Growing Pains

Well yesterday was an event! Everything is totally fine, but Jess had what seemed like a mighty scare when the pains she was experiencing were like none she had had before. So we went off to Mount Sinai Hospital, the one we'll be having the baby at, and stuck around to find out what the heck was going on.

Turns out that, even though Jessica had been feeling other "growing pains" of stretched muscles and the like, these new pains were of a different variety of ligaments getting stretched... yet still considered growing pains.

They hooked her up to monitor the baby's heart rate for about 20-30 minutes, were very thorough with questions, great bedside manners, and after about 3 hours at the hospital... we left and everything was fine.

On another note... Jessica's birthday is today and she just found out from ET Canada (they called the house) that she and the cast of Air Farce have been nominated for a Gemini Award (our Canadian TV Awards). We don't know what category yet, but it's safe to assume it's not for best news anchor. ;-) Nice birthday present, huh? We're off to give the baby it's first taste of musical theatre tonight. And what better classic to expose her to, than Monty Python's SPAMALOT!

Yaphe out.

Week # 22

Today marks Jessica's 22 week!

Just got back from the cottage where we had a great time. Here's one of the baby's first trips into the lake...




Jess is feeling a bunch of movement right now as she gets a bigger and bigger tummy. The baby is growing alot and it has just begun to make things a little uncomforatble for Jessica's organs as they are now being moved aside to make room for the kid! Here's a shot from just yesterday!!


  


My mom just bought her first 'Gramma Yaphe' gift for the baby. It was a sweet music box/doll which she played for me over the phone! It was very sweet. Let's hope the baby remains a girl! The Cain grandparents - Jess' maternal grandparents (and therefore the baby's Greatgrandparents) - also got her a little teddy bear and a very cute girl's swimsuit.

By no means, if realtives and/or friends are reading this, does it mean people should be going out to buy stuff!!! It's just that some folks just can't wait :-) ... like parents. And grandparents. And an uncle and aunt. But that's it!

That's it for now...
Yaphe out.

20 WEEKS!

Half way there!!!!!

Well, actually, baby can come anytime after 37 weeks apparently. But officially it's the half way point anyway.

20 WEEKS!!!

Yaphe out.

Baby's room...

Well we've gone ahead and painted the baby's room and done so in the face of the odds. Yes, it's true there is statistically only around a 10% chance of us having a boy, yet we've gone ahead and painted the room in the 'girl' colours we wanted and are taking our chances anyway!

We've chosen a little bit of light violet and light green with accents of Winnie the Pooh and company.

Here are some shots...












... 20 weeks coming up on Friday!!

Yaphe out.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

Our ultrasound today, at 19 weeks, revealed that the chances are our baby will be a girl! Yes, yes, I know... the chances are actually closer to 90% that it's a girl. If the technician would have told us it's a boy, it would've been something like 99.5%.

It was very cool to see how big the baby was compared to the last ultrasound that I got to see. I missed Jess' last one because of a job I had to go to, so it had been a while since I had seen pictures of what was going on in there. Here's a sample of what we saw. If you click on the picture below, you'll get a nice sized blow-up of it.



The head is on the left if you can't tell. And if you'll take notice... the baby has Jess' nose and overbite! Hopefully she'll have my height and good jumpshot. Basketball reference.

We got a good look at the fingers, toes, skull, bones, spine... it was truly amazing! It made me think of how lucky we are, in today's day and age, to have the technology to do this kind of stuff, whereas just a generation ago they did not. At least this time during the ultrasound, Jess didn't say the kid looked like a kitten. Yes, she did say that the first time. Needless to say, I didn't agree with her. But if she saw a kitten, she saw a kitten. Who am I to argue? Actually, I'm the father... and I don't particularly want Jess to give birth to a kitten.

I digress.

It was a wonderful day, the experience was great and now we get to start visualizing our baby girl. The name list is growing shorter by the day!

Yaphe out.