Baby boy update

Well, yesterday I had to have one of those "special" ultrasounds where they send you to a ultrasound guru (or whatever you'd call it) and they do a very detailed ultrasound where they measure everything with the baby to make sure that all is well....

Well...the reason I was sent there was because my blood pressure has spiked (the same reason I'm on modified bedrest) and it was just to check and make sure that the hypertension wasn't being caused by something else and that Freddie was growing and functioning just fine. And it was just what we had thought, it's strictly some last minute pregnancy induced hypertension and it hasn't done anything to Freddie! This doctor actually kind of laughed at the thought that this baby had been adversely affected by anything! Freddie was moving ALL over the place, he was working his little diaphragm and his little heart was beating like a champ!!

My favortie part of the whole thing though was this....

At some point when the Dr. said that I only had short term hypertension, and that the baby was fine, Greg asked "what would have happened if the hypertension was affecting the baby" and the Dr. looked at him and said that the baby would be smaller than normal. Then the Dr. laughed and said "which most definitely isn't the case with this guy." Then Greg asked the question I was thinking..."How big do you think he will be?" The Dr. looked at me and asked how big my daughter was, and I told him...and I jokingly added that we don't have tiny little 6-1/2 pound babies....and he laughed and looked at both us and said "no, you certainly don't....because that's how big this baby is NOW!" Then he said that this baby would be at least 8-1/2 pounds as a safe guesstimate. So...I'm definitely excited that Freddie will be a big, hearty baby!!

So, everyone is healthy...my hypertension looks like it's just pregnancy induced, and Freddie is big and healthy and head down (of course the second baby is going the right way...oh well, right?!?). I will keep you updated in the future with anything else. For the next few weeks I am just going to work on letting him grow and trying to sleep despite the little feet that are nestled up in my ribs!!