Week 19 Check Up Results

Last Wednesday was our 19 week gender confirmation ultrasound, doctor consultation and Quad screening blood test. Everything went perfectly! Lauren is 1000% a little girl and completely healthy. She does not have Downs Syndrome, Trisomy-18, nuerotube defects, or any kind of physical abnormalities like a cleft pallet etc. The ultrasound showed that she was almost a week bigger than expected and now weighs about as much as a can of coke : ) Her head has developed perfectly and she has almost full body motion. She was sucking her thumb, crossing her legs, rolling around and opening her mouth as wide as she can! Even the nurse was surprised and laughing because she had never seen a baby "try so hard to talk to us". Our next appointment is February 6th (which will be Laurens last check-up in the United States) and by the end of next week we will post new 5 month pictures of Jill's tummy!!

And on a more personal note yesterday, 20 weeks 3 days, was the first time I felt my little girl move! This was one of the best moments of my life, I feel like a Dad now.

4 Months 1 Week and 3 Days and Loving It :-D

Here are the newest pictures of my beautiful wife and her perfect little tummy. I love my girls more than anything in the world!!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

Well we just got back from our gender confirmation ultrasound at Peek-A-Baby and we're definitely having a little girl! No need coming up with anymore boy names, her name is LAUREN MACKENZIE MILLS :) Here's our latest 2-D/3-D pictures of her at 17 weeks 4 days...





This is a 2-D overview with her heart highlighted and her heartbeat displayed below. You can kinda see her face and nose here too.













This is a hard one to make out but the dark circle to the left is the top of her head, the two smaller circles are her knees and the parts attached to the knees are her shins. The arrow points to what makes her a girl!! She is in the fetal position and this is a picture right on top of her as if she was lying on her back. It's tough to see it but she is definitely a girl.






This is her first 3-D picture ever! It's difficult to make out because she's so tiny right now. This is a side profile you can see her little ribs and her left arm and the side of her face with her hand in front of her mouth :)









This is more of a top view of her covering her face with her hands. The large circle on her head will eventually become her "soft spot" as a baby. Her left ear is a little more visible here too.

And this is her last side shot. You can see one arm and two legs. Her knees are right in front of her face which is twisted more towards the camera. She will more than triple in length before she's born so her pictures will become more and more detailed.

Week 13 Early Screening Results

Well we have our results back from the early Down Syndrome and Trisomy 18 screening that we had done during week 13. After a finger prick and some sonograms we learned that our baby has a 1 in 10,000 chance of having Trisomy 18 and he/she is in the low risk category for Down Syndrome. So far so good! Our next appointment will be on January 14th and we're sooo anxious since it's when we can find out the sex of our little person : ) They're also going to do a Quad Screening for neurotube defects, Down Syndrome again, and overall health of the baby. Please post suggestions for boy names! We can't agree on any names and are ready to take suggestions seriously!

New Ultrasound Pictures @ 13 weeks and 4 days

The famous fetal position, plus it's a great shot of the little spine!













Side view of baby kicking mommy already, and those are its tiny toes. The pictures look kinda weird and blurry here but when they're moving around the ultrasound machine you see thousands of these pictures and they look amazing!









Another side profile showing the baby's knees and part of the baby's spine again. His/her heart rate is now a perfect 153bpm which is a lot slower than the 170bpm at 8weeks 3days!










Here is an overhead view looking directly down. The two black lobes are the developing brain and you can almost see the face :)











This is a side view of the same shot from above. This shows more of the facial, neck and chest bone structure. The white dot is our baby punching mommy!

Exactly 3 months today!

Yay!!!! We made it through our first trimester. One down..Two more to go! Nate made me take this picture even though I was exhausted when it was taken : / Enjoy..

12 week check- up

We went to the doctor on November 26th for another check- up and we were able to hear the babies heart beat which is at 156 beats per minute. It was pretty exciting! We leave for California on December 16th and we will be back January 7th, so our next appointment will be on January 14th when we get to find out the baby's anatomy through another ultra-sound. We're very happy and can't wait to find out if it's a boy or girl. We have picked out a girl's name, Lauren Mackenzie Mills, But as for a boy's name we have no idea...Any suggestions?