16 and a half weeks

Well, we had our latest ultrasound today. Last appointment my OB said that we would most likely be able to tell this appt the sex of the baby. Mike has been really excited and counting down. I have been trying to curb his enthusiasm that we will hopefully be able to tell the baby's sex, but sometimes baby doesn't cooperate. Yesterday my OMT attending said that he can predict with 99% accuracy what the sex of the baby was by the feel of the woman's stomach. He said that he has only been wrong once (granted he didn't indulge how many times he has been right!). He predicted that I had a boy growing inside me.

So today we go to the appt. and baby has the umbilical cord between his/her legs so it made it difficult to see that area. However we looked at a bunch of angles and no boy's parts were discernible. So, we are most likely a girl! Mike doesn't want to wait to be 100% sure and wants me to sneak into the OB department and get a resident to find out. Now the difficult part starts. We had a name picked out for a boy, but we cannot seem to agree on a girl's name!

Now I don't know about you all, but I am pretty sure our child is doing the Go Cowboys! pistol with her hand in the second picture. The baby weighed 6 oz. For comparison the baby is about the size of an avocado this week!

15 weeks

I started my new rotation yesterday in osteopathic manipulative treatment. It is three weeks in the clinic and one week in the hospital. We have to be there about 8:30 and get out usually between 3 and 5. Today and Friday we have half-days. It has already been amazing how much I have been able to accomplish when I am not at the hospital from morning to night. This rotation concentrates on the non-medicine aspect of being a D.O., getting comfortable touching patients and learning how you can use OMT in your future practice. It is really rewarding when patients come in with extreme pain and stiffness and they leave feeling so much better.

I finished my ICU rotation on Friday and this past month has really bumped internal medicine up on my list of what I want to be when I grow up. I am so thankful to be done with core, the long hours, the every other weekends, even though I have really enjoyed the rotations. I think in the next five or six months I have to work one Saturday and that is it!! I won't know what to do with myself! We went to the OSU game on Saturday and had a blast!

Well I have pretty much overcame the morning (all-day) sickness. I had one unfortunate episode yesterday when I thought maybe I could up my work outs to pre-pregnancy levels and failed miserably. Here is my 12 week ultrasound. The baby was wiggling around so much. It was
amazing how the baby actually looks like a baby now.

Here is my 15 week belly bump. I have really started to pop recently. Oh and I decided to go brunette last week. I just randomly decided that I was going to try it. I didn't tell Mike I was going to do it. I walked in the house and his mouth seriously dropped. It was pretty funny. I am basically used to it now, though I am not sure how long I will keep it like this. It is amazing how many people are not recognizing me!