Sonogram Day - from Daddy's perspective

Hi everyone! Wow, what an exciting and truly memorable day! We had our first sonogram today and it was more amazing than we thought it would be. Amanda had a dream last night that we were having twin girls, but the sonogram confirmed only one baby. One is fine with us! We could see baby McKay clearly - both arms and legs clearly visible - in fact the hands and arms were moving up and down. We were able to see the little heart beating inside its chest, and when the tech turned the microphone on, we were able to hear the very strong heartbeat motoring away at 153bpm. We got a few side views of baby, then one shot from the front! Baby was moving its left hand, like it was waving at us! I waved back. In the picture above the baby's head is on the right facing down with its little hand up to its face. How cute!

The doctor confirmed April 20, 2010 as the official due date, though Amanda still thinks it'll be the 21st. I say it'll come when it's ready.

Our next step is to clean out the office and start turning it into a nursery. We like the idea of a jungle/animal theme with pandas and Curious George (of course). We have a cute dresser that used to be Amanda's when she was little. I'm going to sand it and paint the drawers different colors and put fun knobs on it. For someone who has always enjoyed drawing and designing things, designing the nursery will be a fun project.

We are so blessed to be able to bring a little one into this world. We thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers as Baby McKay grows inside mommy Amanda.

Welcome to our Timpanda Baby Blog!

Hello family and friends!

We wanted to create a place for those who we don't get to talk to on a regular basis to know what's going on with us and our baby!

Right now I'm almost 11 weeks along....morning (or I should say 'all day') sickness seems to finally be tapering off but not completely gone yet. I'm really looking forward to this part being over and getting some energy back! Doesn't seem to matter how much I sleep, I could probably fall asleep at any point during the day if I gave myself the chance.

We've had one doctor's appointment so far, about a week and a half ago. Basically just a visit to go over my history and all the appointments and tests I'll have in the next few months. No exam other than blood pressure which was sort of disappointing, but we go for our first ultrasound tomorrow! We can't wait to see and maybe hear our baby!!

The office we are going to has 8 OB/GYNs and 7 midwives. We will see the same midwife for our first two visits then we can choose between seeing the doctors or staying with the midwife side of the practice. We've heard amazing things from several people about all of the midwives and plan on going that route. We really like how they take the time to get to know us and establish a personal relationship with us.

Oh, our due date in April, either 20th or 21st - ultrasound will tell us the date tomorrow. I think it's going to be April 21st since all of my immediate family members were born on days that are multiples of 7 - Katherine 7th, Mom 14th, Amanda 21st, Dad 28th - and even though Tim was born on 11/4, (11-4=7) we were married on 7/7/07. Just my theory :)