Week 16

So this is a couple days earlier then they have been. Things are finally starting to pick up at work, and I love my new position and new boss. I got really lucky on this one. As most of you know I find out whether I am having a boy or a girl this coming Monday. Husband is getting excited about this. I asked him last night if the thought it was a boy and he let it slip he is hoping its a girl. I can't lie I kind of am too.

But I do have my doubts if I really want a girl. While girl babies are fun and adorable and cute, they do grow up into girls, and well as we girls know girls can be rough. They are emotional and hormonal and sometimes down right Bitchy. I had mentioned to a friend that there is a reason that a lot of women don't have a lot of women friends, and I thought about all my really good female friends, and except for a small select group, (you women know who you are, and are a rare bunch of just genuinely nice women who must be going extinct) most of my female friends have mostly male friends.

It was with this realization I came up with a brilliant analogy for boys and girls, They are like cats and dogs. Little girls are like dogs, needy and emotional from the start. It takes a lot of work and care to have dogs, as it does to raise a girl. Boys are more like cats, when they are little they like to be played with and loved, but when they get older they just want to be left alone, and they just care that you make sure you feed them, but they pretty much take care of themselves.

If you want to be on the text list to find out what we are having on Monday, please make sure I have your number.

Week 15

So when does it all sink in? As you can see from the weekly pictures I am not showing at all. So it makes it really hard for me to feel like its all real. I haven't felt the baby kick, so I don't have that to make it real. I have heard some women say they finally had it sink in when they first heard the heart beat. Others say that it was when they saw the baby on the sonogram. I have had both of those things but yet every day I feel like I could wake up from this and it never really happened.

When I first heard the heart beat it was the most amazing sound I ever heard. I really did think I could cry and I wanted to hear it forever. My mom got me the home Doppler thing so I can hear it whenever I want, and there are nights I fall asleep listening to the heartbeat. But after the heart beat is gone, its like it never happened. Like I woke up from that dream. 

I have seen two sonograms and both times I got to see my baby move around. It was pure joy. Especially when I can actually see what the baby looked like. I think that half hour in the sonogram room was the best half hour of my life so far. I keep looking at the print outs they gave me so I know it really happened, but again it still doesn't seem real to me.

When does it really sink in? When do I get to show? Maybe when I find out the gender  in a week from tomorrow it will sink in. 

Week 14

I totally planned to do this entry so much earlier, but I got sick this week. I went home miserable from work on Monday, couldn't make it to work on Tuesday and then was sent home at noon on Wednesday. By that time the week just started to slip away from me and the next thing I knew it was Sunday.  So here I am I have the picture taken for week 15 and realized I needed to blog for week 14. 

I can start to feel the changes. I looked down in the shower and there was this hard belly that started to appear. I don't know when that happened. Its also getting harder to lay on my stomach. And my dogs. They are so clingy. My male dog that used to have to be across my belly, but now he wont lay anything other than his head on my belly, but he has to lay close to my stomach as possible without being on it. And now the girl dog feels she needs to be on me as well. I have been looking for Halloween costumes and had the dogs on the floor and she just whined and whined, and when I finally put her up she climbed in my lap. When I moved them off to get the laptop to type this, before I can get the laptop up they are on my lap again. Right now as I type they are holding down my legs.

I look forward to next week because I am finally feeling better. I hated the fact that for the first time I had energy I got sick. I did manage to take a 2 hour hike through the local woods by my house. Breathing sucked especially on the uphill climbs, but the dogs loved it, and it was good good for me. 

Well on to my hunt for a Halloween costume for a woman who is pregnant, but doesn't look like she has a pregnant belly yet. Its not as easy as it may seem my friend. If you have any ideas please share!

Week 13 and Sonogram

Week 13 has been a busy one. We have had a lot going on in our lives right now, so I apologize again for it being so long since I have gotten a post out. I had my first trimester screening for genetic abnormalities. I haven't heard anything yet from my doctor so I am taking that as a good thing. 

I got to watch my baby move around, or I should say refuse to move to the proper position for about half an hour. It was amazing, and kind of funny all at the same time.  The baby definitely takes after it's parents. No matter what the tech had me do, cough,  sit up, lay back, lay on my side, lay on my other side, stand up and walk around. What can I say, my baby likes to lay on it's stomach and side, but not on its back. 

We could see the baby's hand move up, the tech said that it was waving at us, trying to be cute. What I think it was doing was trying to hold its position while the tech shook my stomach.  Once the shaking stopped the hand went back to sucking its thumb. I could have stayed there and watched it forever. 

I also got to hear the heart beat for the first time. It was the most amazing sound. I wanted to cry. I now have the heart rate monitor at home thanks to my mom, and can listen to the baby's heart beat any time I want. It is the most relaxing sound to listen to while laying in bed with the lights out. 

Also just about everyone knows now. I have taken on a new nickname among some of our friends of Momma, which I kinda like. Everyone seems pretty excited for us. Oh yeah and I talked the doctor into doing my gender determination sonogram a week early so in about 3 weeks I will know if I am having a little boy or a little girl growing inside me. 

I promise my next post for week 14 will come sooner rather than later. 

Week 12

First I apologize for taking so long to get this one out. This week has been a very bad week for me. Last Saturday I started to get all dizzy and light headed . This lasted until about Tuesday night when I finally broke down and took the inhaler my doctor prescribed. I felt like I was suffocating.  I felt so much better the next day. Turns out that breathing helps. 

I am excited that I am at the end of the first trimester. I am looking forward to the not wanting to sleep all the time. Being able to look at food again without wanting to gag. I want the belly to start looking like a pregnant belly and not a fat out of shape gut. The gut combined with the heavy breathing and the feeling I am going to have a heart attack does not lead people to think oh there is a pregnant woman. It leads then to think how sad that woman is so young yet so out of shape.

Looking back on the first three months of my pregnancy, I can't really complain. It wasn't all that hard. I did not throw up once. I got a lot of sleep, and I was able to keep the emotions pretty much under control. I look forward to this next stage of the pregnancy, and being one step closer to holding my little one in my arms.