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16 Weeks - Lil' Avacado

I've nearly missed my 16 week update! Things are starting to fly by. The answer is... Yes, I know the sex of the baby BUT.... No, I can't share just yet! The Rojek family is having a nice dinner out at "Chima" (all you can eat Brazilian meat place, yum!). This is to celebrate 🎉 Chris' Grandma Vicky coming down to LIVE here. So exciting! OH, and we will be doing a little gender reveal at dinner (which we will film or do pictures and I'll post something on here). Can I just tell you how excited I am that she's moving down here?! Now I'll have a crafting buddy and more family to surround us! Now I have to work on some from my side of the family, haha. I doubt anyone would make the jump, but it can't hurt to try! Oh, I forgot to mention, the NIPT came back negative and .01% for any of the markers. Baby is healthy! I started the insulin at night for my fasting numbers and it really isn't so bad. The shot is painless (especially compared to ...

12 Weeks!

I'm back and this time with a very exciting update. We went to the OBGYN yesterday and had an ultrasound done to measure the neck of the baby to detect Down Syndrome markers. Baby Rojek is in the clear! Lil Bug was moving around, putting their little hands on the face and really looks like a baby now. We both got a little emotional seeing that. Sometimes at 12 weeks you can tell gender from the Ultrasound but our tech didn't give us a clue. After, I checked in the forums and quite a few agreed that the "nub" was angled straight and without the curve, so the guess is a girl. Another thing we did was the NIPT (non-invasive prenatal test). "The NIPT test checks for the most common fetal  chromosome  anomalies:  trisomy  21 ( Down syndrome ),  trisomy  18 (Edwards syndrome) and  trisomy  13 ( Patau syndrome ). Also the gender of the fetus can be determined." I'm all positivity that this will come back good. We will know in 10 days, although...