Well, I'm 8 lbs up from last month, this totally shocked me seeing as I had only gained 1 lb in the previous 18 weeks!So now I totally have to watch everything I eat, she only wants me to gain 6 more pounds and the baby still has to gain that much so I'm totally screwed! Oh well, all worth it all worth it all worth it. Just gotta keep repeating it lol!
Baby seems to be doing well so far! I registered for baby stuff so that got me kind of excited, although I still can't see it happening. I know I feel him move and talk about him and go to the doctor, but it's hard to see him being a part of the family. To bring him home and actually have a newborn again, I feel like it's been more like 10 yrs not 3!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
21 1/2 weeks!
Things are going good. This last weekend we moved a bunch over to my parent's house and I lifted entirely too much because Jeremy couldn't lift much either with his back being how it is and I've been paying for it ever since. I'm having sciatica all the time and sleeping has become increasingly difficult. Other than that things are good : ) I feel the baby all the time now, at least 10 times a day or so which is exciting. Its like I went from feeling nothing to everything!
We have another appointment on Monday which are always fun, seems like its been forever since my last one. My belly isn't too big yet, but I have a wider belly rather than a basketball like one usually. It's still hard to picture our family turning into a family of four, it's always just been the three of us so its so hard seeing a newborn in the mix, but it will sure be exciting. We've waited quite a while for this.
We have another appointment on Monday which are always fun, seems like its been forever since my last one. My belly isn't too big yet, but I have a wider belly rather than a basketball like one usually. It's still hard to picture our family turning into a family of four, it's always just been the three of us so its so hard seeing a newborn in the mix, but it will sure be exciting. We've waited quite a while for this.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Baby Likes To Dance
I've really starting feeling the baby a lot this week, this is probably the first time I've definitely known it was the baby. Right now he's relentless so I had to write about it. It's a feeling like nothing else. I know I'll miss it once he's here. I'm 20 1/2 weeks so more than halfway there : ) I can't believe it. Still having a very hard time with names, but I'm sure it'll come. I didn't chose a name for Vincent til the last month or so. I was going to get this bedding set from babies r us but was having a hard time rationalizing how much it was going to cost, so I found this bedding on ebay brand new for $50. Here it is. We're going with the moon and stars! On a side note, I found the box full of Vincent's old new born clothes, Yay!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Official 18 Week Ultrasound & OB Visit
We had our 18 wk appointment on December 29th and in the last four weeks turns out I lost 1 lb bringing my grand total weight gained to 1 lb. The dr. isn't worried about it though. I did a blood test for the triple screen test. We got in for our 18 wk ultrasound on New Years Eve. Vincent went with us and when he saw the screen he yelled out 'that's my baby'.
The ultrasound lasted a while probably about 40 minutes. It was cool seeing all the different parts...the brain, the heart, etc. When it came to the gender, she said that she saw 3 lines which indicated girl. Shocked, I told her about the other ultrasound we got and she double checked and said that now HE was just showing it off. So he is a boy! It was crazy though because if I hadn't gotten that earlier ultrasound we would think we were having a baby girl! They gave us a cd of all the pictures and a dvd of the whole ultrasound. Here are some of our favorite pictures!
The ultrasound lasted a while probably about 40 minutes. It was cool seeing all the different parts...the brain, the heart, etc. When it came to the gender, she said that she saw 3 lines which indicated girl. Shocked, I told her about the other ultrasound we got and she double checked and said that now HE was just showing it off. So he is a boy! It was crazy though because if I hadn't gotten that earlier ultrasound we would think we were having a baby girl! They gave us a cd of all the pictures and a dvd of the whole ultrasound. Here are some of our favorite pictures!
Early Christmas Present!
I decided that for Jeremy, I would go and do a surprise early ultrasound since now a days you can find out the gender fairly early. I went to a place in Chandler that does 3d/4d ultrasounds and just got the gender discovered. I went with Chani and they told us 1000% it was a boy. This was quite the shock for me! We had been thinking girl. GIRL GIRL GIRL. Jeremy loves baby girls and insists we will keep having kids til we get that girl. But once I heard boy it just clicked. Now we would have two boys, I was so outnumbered but in a great way : )
We went to target and I found a layette set of elephants & stars. It was so cute! On the top it just said thank heaven for little boys. I also started the new baby's scrapbook and put in the pictures we got from the ultrasound. When Jeremy opened it on Christmas, he looked so confused and just said 'it's a boy? I thought we didn't know yet. How do you know' We got it on tape and it'll be fun to show the boys someday! Here is a picture from the early ultrasound and a picture of me around Christmas time!
End of the First Trimester
The First Trimester has always proved to be a tough one for me. I get incredibly horrible heartburn & acid reflux. I don't have morning sickness as rough as some others, but it is still a constant and continues thru the pregnancy for me. At the end of the first trimester I had gained two pounds. Here is a picture of me at 12 weeks.
Jeremy couldn't go with me to the 14 wk appointment as he had a doctor's appointment at the same time, but Vincent went with me. We got to listen to the heartbeat and Vincent covered his ears. The 14 wks appointment was fairly uneventful. But at least I was 1/3 of the way done!
Jeremy couldn't go with me to the 14 wk appointment as he had a doctor's appointment at the same time, but Vincent went with me. We got to listen to the heartbeat and Vincent covered his ears. The 14 wks appointment was fairly uneventful. But at least I was 1/3 of the way done!First OB Appointment
Somehow I knew I was pregnant this time even before the tests. I had some sick feelings and thought I had some sort of infection which is often a sign of pregnancy. I was still so petrified of losing this baby too. We said we were going to keep it a secret but I'm not very good at that. My mom & dad already knew, and I told my sister. Jeremy told his mom. And I told the girls at work. The doctor wanted to wait until I was 10 weeks along to see her which seemed years away.
Finally our first appointment came. On November 3rd, 2008. I gave a ton of blood and they ran some tests. She gave us the due date of June 1st, 2009. She told me I needed to watch my weight with this pregnancy and only gain about 15 pounds. She did a quick ultrasound and we were on our way. It really eased our minds when she said that since we had made it to 10 weeks, the chance of a repeat miscarriage was down to 2-3%.
We're Pregnant
We had been trying to have another babe for quite a while. When Jeremy & I got married Vincent was about a year old and we alread were missing the baby stage. We got pregnant in February of that year only to miscarry in April. It was a really hard time. I never knew what a loss you feel with a miscarriage. It took me a long time to recover physically but eventually we decided to start trying again with no luck. A year went by. In August we decided to start charting where you measure you temperature and other physical symptoms to find out which days are perfect for conception. In the second month of serious charting we got our positive pregnancy test. After months of negative pregnancy tests it was shocking.
I first took a cheapo pregnancy test and saw the faintest line. I had always thought with this pregnancy I would think of some cutesy elaborate way to tell Jeremy, but I was so shocked by this faint line I had to show him to see if he saw it too. He said he did, so I called my mom. She had known about our struggles and was just as happy as we were.
Being still somewhat in awe of the whole thing, I took another test with no result (i.e. a negative result). I was crushed. Did I get a false positive? That would be devastating. So I ran to the store and grabbed the expensive pregnancy tests, the clearblue digital ones. I took one before bed, but it came up with an error reading. Apparently, I don't know how to take them very well. Then I woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning and took the second test in the box and the words came up PREGNANT. It was official!
I first took a cheapo pregnancy test and saw the faintest line. I had always thought with this pregnancy I would think of some cutesy elaborate way to tell Jeremy, but I was so shocked by this faint line I had to show him to see if he saw it too. He said he did, so I called my mom. She had known about our struggles and was just as happy as we were.
Being still somewhat in awe of the whole thing, I took another test with no result (i.e. a negative result). I was crushed. Did I get a false positive? That would be devastating. So I ran to the store and grabbed the expensive pregnancy tests, the clearblue digital ones. I took one before bed, but it came up with an error reading. Apparently, I don't know how to take them very well. Then I woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning and took the second test in the box and the words came up PREGNANT. It was official!
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