for sure, even though the chance of it happening again is extremely minimal. The amnio itself I had Friday just over a week ago, and wasn't actually near as bad as I had expected, thankfully.
Anyway, at this point I'm 19 weeks and 5 days pregnant. I'll be 20 weeks, and thus already half way through this pregnancy, on Wednesday. So far so good... I'm certainly glad to be well out of the first trimester with the all-day nausea, and I'm thankful that I was actually in the second trimester when the dates for our vacation rolled around. The tickets to Australia had already been booked before I got pregnant, but the timing ended up being very fortuitous in that way.
Wheee!
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Date: 2007-10-30 03:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-30 07:28 am (UTC)Congratulations! :)
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Date: 2007-10-30 08:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:31 pm (UTC)~Julian
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:06 pm (UTC)Little girls totally rock ;)
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Date: 2007-10-30 08:58 pm (UTC)While in Australia we went to two friends' wedding, and there were 3 other kids there in the 18-24m age bracket, and Dashiell was the only boy (lucky bugger was surrounded by eligible women his own age, hah)... and I admit that I really loved the idea of a girl.
It's a tad lame, but girls get cuter clothes and things, and while I'm really not a girly girl at all, there's still something that appeals about that cutesy dress-up thing.
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Date: 2007-10-30 09:52 pm (UTC)I am so happy for you! Hopefully I will have good news to tell in some weeks also. (;
*Raya
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Date: 2007-10-30 10:42 pm (UTC)And thanks :)
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Date: 2007-10-31 01:44 am (UTC)(but not as glad as you.)
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Date: 2007-10-31 01:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-31 05:42 am (UTC)P.S March 22nd is a good date ;)
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Date: 2007-10-31 01:23 pm (UTC)w00h00! Talk to ya'll on IRC !
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Date: 2007-10-31 02:14 pm (UTC)Pssst!
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Date: 2007-11-01 10:22 pm (UTC)I hope our belated birthday card isn't too belated <_< though T should have passed on our congratulations on the day as well!
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Date: 2007-11-01 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-01 10:25 pm (UTC)We'd been thinking about it on-and-off for quite a while, and not actively preventing anything for a long time either. But children with crazy sleeping patterns who induce sleep deprivation work wonderfully as birth control too... they should bottle that ;)