Mothership Confessional

I made it to 24 weeks!! It's a very exciting day for me personally - it's viability day! Heaven forbid, if Ava was born today, she would have a 50/50 chance of survival. Of course, I want better than that, but for whatever reason, week 24 in pregnancy has been on my mind since the beginning. I was so worried that this pregnancy would be "flawed" due to the way it started out  and my bleeding at 6.5 weeks. But Ava has proven me wrong, and I'm so glad for it! I had a doctor's appointment yesterday. It was the first one after the anatomy scan. At 20 weeks, Ava was measuring in the 45th percentile overall for size. She weighed 300 and some odd grams (I forget now how many she said), which puts her at just under a pound. So now that it's 4 weeks later, I'm sure she's over a pound now! The doctor said everything looked good in her scan. She did say that Ava does have some inflammation in one of her kidneys, but my doctor said it's nothing to wo...

Another week down! I feel like these weeks are going by super fast. I knew February was going to be gone before I knew it - just a few more days and it will be March! And then it will be May.  And then it will be June.  And then Ava will be here!! Here's a great picture for ya: I kept forgetting to take my 21 week photo. So this was last night. At 10:30. When I was very tired And should have been in bed over an hour ago. And the lighting was bad. Oh well; that's life. Anywho, I am now going to stand in front of her crib because the rest of her room is a complete mess. But I am very thankful to those who helped this room become a mess! I had 2 baby showers at home last weekend and Ava got a lot of very special things! Now we just need to get her some furniture so we have a place to put it all! This week I have really begun to notice that it is more difficult to get up off the couch, to get ou...