22 weeks

It's official, we have a stubborn baby that doesn't like to do what the tech would like him to do! I wonder where he gets that from...... :) Anyway, today was our 22 week appointment - which included the rest of our anatomy scan. During our initial anatomy scan (done just before I was 17 weeks) Carter wouldn't face forward so the tech couldn't get a picture of his face. Today the little bugger did the same thing. He was either facing my back or laying on his belly face down. The tech had me rolling around on the table and she was pressing pretty hard with the ultrasound wand trying to get him to flip over and show us his face! Finally, quite some time later, we got a very very very brief view of his face.

Remember this really nice profile picture that we got during our 12 week ultrasound?

Now we get pictures mostly like this - little bugger :) What are we even looking at here?! I have no idea.

We did get a few decent pictures:

He had one of his arms up and we saw him moving his little hand around and punching. So cute to be able to see that. Here's the hand

His heart rate was 158 and they said everything looked good! He now weights about 1.5 lbs. Him facing my back a lot does explain the randomness in the kicks I'm feeling.

Speaking of kicks Joe tried to feel him kicking this weekend. He's a pretty sporadic kicker so you have to be pretty patient to feel him kick. While Joe was waiting to feel him kick, I felt a few pretty good kicks but Joe couldn't feel it from the outside yet. Maybe next weekend.

My next appointment will be in December and during that appointment I will have the glucose test done. I get to drink some yucky orange drink and then wait an hour to have my blood drawn. That will be my last appointment at my Gilbert doctors. Then, in January, I'll start seeing the Flagstaff doctors. At that time I will be 30 weeks. 3. 0. Three. Zero. 30! 30 plus 10 equals 40 which is full term! How did I get so close so fast????

PS Can you tell I'm really excited about my rocker/recliner? A whole entire blog post dedicated to recliners - with tons of pictures.