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Hello!
I am going to be a first-time Mama. My husband and I decided to make a
baby in our lucky number 7 anniversary of being together. We were
hoping for a June baby because I am on an academic career calendar. We
timed my ovulation cycles, I read everything I could find about
conceiving, we planned a special little vacation, and bam! We are
pregnant. Life is full of little miracles. I try to stop and think
about it every day. We are lucky, blessed, and thankful.
Apparently
the baby is going to be a Gemini. According to a baby astrology website
I recently went to, that means that the baby will have a bit of a short
attention span, but be very creative and independent. It will be so
much fun to watch our little one change and grow in to their own
personality.
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Thursday, 6 Dec
Update! We found a place in the Bay Area that will do 3-D/4-D ultrasound packages. I wonder if my curiosity might be responsible for harming the baby in some way. I just haven't seen any solid information either way so far...Does anyone know if it is safe to do a 3-D/4-D ultrasound?Sunday, 9 Dec
So moody today! I can feel it too, but I can't help it. My poor husband. I think I am snapping at him a bit. I just feel so grrrrrrrrr! My last big mood swing was WEEKS ago. I have been pretty lucky. That was a pleasant one too. I cried when I saw a little girl at a coffee shop because life is so precious and the world is so precious! Haha. It was a state of wonderment that a child could ever make it through an entire pregnancy, a successful delivery, and 5 years of life! Maybe I should look in to some prenatal yoga classes! Mellow out a bit...Thursday, 13 Dec
To caffeine or not to caffeine...that is the question. I love a morning latte. What the heck am I to do. I would NEVER do something to harm the baby but I read conflicting messages on this one. And I get guilt tripped when I have a coffee. But I am less moody, more alert, more productive, and happier when I got for my single beverage in the a.m. Does that make me a bad mommy?Thursday, 13 Dec
I am having the best pregnancy day! I just feel so elated. Being able to feel my uterus makes me so proud. The rest of me seems to have gone soft, but my uterus is one tough muscle! Baby is in there. Today is the first day of our week 15 and it is all so exciting to me. I have Thursdays off, so I am still in my pajamas, watching back to back episodes of 'A Baby Story' on TLC and eating Nutella and honey sandwiches. Haha! Good times.PS. We just booked a 3D/4D for the 22nd, so even if we don't get an u/s at our doctor's on the 20th, we are going to get our Christmas wish of finding out the gender! YAYYYY!
Tuesday, 18 Dec
I am sooo excited about being knocked up lately! My belly is a bit rounded and visible, nausea is mostly a distant memory, I haven't bothered to suck in in over a month, I have felt the baby move on 4 different occasions. Anyhoo, it is starting to seem REAL. I can picture little baby hands and little baby feet to kiss and bathe and hold. This time next year we will have a little ~6 month old baby at Christmas. CoolTuesday, 18 Dec
GO AND SEE THE MOVIE JUNO! It was so good! I have considered the fact that the pregnancy hormones amplified the experience, but nah - go see it!Wednesday, 19 Dec
Grrrr. Didn't get enough sleep last night. Tossing and turning and uterus cramping. Pre-pregnancy I just would have added extra caffeine to compensate, and be on my way. Preggo though, it makes me miserable to be tired! Headaches, nausea, and complete grumpiness! It seems like pregnancy is often a multiplication factor for life. Everything time ten! Ten times the waistline, 10 times the food, 10 times the amount of sleep, 10 times the mood! Sheesh.Thursday, 20 Dec
Friggin unbelievable! Yesterday I was so tired and kinda grumpy, headaches, nausea from exhaustion, sore nipples, practically cross eyed. Then I went to bed and was waking up because baby was 'working on something'. Not moving around necessarily, but sometimes I just wake up and know that something is going on down there. Then this morning, it is BUMPTASTIC! Seriously! Laying down on my back and my stomach pops up! Baby decided to go through a marathon growth session last night. haha. And it is funny because I feel this enormous sense of pride! Like 'good job baby. Way to kick it in to gear and get all big and strong for mommy and daddy'. Haha. The other funny thing is that I am 16 weeks today, and this pregnancy has so been like that. Telling relatives on Thanksgiving because we were exactly 12 weeks on that day. Stepping in to my first pair of maternity pants on the first day of Week 13. And now when my future daughter asks me when I started to 'show' I can confidently say 4 months.Maybe when I am riding the subway people will start to get up to let me sit now. Haha. My bump will pull heart strings and they will have no choice to give up their seat for the clearly, visibly pregnant lady. Haha.
Such a cute bump! It absolutely fascinates me that it is A PART OF MY BODY. Now I can't stop touching it. Hi bump. Hello Baby, there you are. Cracking me up. Either it is the hormones in full gear or it is actually exciting. Either way, I am starving! Apparently these little growth spurts of Baby's require food for energy...
Thursday, 20 Dec
Well, just got back from the doc's office. Got my blood drawn to test for Down's and it makes me nervous. Plus it hurt like a mo fo! My veins are deep or something. Baby's heart rate is 149 bmp. Awesome. Plus baby was moving while she was doing it so there was this whoosh sounds. She check my cervix and it is good and solid, and 'rock hard' as she put it. So, I have that going for me...Gained 15 pounds. Yikes! Kind of a bummer. But the main thing is that baby is ok. No ultrasound today, so I have to wait until Saturday's private one.I hope they see the lil baby parts!
Saturday, 22 Dec
Tomorrow is the big ultrasound and I am sooo excited! We will get a 3D/4D and see the baby. I am a bit worried that baby won `t quite have baby features yet. Somewhere between a tadpole, a seahorse, and a human? Dunno, 16 weeks and 3 days tomorrow, so hopefully we are far enough along that we I can see little cheeks I will want to kiss in June! We are sticking to our plan of not finding out the gender tomorrow. We have had this plan since we got pregnant (and while I was still holding my breath that baby would stay put and not go anywhere), and now it is finally here! We are going to have them write the gender on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope. Then we are going to take the envelope to the store, pick out a boy outfit and a girl outfit, and ask the cashier to go in the back and gift wrap the outfit that we will open on Christmas morning. I swear this last month has been sooo exciting while waiting. Actually pretty much since before Thanksgiving I have been so warm and fuzzy with anticipation of the holidays. This will be the most exciting Christmas since I was about 7 years old! In the meantime, I can `t wait to see the baby and say hello!Sunday, 23 Dec
We went for our 3D/4D. It was awesome! Then we went shopping for a little girl outfit and a little boy outfit to take the baby home from the hospital in. It is sitting in gift paper right now and I CAN `T WAIT TO OPEN IT ON CHRISTMAS MORNING!!Monday, 24 Dec
Well, I appear to be growing by the day. And it doesn `t look like me that is growing, it looks pretty clear that Baby is. The present in my living room is driving me absolutely insane, and I haven `t slept well the last few days. I had another dream last night. So that makes two dreams where the baby is a girl. The first dream was the night before our first ultrasound and it was a video montage of sorts to the Beach Boys song `Surfer Girl `. Baby had curly hair like my husband, and beautiful eyes, but I can `t remember if she got his dimples or not. She loved the ocean and the water and I felt like she was my best friend in the whole wide world. Then last night I had a dream that Joe and I were moving in to a bigger house and she was there being a helpful `big girl ` and I was pregnant with a boy. It was like seeing in to the future. The Chinese calendar and everything else like symptoms seems to say boy though! I had an older brother and I loved that experience, so a boy first would be great. WE have names picked out for both and my husband does not feel partial to one gender or the other for this first baby, so that is good. This is driving me batty! Less than 24 hours to go...Wednesday, 26 Dec
How we managed to pull it off, I have no idea. We opened the present together at my husband `s parent `s house. The package had the little pink onsie we had picked out and it was such an overwhelming feeling. I put the little outfit with beenie and socks on the couch and just tried to picture our little girl in there. Joe and I hugged and said congratulations. I texted messaged everyone, and then just sat back for a bit. We started talking and I was happy crying about how wonderful it would be to have a little girl to raise and to have as s best friend and I am just so excited to meet her now! IT `S A GIRL!! It took so long to set in. And we watched the ultrasound video, and sure enough! And she is so small right now I just wanted to protect her. I feel so close with her now. And we started calling her Junebug. Cute nickname until we decide her full name. Her first name will be Kenzie, but we are not sure on the middle name. Probably Lyn from Joe `s mom `s name Evelyn. It is all so exciting and just feel so connected with her now. I have switched in to the mode where I am concentrating on her now and not as much on the pregnancy. I just want her here and healthy. I want to breastfeed her and kiss her cheek and tell her that I love her.Sunday, 30 Dec
Dang, this lil ` girl is growing fast now! When I wake up in the morning and my stomach is empty I can lay on my back and look down to see a cantaloupe between my belly button and hip bones. It is hard as a rock too. I went to the doctor on Friday and asked her why my uterus seemed to be all the way up to my belly button. This website says it should be about two inches below. She said that I was probably just confused about what I was feeling and she would `show you how to feel where your uterus actually is `. Argh! Then sure enough she confirmed that my uterus is all the way up to my belly button now. I have been having a bit of cramping from the growing pains which makes a bit more sense now. She thinks we may be a bit further along than originally estimated. Will find out more at a full diagnostic u/s on Jan 7th. The sides of my hips are hurting from sleeping in only two positions! Yikes. There will be a lot more where those pains came from if I have at least five more months of this. Need to go and take an updated belly pic now...Tuesday, 8 Jan
It `s a GIRL!! (still). Haha. We had our big ultrasound today. Probably the last time we will see our lil one until she makes her big debut I am guessing. She was so beautiful! Her little lips and hands. She was moving like crazy and when the lady was pressing in with her little ultrasound wand on Baby `s legs she was do this little leapfrog maneuver over and over. She looks so spring loaded! It was hilarous. I was leaking from the eyes. Not exactly crying, just sort of leaky-eyed, pregnant with emotion (and baby!). Then she started sucking her thumb and trying to take a nap. I love her so much! She is going to be so wonderful to have our lives, as a family. I can `t wait to meet her and kiss her little hands and cheeks! I am glad we are having a daughter first. I had an older brother and really liked the experience, so I am sure we would like that also. But she will be my little helper and friend and I don `t feel in a hurry to have a second. I just want to get to know her and take her on adventures in experiencing the world. I can `t wait to see her laugh!Tuesday, 8 Jan
We are supposed to leave for our lil babymoon tonight. I am sooo excited. Not super stoked about the bathing suit body, but I have made a conscious decision to just get out there on the beach and rock my preggo body! We are going to an all-inclusive resort so I am hoping for yoga and water aerobics, a second honeymoon with my hubby, virgin pina coladas with fruit and little umbrellas in them, all day eating of little meals, and some friggin sun! Worried about getting sick due to recycled air on the plane, lack of sleep due to travel times, eating bad food/water, and not being near USA doctors. Hopefully I will come back after much sweet lovin with Joe, happy and a bit more tan. I think Kenzie is going to be a water lover, so maybe she will get a kick out of this littles trip. Hehe, `get a kick `! hahaTuesday, 15 Jan
Well, baby is doing great! We got back from the lil ` babymoon trip late last night and I had my Dr `s apmt VERY first thing this morning. Traveling brings questions and concerns to mind. She gave me blood, urine, and ultrasound tests. Our baby is awesome! She is very healthy and active and her heartbeat is strong and consistent. She kicked the doppler on the head today during the exam and it was fun to feel her kick while I heard it on the doppler at the same time. She is measuring pretty big, and so is my uterus but we are expecting a big baby. They wanted to move my due date to June 3, but I think she is just going to be big because it runs in both families. She is so active and I can feel her throughout the day now. I am so proud of her kicks and flops and rolls and swings. I can `t wait to meet her. I want to put her in some pigtails and take her out to play soccer at the field. What will her little nose look like? When will she first smile. I just feel like she is going to be such a good baby, and waiting for your daughter to arrive is like meeting your best friend. I can `t wait to hold her, soothe her, rock her, and give her her first high five! The trip to Mayan Riviera put me in such a great mood. The weather was fantastic and Joe was amazing and sweet. It was an all-inclusive and we didn `t worry about a think the whole week. We swam with turtles in the sea and lounged in the sand and I decided that the best breakfast in the world for this pregnancy is: thick cut bacon, cottage cheese with huge chunks of mango in mango juice on top, thick hash brown wedges with tons of ketchup, and jalapeno poppers! Yum! We danced and splashed and rested. Romance, tons of eating, and some exercise. Kenzie rolled around and kicked a bit when I would sing to her in the beach chairs and I rocked my maternity bathing suit with pride! Flying was terrible and yuck because I can `t bend at the waist and there is no room in those friggin tiny seats! But people are so nice and smile gently when they see my now very visible baby belly. There is so much love in the world for us bearers of life. It gives me pride to be participating in the greatest of human conditions - that is pregnancy. I think I finally got that glow thing everyone is talking about...Thursday, 17 Jan
Although Kenzie `s brain appears to be healthy and normal, I fear mine is not! I just shopped for everything she will need between 6 months and 1 year. Why did I do that! I got baited by all of the delicious sales that are going on for winter clothes right now. We know gender, and due date, and that she is going to be a bit of a big baby. I am not buying anything in the newborn section, and instead I bought Christmas sweaters and jackets and dresses and socks - oh my! I exuded estrogen all over the mall and thought myself the biggest genius of the lot when I left there with my arms overloaded. Then I realized I JUST BOUGHT AN ENTIRE WARDROBE FOR MY BABY IN ONE DAY! Not sure what came over me. Excitement picturing her learning to stand in a sweet little sweater I guess. Anyhoo, she kicked like crazy yesterday so there is a very good possibility she will be my shopping ally when we gets a bit older. :)Monday, 21 Jan
Pregnancy is such a strange an unique state of being. I wake up every morning now and lay on my back (which is a relief because my hips get sore from being on my sides all night!), and I check to see how my uterus has grown. Kenzie grows every day! It is amazing. On top of it, I am getting freckles. What the heck is up with that? I am getting them on my arms. Each days brings something new. It is quite strange. I suppose that once she gets here, I will spend every day watching her in the same way that I now watch my body. She will change and grow and learn and I just don `t want it to go by under my radar. For now all I can do is watch my body change and morph and it is very strange, but I am proud of her.Wednesday, 23 Jan
It may seem a bit early, but now that I know how big Kenzie is supposed to be (along with all other babies on both sides of the family), so I am beginning to plan for labor! I figure it will be like training for a marathon. I have let myself get nice and soft because I wanted her to just take root and thrive and develop as needed. Now I have to start preparing though for my body to handle what is ahead, and it is not going to be easy. Well, I was doing a bit of research and was thinking that a water birth might help me get this lil girl out naturally. I don `t like the idea of being in a hospital where I am forced to be hooked up to an IV. I want to be free moving so that I can walk around, and labor with the yoga ball, doing any stretches, and spending time in a nice jacuzzi bath to help with the pain etc. I spoke with my insurance yesterday and there is no such natural birthing center in the medical group I have currently picked. I have to switch groups in the 2nd trimester if I want to pick a different facility. So Joe and I went on a tour of one of the hospitals we have to choose from. It was great! They have private suites and jacuzzi tubs, yoga balls, and a family friendly atmosphere. All of that worrying for nothing! Now I just have to start getting in birth-ready body shape...Wednesday, 6 Feb
I can `t wait to meet this little girl! Having a baby will be cool, but I am really excited for when she starts to come in to her own. I am excited for when her personality starts showing through and she is moving around. The fact that she is a SHE makes me want to wait a bit on another pregnancy. I have had dreams about her and I just feel like she will be such a good friend and daughter. I want to give her plenty of time in the family to just take root while she grows. That is skipping many steps ahead though, and I am trying to be more Zen. How could I possibly enjoy the NOW when my mind is in the future or the past. So, here we are with a cute round belly and lots of kicks and movement all day.Monday, 11 Feb
Baby girl is moving and rolling sooo much. We can see her kick from outside of my stomach. It is funny, but sometimes she kicks so hard! Her favorite time seems to be around sunset. She really just gets going for a couple of hours around dinner time. Yesterday before bed we were checking my belly out and we could tell her pointy little bum was up high and on the left because my belly had a CORNER on that side. It was hilarious. We haven `t really started buying the `stuff ` for baby yet. I bought a book called `Raising Baby Green ` and it has tons of great pointers on items to buy. I did have one enormous clothing spree over a month ago, and that was tons of fun. Just haven `t been in to registering or anything yet. Need to get going on that though... For now I am just enjoying my belly and her soccer moves.Thursday, 14 Feb
Happy Valentine `s Day little one! My husband kissed my belly this morning and said `Hi Kenzie. Good morning! I can `t wait till you come out and you can be my Valentine too! ` So cute! It could be the hormones, but I almost cried. I also almost cried over the deliciousness of the breakfast I cooked for my husband this morning. It is sort of a tradition. I can `t wait to bring our baby girl in on the traditions. I hope she likes to cook and she can be a little helper. That is an advantage of the oldest being a girl, you have a little helper and confidant. Anyways, I hope she is helpful! The oldest in my family was a boy and he sure wasn `t. I guess gender doesn `t matter so much as how they are raised. All the same I am picturing her in some of the little outfits I have been seeing in the mall. I resisted the second shopping spree for her, but got a couple of cute maternity things to wear out for Valentine `s day tonight. Such a cute stage of pregnancy. Complete strangers are so nice to me!Monday, 25 Feb
Registering this weekend was soo much fun! Afterwards I almost turned in to some cliche scene out of a movie by twirling around in blissful helicopter spins in the rain in the parking lot! I purchased maternity bras and a few more clothes, as well as a body pillow for sleeping. We registered for a cherry blossom themed nursery for her and I just the colors. I can `t wait to meet my little best friend and confidant for life. I hope she likes me as much as I like my mom, and that we are sipping tea together and talking about life when she is in her 20 `s too! I just want to start by giving her a little kiss, touching her hair for the first time, holding her little hand! It is all so real and I am so excited!Friday, 29 Feb
Baby girl is so active and funny. I think she developed a corner of some sort, because sometimes it feels like something sharp is dragging along the inside of my stomach. Yikes! Maybe she is just getting big though, and I am just really feeling her elbows as she turns. Dunno. But I love her! We started our Bradley Method birthing classes. What an experience! This is such a great fit for us and even though she is supposed to be a pretty big baby I AM EXCITED! Can `t wait for her birthTuesday, 11 Mar
Third trimester is the home stretch right? So why does it feel like we have an ETERNITY to go before she gets here? Oh yeah, because I can `t picture getting any bigger, my face is starting to get swollen, and my back hurts. Therefore imagining three more months of increasingly exaggerated symptoms is making me nervous...I now walk 30-60 minutes every day, and eat as healthy as possible in preparation for her arrival. She kicks and moves all day long and she absolutely cracks me up! We have two baby showers next month (one friend and one family). Also, this weekend she kicked me in the ribs! Then her foot got stuck! I had to drop my fork at breakfast, get up and walk around so that she could rearrange. HER FOOT GOT STUCK BEHIND MY RIB CAGE! Is this for real?Thursday, 13 Mar
Baby girl got hiccups again today. What causes hiccups? I guess she is just being a bit uncoordinated in her swallowing reflex? Or am I eating something that her system is not quite handling? Hiccups are so cute! They reminds me of that LONG TIME AGO when her kicks and movements were subtle and gentles. (sigh) That was before she was bruising my ribs and earthquaking my belly section. Rhythmic little taps. And low down too! It is good to know that she is head down right now. Sort of comforting because for a while there she was breach and I worried that she would stay that way. Now she seems to be kicking high and hiccuping low, so that is good. :)Thursday, 27 Mar
Well, I was beginning to doubt my ability to birth this baby naturally (as currently planned). The doctor `s keep saying how big she is, and everyone has something stupid and scary to say to me for some reason. But then I saw her on the ultrasound yesterday with her beautiful lips, and sweet little nose. She is thriving! She weighs 3lbs 9oz (67% range for her due date), and she is completely healthy! So I made her a promise that if she does her part and turns head down I will do mine and give her a vaginal drug free delivery. I counted fingers again, and just watched her move as I felt her move. There is so much more connect with her than the first ultrasound when I just saw her floating in there and felt like I was watching someone else `s movie. Now I feel her move, see her move and I love her! Pregnancy is very interesting..Comments on SF-Mama`s Profile
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