We went back to the clinic yesterday to try for another blood draw! This time they were successful, we had a different person and two of them did it, and I held her while Derek held her down. It was not fun. We then went and got her 2 immunizations, again not fun! We took her out to lunch and you would of never known she had such a rough morning! I got a call this afternoon that all labs were normal! It was just part of her 18 month well visit, so nothing that we were concerned about, just the normal check!
We are 15 weeks today!!
Your nearly four-inch long gymnast is happily mobile inside your womb and if you're really lucky, you’ll notice a point when your sneezing, coughing or laughing results in a little kick here or a poke there. Still, many women don't feel anything until the 17th week or later. Although the poking and kicking isn't very charming during sleeping hours, it’s a good sign as it means your baby is actually reacting to outside events. Yay! You’ve got yourself one active healthy baby! Their little elbows and knees are bending more freely this week and their little legs are finally growing longer than their arms and getting pumped up for prenatal Richard Simmons. Many of their major organ systems are increasing in capacity—particularly that amazing tiny heart and complex circulation system, which is now pumping about 25 quarts of blood per day, and will increase to a very impressive 200 quarts per day by the end of the pregnancy. As far as hair goes, we’ve got some new scalp patterns beginning to develop on the head, although actual head hair is not yet present.