Yo Programo

Although usually people that are expecting figure it out sometime between "four" and "six" weeks along--"four" and "six" are in quotes because they count from the first day of your last period, and conception usually begins about two weeks after that, so a woman who is "four weeks" pregnant has generally had a baby inside of her for two weeks, and by that method of counting, you can never say that you're "one week along" because at that point you're not even pregnant yet--we didn't realize it quite that soon because there were several things going on in our lives that were significantly stressful enough to produce the same sort of telltale signs that would prompt the average married woman of childbearing age to head straight for the doctor--or perhaps to the local pharmacy for an EPT.

Well, we became suspicious enough to go ahead and use that EPT that we'd already bought "just in case," and this time around, it was unambiguously positive. Eric has a younger sibling! He doesn't understand quite yet, but we've been bringing it up to him a lot anyway (no, not using the word, "brithster"). We had our first ultrasound appointment last Tuesday, and we saw a beautiful little child moving around inside his or her mom. He or she--this is why I like to know the gender as early as possible like we did for Eric--had his or her knees up and gave Mommy a good, powerful, two-legged kick while we watched. We saw an extremely clear profile of his or her entire body, including the face. Whoever he or she is, he or she sure is a beautiful baby.

# posted by Yo Programo @ 7/29/2008 01:10:00 AM