28 Weeks: 3D/4D Ultrasound Pictures

 This week Scotty and I got to go and do our 3D/4D ultrasound.  This was something elective that we chose to do.  I mean, who wouldn't take the chance to see their baby's face as many times as they could?  When we were called back the ultrasound lady asked if we knew what we were having and I told her we did.  She then asked what we were having and I told her I wanted her to tell us, just to be sure it was still the same as we thought 8 weeks ago.  She said that was fine and she was happy to do it.  Well Scotty, the big mouth, gets in the room and I don't even have my belly uncovered yet and he mentions to the ultrasound lady "yeah she does that when Jen does this."  Something along those lines.  Dang it!  We weren't in the room 3 minutes and he spilled the beans.  Geeze.  I don't know how he kept it a secret for 4 days the first time around.  Silly Goose.  He just gets so excited to talk about his Charlotte.  But, for your own good, I wouldn't tell him anything too secret if I were you.  : )

Something new that I have been experiencing this week are hot flashes.  They are terrible!  I will be doing nothing - just sitting and I all of a sudden get so hot that I have sweat on my forehead.  Gross.  I feel like I am hotter in general now.  I do not like to sit with covers on me, I do not like to sleep with the covers on me, and I wear dresses and sleeveless shirts more often because I get hot.  I mean I know that it is summer now but we usually have the A/C cranking at home and at work and I just can't get enough.  Gotta love those hormones.  Speaking of that - mine were raging yesterday.  I couldn't decide if I wanted to cry or to be angry, so I ended up just going to sleep.  That helped a little.
 
The hormones have also been giving me bloody noses and making my heartbeat really fast.  My nose doesn't bleed so bad that it runs down my face but when I have to blow it there is blood - TMI I know.  The heart pounding thing is weird too.  I will lay down on the couch or in bed and my heart will beat really really hard.  I am not out of breath or anything it just feels like it is going to beat out of my chest.  It only lasts for a few seconds and then it is fine but for that little bit of time it is uncomfortable.  From what I have been reading that can be from the hormones as well as from having twice the normal blood supply and my heart pumping harder to supply oxygen to the placenta for Char Baby.  So many changes that happen to your body that no one tells you about and that you do not expect.

A lot of people ask me how I am feeling or if I think that I have had a hard pregnancy.  I do not have anything to compare it to, but overall I have felt great!  I love being pregnant.  Yeah being sick and tired at the beginning was no fun and the heartburn now sucks, but it isn't anything I can't handle and I wouldn't not get pregnant again because of how I have felt.  I was also telling Scotty that I think that Charlotte is a very active baby.  Once again, I have nothing to compare it to but to me she is an active little girl.  I have been trying to do my kick counts where I sit or lay for 1 hour and try and count 10 movements.  Most of the time she has met that mark in less than 10 minutes.  I will be so happy when she gets here but I will miss her kicks in there!  I will not miss her chillin in my rib cage though. 

Well here are some of the pictures from the ultrasound.  Such a cool thing.  I am happy that we chose to do this and see our sweet girl's face.  It will be interesting to see if she looks like that when she comes out.  So who do you think she looks like, me or Scotty?  I know what I think.  : )    

She was quite comfy with that hand in front of her face!

Check out those sweet little fingers!

We may have a thumb sucker on our hands!

Like I said, we had the ultrasound lady check and make sure we still had a little girl in there and that we wouldn't be surprised on delivery day!

They are all amazing pictures of our sweet girl but this one was our favorite.  The next one has it in the color that shows up on the screen in the ultrasound room.  So cool!  She is so beautiful!



Baby girl is about 2.5 pounds.  Some studies show that babies at this stage may now be able to distinguish between voices.  So Charlotte maybe hearing both her Mama and Daddy and understanding that they are different!  Wow!