Week 22

Well, at 22 weeks, this is how the belly is looking. It is getting bigger by the week, but that is okay with us - it means the baby is growing! We have good news this week - we found out that Nick is not a carrier of Cystic Fibrosis. Since he is not, but I am, that means our children will not have CF, but they may be carriers of it like I am. The specialist told us that our pediatrician will test our children for that so they know and so they know if they marry someone who is also a carrier of it, then they will have 25% chance of having a child with CF. I never thought I would be thinking about my grandchildren while my first child is still in the womb!!! We had an appointment with the specialist last Friday which went well - Baby P is growing as he should and everything is looking normal. Today we had an appointment with our regular OB who said we don't have to see the specialist anymore if we don't want to. All they can do from here on out is monitor the growth of the baby with ultrasounds, which our regular OB can do. One less doctor appointment a month - I'm okay with that! Our OB will also keep checking my blood for those darn antibody levels, just to make sure it isn't increasing as we go. One bad piece of news we got today - we probably won't be able to fly home for the holidays! We knew we weren't going to be able to go home for Christmas, but Thanksgiving is not going to work either. Our OB said technically we would probably be fine to fly (I would be 32 weeks at Thanksgiving), but at 32 weeks I would be at higher risk to have symptoms of pre-term labor. So ... I think we've decided not to push the envelope and not try to fly for Thanksgiving. We are going to possibly try to fly up to Michigan in October when I am only 27 or 28 weeks and then just stay put after that. Oh, how I am going to miss the holidays up there!!! :( This will be a challenging year for me, but it is for a great cause, to have a healthy and safe baby.



All in all, I am feeling great. I have still been able to do 3-4 workouts a week, mostly walking and swimming, but it is gradually getting more difficult to do. I have had to decrease my speed on the treadmill in the past week or so. :) As I was walking around the schools today at work, I noticed myself huffing and puffing and thought, "Geez, how am I going to do this when I am 9 months pregnant?!!" Ahhh, we will find out when we get there... Hopefully this huffing and puffing was due to my stuffy nose I have been battling lately. I came down with a headcold this past week - thankfully, I had no fever and didn't have to worry that it was the swine flu.



Anyway, I think that is all for now. I will leave you all with the 4D image we got of Baby P when we went to the specialist last Friday. Isn't he a cutie?!! ...