Revel on the News – Part 2

I recorded this segment that aired on Christmas Day (Revel's birthday). It features Revel as one of the Baltimore Christmas babies. It is different that the one on WJZ.com.

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Revel on the local news

WJZ.com came to the hospital to record some of the new Christmas babies. Alyssa and Revel were featured.

Read more and watch the video on WJZ.com

Introducing Revel Carlberg West

Revel Carlberg West was born at 7:07am on Christmas Day. He weights in at a respectable 8 lbs 7 ozs and 21 inches long. Both baby and Mommy are doing fine.  According to my count, he has 10 fingers and 10 toes, but we're having that looked into by a specialist. :)

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Big Belly Tuesday – Week 36 (Video Edition)

Today marks week 36 or in other words, only 4 more weeks! And to celebrate, this week's Big Belly Tuesday also includes a video for your viewing pleasure.

 

Big Belly Tuesday – 28 Weeks

3D Ultrasound Day

We just got back from another ultrasound exam. Our friend Karen was kind enough to give us another session. This time on the top of the line Phillips 3D Ultrasound machine. Litle Sparky refused to move his hand from in front of his face! He’s a little shy.

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I’m opening the bidding today

To get a jump on the celebrity magazine bidding rush for the first baby photo, I’m opening the bidding today for the rights to publish the first photo.

This will be a closed bidding system. Submit your offer in writing by July 1st. I will require half the money down upon acceptance of your offer.

I’m not going to publicly guess what I think the bidding will draw, but it is estimated that the first pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby (or babies) could get $10 million. This figure comes after Christina Aguilera was paid $1.5M for her baby photos and Jennifer Lopez received $6M for the twins. I’m just saying.

Baby's first video

Today we visited our friend Karen, who works for Philips (they make ultrasound machines and in this case the HD7 Ultrasound). She needed to practice on the new machine and asked Alyssa to be her guinea pig. We happily agreed. The last ultrasound was at 10 weeks and the little creature looked like a gummy bear and measured 3.3 cm. Today is 12 weeks and it looked a lot different, measuring 5.4 cm! Go baby, go. She was kind enough to give us a real show, complete with video. We are very lucky. Thank you, Karen!

I had a little fun with the files:

In some of these clips you can "see" the heartbeat. In the more still shots, keep a close eye on the chest for the movement of the blood rushing in and out. At the 0:37 time mark, around the small light blue bars in the middle of the screen, you can see it for a bit as she was actually measuring the heartbeat. So beautiful. This time it was about 164.

Baby's First Pictures

Good news! Today we went in for our first ultrasound and the radiologist said that everything looked fine. She confirmed that the baby is 10 weeks along and measures 3.3cm from head to tiny little toe. Actually I'm not sure that there are toes at this point. :)

It's been a stressful few days and Alyssa is exhausted. When we got home from the appointment, Alyssa went down for a well deserved baby factory nap.

Eat, Sleep, Grow Baby, repeat...

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Our friend Ted (who is a doctor) was kind enough interpret the ultrasound for us. Here is his professional interpretation of the ultrasound image:

Thanks Ted!

Baby's First Words

Ok, not really, but we did hear the baby's heartbeat today when we were at the doctor's office. Mommy was doing all she could to contain her joy.

Press play to watch the video below. You can really hear the heartbeat and around 22 seconds.

Here are some pictures taken just after we left the office. As you can see, we are both very happy! (click to view larger image)