13 weeks

Wow, in my 13th weeks already. Time seemed to pass fairly slow, but now it's moving along. Julie recommended that I sign up for www.whattoexpect.com once I got pregnant, so I did. It's an amazing site that sends you little tidbits of info everyday and also posts a picture that shows roughly the stage you are in pregnancy. It also sends a note once a week for all the dads out there! I'll post the pic below here for my 13 weeks. It's neat to see the baby grow! As well, they have mesage boards. So depending when your due, you can join a board as I did (March 2008) and you can post comments and red comments about other people going through the same things as you roughly the same time. It's really awesome!

Anyway, that's my note for now. Have a wonderful long weekend!

PS - Oh yeah, I caved and got a prescription for Diclectin. This past week has been the worst yet, sick almost all day!

2nd prenatal appointment

So I went for my second prenatal appointment this morning. We were hoping we'd be able to hear our little peanuts heartbeat, but the doctor insisted that we wait for 2 more weeks to be sure. She said she would rather wait so that we could definately hear it, rather than make us worry if we couldn't hear it today. So we wait until September 11th now. My blood pressure was great, and I lost 4lbs. She also said that if my sickness continued for another week to let her know and she would prescribe me some diclectin. I'm hoping it ends on it's own, soon! She is also scheduling my maternal serum testing that we opted to take. It's blood tests that will tell us if there is anything wrong with the baby (cereberal palsy, down syndrome, etc.). It's a weird sort of test, because it doesn't tell you what they have, but that they it has a 5% chance of having something. So if your in the 5% then you do further testing. The doc calls us 7-10 days later with results. That test should be the week after we hear the heartbeat. Then Oct 11 is the ultrasound!

That's my story for now!

Talk again soon!

First Post

Welcome to our new blog. Here is where we will highlight and lowlight the joys of pregnancy and bringing this new little one into the world. As of today I am in my 13th week and things are going fairly good. Lots of sickness (no puking though, except for once). Hopefully it will end soon, although I'm sure later on I will say it's all worth it.

Pregnancy is a weird and wonderful thing. It's definately taken a toll on my body. Actually it doesn't even feel like my body anymore. From not eating what I used to eat, to hardly eating at all. Not being able to eat things I LOVE! Constipation, weird muscle twitches, tiredness!! Oh and the emotions!! God bless those lovely emotions! I can't say there hasn't been an episode of Big Brother where if Danielle or Dick cry, I cry too! Wowsers!!! They say second semester gets better, hopefully somewhere after this weekend things will get better!

Our estimated due date is March 10 and we are sooo looking forward to it! I wonder, could I have an extra special birthday gift this year considering my birthday is on the 15th?

That's my update for now. I know it may sound like I'm hating it now, I'm really not. I just want to be able to have more good days!! ;o)

Cherio!!!! Hopefully I'll post some pics soon!