growing baby

On Tuesday morning, as Linda mentioned, we had our second follow-up ultrasound (the next one is in two weeks). The stated purpose was to see a “heartbeat” — defined loosely by our doctor as a couple of lines wiggling.

It was very hard to see, to be honest, but there was definitely something moving in the picture. The egg sack was much bigger, and the bump of the uterus was taking up a lot more space in there, as expected. We were very very happy, as you can imagine.

I’m also having a blast documenting all this from the very beginning — Linda objected to the blog, much like she objected to my idea before of using TrixieTracker, but now she’s come around on the blog and maybe some day we too will have embeddable charts of poops per day as well as average diurnal sleep cycle histograms. Just in case she still doesn’t like this amazing online tool, I’m looking for other baby statistics systems.

When visiting Linda’s parents this week, Linda showed me the rocking horse, and then showed me a ton of bottles of baby food, implying it was her parents fault for continuing down the way-too-early buying of things… but it happily turned out to not be related to us at all. I guess I was a bit too gullible.

I told my grandparents about Linda’s pregnancy (sample reaction — Grandmother: “hooray! hooray! hooray!”), and now we’re having negotiations about when it’s ok to tell other people. Linda had to tell her adviser, since she needs to decide about when to file her dissertation, and at some point I’ll have to talk to folks at work as well.

Other than that, as the title says, not much news to report.