20-10-2009 - First Blog Ever

My mood while writing this blog: Scattered

October 20, 2009

I am just about to be 17 weeks pregnant, tomorrow. I go for my 3rd prenatal appt. next Tuesday. I am 38 years old and will be 39 at the end of next month. It has been 10 years since my last pregnancy an although nothing is new, everything seems new. My 12 year old daughter is a competitive soccer player which requires us to travel out of town for games and tournaments which is always very busy and stressful. She also plays tennis for her middle school and has been in 3 tounaments so far. She is in the advanced band (trumpet) and getting ready for all region tryouts next month. Busy, Busy, Busy...

My 9 year old daughter is into animal rescue and loves to dance and perform. Fortunately she is not taking any official classes right now and is very involved with this/our pregnancy. She is reading all the books and keeping track of the weeks, watching baby story and bringing home baby... She is the most excited of all and wants this baby here now, no, yesterday... lol.

We won't have another ultrasound until November sometime, probably the end of the month. Everybody wants to know the sex of this baby, somehow I think it will be sneaky and we won't be able to find out... The grandparents all want a boy and I have felt like this baby is a boy, but I was wrong with daughter #2. I really don't care one way or another. I know what to do with a girl but a boy would be something we don't have.

I think I have been feeling some movement the last couple of weeks but I can't seem to get my hopes up too much until I feel something strong and definate. I think I have been a little reserved getting my hopes up since I feel so old. I get the excitment from watching my daughters experience this but haven't allowed myself to bond to much with the baby itself yet. My first scan was at about 8 weeks and the dr. said everything looked good. The heartrate was 165 and everything was in place. All my bloodwork was good and my Pap smear came back normal, don't have to get another for 3 years. My appt. last month showed a weight gain of 7 lbs, and the fundus was where it should be. The nurse had a hard time finding the baby's heartrate and when she finally did we only heard it for a split second and the baby moved, it was in the 150's. Kind of anticlimatic...

I expected to feel "full of energy" this month but I have in fact been sleeping as much as I did in the first trimester... I have headaches about everyother day and have been more hormonal than I was the first 3 months. I don't know what I should feel like being 38 and pregnant after 10 years of keeping up with the older 2. I hope I will be able to handle doing this all over again.

Much love to all you preggies,

Tina