妊娠19週 - 残り20週

早いものでもう2月も終わり。やっと春がそこまでという季節になりました。
と、ふと窓の外を見ると雨が雪に変わっています！！　暖かくなるまでもう少々我慢の様です。

私の妊娠発覚が去年の11月。添付写真のテスト日が11月17日。当初は本当に妊娠してるのかなぁ？？？と半信半疑でした。あっという間に妊娠19週目に入りました。マラソンに例えると折り返し地点を通過中といったところです。

私の場合、悪阻が全くなく、今までやってきた検査も全て異常なしでクリアーしております。超音波でベイビーを見ると、お腹の中ですくすく育ってるんだぁと思いますが、その他の面ではあまり妊婦の自覚がありません。実際に生活も妊娠前とほぼ変化なしです。

ただ・・・・・、体重増加が唯一の悩みです。
お腹のベイビーは頭からおしりが約13cm、体重が約260gだそうです。それを思うと、私の体重増加幅はやばいです。ほとんど私の脂肪ということです。妊娠前半はかなり暴食してしまいましたので、後半はもっと気をつけて行こうと思います。

そろそろ胎動を感じてもいい頃ですが、私はまだです。担当の助産婦さんが、「最初はお腹の中でちょうちょが舞っているような、泡が浮いているような、ブラシでさわさわするような感じ方よ」とおっしゃいますが、そういわれたらそういう感じもするけど・・・ってなとこですね。それにしてもその表現がおもしろいなぁと感心いたしました。とにかく、ベイビーには早くキックを覚えていただいて、暴食に走る母を戒めていただきたいです。

Baby Girl????

Well, we went to the Navy hospital yesterday and were told by the ultrasound technician that our baby looks like a girl (three lines?????). I guess the little kickstand I saw on the 4D ultrasound was something else. Anyway I'm very happy about it although in the long run I'm happy I've already lost all my hair :) . It should be great, plus I was 15 when my baby sister Alysha was born, so I have a little practice with baby girls. Anyway, we are doing another 4D ultrasound soon, so hopefully we are sticking with it being a girl after this appointment. We'll see.......

Also, I can't get to this website from the ship anymore so I'm going to try to figure out a way to keep everyone up to speed with our Wende/Uchiyama family in Japan when I'm underway this summer.

Its a boy (or is it) and our Valentines day trip to Tokyo

It’s a boy or is it? We went to Tokyo last weekend to enjoy Valentines day at the New Sanno. We had a great weekend and ended up doing a 4D ultrasound of our baby, so we now have our first baby pictures. The 4D ultrasounds are really interesting since you can see the baby moving in real time and even see the skin texture. We had a 10 minute appointment and were provided with a DVD and about 10 still pictures, it was really awesome to see the baby moving around, yawn and stretching. At 17 weeks he’s still tiny, but it looks like everything is there. The ultrasound technician wouldn’t tell us the gender (since 4D ultrasounds are used mainly as a novelty), but in my opinion it looks like a boy, we’ll find out for sure at out next appointment.

We also went to the Blue Man Group (no pictures allowed, so check out this link), it was a fun experience as well. The show was about 2 hours long and for not saying a word the whole time it was cool to see the interaction with the crowd. I highly recommend going to see them if you ever get the chance.

For a Valentines day dinner we went to Lawry's Prime Rib. This is the same place I proposed to Koko a few years ago and one of our favorite places to eat.

Over the last week we also went golfing at Camp Zama, wow is all I can say. For it being in the middle of winter is was very fun to play. I’ve been in Japan for over 10 years and have never made my way up to the course, I’ve been missing out. I’m going to try to get up there a few more times before the ship leaves this summer. By the way, Koko is still golfing while she is pregnant and getting better each round.

Well, that's all for now. Since it took me a week to get this out, I have an update to my Camp Zama golf plan, me and Shawn L. and Shawn S. are going up on Saturday for a round. I hope the weather is nice. Until next time....

Nike Plus, Etc.

Not much going on here, but wanted to write something just to keep the motivation on blogging. Koko is doing good and looking a little more pregnant each day, she started exercising by taking the nine flights of stairs home after work each day ( I did it once and that was enough for me). I will stick with running and logging it at nike plus. This is my last running certificate, its 1000k so 625 miles, http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/v1/html/milestones/print_certif.html?id=418798078&region=us&language=en&locale=en_us&dateFormat=MM/DD/YY it took me about 2 years to log that many miles, but who would have thought I could have accomplished something like this 10 years ago. Most of the motivation has came from gaining the "husband pregnancy" weight with Koko (which, by the way isn't fair).

A couple weeks ago we found a Kristy Kreme shop in Kawasaki, that hasn't helped the losing weight campaign but man they sure were good. I've been asking Koko to go back but they are off limits for a little while.

On the last note, we don't know the sex of our baby yet. However, we are going to do the 4D ultrasound at the 17 week mark and the official on base ultrasound on the 25th of February at the 18 week mark so we should know something pretty soon.

This link is for a baby register I created, so all the blame is on me if I did it wrong, I really haven't put anything we need on there yet since we don't know the baby's gender. However, its there in case you would like to forward to anyone. Just search our names.

That's all for now. We should have more to write in a couple weeks.