Week 25

Things have calmed down a bit since last Tuesday. The reality of there only being 11 weeks until they check our little girl's lungs is settling in.

Today she is about 13.5 inches long from head to heel and weighs about 1.5lbs. These are not doctor measurements, just what my little phone app tells me each week about her. She is starting to understand if she is upright or down and her little wrinkly skin is being filled in with some fat.

This morning Christian and I were talking after she got to work and she asked what her girl was doing. I told her that she was kicking and moving and generally very active. We both agreed that that worries us a tad bit because that would mean that she's been doing that pretty constant for a few hours! Are we ever going to get any sleep??? :)

Last night at softball was the first time someone other than Christian and I felt Baby Girl. Vanessa, Doug and Leigh were the lucky ones. Vanessa has been waiting for weeks! It is definitely a weird sensation to feel her moving around inside of my abdomen.

I've been feeling fine and the same as I did before we knew what was going on. Now we just have plans in place for emergencies. We both are planners.

Yesterday I registered to store her cord blood. We had discussed it and with the scare of Jake's CF this year I think we both were set on spending the extra money to potentially save her life or her little sister or brother's. And who knows what the stem cells could do for her in 50 years. We'd kick ourselves if something happened to her that these cells could've helped. So we're sucking it up and spending the money. The yearly cost isn't so bad. It's the initial cost that gets people. It is just money though and if it can help our kids, it's worth it.