April 14th-2nd Trimester Ultrasound

We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning. We got up, I filled my bladder, snapped a picture before leaving and headed to the doctor's office!


My doctor's office is located in Sisters Grove Pavilion.


Sisters Grove Pavilion is attached to the hospital where we will welcome this new life into our lives. The hospital is called St. Francis Medical Center.


On my way into Sisters Grove Pavilion to the 3rd floor where Dr. Shelton's office is...Associates in Women's Care.


We had a really great visit and ultrasound. And we didn't succumb to the temptation of finding out the gender! In fact, when we told the ultrasound tech that we wanted to wait to be surprised she didn't even zoom in to find out because she said she didn't want to let it slip! But everything looks great. Baby Jeopardy is developing well and on schedule. It is so amazing to see this little life up on the screen and know that it is living and growing inside of me. I just can't believe the baby has everything now that it will have when he/she is born. It will just continue to grow and develop until delivery.

Matt really enjoyed it also and was able to figure out what we were looking at throughout. I, on the other hand, had to be walked through the whole thing! Matt was so sweet and held my hand throughout.

Here is one of the profile pictures of our bundle of joy:

The baby is weighing/measuring in at 21 1/2 weeks. Baby Jeopardy is a full pound! So a little bit bigger than where we actually are.

After the ultrasound Dr. Shelton met with us and Matt got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. The heartbeat was 150 when he took it and it was 143 during the ultrasound. Then Dr. Shelton de-programmed me from all of the crazy opinions and advice I get all week long about pregnancy and having babies! ha ha. He is so laid back and Matt and I love this in him. Anna Marie, his nurse, is awesome as well. She brings the excitement and fun. She is convinced we are having a boy now. I reminded her that last visit she was convinced it was a girl...but she claims now that she can actually see some growth in my belly she thinks it is a boy! She is hilarious.

She also weighs me in every visit and claims I have gained 12 pounds so far. 8 of them coming from just the last 5 weeks! She says I am still smaller for 20 weeks but that it is not a bad thing at all. She claims that I will weigh less after having the baby then before I was pregnant. Another prediction she decided to make. We feel blessed by this MD/RN team!

A few more pictures for your viewing pleasure from this evening after work.

An already proud daddy:


And our family of three!