The Past Several Months...

Hey family and friends,

We decided that keeping a blog to keep everyone up to date with the pregnancy and baby would be a great way to keep everyone in the loop as to what's going on with us. We're starting this blog pretty late in the pregnancy (Stephanie is 27 weeks and 1 day today) so this entry will be mostly a refresher of things that have happened in the past few months. Just so everyone knows, we do not want to know the sex of the baby until the delivery day, so we will be using he/she interchangeably to refer to the baby.

Up until this point, Stephanie has put on about 30 pounds (yikes!) but has been able to wear her regular clothes with the help loose fitting shirts and a super cool invention called the BeBand which is an elastic band that holds your pants up when you can't zip them up anymore. Looking at the ultrasound pictures you can see that the baby has grown quite a bit as well (4 weeks - 19 weeks).

The pregnancy has gone very smoothly so far and we are very thankful for that. Stephanie had no morning sickness in the first few months and only recently has she started to feel very tired. The baby has been growing normally and should be approximately 2 pounds at this point. At our last ultrasound, the ultrasound technician observed extra fluid in one of the baby's kidneys which may mean that he/she has an extra ureter (the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder). This, apparently, is very common and may just mean a high frequency of urinary tract infections once the baby is born. We have an ultrasound on Monday (6/14) at the hospital to lean more about the baby's kidneys, so please keep us in your prayers.

Finally, we have been spending most of the past few weekends getting the nursery prepared. We are doing an "Oh! The Places You'll Go" theme. We have painted most of the room yellow and one wall has yellow and green stripes. We will be adding some Dr. Seuss characters around the room as accents in the next couple of weeks (pictures to come).

All in all we are super excited and we look forward to sharing our experiences with all of you!

Love you all!

Stephanie and Jorge