Hello Again!

I know I haven't been on here much at all in the past month or so... sorry!!

Well, we're doing good. The baby is doing great. I'm 17 weeks along, and our kiddo is pretty active! I have been feeling kicking everyday since I began the seventeenth week :) It's been cool. It's pretty much what I would expect it to be. Very little body inside me that wants to move around:) It is very small kicks right now, and it's funny to think that tiny baby could reach my ribs someday. Right now it's so small! Actually, right now our baby is only about 5, 5 and a half inches. I have a membership on Baby Center, and they say the little guy (or girl) weighs as much as a turnip! That's a pretty good amount!

We find out what we're having on March 5th. I've had a hard time deciding if I want to know or not, but Hubby kinda tips the scales for us. He kinda really would like to know, and since I was half and half, it puts us mostly on the side of wanting to know. I think it'll be cool now. I've gotten use to the idea of finding out.. now I'm just worried we'll go in there and they won't know for sure, or they'll think they know, but be wrong on the big day.. oh well.. plenty of people find out, and it's generally correct..

So, also.. I can't have a waterbirth at the hospital.. they won't allow it. I guess it's too new of a method for the doctors to approve as an okay method... my midwife would love to help me in one, but the hospital won't let her. Oh well. They DO have a hot tub, though. I am allowed to hang out in there as long as I'd like beforehand, and then once it's time to push, I have to get out.. it's okay though. I've gotten over not being able to do a waterbirth. I guess there are lots of ways to deliver a baby, and some people end up doing other methods they didn't expect to find helpful until they were there in labor. I guess I just plan on being very informed on alot. We are also starting to look into birthing classes. :)

Okay, well, I feel like I have spilled enough in this blog for today. I will try to write more often.. well, I suppose I will be writing soon when we find out what we're having. VERY excited!!! :)

Alllllmost 13 weeks along!

I will be 13 weeks tomorrow! I am sooo excited to be getting into larger numbers! I'm starting to show show... at least some people can tell, others can't really still, but oh well.. I am wearing my biggest and most stretchy clothes now.. I need to get myself some new clothes pretttty soon. Anywho, here's a shot of my sister and I. I am 12 weeks, 5 days in it, and my sister is just about 26 weeks in it. Oh yeah, she's also pregnant with twins!

Catching up

I know many people have already seen the ultrasound pictures, but I'll still post them on this site to keep things current on here, too. Don't you love the little foot?? :)

So it's definitely been a while since I've written on here, but my days have been very regimented lately. Plus, I'm not really one to blog.

So I guess I should tell you about the ultrasound. It was a very cool experience. It probably took all of 10 minutes, and I had met my baby and got pictures. It happened so fast, I don't think I had time to really let emotions get the best of me. Tim and I were just pretty shocked at how clear the ultrasound was and how clearly we were looking at our baby. Our baby would kick and pump it's little arms every time pressure was applied with the ultrasound equiptment. We certainly weren't expecting that! It was definitely cool watching our baby. Got to hear the heartbeat, too. The doctor measured the little guy, and apparently, I was only about 10 weeks along compared to the original guesstimated 13 weeks the hospital was going by. I kinda thought I was a bit further behind anyway. It makes alot more sense that I'd only be that far along, seeing how I threw up just a few days before the ultrasound.. I had been pretty bummed thinking I was out of my first trimester, but know I know I wasn't.

So, life since then... Well, I'm now 11 weeks along. I've been feeling pretty good. Hoping I'm coming out of the woods with all the sluggishness. I still get pretty tired easily... I find that taking a good long nap in the middle of the day works out really well. If not, I tend to be pretty pooped by like 7:30/8 ish..

I've gone back to swallowing vitamins (I told you before I was taking flinstones chewables, right?) .. well, I got tired of the chalky, grainyness of them.. I was taking them so I wouldn't gag trying to swallow the vitamins, but I think I'd rather go back to that for a while.

Well, I guess this is a pretty good amount of new information. I go to see my midwife again on Tuesday. Maybe I'll write after that. I'll be talking with her about things I'm concerned about.. hopefully. I want to make sure she knows where I'm coming from and what I am expecting, as far as being informed on things, and letting her know what method of birthing I am deciding on going through. ..things like that. So far, I've been kind of dissappointed with how little information they've been giving me.. oh, I could write another blog concerning that.. but I won't. Anyway, I just want to talk to her about why I chose a midwife, and some of my expectations.

Talk to you later...

Update..

Just wanted to write another post. I know it's been a little while, and I want to write on this blog fairly often, as I've found pregnancy is always changing for me.

Not that I want to set myself up to get sick by saying anything, but I've actually been feeling pretty good lately. I haven't had the late night sickness in a week or so... I'm still very tired, but I can deal with that. My appetite has been better lately.. I still have to eat smaller, more frequent meals, but that's fine too. I'm pretty adjusted to living like that now, anyway.

I'm starting to really show. It's getting to the point where other people can tell. For the longest time, I felt like I was just making more out of it than it was.. "showing" and all... but now, I'm seriously considering getting some maternity clothes soon because I really hate jeans! I live in PJs at home (and my brother, Matt got me a super cute PJ set for Christmas! Woohoo! ).

We went to meet my midwife on December 16th, by the way. That went well. It was very nice to have Tim come because it was a great time for the two of us to meet who was going to deliver our baby. We thought she was pretty cool. Has a British accent.. good sense of humor. Over all, we think we like her. Since I went to see her, I've been taking two Flinstones complete vitamins daily, instead of my horse pill prenatal vitamins. She said it gives me what I need, without the dread of getting nauseous. I like that. They're a bit grainy, but hey.. I'll do it for the baby..

By the way, side note: If you can, avoid hitting that wonderful first trimester sickness part around Christmas AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I was blessed with not getting terribly sick, but it still threw me off alot this year with getting things done in time for Christmas. I felt sick the worst right between Thanksgiving and Christmas... ha, and I thought it'd be cute to be announcing pregnancy right around there...didn't account for that...

I'll be posting up a new picture soon. I feel like this little guy/girl is growing everyday! Actually, you'd be surprised at just how much growing they do actually grow week to week. It's alot.

Also, we will be going to our first ultrasound on New Years Eve *insert awww* ...hopefully we'll have all kinds of good news to tell you guys about that experience.

I guess this is all I'll write for now. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

8 weeks shot

I don't have much time to talk, but here's a snapshot of what I look like now..

First trimester weirdness

So I just want to let you know, pregnancy is tiring! I feel like I could sleep allll day.. and I would, if I didn't still have a job. That's a good thing, though. Keeps me up, gives me exercise, AND gives me more experience with babies ( it's a day care).
But yeah, all I want to do is sleep. Sleep, and occasionally eat. It's so strange. I feel like I have this HUGE gaping hole in my stomach, yet NOTHING looks/smells appetizing. I usually end up suffering through something that I don't feel like eating until I feel like I'm gonna throw up (which takes usually just a few bites), and then hope that suffices. I have to eat. If I don't eat, I really think I would throw up. My stomach pretty much hates me. It's so exciting though when I will know what I want to eat, because then I can usually stomach a good amount of that food. Today, it was a ginormous veggie italian. mm. That was gooood.
Anyway, I think I'm going to go lay down...

First photos

..here's my first "baby belly" shots... although right now it doesn't look like much... good for keeping track, though. Anyway, this is me at approximately 6 weeks.