Baby Shisler

Today was the big day, we got to see Baby Shisler at the official BIG ultrasound appointment, most likely the last before we meet baby in January.

Everything went well, baby looks good, all parts of baby are where they should be and doing what they should be doing. We continue to pray for a healthy, strong little one.

The ultrasound was LONG, we were lucky enough (I say that with sarcasm) to have a student sonographer, and we had the boys along...she was SUPER slow and so the first 45 minutes were a bit painful with the boys squirming and her trying to figure things out and my tummy with about a tube of gel on it. BUT then came in the professional sonographer and like that she had 20 great pics, measurements, heartbeats, blood flow etc and we were done. She told me that all looked well and if it didnt she would have gotten the Dr. So I assume the results are good by that. Baby weighed in at 8 oz today and had a 148 heartrate, it had been in the 160's so lower today.

The placenta is in the front of the uterus which explains why all the kicks and moves I have felt are off to the side or back. It was breach most of the time today, but has lots of space to move. So who knows what it will end up like, Tommy was breach but no one else was. As baby gets stronger and bigger, it will certainly kick right over that placenta.

We are officially about half way...about 19 weeks according to the original calculations and we go to 39 thanks to the planned section so 20 weeks to go.

Here are some pics...and no we didn't find out boy or girl for those of you wondering if we gave in. Baby had it's legs crossed most of the time so they wouldn't have wanted us to know anyways. :) The umbilical cord is in a bunch of these pics too which is kind of neat. Enjoy

Here is our little gift from God....

baby was trying to suck its thumb here, see it's knees crossed

This one is hard to see...but it is baby's nose, lips and chin

baby on its tummy, spine, ribs and back

baby was clapping here for us...

In the starter blocks about to kick me

baby, legs crossed, hand up

left foot