September 3rd

So I just came back from the doc - guess what - this little girl is already weighing in at just over 6 lbs.!!! YIKES! My doc guessed that this means that she will ultimately weigh in between 8 and 9 lbs. Also, she kind of put the kaibash on the idea of her coming early - she said pretty directly - - well, just 6 more weeks... Also - my stomach muscles have separated & so have my pelvic muscles - hence the pain in my groin...she said that if it gets to be too bad she will send me to a physical therapist... But for now, she is head down & ready to go. The only bad news is that darn cyst still there, but at least its size has stayed constant at just 1 centimeter. So, they are setting us up with pediatrics and they will take it from here after birth. Hopefully, it is just a small ovarian cyst that is being fueled by the estrogen in my body and will go away after she is on her own. My brain just keeps coming back to 6 lbs. - 6 lbs. and 6 wks. to go - what a combination!! Besides all of these details - she is gorgeous. I am so psyched.

July 29th

I just had the best doctor's visit - - 1) they did another ultrasound and at first they couldn't even find the cyst!!!!! Then, they finally found it, but it is very very small - a matter of millimeters instead of centimeters. So hip hip hooray - it looks like it is in the process of disappearing - especially when you consider how much bigger she has gotten in comparison! One more ultrasound at wk 36 just to confirm, but for now it looks really good!!! 2) I had failed my first glucose test and had to take the 3 hour fasting test - -which came back negative!!! Whe-hew - no gestational diabetes for us!!! Thank goodness! and 3) just to top it all off - I lost a pound since my last visit 3 weeks ago!!! Tra-la-la-la-la.

It doesn't get better than this - -really, everything that I have been worrying about just got resolved. Hooray hooray. Now we can just relax and get together a nursery and pick a name and everything else :) Wonderful wonderful wonderful!

July 10th

June 2

Well, I am definitely looking pregnant now... Up until just a few weeks ago, I could 'pass', but now even strangers are talking to me about my growing belly. I never really liked that part about pregnancy - being the community science project... We had our 20 week ultrasound last week and we found out that our baby is a girl! I am absolutely delighted. I was secretly hoping for a girl since we already have a boy and I am not sure if I will ever get another child out of my husband. Everything about her looks good (thank goodness)- except that she has a cyst in her lower abdomen. They said that it might be ovarian, but that lots of times they fade in the course of the pregnancy. Worst case scenario, they would surgically remove it after she is born. So, although the entire idea makes me terrified, I suppose it is not that bad considering all of the miracles that go into creating a human being. I am praying that it will dissipate on its own in the course of time.

May 12

I passed my exams, I passed my exams, I passed my exams!!!!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha, tra la lala la.... Now I can finally begin to think about the baby and the summer and ice cream and all of the other good things in life.... whe-hew!@!@!@#R$@#@#$!@#$!@#$!@#%#!!!!!!!!

I have a big long ultrasound on the 29th - can't wait....and finally, finally, finally, I can tell anyone who wants to know that I am pregnant - -- - - hip hip hip hip hip hip hooray!!!

Hi everyone! I am finally going public with this pregnancy, whe-hew!!- - after a mc at 10 weeks a few years ago I have been very reticent to believe that this is real. But, thankfully, I am still here at 12 weeks...just two more to go 'till approximate safety. I have been feeling pretty good - was sick for a few weeks - but just reduced my diet to bland and sour foods which at least helped me to make it through. I have been craving natural sours throughout - grapefruits, green apples, passion herbal teas - very strange, seems to help the m/s though. This last week I have been much less tired and actually feeling a bit closer to my old self again. Thank god because my phd exams are at the end of next month and falling asleep on my books at 10pm is just not going to cut it. So...I am back to studying full time and trying not to stress...lots of water, as much sleep as possible... Also, I have a reticent, but getting used to it, loving husband and a totally thrilled 8 year old.

Best wishes and good luck to all you mommies-to-be out there. Here's to plentiful milk and fat babies.