Final scan done!

Minibean is happy and healthy and has all its parts in the right places. And it's ridiculously cute.

Bizarre feeling to know there is one person out there (the imaging technician) who knows the sex of my baby when I don't...

19 weeks!

Ultrasound scheduled this morning.

They have arrived...

The leg cramps. They have arrived, just like I knew they would. In the middle of the night I'll stretch my leg and instantly my calf will curl up into an impossible ball of aching and unyielding muscle cramp. If I am quick and act within a millisecond or so, and if I find just the right angle, I can stop it before it's too late. Bit who has the ability to think in milliseconds at 2am?

We have a kicker!

The Minibug's movements have been getting easier and easier to spot over the last week or so. On the plane back from Fiji I sat with my hand on the spot where Minibug was kicking away, and I could actually feel the kicks on both sides! Tears started rolling, it was such a great feeling, after all the anxiety and worry. It's a kicker!

18 and a half weeks

Just got home from five days in Fiji. We had a great holiday, but came home with conjunctivitis (Dwayne and I) and an EVIL case of impetigo (Daisy). Getting decent medical care on the island proved all but impossible, so by the time we got home it had gotten entirely out of hand.

But now we're back, Daisy has the correct antibiotics, and we're all on the mend.

Here's the Minibean at somewhere between 18 and 19 weeks.

And Daisy's current state...