Alright is been a really long while since I took pictures of myself I know. I wish I was more on top of this, but I am a pregnant procrastinator! I am still working my same 3 days a week, I have about 6 weeks left to go before I have enough hours to qualify for Mat leave. Baby Dalijah is still head up I think because she only kicks me low. Getting strong enough now that sometimes it hurts! These pictures are me yesterday @ 27 weeks 5 days.

can see them now from the outside..wow she is strong!

Tor felt the baby tonite..her kicks are getting stronger everyday!

23 weeks today.

22 weeks.

Felt the baby kick from the outside last night...now if only Tor could feel her.

Wow... didn't realize how big I really am untill I looked at these... Why does everyone keep saying I'm small I'm HUGE!
Tor always takes bad pictures of me! LOL this ones funny.

Today I am half baked.

Dalijah on Thursday Aug 20. 18 weeks 5 days.


Perfect as can be!

OK they are up. Happy mom?

19 weeks
18 weeks
17 weeks
16 weeks
15 weeks
14 weeks

All is great!!! The ultrasound show that the baby is right where "SHE" should be, happy and healthy. I'm so happy and extra emotional. We have decided to name her Dalijah.

Its been a long time I know. Today I can say I officially felt the baby move!!! Baby Soya is 17 weeks 2 days. And I am 135lbs. The pictures of my belly are on their way, but my camera is out of juice. Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to get them up. Until then nothing else to report, oxoxoxo.

Went to see Maggie my midwife today, not much to report. The babys heart rate was 153 beats per minute. we heard him/her kicking before we heard the heart beat. My belly measures 17cm from the top of my pelvic bone to my bellybutton (large for 13 weeks) I have my 18 week level 2 ultrasound on the 20th of August, and wont be back to see Maggie until then.

Madame Zaritska, using her mystical powers,
has the following prediction:

The day you deliver, outside will be bright.
Your baby will arrive in the late afternoon.
After a labor lasting approximately 17 hours,
your child, a boy, will be born. Your baby will
weigh about 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and will be 18
inches long. This child will have light amber
eyes and fluffy black hair.

* I thought this was fun, we will see if it's true...

13 weeks
12 weeks
11 weeks

It's like I blinked my eyes and poof, 13 weeks went by in a heartbeat. Bring on trimester two!
These are my pics from the last few weeks.

12 weeks yesterday. I quit one of my jobs, so now instead of 6 days a week I am down to 3...ahhhh
Cant wait to really get nesting now and enjoy the summer with Tor and the dogs! I have been taking pictures of my belly I think i'm going to save them up and post them at 13 weeks as a group of three. untill then. oxoxox

11 weeks Today with Baby Soya. This pregnancy has gone very different than with Ruby, no MS or sore breasts. I had an early ultrasound at 7 weeks 4 days, and heard the heartbeat on Wednesday.
So far so good little Soya.

I had a baby. She lived inside me for 21 weeks 3 days. Her name is/was Ruby, and I miss her. I mostly had uneventful first trimester, a little morning sickness some sleeping issues and back pain. A clean triple marker, and a great 12 week scan, which gave me peace that all was well. I could start to feel her very early at about 16 weeks. At my 20 week scan the Tech seemed quiet. Not really thinking anything of it, the scan went on and on... almost 40 minutes. She never showed me the heart beat, I never even realized. Why didn't I know. It's amazing how life changes, gets turned on it's head in an instant. I was home for no longer than two hours when the phone rang. My mid-wife telling me my baby has CDH. They could not see all 4 chambers of her heart and assumed the defect was on the right side. I've been in shock since that moment! Everything has been so surreal since then. I live on a small Island so I needed to go to The mainland to see a specialist, the days waiting and not knowing, I don't know how I surrived. 7 specialists later, the facts were in. Ruby had left-sided CDH liver down, her heart was in her right arm-pit her stomach in her chest. All four chambers were beating. Ruby was given chances, there were no answers. I knew in my heart what I needed to do. I didn't want my baby to suffer not even for a second. I kept saying to my-self, I want a healthy baby, I just want a healthy baby. On February 14, after 15 hours of induced labour I got my Valentine. The day I became a mom was bitter sweet, my heart sank, but it also grew. I held my baby for hours, I didn't want to let her go, I never wanted to leave that room. Leaving was the hardest part.

19 weeks .."pushing out"
"normal"
"Sucking in"

18 weeks

movement this week and last, lots of little kicks!

17 weeks

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14 weeks

13 weeks