Welcome to our blog for lil' puddin'!

Today we are 17 weeks (exactly four months in crazy pregnancy math; where the first two months are four weeks each, the next four months are five weeks each, and the last three months are each four weeks, or something weird like that!) into this adventure that was set into action little to our knowledge! It has been an overwhelming and exciting experience thus far. We had our four month check-up this week and everything is looking well. I also had a quad-screen blood test for birth defects, and everything came back negative, which is a great stress off our minds! I am feeling quite a bit better now, although I'm having my normal trouble with a little backache and heartburn thrown in for good measure! But, I will take that over constant nausea and dizziness any day! We'll have an ultrasound on October 12th and hopefully lil' pud' will let us in on the big secret of whether it's a boy or a girl!

(To those of you who don't know, lil' puddin' is the nickname for the baby, given by one of its' Aunts, but it will not be used after it's born! We're not fond of nicknames, as you may know, but lil' puddin' sounds a lot sweeter than calling the baby 'it' or 'he/she'!)