Exciting Day at the Doctor...

Hello Everyone!

Will and I had another doctor appointment this morning. Everything is moving along perfectly! I am 32 weeks and 5 days pregnant. We had another ultrasound done and it is unbelievable how big our little girl is getting! When the ultrasound tech did the head measurement, her head filled up almost the entire viewing screen! Her head is measuring about a week early (it measures 34 weeks) - she probably gets that from me and my melon head :) . I'm not particularly looking forward to pushing it out (ouch) but, hopefully this means she will have lots of brains :) The rest of her measurements are right on track. They estimate her weight at 4 pounds 10 ounces, which means she has gained almost 2 pounds in 4 weeks! I think she should gain about 1/2 pound a week, so she will hopefully be at least 7 pounds when she gets here! Her heart rate was good and she is practicing her breathing. Fortunately, she has moved back into the vertex (head down) position. Unfortunately, she was facing my back, so we still haven't been able to get a good picture of her face. We were able to see her suck on her hand and she even has some hair (probably more like peach fuzz - Will and I were both bald babies). I have a few ultrasound pictures, but haven't been able to put them on a disk yet, so I will post those ASAP.

She is still a very active little girl. She is getting bigger and stronger each week and she lets me feel it! She is starting to get up near my rib cage, which can be uncomfortable at times, but what can I expect, I have about a 2 inch torso!!! We go back to the doctor in 2 weeks for just a quick check-up. Then we start going every week! When we go on the 28th, I will be 35 weeks and 5 days and we will have one last ultrasound and schedule a tentative induction date (which is looking like September 19th/20th-just six weeks from now)! Each time we go to the doctor now it is more and more exciting because we are getting so close to meeting our little girl!

As for me, I have been feeling great. I have been trying to be really good about walking 3-5 days a week and I think it has really helped me with my energy level. The end of the summer is here and I am getting ready to get back into the swing of things with classes. I know that as soon as school starts back the time will fly by and she will be here before we know it! I will try to take some belly pictures in the next couple days and get them posted. What's weird, is I don't really feel like I'm getting that much bigger, but obviously she is growing, so I must be just getting used to the belly :) It is getting harder and harder to do things like tie my shoes and shave my legs :)

A couple weeks ago we had our shower in Birmingham. It was really nice to see everyone and we got lots of great stuff! I think we now have all the "essentials" that we will need, now we just need a baby to use them on :)

I hope this finds all of you well... I will be sure to keep you posted over the next few exciting weeks!

Love,
Ahleasha, Will, and Lorali Claire