Oliver Robert, Born November 24th, 2008

Oliver Robert, Born November 24th, 2008

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

First Doctor's Appointment

Well, we went in for our first doctor's appointment. We were not expecting too much, because we had been told that not much happens at the first appointment. When we first arrived, I was all nervous, not knowing if the husband should be there yet or not. But of course, we walked into the back together. Everyone was really helpful and talkative. It was actually exciting to see how exciting everyone was while we were there. While sitting in our room, the nurse came in bearing a few gifts for us. We received a bunch of coupons and stuff, along with a baby bag, which the nurse said was masculine, but I'm not too sure about that. We also received a really cool book. With how much reading I like to do, hopefully I am able to make it through it. Maybe I'll make it my next book club book! As we were going through the whole appointment, the mid-wife asking us questions and us asking her questions, she finally asked how far along we thought we were. We said, we thought a little over 7 weeks, but we were not sure. She surprised us with asking if we wanted an ultrasound. We must have looked at each other in anticipation, because we were not expecting to be able to see baby cakes yet. Before we went for the ultrasound, Laura had the pleasure of getting her blood taken. I'm pretty proud of her, she didn't faint once. So, after the blood work, we went into a back room to start the ultrasound. Laura got comfortable, as comfortable as you can be, and we got things started. It was exciting to look up at the screen and see a little baby cakes right in the middle. When she zoomed in on the picture, we were able to see the little heart beating and the development of the head taking place. She did all the measurements, and our estimate was almost spot on. We are currently 7 weeks and 4 days along. Our current due date is November 21st. We have a lot of family that are close to that date, especially Laura's sister, my brother Shawn, and Brady. Maybe baby cakes will share a birthday with one of them. Anyways, that is a quick update of where we are today.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. We are extremely excited to be taking this journey together. And we hope that all of you can be a part of baby cake's life when he or she arrives. We love you all and can not wait to hear or see from all of you.

God Bless,

Joshua, Laura, and Baby Cakes

2 comments:

Ryan and Kristi said...

If Laura could wait till February 18th to have your child that would be Awesome, I think Kristi would even settle and be happy with December 6th.....Glad to hear eveything is going great. Are you guys going to find out the sex? Do you remeber what the heart rate was? Also, If you start buying kid stuff early remember to have Laura lable EVERYTHING because we wouldn't want you guys to confuse the diapers with the bottles...that would be humiliating

JPGamradt said...

We had a big discussion on if we were going to find out the sex of the baby, and we decided we were not going to find out. We want it to be a surpise for us. So we have already started thinking of names and hopefully we will have 4, 2 for each gender. The heart rate right now was average, it was 158 BPM. Not finding out the sex of Baby Cakes will make it difficult for buying cloths and such, but we still hope to find some great deals at garage saleing this year. And don't worry, I'm sure Laura will label everything, how else am suppost to know if we have a boy or a girl.