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2-21-08

Hi! and welcome to my profile page! I will be a first time mom this July and we are both thrilled we are going to be parents! I keep having reality checks about it! But now that I'm 18 weeks and starting to feel the little 'tap tap tap' of my baby, it is becoming all too real and scary (but exciting of course!) ... I think I'm just scared that I won't be ready or have everything set up for baby or that I will have trouble with the huge adjustment. But, I'm also peaceful about the whole thing. I am thankful to have been given the chance at motherhood and hope to be the best mom I can be! Feel free to leave me a comment - I'm just figuring this site out, though, so bear with me if it takes a while!:) and congrats to everyone who is expecting! We are all in the same beautiful boat and it is going to be a memorable ride, for sure!

2-22-08

Well, I have to wait until March 17th to find out the gender of my baby! it is so hard to wait as I'm dying to know!! We were going to let it be a surprise but have decided now that it is just easier to find out...it makes everything easier. I asked my doc early on what he thought about that and he said that it is not really in the surprise of the gender...but the surprise is the personalities of babies and how each one is different! We are only having our first so I won't be able to compare...but I will be curious to see if the personality is more like me or his/her dad :) so funn! Well, I guess waiting until I'm 22 weeks pregnant to find out will make it more accurate - hopefully! I LOVE the ultrasound we've only had one but we video taped it and it is so fun to watch. I can't wait to see how baby has developed and changed since my 9 week ultrasound. On a separate note, last Monday (my first day of week 18) I think I had a Braxton Hicks contraction. It was so weird and scary. All of the sudden I felt my lower abdomen kind of rush like a wave of menstrual pain and I freaked and thought I was having a miscarriage or something! I went to the bathroom immediately after and was happy to see there was no unusual discharge or bleeding. I researched it later and think that is what it was...it was kind of tightening and felt like a brush of wave from my left to my right and a little painful. But mostly it just freaked me out. :) I was happy to research that it was normal in second trimester and that it is just by body getting practice for the real deal! but I will definitely tell my doc at my next visit. Has anyone else had anything like that?

Sunday, 24 Feb

Thursday, 13 Mar

Last night I had a dream we had a boy and named him Gregory! It was pretty cute and a little weird - I guess that `s how preggo dreams go! But I don `t think we will go with that name:) unless it is tattooed as a birthmark on him somewhere when he comes out LOL.. We don `t even know what the gender is yet. We find out on this Monday! I cannot even tell you how long the wait has been and how thankful we are that we are soon to know. Hoping the baby is cooperating and not crossing his/her legs or something! Currently, I `ve been feeling a little achey `down there ` and worried I `m dialating early. There is more to the description but I have no idea what dialating feels like. I `m putting a call into my doc, I think, today, to find out what the deal is. I am so scared it will be preterm labor or something, but I really have none of the other symptoms. If I can just carry this baby to 24 weeks at least then I will know that it has a -chance- of survival. But the plan (of course) is to carry full term. If I have to be put on bed rest then so be it. That would be really hard for me though. I `m not that much of a busy body but I do like to get out on occasion and I don `t think I could take staring at the four walls of my bedroom for the next 4 months. And then to think I `m going to get all kinds of visitors soon and I haven `t even gotten my house in `order ` like I want to. Well, I guess I will update what the doc says. knees bent and fingers crossed!:)

Friday March 21, 2008

Just had to announce it officially....we found out this past Monday we are having beautiful baby BOY! He is healthy in every way so far and we feel so blessed and thankful to God for that. He is kicking up a storm these days. I hope to have a little more time maybe next time I am on to update in a little more detail. That's it for now...:)

Wednesday, 26 Mar

I am officially in the first stage of grief over my dissolving figure. Or shall I say ballooning figure. I went through 22 weeks of enjoying every little cm of growth to my belly. Now I `m just plain uncomfortable! I feel like my belly is bigger than some I `ve seen in their 7th or 8th month. I have to say it really has had me freaked the past 2 days. I had food poisoning on Friday night but I `m doing fine now and so is baby. I was in the hospital for 16 hours and they monitored the baby and the uterine irritability contractions I was having. All is ok, thank the Lord! But, having pumped my veins with around 5 bags of fluid through an IV, I ballooned out and now feel so bloated. I think I gained 4 lbs overnight! I was sure I `d be peeing constantly and all the `water ` weight I would lose soon but I `m not peeing any more frequent than I was. And my belly is stretching and just killing me. I feel like there must be 2 babies in there but I know there isn `t because the ultrasound tech would have caught it at my 22 week u/s. I don `t like anything tight around my waist so I `m really hating preggo pants with the stretchy waistband. I think I will wear sundresses the rest of my pregnancy if it will only stay warm consistently outside!:) I really am beginning to freak out about where I `m going to put 3 more months and 27 days more of baby...and my back is killing me - just can `t seem to get a kink out. Well, that was my vent for the week. It was pretty negative, but I `m just going through a grief process about my figure. I am very thankful to be pregnant though. I just didn `t expect to be -this- uncomfortable and -this- big this early.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Well, I start Week 28 today! So exciting! I had a scare earlier today when I remembered my doc told me I'd need the Rhogam shot at week 28 because I am an rH negative blood type, and was not scheduled until week 31 for another appt. Thankfully, we convinced the nurse to fit me in for the shot this Wednesday. I never thought I'd be so relieved about getting a shot! We were going to try to get my hubby blood typed to potentially not have to get the Rhogam shot (if he turned out to be a negative blood type too) but we haven't gotten around to it in time, so I'm getting the shot.

Other than that, I'm doing well, and I do have really good news...I found out the results of my Glucose Test today - it was 90 which the nurse said is good and I don't have Gestational Diabetes!! Yeah! So thankful!

Our baby boy is moving like crazy these days, and I am so intrigued by my moving belly that I will literally be watching a rental movie with my husband and be looking down at my belly the whole time in awe:) I think I'm getting more entertainment out of the kiddo and my tummy doing 'the wave.' :) He is predominantly sitting/positioning himself on my right side for some reason. I've heard of women that will take their hands and move the baby over a little bit, but as long as it's not that uncomfortable to me, I'm not doing that. I want baby to be comfortable so I'm find if he prefers the right side. He's not really kicking me in the ribs just yet. I expect that will happen as he turns his body in preparation for birth soon enough. We are still nailing down the baby name. But keeping it a secret until the birth because I don't like too many family opinions as that gets old and you can never please everyone. That's my update for now. Hopefully it won't take me as long as it did this past time to update my site.

Monday, May 5, 2008
So I went for my 3D/4D ultrasound yesterday and was extremely disappointed with the whole experience. They had no pleasant bedside manner and our tech had the personality of a stone. The pics didn't turn out great so I had the option to do a $25 redo session which I signed up for but am now going to cancel. I paid $136 yesterday and walked out the door with nothing! That is so dumb they make you pay before you even get anything and if you opt for the redo they erase all pics/dvd from the first session (another dumb thing)! The reason I'm going to cancel and the reason I wish I had researched it before I'd even decided to do it was this article my husband found when we got home yesterday. http://fda.gov/FDAC/features/2004/104_images.html I'm going to try to dispute the charge since I really received nothing and do not want 15 more minutes of risky ultrasound exposure to my baby. The risks may be low but I am freaked out and don't want to take a chance. She kept pushing the probe down really hard and shaking all around to try to get the baby to move and it really hurt. I'd rather just have a trained doctor do any if they are going to. I'll stick with my 2D shots and wait patiently to see my little one when he gets here. Anyway, sorry to make this so long, but those who are considering it...I wish someone had told me about this before I went and I wouldn't have done it. Those who have already done it, looks like we're in the same boat. On the bright side, I have two friends that went and have healthy babies now. Not sure the long-term effects though..but it's kind of scary to think about.

On a good note, I had my Rhogam shot last week and it was easy and turned out fine! No pain or side effects at -all- That was a blessing because I had heard nightmare stories. I'm not afraid of shots though so that might have something to do with it...it may hurt more if you tense up perhaps. Well I start week 29 today and so excited to be getting so close! :)