It's A Boy!

I can't even explain how the cool that ultrasound was. I've only ever seen the blurry pictures and wonder how anyone can tell anything from them, but it is so different to see it live. At first I could just see the spine, but then once I figured out where the legs where it was incredible. After you got oriented to what you were looking at, you really could see everything! We could see the chambers of the heart, the little fingers and toes, the mouth and nose ... and she didn't need to tell us it was a boy, it was obvious! She could even put it on a mode where you could see the fluids moving and at one point we got a good closeup of him actually sucking on his little thumb ... fluids moving and all! He also did quite a bit of moving around for us. He really likes to stretch out his legs and push against me. I can't feel anything yet though.

So that was really fun. Everything that they check for checked out good, and we got our due date pushed up becuase he is developing faster than they thought he was. I know when he was concieved though, so I'm going to take that in next time and maybe they will push the due date back again. I don't really care, except that I don't want to be induced and keeping the due date at Aug 3rd will help with that. But for now, the due date has been changed to July 25th.

I also decided to stop running today. That was a hard decision. I was kinda determined to keep running through the whole pregnancy even if it ment I had to slow down quite a bit. But, it has been hurting quite a bit in my groin when I run. All of the joints getting looser and the muscles pulling on them has really been uncomfortable. Nothing I can't handle really, but seeing the little guy in there moving around makes me want to be a little bit more careful about stuff. Hopefully the elipticals at the gym will be ok and I can keep up with that. Otherwise, it will just be walking and swimming for me!

Oh, and I promise to post belly pictures as soon as Tanner and I get around to taking them. I'm getting less self-consious about it!