The long awaited pictures....

I know, I am late with these but these are the ultrasound pictures from our last apt at Duke on the 17th. These were taken when I was @ 12.5 weeks with the bean...

The whole body of the baby.....

Level 4 image of the baby, which looks odd at this stage but you can see arms and legs...Here you can see the legs and one hand... and a verrrry "empty" crotch area... hummmmmBut here, maybe a white shadow in there... still too early to tell if it's a boy or girl...And this one is just a face shot of the baby We did have an appointment this week and the baby's heart rate was in the 160's and everything is going well. I am up 1.5 pounds on my scale here at the house so while I feel like I am getting large already, I hope this means that I follow my footsteps from Chayse and have very little weight gain. We won't go to the doctors again until the end of the month, at which time I will be 18 plus weeks so if the baby show us "it's stuff", we will know if it's boy or a girl! This will also be when we do organ scans. While Hope's heart condition, kidney issues, and renal failure were all attributed to the Down Syndrome, we are still praying for everything to look great with this baby's organs.