Aug 25th,

I went to the doctors this week. I'm on a rotation meeting the 5 doctors in the practice. I really liked my primary one, but the one I meet this time was awful. I certainly do not want to see him during child birth. He was also worried about my blood pressure. It has be getting higher and higher every month. Now it is very close to the high blood pressure mark. They keep checking my urine for protein, but none has been found. 21 weeks is really early for preclampsia to out, but I may have that or just hypertension. I think I'm going to need to take blood pressure medication soon. Hypertension runs in my family, but not for someone my age and my mom never had it with her pregnancies. Somedays I just wish I was younger and that my body was better able to handle all these changes!

August 7th

I am having a boy! My friends are happy for me and my husband because they think a boy will be able to keep up with us in the water. We are struggling with finding a name four our boy. They schedules us for a 4th ultrasound during week 25.

Hi everyone,

I am 16 weeks pregnant with our first human child. We have had 2 untrasounds already. The second one was a nucal transluceny test and our test results were good, so no invasive procedures required! My husband and I are working on names. We have a girls name, but not a boys name. We have another ultrasound in a couple of weeks of hope to find out the sex of our child.

My first trimester came with lots of heartburn and emotional feelings. I cry almost everytime I read comments about how people are feeling on this website. Now I'm in the 2nd trimester. I do not enjoy that i am gaining wieght. I have tried hard to keep a reasonable weight most of my life, so gaining 10 lbs drives my crazy. I have had to switch over to maternity bottoms as none of my normal clothes fit. My ankles have been swelling and I get bad headaches. I just noticed last night that I now have strecth marks across my belly.

I'm very excited about having a baby and at the same time I'm scared of sooo many things. I have a wonderful husband who is also excited and worried. We've already got the paint and decorations for the baby room, which is currently where the computer is. Our number 1 task is to organize our baby room and relocate the study. I do not work over summer, but I start teaching in August. So were are trying to accomplish major tasks before school starts.

Were in the U.S., but my husband's family is all half way around the world. We both wish they could be here or we could be there more so we could share all the changes, feeling, emotions and after our child is born his or her growth. My parents are only about 700 miles away or 11 hours of interstate driving.

Just a note for all you moms out there. Thank you for posting comments and making me feel not so strange about all the changes happening to me.