Tuesday, June 17, 2008

15-week heartbeat recording

Kevin:
Several weeks ago, we recorded our baby's heartbeat using a portable Doppler heart monitor:

15-week heartbeat

Sunday, June 15, 2008

The BIG ultrasound

Tiffany:
This Thursday, June 19, we will be having our big ultrasound to make sure that Baby Trovini is growing all of his/her body parts correctly and to find out if we should expect a he or a she come November. My parents will be coming with us to the appointment and my sister is flying in that day for a week long visit. It's nice that she'll get to be a part of this excitement, too.

We're still working on getting some belly pictures up and getting the wav file of the baby's heartbeat up for everyone to hear. Once school is officially done for both of us, we'll probably get better about figuring out all the blogspot nuances!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Our baby, the bell pepper

Kevin:
We are now in Week 18 of the pregnancy. It seems that most books and web sites about pregnancy love to compare the size of the child to some sort of fruit or vegetable. We've progressed through poppyseed, lentils, and blueberries, past grapes, figs, and limes, and beyond apples, avocados, and turnips. We're at the bell pepper stage now.

I think it's time for a system of comparisons geared towards men: hex nut to washer to golf ball/poker chip to shot glass to hockey puck to baseball to softball.

That sounds much better, doesn't it? Our child is the size of a softball.