22 week check up

We had a check up this morning and things are still looking good. We are up to +5 lbs to date and measuring right up to where we should be. We do have one very slight concern which is the fluid amount from our last ultrasound was on the "low side of normal" so we have to do another ultrasound, yay!! Sounds fine by me. The doctor didn't seem worried about it at all and after we chatted for a minute about what/how much I've been drinking he didn't feel like there's any thing else I should be doing and that it will probably be just fine on the next ultrasound. We get to see little man again so it works for me!! We go for that on April 21 so he should be pretty big by then, I can't wait!

I have a new cousin!!!

Updated with more pics!!

Okay, so she's my 2nd cousin but it's fun that my cousin & I

are both adding to the Welch family this year!!

It's not quite the feat that Gregory's are pulling off

this year but that's for another post.

Yesterday, March 13 @ 1:02 pm

Micheala Jade Fuentes

was born weighing in at

8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long.

Congratulations Kris & Dave! She is beautiful!

Let us know what to expect a few months.

Almost half way there

We just had our "20" week ultrasound and everything is looking great!! He's measuring up at approximately 19 weeks 3 days which is pretty spot on for August 1st. Let's hope he sticks to that and doesn't decide to wait until later, it's going to be a long summer as it is!

I've definitely been feeling his movements and once I discovered it really was him, I realized I'd been feeling him since the 16th week. He didn't feel like a "flutter" or any of the other ways that were described to me so I convinced myself that it wasn't him, it must have been something else. Then, last Tuesday night shortly after we had gone to bed, I decided I would try to feel with my hand what was going on. I pressed in on my tummy and a few seconds later I got a shock!!! It felt like something the size of a racket ball rolled against my hand! I gasped & woke Chris from the light sleep he'd just fallen into. "What's wrong?!?", " I just felt him! I really just felt him. . .with my hand!!" It took me forever to go to sleep after that! And of course, he's been making his "rolling" more pronounced each day since then, mostly at night or

when we're in the Prelude. In fact, the morning after my "discovery" on my way to work I pictured in my head a miniature dolphin doing tricks in my stomach. :)

And here are the new pictures, enjoy!!

Sucking his thumb?

Jason said little man looks like a monkey in this picture, I think I kinda agree :)

Check up

We had our third prenat visit today & all is well! His heart is drumming away at 156 bpm & we appear to be "right on target" with weight (+2 lbs to date) and measurements so far. It was a quick visit & I think we even got out of there before our scheduled visit time! Kentucky was having a state tornado drill today at 9:07 am and our appointment was scheduled for 9:00 but since we got there early the doctor asked to go ahead & see us so we could be on our way. I thought that was really nice of him. We were in the car at 9:07 so we didn't have to do the hospital's drill! 

Next week we get to go for our second ultrasound and I can't wait!!! Hopefully I'll have some more good pictures to share!