Week 23 - Moving and Shaking!

 

Baby Charlotte is the size of an ear of corn this week!  She is in full swing of moving around in my belly and I can even see her through my shirt sometimes...it is really awesome!  Dave has finally been able to feel her moving...she seems to move most when I am laying on my back before bed! 

 

I have still been running...on Saturday I ran my first mile in 10:14...not shabby!

 

We had a slight scare over the past couple of weeks.  When I went in for my 20 week ultrasound the ultrasound tech couldn't get a good shot of the neck area so I scheduled another ultrasound for the very next week. When I went in at 21 weeks there was something showing up in the neck/throat area that looked slightly dilated and the doctor referred me to a high risk doctor to get another opinion.  She told me to not freak out that she didn't think it was anything to worry about; however, when you are sent to a high risk doctor your mind starts to wander a little bit.  We met with that doctor this past Friday and were there for 2 hours.  They performed a very in depth ultrasound and were really able to zoom in on the neck/throat area.  We were even able to see Charlotte swallowing (super cool)!  The doctor could not find any sign of anything being dilated or any other problems.  So needless to say we were relieved!  On Friday Baby Charlotte weighed 1.6 pounds and that ultrasound tech said we have a chucky baby already as her belly was measuring into week 24...guess I should start backing off the McDonalds!  So we have had three ultrasounds in the past three weeks...we got to see and get some really good pictures of her if nothing else!

We also got all of the furniture ordered for the nursery which will be in in two weeks!  The picture below is the set we got only it will be in white and the back of the crib will have a panel instead of all slats!  We are excited to have one more thing checked off our list of things to do!