19 Weeks

Good Morning. I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was uneventful, however the baby was pretty active this weekend. The feeling makes me laugh and wonder what's going on in there. Somersaults? Cartwheels? I wish Jason could feel it, but you can't from the surface yet. I told him, maybe in a month or so. He's such the proud papa! We went over to Babies R Us on Saturday and did some looking around. We needed a color scheme for the babies room and maybe a theme. Jason's not into the jungle theme at all, but maybe a cowboy or farm theme. And I think were gonna go with the chocolate/mocoa color scheme. Then we looked around at the whole store. Holy cow, there is a lot in there! So much to look at and it's very overwhelming. Then we went to one of my favorite areas... Clothes for the baby. Jason and I had to buy our son his first outfit. It's so cute and was a joint effort by both of us. Jason picked out these adorable overalls and I picked out a shirt to go with it. We make such a great team. :)

This week is pretty quiet for appointments except on Thursday, I'll have a check up with my OB. I'll let you know if there is any news from that, but it's gonna be pretty routine.

Love to all!

IT'S GONNA BE A BOY!

We just found out on Wednesday that our little one is going to be a baby BOY! Oh my gosh I can't believe it! We are SO happy and overjoyed!!! My amnio went okay and I'm feeling better then I was on Wednesday night. Jason was there with me and held my hand during the ultrasound before the amnio. Just hearing the words, "It's a boy" made me cry with joy! We finally know and are just so excited. I can't tell you with words how we feel. Now we can get started on the baby's room right after Christmas. He'll be here before we know it. Next on our appointment list is my regular appt with my OB on Thursday Dec 18th. Just a check up. About the results for the amnio, we will get those back on Christmas Eve. Anyways, we had to share the great news with everyone and put it in writing too with pictures.

Have a great weekend! Love to all!

18 Weeks 1 Day

Hi Y'all! I had my ultrasound test today where I had to drink 32oz of fluid and hold it for a really long time while the tech did the ultrasound and pressed against my bladder. Not a good thing to do when you have to go really really bad! But other then that information, everything looked great! The baby was moving around soooo much, the tech had a hard time measuring things. I have a very active baby, that's for sure! You could see the baby open it's mouth and suck it's thumb and kick and punch. I'm so in aww of the whole thing! Unfortunately Jason was not allowed in the room with me and we couldn't take any video of the event. I felt very bad for Jason sitting in the waiting room wondering whats going on and why can't I be in there with her. The tech took over 90 pictures and measurements. It was just so wonderful the see the little one moving around so much. At this point I'm feeling some little movements now and then. When I tell Jason about it, he gets this HUGE grin on his face. He's so excited. We had the tech look at the baby's parts and see if we could see if it was a girl or boy, but we really couldn't get a good picture and with all the movements couldn't really tell. Oh well. We'll have to wait 2 more weeks. I have my amnio appointment tomorrow and then we wait 2 weeks for the results including the sex. So I'm hoping by Christmas Eve we'll find out. That would be the best Christmas present! Until then, I've included some pictures from today's ultrasound. The first one is the baby actually looking at you and has it's mouth open, the second is the baby's profile. Such a cutie! Enjoy!

Love to all!

17 Weeks 3 Days

Greetings - I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday! Ours was okay. We had dinner at Wendy's (Jason's moms) house on Thursday night and visited. Then my mom cooked her dinner on Friday night, so we had tons of leftovers. I'm over turkey now! Now is the time that Christmas is here in a flash and we find ourselves scrambling to finish shopping and wrapping. It's always that way around here.

Anyways, I'm doing just okay this week. I'm feeling somewhat tired and kind of not right either. I can't quite explain it. I don't know if I'm fighting off some aliment that everyone at work is carry around with them or something the baby is making me feel. But I'm coming home and being a big blob in my room or on the couch. Nothing my mom is making for dinner smells all that great either. Most strong food smells are gagging me now! I still don't have morning sickness or night sickness. I just can't handle strong food smells.

Jason and I had our Amnio Class yesterday morning and I have scheduled my Amnio for next Wednesday Dec 10th at 1:30p. Kind of nervous about it now. That makes two appointments next week. Remember I have an ultrasound after I have to drink 32 oz of water scheduled for Tuesday too. So I'm really hoping to find out the sex sometime next week! I can't wait!!

That's about it for this week. Kind of mellow and uneventful. I will have news for you on Tuesday next week after my appointment and let you know how that went.

Love to all!