20 Weeks along

Well, today was the big day!! Jon and I had our 20 weeks appointment with the doctor today which means it was time for an ultrasound! At first we debated on whether or not we should find out the sex of the baby. We were not ever able to tell with Gavin and it was such a great experience to have Jon hand me our baby and tell me "Meet your son".

BUT. after much deliberation we decided that it would be nice to be able to prepare ourselves a little bit. So we decided to find out the sex of our little tic-tac.

First of all, we must say that it is so great to have a doctor's office that is almost ALWAYS on time. We never have to wait more than a few minutes before getting in and it is one of the MANY reasons that we love our Midwife. After waiting a few minutes we were immediately called back to the Ultrasound room where they got me ready to go. The doctor came in promptly and popped in the VHS into the machine. (At the end of the ultrasound he popped the tape out and it didn't record! This happened with Gavin's too!!!) He measured the head, checked for 10 fingers and 10 toes, measured the femur, checked for the 4 chambers of the heart, checked the liver, and then..... the gender of our little one!

Welp, all I can say is that my premonitions about the sex of our baby were all WRONG! I swore that this baby was a girl. It just felt so much different this time around. But we were wrong. We will be welcoming another baby boy the first week in January (if not sooner!)


Things for me have been a roller coaster. I go from feeling absolutely wonderful, to being knocked out completely with what I am assuming are Migraines. Last week Jon and I decided to go golfing with a friend of ours. We made the mistake of making the tee time for 11:30am so we were golfing in the heat of the day. About 30 minutes after we finished our game I started to get little arcs of light, or what I have always considered "visual disturbances." I continued to get ready for work and eventually the arcs turned into a huge eyeball headache. The headache was followed by numbness on the whole upper right side of my body... we're talking tongue, cheek, arms, fingers all on the right side. The headache worsened until finally I completely lost my ability to comprehend certain words or communicate what I was feeling. I work for a great Chiropractor who specializes in applied kineseology. All I could manage to tell him when this was happening was "I'm scared." He checked me for several options but found that I was extremely low on electrolytes. I loaded up on my trace minerals and got adjusted and eventually my comprehension returned to normal and my headache subsided.

Things were great for a few days and then BAM! No warning whatsoever had another migraine, this time with extreme dizziness.

We're still not quite sure what's going on. We don't know if they're migraines caused by my increased level of hormones, if they're mini-strokes (the first time I ever had this happen was before Jon and I were married and my doctor told me that was her best explanation), or if my rotated atlas is wreaking havoc (had x-rays taken last year that allowed you to see through my atlas because of how rotated it was.)

Basically what we've decided it that we are going to wait until the next time this occurs and we're going to book it to a doctor while it's actually happening. Hopefully this will give us some answers.

Other than that, things are great. The baby is healthy and growing EXACTLY on schedule. I've even managed to FINALLY gain a few pounds. Total weight gain at 20 weeks is 5lbs!

I'm going to try to hook up our scanner to get the ultrasound images uploaded, but we'll see about that ;)