4-D Ultrasound

Yesterday, Paul and I had the most amazing experiences of our lives. We saw our little girl (yet to be named) on a 4-D ultrasound. Paul's parents who are visiting from Philadelphia accompanied us to the appointment. I'm so happy that we were able to share this moment with them! I always knew she was a very active baby but on the ultrasound, you can see her moving around like crazy! She was sleeping and I don't think she was happy that we disturbed her sleep.. She first gave us a yawn when we started and then couple of waves... Then she decided to hide from us and take another nap practically hugging my spine.. Her face was buried towards my spine so that we couldn't see her for a while. After 20 minutes of trying to make her face us, we decided that it was time for me to take a walk and hope that she moves.. I guess she is not a natural movie star! She can't be camera shy, could she?

We finally got her to turn around and we were able to get approximately 10 minutes of facetime with her. Below are her first pics!! In the first one, we have her profile with her eyes and mouth open.

The second one below shows her face.. her left eye is open!

In the last one below, she has her hand on her face. I think she had enough by this point..

The sonographer showed us our baby's hair follicles on the 2-D ultrasound and said that she thinks our baby will have lots of hair when she is born. Yay!!! She also said our baby has chubby cheeks. We all agreed that she has very pretty mouth!!! Isn't she precious? It really was the best day of my life!

Third Trimester.. New Discomforts...

First of all, I spoke to one of my bestest friends, Tiffany, last night. She's 33 weeks so it was so fun talking to her about what she's going through in terms of her pregnancy. She traveled to Canada for Christmas and had such a hard time coming back to California due to weather conditions. Her story was like watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles all over again! One good thing that came out of it all was that she got to stop by Chicago and see our friend Sara and her family and her newborn son! Lucky! But what is she doing traveling at 33 weeks?? Crazy girl!

Second of all, what is with all these weird, new discomforts I'm feeling these days? I am such a textbook case pregnant woman. May be it's all psychological what I'm feeling. You name the symptoms you read about in pregnancy books and I'll tell you I've had it! Blurred vision? Check... Backaches? Check.. Constant trips to bathroom? Check.. Constipation? Check.. Sleeplessness? Check.. Mood swings? Check.. Blurred vision as the scariest by far! It lasted only a few minutes but it was scary...

I am happy to report that I've started to work out again. I should have worked out during my second trimester but oh well.. Better late than never! I figured it'll help with the backaches and sleeplessness. And I read that it helps with constipation and easier delivery and getting back into shape afterwards. I'm having nightmares these days about the delivery so whatever I can do to make it easier, I'll try it!!!

Tomorrow is the beginning of our third trimester! Hooray, only 3 more months to go! Can't wait to meet our little girl! Now, anyone have any name suggestions for our little one?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope the new year brings much happiness, love and joy in your lives!

New Years Eve is my mom's birthday. Hence I have NEVER gone out to a new years eve party in my whole life! I've always spent my new years eve with my parents, celebrating my mom's birthday and watching the countdown on TV with Dick Clark. I always resented that but now that I'm older and pregnant, I like being at home for the new years and away from drunk drivers and club traffic. However, this year it was extra hard to stay awake until midnight and it was so sad to see that Dick Clark was replaced by Ryan Seacrest... I guess Dick Clark suffered a stroke?

For New Years, Korean tradition is to eat, eat and eat! We make a huge brunch of rice cake and dumpling soup, fish and beef patties, glass noodle dish, etc. I wish I took some photos of the food we made and ate! But I forgot... Oops. Before our brunch, we put on our traditional korean dresses and bowed to our elders. Our little niece got some cash for her bows too! She was too cute.

Ending 2008 with Big Belly!

Yay, 2008 is almost over!!! It was a very memorable year full of happy times - we found out that we're having a little baby girl, we celebrated our first wedding anniversay, we both still have jobs and life can't be any better! I just hope that the economy improves in 2009 and the world will be more peaceful....

We're almost 26 weeks pregnant! One more week and I'm onto third trimester! Can't believe how fast the second trimester went! Of course, when you're feeling great and having fun, time goes by much faster, unlike the dreadful first trimester! I hear that third trimester is not much fun either - constant trips to bathroom, heavier belly, sleepless nights, etc. But then, we still have so much to look forward to! We have 3-D ultrasound coming up in couple of weeks, we'll be decorating our baby "room," babyshower (yay!), and my ever growing big belly!

This week, our baby is about 1.5 pounds and 14 inches long, the size of an english cucumber. Wow, I can't believe our baby's so tall and heavy already! At my Dr.'s appointment this week, I found out that I gained about 12 pounds so far... So if the baby's only 1.5 pounds, where is 10.5 pounds going to???

Below is my belly pic at 26 (almost) weeks....

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! For Christmas, Paul, baby girl and I went to my parents' house in Orange County for a few days. It was a few days of lots of food, sleeping and playing cards! Our little niece started to walk around Thanksgiving so it was so fun to see her wabbling around.

Be careful!

AHHH!!! What I've been dreading has happened... I've caught the deadliest cold! This weird California weather of 80 degrees one day then raining and 40 degrees the next day has done a number on my body! Since I have "no-medicine" policy while I'm pregnant, the cold is dragging on and on for a whole week now! It's the typical nasal congestion cold with runny nose, sneezes, watery eyes, coughing, etc.. how dreadful.

I've missed work for 2 days, thanks to my ever-so-understanding boss and now back at work today. I must say that being back at work does make me feel better... So everyone out there, please be careful this cold season and bundle up! It's no fun at all being sick during the festive Christmas time!

Funny!

I went in for my blood test this morning to test for diabetes/glucose level. I guess some women develop diabetes during pregnancy...? anyways, they had me drink this yummy orange drink (like Tang) and the bottle said "Some women experience vomiting, nausea, diarreah and fainting." Geez, I had to drive to the Dr.'s office after I drank that thing since they told me to drink it an hour before the appointment... Hew, I didn't get vomiting or nausea or fainting while i was driving!