20 Week Ultrasound

On Friday, we went in for our routine ultrasound to see how baby’s growing, and to hopefully find out the gender! When I was pregnant with Mio, I had a few ultrasounds early on (I think at 11 weeks, 14 weeks, and then 20 weeks) for dating the due date and nuchal translucency testing, etc. This time around, they’ve only been checking the heartbeat at each appointment and told me they wouldn’t to do an ultrasound until we passed the 20 week mark, unless there were problems that arose (like not being able to detect a heartbeat, etc.). We’ve been waiting so long to actually see the baby, so it was so great to finally be able to “meet” our little one! Baby #2 measured how they should at this time, was moving around a lot, and is very healthy. There was so much movement that it was at first hard to get a good look at those telltale body parts, but we were able to get a very clear reading at the end!

Here are some of the pictures from the ultrasound…

The first half of the pregnancy has been pretty rough, and while the nausea is slightly better these days, it’s still very much there, and I find that I’m still constantly exhausted and needing to nap a lot. I’ve accepted that the remainder of the pregnancy probably won’t be much different. I guess pregnancy is just not meant to be a very enjoyable experience physically for me! At least we have the baby to look forward to at the end of all of this. We can’t wait to meet our precious little one. 🙂

Stay tuned for the gender reveal with our family!