20 Week Ultrasound

Last week Satch and I went in for the BIG ultrasound.

You may say it isn't really that big because you don't find out the sex of the baby. 

Well, actually it is huge to us.

We didn't decide to have our 3rd child to have a baby boy or a baby girl.

We decided to have our third child to have another baby.

Another person to add to our family.

For months we have been praying for a healthy baby.

This is the ultrasound that goes in and really checks things out.

This is why it was so big to us.   

Truth be known I just also really like to peek in on our little peanut.

It is so amazing to see what is really going on inside my body.

A precious life is growing inside my tummy.

Here is Satch as he got his first glimpse of his baby.

Here is the little peanut.

Isn't he/she a little beauty! :)

Proud Papa.

This is probably 1 of the 1000  10 times that we looked away

 to make sure we didn't see any key body parts.

Honestly, we have never seen these key body parts in an ultrasound.

Would we even know what we were looking at anyway?!?

We were in the ultrasound room for about 30 minutes

Ooooing and ahhhhing at our newest beauty.

This is probably about the time I said a prayer of thanks for our healthy baby

and walked next door for my doctor's appointment.

The doctor walked in and checked for the heart beat with the Doppler.

We were talking when all of a sudden we heard "it."

The heart beat clearly skipped a beat several times.

I was even able to pick it up with my untrained ear.

This is when you realize that life can change in an instant.

One minute I was letting my guard down and thinking of fun things like baby names,

the next moment I was wondering if something was wrong with my baby's heart.

It was so confusing to me.

I was in an ultrasound minutes before and everything was great.

Minutes later the heart sounded off.

My doctor immediately started to comfort me and tell me that this is very common.

However as a mother worried about the well being of my child it is not common to me.

I was then set up to go in for a stage II ultrasound 2 days later.

I went in and had a very thorough ultrasound.

They poked around and extensively checked out all of the baby's organs for about 45 minutes.

We did not hear the arrhythmia at all and the structure of the heart looked great.

Praise Jesus!

I asked the doctor if I will worry about my child's heart for the rest of his/her life.

His reply, "don't worry about the baby's heart for the rest of your pregnancy."

I am so thankful for a healthy baby.

These scary moments in life remind you just how fragile life actually is.

We can't wait to finally meet who God picked for us to complete our family.

We only see what is immediately in front of us.

However, He sees the big picture and has always been faithful to all of our needs.

I just know that he has picked the perfect little person to compliment and challenge all of us.

Here are big brothers taking a look at "New baby."

Griff pointing to his baby tister. (he has insisted that it is a girl from the beginning)

Roman checking out the baby with his chubby little hands.

This year will challenge our family in every way as we know it.

I can't wait to see what God has in store for us...

**Before going in for the ultrasound I wasn't feeling much movement.  In the ultrasound I learned it was because my placenta attached in the front of my uterus.  Since then I have been feeling lots of movement everyday.  Feeling my baby squirm around is one of the most comforting feelings in the world.