Baby Updates

Ok, so I totally missed last week. This weekly updating thing is harder than i thought. I'm not gonna do an update now, since I will be doing one on Thursday for this week. I'll just give you some highlights of last week.
SO I went to the doctor and he decided to keep my due date the same because I was positive of when my last menstrual period was and of my time frame for conception. so I'm back at being due on February 2nd. I opted out of getting the NT scan because we are still fairly young and not in the age category for the risk of those diseases. we also don't have anyone any our immediate families with any issues. We also figured that since we were not going to terminate, there would be no sense in worrying about what ifs, and if something was truly wrong it would come up later on our 20 week scan.
The doctor also had my hubby blood tested for thalasemia, so we should know the results of that soon. For anyone that doesn't know, thalasemia is a blood disorder where you are severely anemic. to the point where you may have to have blood transfusions every year. I recently found out that I am a carrier of the disorder (you can be a carrier, but not have the disease. Kinda like sickle cell). and hubby had to be tested to see if he is a carrier. if he doesn't, then great baby does not have a chance of getting it. But if he is a carrier, then baby has  1 in 4 chance of having the disease. I'm praying everything turns out ok, and will probably call the doctor next week if I don't hear back from them before then.
We were also able to hear baby's heartbeat at my appointment. I have another appointment in 3 weeks, and then in mid September I have my gender scan! (Unless we decide to pay to find out early).
I've started to show a little bit. Although at this point I'm convinced its more fat than baby. lol
You can only tell when I don't have a shirt on or when I have on a fitted top. Oh, by the way the belly band is the devil! I hate it sooo much. It only works good if I am going to be standing the whole time I'm wearing it. When I sit down with it, it rolls up. SO at the moment I only have 1 pair of jeans and one pair of dress pants that fit comfortably. I'm not ready to break out the maternity pants yet. I think I'm just gonna go buy a few dresses to hold me over until I get into maternity clothes.

And in other news, I've dyed my hair back black. I loved my color but it was causing my hair to break off. my hair in the front of my head (where it was dyed the lightest) is the same length it was 7 months ago when I dyed it. I know it has grown because of my roots. I probably had over two inches of growth in my roots, but the length stayed the same so I knew that it had to be breakage. So I decided to go back to black since my hair seems to not be able to handle color. I'll make sure you can see my hair when I take my picture for this week.

Well, this update was way longer than I intended it to be. Hope i didn't bore you too much. See you Thursday!