Week 21 - LONG LEGS!

Week 21 - LONG LEGS!

This week was my 21 week scan and the baby is looking great! Unfortunately we didn't get any great pics because the baby was facing down towards my back so the ultrasound couldn't get any good profile shots. But that is OK because I am going back again on May 15th and hopefully by then he will have moved his way around for a good profile shot. One of the best pics I have of Jacob was his 21 week scan so hopefully we will get one more good round of ultrasounds before the baby gets too big to really see anything.

One funny thing about this baby is that he had his legs perfectly straight and was in a pike position (for those of you who know what that is). Jacob too would always be in this position. I remember when we got our 3D pictures of Jacob and instead of sucking his thumb like some babies will do Jacob was sucking his toes!!! Looks like this baby is set to do the same thing....hhhmmmmm wonder who they get that from.....

The picture above if you can't tell are of those LOOONNNNGGGG LEGS! To the right is the bootie, and to the far left are his feet which are crossed at the ankle. I have put a smaller image at the bottom that if you click on it will show you all of the labels for the image if you are one of those people who just can't figure out what the heck you are looking at with ultrasound images. We did get to see both feet, and both hands including being able to count all ten toes and all ten fingers. I don't quite know why they sonographer didn't print those images out but for some reason she only printed us out the legs and another shot of the "unmentionables" which I will spare my son the embarrassment of posting that on the Internet!

The baby still doesn't have a name, but Paul is working hard to come up with one. We decided that with this baby that if it was a girl I could pick and if it was a boy he could pick. However I am a planner and I have given him a deadline of June 1st because I need to start decorating!!! hehehehehehehehe We have a few names that we are throwing around but haven't decided anything yet.

The baby is kicking up a storm and I can now feel him every day some days stronger than others, but the doctor told me that when the baby is facing towards my back (which it was a few days ago) that I won't feel it very much cause it will be kicking into organs and my back and not forward into my stomach where most kicks are felt.

The baby measured 4 days more than what I am so he measured 21 weeks 5 days instead of 21 weeks 1 day. Jacob also ALWAYS measured about 4-7 days bigger than where I was, and if you have seen Jacob at 20 months he is 32 inches tall and 30 pounds. So it looks like Paul and I are going to have another big kid on our hands!