Beautiful BOUNCING Baby

We had our 12 week health checkup this morning and Baby Hawes is as healthy as can be! Phew! :-) Our risks for Down Syndrome is 1/7,000 and our risk for Trisomy 13 or 18 is 1/10,000...those odds are good enough for us!

We sat with the Doc for awhile and talked about my health, including my weight, which looks great (so I'm eating pumpkin cheesecake tonight - Thanks to my fabulous neighbor Jessica)! Baby H's growth is right on track, even ahead of schedule by 1 day...hopefully that's not an early sign of the size of baby I'm growing!!! The heartbeat was a healthy 157 bpm, much faster than the last 2 ultrasounds.

Our wonderful friends Kim & Bo told us about a company that rents fetal dopplers and Dr. Breedlove said they weren't dangerous to use, so we've bought one of those so everyone can hear our little ones beating heart also!

The absolute BEST part of our visit was the 12 week ultrasound. Baby Hawes was movin' and groovin'! He/She would arch his/her back and would launch itself around, kicking and punching the entire time. It's unreal to watch all the movement, but not feel a thing. Only 6 more weeks until we find out what we're having!!! Get your guesses in soon.

Check out the little foot kicked up!

Launching itself around my belly - even his/her hand is punching up. *Little jumping bean*

Healthy heartbeat (157 bpm)

Little legs kicking around - one is straight up in the air, the other slightly bent.

This is what we're so very THANKFUL for this year! :-D

Our VIP Longhorn Game

We were incredibly lucky and grateful to have been invited to the UT game vs. Florida, especially since the Longhorns Whooped Butt!!! Get ready....you're going to be blown away by the following photos!

Pre-game lunch in the corral club VIP area.

In our box suite on the 50 yard line.

On the field saying "Hi" to BEVO, he's HUGE!

This is right in front of the UT end zone, where we spent the entire 3rd quarter and watched the longhorns score two touchdowns & a field goal. AWESOME!

TOUCHDOWN!!!!

Heading back up to our suite for the 4th quarter.

11 Weeks

This photo is 11.2 weeks, and right before the UT game.

There's no hiding the bloat anymore, but it's beginning to look more like a baby bulge, and less like I ate too many donuts!

8 Weeks

7 Weeks

Early morning in New Orleans

5 Weeks

4 Weeks

4 weeks

Welcome to Our Pregnancy Website!

We're Pregnant!!!

Welcome to our pregnancy & eventually our baby website. We will do our very best to keep all of you updated as often as possible on any new milestones in our pregnancy, as well as any new ultrasounds and doctors appointments we have. We have been taking weekly photos since about 6 weeks along, and will continue to take photos to share with all of you.

What's been happening up until now......

We are 11 weeks, 3 days into our pregnancy, and the baby is about 2in long (the size of a lime), and weighs only a third of an oz. His/Her fingers and toes have separated and are no longer webbed,  and fingernail and toenail beds are forming (fingernails will be growing in the next few weeks). Although it's too early to see by ultrasound, our baby is beginning to form genitalia, and if it's a girl she is forming ovaries this week. He/she has ears that are in their final location, nasal passages on the tip of the nose, a tongue, nipples, and hair follicles!

We've had 2 doctors appointments already, the first was at 6 weeks to confirm that we were pregnant and to have our first ultrasound to see if the baby had a beating heart, which he/she did! The doctors were a little concerned because the heartbeat was a little slower than they had hoped for, but we went back a week later and saw and heard the increased heartbeat. There's nothing in the world more beautiful and relieving than the sound of your baby's beating heart!

On Wednesday the 10th Taylor pricked my finger for an at home blood test that will determine if the baby has an development problems to date, such as down syndrome, or any chromosomal abnormalities. We will be seeing the doctor on Nov. 24th for the results and for another ultrasound to check the neural tube development.

I have been feeling nauseous, dizzy, and exhausted the last 6 weeks, but I feel like I'm turning a corner and regaining some of my energy and I'm less and less "under the weather" feeling everyday. I can see light at the end of this first-trimester tunnel!

Taylor and I are as unprepared for parenthood as is possible, so we've been spending a lot of our time reading parenting books, "what to expect" books, and of course skimming through our dictionary-sized baby names book. We are very lucky to have had such wonderful parents ourselves who have given us a solid foundation of what good parenting looks like!

Pictures are coming soon :)