Baby Update

Many of you already know (mostly because my brother thought he should announce it himself) that we found a couple of weeks ago that New Baby Tripp is a boy. That means Brynna will have a little brother, and Camden will have a boy cousin!

At the ultrasound he measured about 4 days ahead of schedule. Brynna measured a full week ahead at the same point in pregnancy. So Daryl and I have big babies!

Part of the reason our babies are so big is my gestational diabetes. Because of my history with Brynna and some other issues I was having at the time, the doctor had me tested 8 weeks early this time. The blood work came back positive. Last time at 28 weeks I just barely qualified with a couple points higher than the average. This time at 20 weeks I shot off the charts with 55 points higher than the average. Because GD gets worse the further along you get in your pregnancy, I'm worried that I'll have to be giving myself insulin shots by the end. Not a fan of the needles. :( Oh AND, they've got me going to a different diabetes doctor this time, and she doesn't do ultrasounds. With Brynna we got ultrasounds at every appointment. That was the only fun thing about having the 'betes. Well, that and being able to lose my baby weight relatively quickly.

Other than the diabetes, everything else is going just the way it should. All of Baby Tripp's organs and limbs are accounted for. His heartbeat is strong, and there are no signs of any problems. Praise God!

Now, as for a name, we haven't picked one yet. You'd think knowing he's a boy would make things easier. Apparently not. (My brother has a name picked for us, though. That's nice of him.) I knew with Brynna that I loved Brenna (for a girl). Daryl made the e/y switch, and I knew that was it. For this baby, neither of us has any real strong picks. We've got a short list going, but neither of us is very attached to any of them yet. Our boy name from last time is still in the running, but even back then, I felt 100 times more sure about the name Brynna. If you guys have any suggestions, we'll happily consider them. Maybe we should make it a contest... just kidding, Brett. Whatever the name is, it won't start with D or B. It probably won't start with X either. Once we settle on a name, we're not going to reveal it until he's born. Feel free to guess and make up your own, though. That's kind of like shaking the presents under the tree, don't you think? That's always my favorite part of gift giving, the anticipation.

In other baby news, he's kicking and moving a lot now. Brynna even got to feel him move the other day. I held her hand firmly against my tummy and he gave her a little kick. I don't know if she really understood, but she jumped a little, looked at me with a happy surprised look and said, "Oh!" I've been working on our computer room some, trying to make room for him. He'll have to share his room with the desk and a big bookshelf until we move. Daryl says that's just how it is for the 2nd born... you get whatever's leftover. Sorry Little Boy.

Below are his ultrasounds. The first two are from about 7 or 8 weeks. The three below that are from 20 weeks. We're at about 22 weeks now (out of 40).