Bumpdate: 14 weeks

Well, I've officially popped - at least in my eyes.  Granted, it's more of my uterus pushing all my organs up rather than actual baby, but hey, I'll take it!  My clothes don't fit right anymore, and I'm slowly purchasing maternity clothing.  Thank goodness it's cute!  It's nice to not have to sacrifice fashion.

We have gotten lots of baby stuff over the past couple of weeks!  I've gotten some sweet hand-me-down stuff from some friends.  Then, on Black Friday, Cotton Babies was having a sale, so I bought most of the rest of our stash.  We'll be using Flips for the most part with disposables as needed and prefolds with covers for the newborn phase.  I'm thinking about getting a few pocket diapers to use for overnights based on the recommendations from a friend.  It's hard to choose what to use because there are so many different kinds of cloth diapers and everyone has a different opinion based on what works for them.

We had an appointment with our midwife on Thursday at 14 weeks.  It took forever to get back into the exam room, but once we got back there, it was a pretty snappy appointment.  All of our 1st trimester screening came back normal.  I have to go in for some blood work next week for additional screening, but I'm not worried.

Note: All this screening is routine and can be turned down if you don't want it.  We figured it's better for us to know about any issues prior to birth so we can be prepared to handle them and not be surprised.  Things are all normal so far.  Yay!

We got to hear Little Sprout's heartbeat again!  Jane put the doppler right between my belly button and my pubic bone and found the heartbeat in no time.  It's wooshing steadily along in the 140s.  Seriously, there is no better sound!  We scheduled our next ultrasound for January at 19 weeks.  This is one of the longer ultra sounds that we get.  The tech will take their time looking at all of Sprout's organs to make sure everything is developing correctly.

How am I feeling?  Tired.  Starving.  Rotund.  But all in all, I'm feeling good!  Just waiting to be kicked...