Ultrasound

I've hesitated to post this because I've had a lot of ups and downs this past week with the pregnancy. The biggest down was on Thursday when I was having some mild cramping and light bleeding and on Friday morning when there was more bleeding...I thought for sure that I was miscarrying and called to go to the doctor's for an ultrasound. As soon as the ultrasound was going, the first thing I saw was a little heart beating and little legs and arms kicking around. That was the huge UP...I was feeling so relieved, and it was amazing to see the little baby so awake and active and have the ultrasound tech tell me how perfect the baby looks and how the heartbeat looks nice and strong. Then I started to feel a little down again when the doctor met with me and told me that there's a "bleed" and I'm still at risk to miscarry. Apparently, a section of the placenta detached from the uterus wall and that caused a blood clot behind the placenta and the bleeding and cramping I was experiencing. The good news is that you can carry a perfectly healthy baby to full-term even if only 1/2 of the placenta is still attached, but the bad news is that I'm still at risk for the whole placenta to detach and cause me to miscarry. So many up and downs for one day! I was so busy trying to take it all in that I didn't ask a lot of questions that I thought about later, but the doctor did tell me to look at the glass as half full, to take it easy for the next two weeks and to hope for the best. He kind of made it sound like if everything goes well over the next couple of weeks that the baby will probably be okay. So, that was my hesitation for posting these ultrasound pictures...but, here it is almost a week later and thankfully there has not been any more cramping or new bleeding...so I'm feeling cautiously optimistic. Jason and his brother gave me a priesthood blessing Friday night and I'm feeling like everything will be okay...whether everything will be okay even though we lose the baby or everything will be okay with the pregnancy I'm not sure, but I'm hopeful that everything will be okay with the pregnancy. So, here are the pictures of this beautiful little baby that we're praying for :) The first one is of the front of the baby's face with the two little arms on the side and half of the belly showing. The second one is a profile shot of the baby's whole body.