New Pic!

Here is a new pic taken early this morning! For some reason it's a bit blurry. Exactly 25 weeks 5 days along. It's grown since last pic that's for sure!! Still only 7lbs gained so far!

26 weeks!

Holy Cow, in my 26th week already. Time is flying by. After next week I'll be in my 3rd trimester! Shiat!!

Some aches are pains are setting in already. It's all a part of it though. I'm anxious to be done work.

Low iron?

So my I went for my glucose testing last week and I think they took another vial or two of blood for other tests. Turns out my iron is somewhat low. Doc's office calls this afternoon and says I should get some Iron Supplements -Slow FE and take 1 daily along with my prenatal vitamin. Has anyone else had this? I know my sister had low Iron Levels but I think it was later in pregnancy. Anyway, just wanted to konw if this effected anyone else out there!

Thanks all!

25 weeks!

Can you believe, in my 25th week already. Time is flying, that means 15 weeks left!

Doc appointment

Went to the doc's yesterday for another check up! All went well, gained 3lbs, so I'm up to 7lbs total so far. Not too shabby! She's only recommending I gain 20-22 so I'm doing well so far. Althought I know it'll all start piling on soon! Avah's heartbeat was 132bpm, my blood pressure was good at 136/76. I told her about my aching bum and she suggested I get one of those pillows with the whole in it or something. So we'll see. My next appointment is December 17th, then I go every 2 weeks after that for a while! It's getting there!!

Today is my sugar test. My appointment is for 11:45, kind of a bad time. They tell you not to eat any sugar beforehand. So I hate toast with peanut butter (which I'm sure has some sugar, but what else am I to have on it). With the test being at 11:45 I made a quick stir fry last night to eat around 11 because I won't be able to eat for about 1 hour to 2 hours once the test starts. Hopefully all the test turns out ok. I brought my MP3 player to listen to music while sitting in the waiting room. Gosh darn I hate waiting around in those rooms. Everyone caughing, snottin, fartin, chewin', etc...Drive somebody nuts, especially me who has a hard time with noises like that. Hopefully my MP3 player will drown some of it out!

That's it for now. Will update again shortly!

On the hunt...

We're on the hunt for the old Wooden ABC Blocks. I found some in the Sears Catalogue and may resort to ordering them if we can't find them anywhere else. In the catalogue they are $7.99 a pack. We're looking for 3 packs. Anyway, if anyone finds any out there, please let us know where!!! I wanna get a little "Martha Stewarty" with the nursery!

BIG THANK YOU!!

A big thank you to everyone who came to our baby shower!! We definately got spoiled! Big thank you to TANYA for getting it all organized and making the big trip home - to Mom, Wendy, Staci, Pam and Tanya and Marty for bringing some great eats! Thanks for the great gifts - Avah's going to be stylin' once she arrives!! We can't wait!! We can't THANK YOU all enough for the great gifts! (Jen, Patsy, Mom, Wendy, Staci, Jessie, Amy, Tanya, Jillian, Myrna, Natalie, Carrie, Shirley, Pam, Jenni, Katrina, Shelley, Myah, Joy, Sarah, Gisele, Sam- I hope I got everyone, it's still a bit early in the morn!!)

The diaper game was a hit! That was hilarious! Great choice Tanya. For those who haven't heard of it, you take 5 clean diapers, put a chocolate bar in each (unwrapped). Melt it in the microwave for a minute or two and smoooch them. Then pass them around and get everyone to snif, lick, whatever to figure out which type of bar it is. It was hilarious watching people guess them!

I didn't get many good pics, so I'm hoping those that were there can send some my way! Here are a few that either I took or Mom or Wendy took.

Picture!!

This pic was taken on Friday, November 16th. I am exactly 23 weeks 5 days in this pic. Belly is growing!!!

Week 24

Wow, week 24 is almost over already! Sunday will start Week 25! so 6 months down!!

End of work....

So my term with NBCC is ending December 21st, that means I'll be all done work then! It's nice in a way because I'll be done work for Christmas holidays - that means 2 weeks with my hubby because he's off from school for 2 weeks. Not sure what I'll do to occupy my time after that, but I do have a few little projects that I'm saving for then. We've made a plan for when next year at that time comes around so we should be ok. I must admit, that this is the first time I will be on unemployment and out of work! I've always either been in school or in a job or both, quite lucky honestly. So it might be a little nice to sit back and relax a while. They say you get tired of it quick, but we'll see. I'm sure I can find something to do!

I know it's still fairly early in the pregnancy, but I'm tired of coming to work! My bum gets so sore each day from sitting on it, I think its my tail bone or something. The only relief I get from it is SAturday afternoons until Monday mornings, the pain is gone then it starts back up again Monday morning at work. It even hurts at night after a long day at work when I sit up straight or sit in the car. Am I too whiny?!? I was never one to complain or have much pain - my tolerance is pretty high. But as of late, wow!! not just pain but discomfort! Oh well, all a part of it, and from what I hear it doesn't get better until baby gets here! So in a way, I can't wait until December 21st!

23 Weeks

A few days late, but here's the 23rd week pic!!! I'm currently 23 weeks 3 days so far!! Time is flying!!

All is well on our end! Avah is kicking lots and lots and Daddy's been able to feel it! So did Auntie Brenda on Monday! It's soo amazing!

Registry

Registry should be back up and running at Walmart.

Here she is!

That's right, baby's a SHE!!! The sonographer was great this morning! Took lots of time to explain everything to us! At first she thought she seen a little birdy, but turns out it was the cord. So kept going back to try to get some good looks and determined it's a GIRL!! So we're extremely excited! Baby was moving lots so it was hard to get some good pics! She did print like 10 for us, in which I scanned 3. Some shots were roughly the same. We didn't get any real good side profiles cause she didn't want to turn that way! Her hands were always in her face too!

Anyway, here they are!

Here is the side profile. you can see her head and nose and her chest!

This is how most of our pics are, face on! If you tilt your head to the left, you can see her two eyes, nose and her open mouth! She was yawning! Her arm is by the side of her face.

Here she is waving to Mommy and Daddy! You can clearly see her little hand - 4 fingers and 1 thumb!! Too precious I tell you!!

Wes and i haven't had much time to talk about the names since this morning as I'm back at work and he's at school, but I believe her name will probably be Avah Katherine. I'll keep you posted on that!

The good and the bad.....

Let's start with the bad - My aunt called and said she tried to get on our registry at Walmart last week and couldn't. So I went to Walmart Saturday and last night and both times the machien wasn't working. We tried talking to Customer Service but they were just rude so we looked for the Assistant Manager. Found him and he called another place to see if he could serach it and he couldn't, it's not found. So we no longer have a registry. The registry at the Walmart here will only be fixed in the next few days. They are suppose to call us when it'sf ixed and we'll try again! Not the best timing, considering the shower up home is on the 18th, which is less than 2 weeks away. Oh well, what can you do!

The good news! Long and short of it, we're going to the hospital tomorrow to meet with the infamous COLLEEN! Yup, that's right, tomorrow! She will do some pre-admitting questions she said, then talk about prenatal and do an ultrasound with pics. I asked about the sex and she said that she would try but won't say anything unless she is 100%! She said it could be a little early for her to find it and be certain but she would try! So turns out we may find out the sex of this little one a lot sooner than we thought! She said if she couldn't find it then when I go for my sugar tests on the 21st, she would try again! So once I get back to work tomorrow, I'm hoping to scan the pics and post them!!

WE'RE SOOO EXCITED! WE'LL NEVER SLEEP TONIGHT!

Pics

Here is a 22 week 1 day pic taken this morning. As you will be able to tell by my face!!! Belly is growing lots! The 2nd pic is taken from me looking from my boobs down! Being bigger you can't always see the full effect of the tummy like I can! The little bump is not my belly button but the seam on my pants!

Here are some pics that I took of the nursery yesterday. There is still tons to do, but the furniture is in it's proper place, as of now! Dont' mind the stuff piled on the dresser or on the side table.

The dresser will have the change table on top of it. The shelf next to it is to hold the diapers, wipes, cream, etc...

My chest is under there, I may empty and use it as a toy box for the little one!
I will make a cushion for the rocking chair and curtain to match once we know if the baby is a HE or a SHE!
Might give you an idea of hte paint color. It matches the bear on the set we want, which I will post below.

Pretty sure My mommy got this for us for our shower!!

22 weeks

Here is the 22 weeks pic! Week 23 starts Sunday!!

Better now...

Well wasn't feeling so well Monday night. Went for our usuall stroll and took some real heavy pressure in myh pelvic area. Went to the hospital and they sent me right up to OBS. They hooked me up to monitors to check everything out and me and baby are fine. They called Dr. Keating and she told them for me to come to her office in the morning. They told me that if I felt more comfortable spending the night, I could, but I came home. Went to see Dr. Keating Tuesday morning and she believes it's my pelvis seperating. My urine showed a bit of blood, nothing major, and I had no infection. She told me to rest a bit so I stayed home yesterday too. Kind of a shitty time for things to happen because Wendy and the baby came down Tuesday morning until last night. We didn't get to do what we had planned, maybe next time.

Oh yeah, so while at the hospital, the staff were amazing! OBS I mean. They were great! They printed out my ultrasound to see how things were there. The date the ultrasound has for a due date is March 4th!! I mentioned this to Doc Keating but because I know the exact date of my last period and it's under 10 days difference, they are still using March 9th as a due date. I just don't awnt this little one to be born on February 29th!!!

That's my news for now. All is well and I can feel little baby boo move lots lately! It's amazing!

Talk soon!
xoxxo