Christmas at the Schroeders

We had a wonderful Christmas with my family in Nebraska. We had waited to tell everyone from back there until we could tell them in person. We got in on Friday night and went straight to dinner at the Drover, so yummy! Right when we got there I pulled our waitress to the side and asked her to take a picture of us and on the count of three tell everyone to say, "Jessica is pregnant!". She got some good shots of everyone in shock and then congratulating us. My mom had the best look on her face in the first picture and everyone else just started looking at us with confusion on their faces.

Today I'm 11 weeks pregnant, starting my 12th week. So far so good. The nausea has improved tremendously from the past 4 weeks as long as I eat something small every few hours. Before it was all day everyday no matter how often I ate or what I ate. We have our next ultrasound for the First Trimester Screening on January 9th and if all goes well we should be in the clear and I'll open up the blog to the public!

1st Ultrasound

We had our first appointment with Dr. Riley on Thursday and we spent about an hour talking with him. He sent us to the ultrasound clinic today. The baby is measuring exactly on point, at 7 weeks 2 days with my due date still at July 18. The first picture is a 3D picture where you can see a little arm bud, and I guess a big head at the top, but it's still pretty "embryo-like" at this stage. The second picture shows the heartbeat, which was 156 beats per minute! This is a healthy heartbeat, which was a relief because the doctor said the risk of miscarriage goes down to 2% once you see a strong heartbeat. It's still hard to believe that I'm actually pregnant and that in about 7 months I should be delivering a baby...O.M.G. 

Our next appointment with Dr. Riley is January 3, and then another ultrasound that week.