Nursery and Maternity Pics!

Yesterday we went up to Sioux Falls and we got our dresser/changing table. Today we took some pics of our nursery and a few maternity pictures. Here is the link if you want to watch as a slideshow. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegouldfam/sets/72157617259738677/show/. I hope everyone enjoys the pics!

Daddy felt baby kick!

Yes it's true. Last night Andy felt our little boy kick! He had his hand on my belly and the baby kicked at least 8 times. He is an active little boy! We can't wait until August! Also I am adding a picture of our crib. Our theme is frogs and ducks and we love our nursery! Tomorrow we will go pick up our baby's dresser/changing table in Sioux Falls. Now all we need is our recliner and our baby room will be complete.

Last weekend we also went to Target and registered for our little boy. Our baby shower will be June 13 and my sister Dana is working on getting the invites out! I hope everyone can make it!

Good News!

I had great news the other day...the doctor's office called and they got my AFP result back and it was negative. AFP stands for alpha feta protein and it is checking for down syndrome, spina bifida, and other neural tube defects. That is great to hear that our baby is healthy so far!
On a side note I just got a new job at the Sergeant Bluff Clinic as a RN and this job will be great for when the baby comes! I am so excited and I'm sure the baby will be too!
Also I put a pic of my pregnant belly at 20 weeks...we are halfway done with our bun in the oven!
I also wanted to say thank you to the people that have been following my blog. (Sylvia)

Mid Term Pregnancy Ultrasound!

Yesterday Andy and I had our mid term pregnancy ultrasound! It was amazing to be able to see the baby again. We saw everything....the feet, hands, heart, brain, kidneys, knees, spine just to name a few. We also saw that the baby is going to be a boy! We are so excited! We found out that this ultrasound rules out 80% of problems and the Doctor said that everything was normal.

The baby boy was also moving quite a bit and he kicked when we looked at this feet! It was so cute. Also when we went to listen to the baby's fetal heart tones the nurse had a hard time getting them becuase he was moving so much. Finally he stayed in one spot long enough so she could get them.

Andy added the DVD of our ultrasound to our website. Go to http://www.thegouldfam.com/ and right click on 19 week ultrasound. Then hit save link as and you can save it to your desktop and it will download. After it is done being downloaded you are ready to watch!

I will also be adding a few of the pics later on today. We can't wait for our little bouncing baby boy to come in August.

Baby Furniture

Yesterday we bought some baby furniture for our nursery from Kid's Supercenter up in Sioux Falls. We bought the baby's crib which is chocolate brown and we bought a matching dresser/changing table. We will get the furniture sometime in May or June. We will post pics when the nursery is all put together!

Another Ob visit!

This weekend I was having some complications and I called the doctor on call and thank God it was Dr Angela Aldrich. She told me that it wasn't an emergency but she still wanted to see me in the clinic today. They checked the baby's fetal heart tones and they were 144. Then we got to do an ultrasound..I was so excited and kind of scared. Everything was fine with the baby and we got to see the baby's brain, spine, stomach, heart, fingers, femur among many other things. However we did not get to see if the baby was a boy or girl! I guess we will have to be patient and wait until my next ultrasound on March 31. The baby was facing towards my spine so it's little bottom was towards us. The baby was also in a kneeling position as you can see on the ultrasound picture. We were so excited to hear that everything was normal and it was pretty exciting to see our little one!

Ob visit

Today I had another OB visit! Everything is doing great! It was more of a social visit. They checked my blood pressure, urine for protein and glucose, wieghed me, and checked fetal heart tones! Everything turned out good and the baby's heartbeat was 158! It was so much louder than the last time! I am so excited for the next visit....it will be March 31 @ 10 am and we will hopefully get to find out the sex of the baby. There will definitely be some pics to follow from the ultrasound.
Another update is we have been looking at baby names and can't wait to narrow them down when we find out the sex!