Baby News Update
Its time for a quick update on the ever growing belly of my lovely wife. We have passed the 15th week and things are really beginning to develop now.

From Baby Center: At around 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighing in at 2 1/2 ounces, your baby's still small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. What's new this week? Light sensitivity, taste buds, and a bad case of the hiccups, which is a precursor to breathing. You can't feel or hear them, though, in part because the baby's trachea is filled with amniotic fluid rather than air.

P is feeling more energetic but is slowly being hindered by her growing belly. She has an awesome attitude and is dealing with each new change with grace. She will be an amazing mother, that's pretty easy to see though we are both still mildly to very worried about taking care of the baby when it does come. But we're both doing our research, reading up on the process, learning about the physical and emotional changes taking place in her body these days. She's likely to be forgetful and to be tired but is in great spirits and that's the good part.

She sent me the link to the Top 20 Baby Names last week and we're slowly finding names for boys that we like. Right now we're pretty happy with either Graydon or Grayson but there are other names that we're still considering as well. There's a pretty interesting baby naming page at Baby Center, Baby Name that allows you select for boys or girls names or both, ethnicity of the suggested names, what letter you want the name to begin and/or end with and, most strangely but its a cool addition, how many syllables in the name. The variety of names it kicks out is almost scary but it also gives a very short definition of what the name means and that's very helpful because who wants a child named after a fair flood (Gwenllian)?

I took the Dad to Be Quiz and didn't do quite as well as I'd hoped but I'll study up and take it again in a few months when we start to get closer and closer to the date. They have a whole bunch of info for Dads to be that's helpful too.

Next week should signal the first time that P will be able to feel the baby move though she swears she's felt it moving already. And the baby will begin to inhale and exhale amniotic fluid to start to build up lung strength for the outside world.

I should find out when the next appointment is because I think we're having another ultrasound then and we might be able to determine the sex of the little gummy bear at that time though P is still against knowing whereas I am all for knowing.

The one that does suck is that P has been having trouble sleeping lately. Having pressure on her bladder means she gets up to go to the bathroom often and that makes a good night's sleep somewhat hard to come by. But maybe that's nature's way of preparing us for midnight, 2 am, 4 am and 6 am feedings?

Anyway, we're doing well and looking forward to the continuation of the process. It'll be nice to have the house to expand into and I am looking forward to decorating our baby's room and filling it with baby stuff. Its all a bit surreal still but I'm digging it and so is P.