Updates...

5/11: 25 weeks today! registered yesterday at Babies R Us. boy was that an experience! going home to seattle to visit family and friends on the 21st. that will be cool. baby has been moving a lot and i can now feel it regularly all around, not just ultra low. i can feel it on the oustide and see my belly move. very strange and cool and i wonder what babe's little face and body look like all the time. had on OB apt the other day and all was fine she said. gained only 11lbs so far which makes me afriad it will all pile on during the 3rd trimester. yikes! lubing up with lots of fun belly creams. so many to choose from. layed out for the first time this season to get some color. thats nice. although i guess i might have to stand to get the backs of my legs! my floaty in the pool on my belly was semi successful, but it gave me a "side ache". my next test will be the glucose test on the 20th and i will get the results on the 3rd when i get back from seattle.

4/12 pm: we had indian buffet for lunch today and a couple hours later, still full to the max, i was asked for the first time in my life "how far along are you?". and then she had the decency to say that i didnt look 5 mos., well i feel like i look 7 mos so i am sure she was being nice. and yes, she was nice. sooo, i guess i really am showing now. if the babe was 15ozs on the 10th, i am sure she's 1lb now! trip to have this creature inside. 6-7 inches and 1 whole pound! and now i am pretty sure that those are baby movements i am feeling.

4/12 am: feel good today. honey is off work and we get to spend the day together, course i am here and he is on the phone with his brother. : ) still think i feel movement once in a while. we started talking about names and shopping. hehehe. : ) kid rock cowboy babay on the radio....

4/10: Went in for our genetic counsel and possible amnio yesterday. we finally got our combined score of the quad screen and level 2 ultrasound after weeks of trying to understand and adjust the rate ourselves. needless to say, they looked at the babe again and all still looked normal. therefore, my adjusted number is 1/953!! From 1/118 to 1/953! i had no idea it would be that drastic of a change! at this point then the risk factor i was told for the amnio in 1/400-500 which is way higher than 1/953 so NO amnio! WHAT A RELIEF. i feel like now we can really participate in this pregancy and start making plans for the future. as we were leaving the office, my husband wanted to know the sex! NOW he wants to know.... : ) we are still waiting til birth at this point. if his curiousity gets the best of him, we'll discuss it. i would still like to wait and look for myself without being told (assuming all goes well at delivery). one of the things i can now focus on is finding another OB (still not pleased), planning delivery, newborn necessity shopping and taking a trip to Seattle to show my growing belly to my family. I have friends here and all my family is there. i think about that a lot too, but the weather here is fantastic for me.

Still not feeling any movement. well, i may have felt something but not really sure so just no. babe weighs 15 ounces! almost 1 pound! amazing. my husband says "his first pound! he needs 240 more to chatch me." too cute. (notice the boy reference?) my hubby is tall and slim but heavy. he is getting a bit of sympathy belly and keeps saying he's getting back to the gym. keeps not happening but that's all right for now.

That's it for now. Thanks to all you girls for your support. This site in amazing - oh the age we live in....

4/1: On the 27th (Thurs) we had out level II ultrasound but my OBs office couldnt find the blood results from our Quad screen. The ultrasound looked normal (9oz.). Fri the OB office calls and wants to see me asap on monday. The OB says my risk (i will be 37 at birth) is 1/118 but that doesnt factor in the ultrasound result. She wanted to send me back to the u/s docs (perinatologist) for genetic counseling but they dont have an opening until the 17th! I called the u/s tech personally to ask her about it. she said that if we would opt to termintate she could get me in on the rush for the counsel (which would be 'numbers' of the u/s and quad together and an amnio risk right? then you balance the info?) and amnio. So it appears that i have to decide one way or the other without an amnio and that is not fair! We lean toward keeping it but seem to have lost our options. What should we do? i am in the 19th week now and the 17th is the 21st week. This is all not ok...

3/28: had our level 2 ultrasound yesterday. it was great to see the baby again, growing away. the results were normal. i am still waiting for the results of my quad screen and i got a call from my doc today and they want me to come in on monday. so i am nervous but reassured because the ultrasound was fine.

3/17: 17 weeks today. received my first maternity clothes from erin today. totally awesome! comfort!! gave blood for the Quad screen. anitcipation. think i need to change doctors cause i am just not satisfied with who i am with.

2/27: Went for a nuchal translucency ultrasound last week. she said it looks fine and referred to it as a boy, although i had told her we didnt want to know. she told me it was too early to tell anyway (which i am not sure i believe at 13wks5day then), so now my hubby is convinced it is a boy. we still agree that we dont want to find out the sex so we shall see. I took a blood test and am still waiting for the results. the ulrasound was fun because it took a long time. baby jumped and kicked and moved hands and turned over. very cool!

2/15: Went to the doc yesterday. Haven't gained weight so far which is good i think because i am already a bit overweight. Heard the heartbeat again and that is the coolest thing ever!! I think i can feel the growing pains and that it is progressing but it was great to have the confirmation that life is really still there...thinking about renting a Doppler since i cant feel it moving yet.

1st entry: I can't believe i am pregnant!! It is so weird - hence the "total trip". I still have not told half of my family and some of my friends. i think i am still in shock that it is actually working - not miscarry or other. 2 months before i got pregnant this time, i had an ectopic pregnancy which was painful and treated with methotraxate. i was told to wait 3 mos to get pregnant but there i was 2 mos later. and here now at 10 weeks.... strange.