Erin and I are excited to announce that we're expecting our first baby in October. Originally it was forecasted as being due October 6th, the day after our anniversary, but after our first ultrasound last week it looks like we're about a week behind where the midwives originally thought we were so now we expect a due date of the 12th/13th. If we don't make the family thanksgiving dinner this year we apologize in advance - but we'll have a pretty good excuse.

Erin is doing well, fortunately "morning sickness" has for the most part stuck to "general unwellness" so aside form feeling a little gross she's been doing great - but she's definitely competing with our cat Webster for who can sleep the most in a given day though. Scarily enough I think she's winning right now.

The ultrasound was an amazing experience, right now the baby is about the size of a grape(2.19cm to be exact) but you could still make out the head, arms and legs on the image. The lab we went to for the ultrasound also had video recording capabilities - so we took a long a video tape and brought home this VIDEO (10mb, AVI). The last 20 seconds are neat as you can see the baby moving it's arms and feet around already. It's a little fuzzy as they had to zoom in the machine quite a bit but the head is on the left to give you a point of reference. The technician's prognosis was that everything looked great and healthy - which is always reassuring.

We'll keep this blog up to date as we find out more and move along through the pregnancy. Be sure to stop by periodically.

This entry was posted by Ryan, on Monday, March 08, 2004.