Happy news
Monday, April 13th, 2015 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
I am remiss in not yet having posted here what I noted on Facebook almost 2 weeks ago:
We're expecting in late July. It's a girl.
... However, I've also been posting about it to a select women-only filter since well before it became a reality -- first as "trying to conceive", and eventually "huh, this seems to be sticking". So although it seems like my posting habits this year have been highly sporadic, it's really been more regular than it appears. :-} I am very grateful to all those folks who have lent their support, interest, advice, and cheers while I ranted, worried, wondered, and gradually dared to hope. (If I'd had to deal with mainstream TTC/pregnancy/parenting forums, I probably would have gouged my eyes out early in the process.)
So, 26 weeks today. I'm happy to say that I've been feeling very well all along and that everything seems to be progressing well and properly.
We found out in mid-November... three days before I started my new job (which is going great, btw). Between that and the general uncertainty of how things would progress, we didn't even tell our mothers (who of course are both over the moon about it) until 13-15 weeks in, and purposely held off on saying anything more "public" to most people until after I had my 90-day HR review in mid-February. But, of course, it's been getting gradually more obvious since then to anyone who sees me day to day -- to the point where strangers were already commenting on it. Finally in March we started making an effort to call or email most of the people we wanted to tell directly first... but then on April 1, I suddenly said "This would be a great day to post the pregnancy announcement!" and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etrace said "Yeah! Do it!" so I did. :-}
The next ultrasound won't be til after the 28-week appointment, but here are the 20-week ultrasound scans I posted to Facebook (the annotations are the real ones made by the ultrasound tech):
I've had a couple of requests for "belly photos", of which I do have some -- I have been trying to remember to getetrace to take one once a week or so -- but I have yet to retrieve them off the camera. Maybe this week.
No, we haven't settled on any names yet. Our first pass at a "short list" is at least a dozen long (narrowed down from 30 or 40, narrowed down from infinity).etrace suggested setting naming rights at $10 million...
So, yeah. 2015 may manage to be even more life-changing than 2014 after all. :-)
We're expecting in late July. It's a girl.
... However, I've also been posting about it to a select women-only filter since well before it became a reality -- first as "trying to conceive", and eventually "huh, this seems to be sticking". So although it seems like my posting habits this year have been highly sporadic, it's really been more regular than it appears. :-} I am very grateful to all those folks who have lent their support, interest, advice, and cheers while I ranted, worried, wondered, and gradually dared to hope. (If I'd had to deal with mainstream TTC/pregnancy/parenting forums, I probably would have gouged my eyes out early in the process.)
So, 26 weeks today. I'm happy to say that I've been feeling very well all along and that everything seems to be progressing well and properly.
We found out in mid-November... three days before I started my new job (which is going great, btw). Between that and the general uncertainty of how things would progress, we didn't even tell our mothers (who of course are both over the moon about it) until 13-15 weeks in, and purposely held off on saying anything more "public" to most people until after I had my 90-day HR review in mid-February. But, of course, it's been getting gradually more obvious since then to anyone who sees me day to day -- to the point where strangers were already commenting on it. Finally in March we started making an effort to call or email most of the people we wanted to tell directly first... but then on April 1, I suddenly said "This would be a great day to post the pregnancy announcement!" and
etrace said "Yeah! Do it!" so I did. :-}The next ultrasound won't be til after the 28-week appointment, but here are the 20-week ultrasound scans I posted to Facebook (the annotations are the real ones made by the ultrasound tech):
I've had a couple of requests for "belly photos", of which I do have some -- I have been trying to remember to get
etrace to take one once a week or so -- but I have yet to retrieve them off the camera. Maybe this week.No, we haven't settled on any names yet. Our first pass at a "short list" is at least a dozen long (narrowed down from 30 or 40, narrowed down from infinity).
etrace suggested setting naming rights at $10 million...So, yeah. 2015 may manage to be even more life-changing than 2014 after all. :-)
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Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 11:33 pm (UTC)