Our little one

So as most of you already know we are expecting our first baby in August. We felt that starting a blog would help with keeping everyone up to date, plus would give me (Rhian) another project to work on. I am already 5 1/2 months along and with under 4 months left I wanted to be able to get out what I've been feeling, changes I'm noticing as well as share some pictures for those of you who don't get to see us on a regular basis. We have had a couple ultrasounds now so I'd like to show that off and will have another one sometime soon (our child is camera shy).

This is from our 12 week scan. Used for dating and measuring at this point (its was only 5cm). The baby flinched once, involutary of course and we got to see its beautiful heart beating.

This is one from our 20 week scan, apparently my appointment was at the most active point of the hour for the baby and this was the clearest Baby Balo could get. The 2 circles at the left are its knees then the hands in the middle and a bit of the top of the head on the right.

This is as close to a profile as we got, she took the picture and it quickly moved out of the way. Needless to say a standard 20 minute appointment turned into a 45 minute appointment. Everything looked great I have to go in again for another anomaly scan just to get a better look at the face, completely elective on my part.

So baby is growing and getting stronger, its kicks and jabs are feeling less like flutters and more like actual kicks. I'm feeling great andf was blessed not to have too much in the way of morning sickness. However, I was exhausted for the first 3 months. Now I'm on to projects for the baby and getting things fixed up around the house so we can just enjoy the baby when it makes its big entrance.

For those of you wondering we are waiting till the arrival to find out whether Baby Balo will be a boy or girl.

We love you all and excited to share our experiences with you.

xoxo