Growing by another two feet

Baby Lasley at 10 weeks (bottom picture him at 6 weeks)

In August, Guy and I received some exciting news. We found out that we were expecting! After trying for a while to get pregnant it was some pretty exciting news! Baby Lasley is arriving around the end of March. Guy is hoping for an April Fool's Day baby. We kept things mostly to ourselves for the first trimester. We started telling family and friends when I was about 11 weeks along.

Since I'm a planner we decided to go ahead and do the informaseq genetic testing. At 10 weeks, fetal DNA is circulating in the mom's blood. The genetic testing will tell you if there is are any markers for genetic diseases (down syndrome, terminal diseases, cystic fibroses, etc). If the results came back negative it means that we don't need to worry about any of these being a problem. The down side to the test is that it can be pretty expensive ($1200 test!) and a lot of times insurance won't cover the test. The upside is that you can negotiate the price down a bit AND you can find out the gender of the baby early. While we did the test for the genetic reasons, it was nice to also know early what Baby Lasley will be.

Baby Lasley at 10 weeks

We have a house full of testosterone because Baby Lasley is a BOY!

Here are some early pictures of the little guy. We have our anatomy scan right after Halloween (I'll be almost 20 weeks) so we'll be able to see him better than.