Welcome to the world, Bear!

Introducing...

Robert Jackson Padraig Wang
born March 16th, 2010 at 8:34am
weighing 9lbs, 13 oz
21.5 inches long

The home stretch

As of today, I'm 38 weeks pregnant, with 14 days to my due date. I don't know if Bear is ready to be born, but my body sure is ready to give birth! At my 35 week Ob appointment, I was already 1cm dilated. At my 37 week appointment, I was up to 4cm!!! And since March 1st, I've been having mild contractions, and what I suspect was bloody show. Could be any day now... or it could be another 2 weeks of contractions >.<

Is it just me, or does it look like I haven't grown at all in the past 5 weeks?

Picture updates!

There won't be any more ultrasound pictures of the baby, but that doesn't mean the updates are done with!

While I wait to meet him, I've been knitting him some small things. Here's his hat!



It's funny... ever since my stomach "popped" around week 25, I've pretty much felt the same size. Yeah... that is until I made a collage of my belly shots and realized how HUGE I am getting now!

Here are the older pictures:





And here I am, today:



I wonder how much bigger I'm going to get?

4-D ultrasound pictures

I am so, so, so in love. He couldn't have behaved any better - he slept the entire time, but was obliging enough to keep his legs and hands out of his adorable face so we could get some pictures. A rough estimate of his weight based on his femur and skull size is 3 pounds, 9 ounces. He has hair, and it looks like he's still very much a little boy. Everything looks perfect - he's big, chubby, healthy, already facing head down and ready for mommy to push him out in March!!!











And here's a picture of me! I know I'm big, but I still can't believe that he can fit in there!

And it's a....

BOY!!!

Hearing the technician say that was probably the biggest shock and surprise of my life.

Here he is, relaxing:



Here's his tiny little foot. Look, you can see all his toes!!!



And in case anyone is still doubting his boyishness, here is the proof...



He is 12 ounces, and measuring about 10 days ahead of schedule (yay for big babies!). His heartbeat was a nice, strong 159. During the ultrasound, he was very mellow, and just relaxing - he stuck his fingers in his nose, and did some very cute reverse sit ups - he's super flexible!!!

I've exploded.

So, this is what I looked like 3 weeks ago (and even 2 weeks ago, though I don't have pictures):

And this is what I look like today:

WOAH!

Grow, baby, grow! Hehe.

Our Early Screening Ultrasound

It only took Sprout two weeks to change completely from a cute gummy bear to an adorably little baby!

Our Early Screening ultrasound went really well - no markers for any sort of complication or abnormality. My blood results will be back in a week, which is when we'll know for sure.

The baby is a little more than 2 inches long now. We saw Sprout's little fingers, and we got to watch Sprout move - well... like Daddy, Sprout is a pretty chill, relaxing kinda baby, so no acrobatic flips for us - Sprout just sucked on his/her hands, waved them around at us, hiccuped a few times, and kicked me once! We are both more than in love.

And..... it is PROBABLY a.....


GIRL!

Here are some pictures:






And in case anyone is curious what Momma looks like, I look absolutely the same, hehe. Here's proof: (weeks 4, 6, 8, and 11 from left to right)