Week 14: Lemon
Baby is the size of a lemon! Your adorable little fetus is busy with thumb sucking, toe wiggling, and (not so cute but equally amazing) making urine and breathing amniotic fluid as the liver, kidneys and spleen continue to develop. Lanugo (thin, downy hair) is growing all over the body for warmth.
Total weight gain/loss: Monday's appt was +7lbs from the start, so 1lb from last appt, I suppose I can handle that, as long as it doesn't go crazy with Thanksgiving and Christmas
Maternity clothes? Still loving the maternity pants, but definitely need to go shopping for mre!
Stretch Marks? None new that I have noticed.
Sleep: Definitely not getting enough! Pretty much tired all the time and going to bed earlier and earlier each night. Same...the dr. said it should get better by 16 weeks, so here's hoping!
Best moment this week: We went public on facebook this week, so the world now knows!
Movement: Still waiting
Food Cravings/Aversions: This seems to be getting better, which will not help in the weight gain department.
Gender: I don't have a clue.
Belly Button in or out? In.
What I miss: Nothing really has hit me this week that I want that I can't have
What I'm looking forward to: The pumpkin pie that is cooking in my oven
Weekly Wisdom: It will not be the end of the world if my house isn't clean.
Milestones: Another drs. appt down
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
dr. appt update
I had a drs. appt today. Overall it was pretty boring, which is a good thing at this point. Baby's h/b was in the 160s, my b/p looked good, weight gain was so-so, dr. was ok with it, but I wasn't. We go back in 4 weeks for our next check. Quick and boring!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
13 weeks..
At the urging of a good friend...who says I'm slacking in my blogging, but offered a great solution to the problem....I have a new goal! I am going to blog weekly...and she shared a blog that used this to help me along. So hopefully there will be more action in the coming weeks! Thursday is actually the start of my new week..so look for the updates Weds. night (cause I have class Thursday and am usually exhausted when I get home!)
Week 13: Peach
Baby is now the size of a peach! Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)
How far along? 13 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: at my last appt I was up 6 lbs. hopefully it is not more than that, we will find out Monday at my next appt.
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants pretty much all the time (other than sweats). I have yet to enjoy a day in the bellaband so I figured I might as well just go all out and pull out the maternity pants.Tops are still good and should be for a while.
Stretch Marks? None new that I have noticed.
Sleep: Definitely not getting enough! Pretty much tired all the time and going to bed earlier and earlier each night.
Best moment this week: I went public at work last Weds. Several people had been wondering so I suppose it was good to get it out there. Definitely enjoying not having to hide it anymore. I also had one of my students say today...Mrs. Hilman, I think you are looking a little pregnant. This is the same student that accused me of being pregnant like a month ago. Clearly he is too observant!
Movement: Waiting very impatiently.
Food Cravings/Aversions: Dinner....from about 3 o'clock till bedtime, food doesn't sound exciting at all and I have to force myself to eat something or else I wake up in the middle of the night feeling very ooky.
Gender: I don't have a clue.
Belly Button in or out? In.
What I miss: Subway has sounded amazing lately, but I'm avoiding lunch meat to avoid lysteria.
What I'm looking forward to: Thanksgiving :)
Weekly Wisdom: Going to bed at 8 o'clock is not a bad thing.
Milestones: 2nd trimester!
Week 13: Peach
Baby is now the size of a peach! Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)
How far along? 13 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: at my last appt I was up 6 lbs. hopefully it is not more than that, we will find out Monday at my next appt.
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants pretty much all the time (other than sweats). I have yet to enjoy a day in the bellaband so I figured I might as well just go all out and pull out the maternity pants.Tops are still good and should be for a while.
Stretch Marks? None new that I have noticed.
Sleep: Definitely not getting enough! Pretty much tired all the time and going to bed earlier and earlier each night.
Best moment this week: I went public at work last Weds. Several people had been wondering so I suppose it was good to get it out there. Definitely enjoying not having to hide it anymore. I also had one of my students say today...Mrs. Hilman, I think you are looking a little pregnant. This is the same student that accused me of being pregnant like a month ago. Clearly he is too observant!
Movement: Waiting very impatiently.
Food Cravings/Aversions: Dinner....from about 3 o'clock till bedtime, food doesn't sound exciting at all and I have to force myself to eat something or else I wake up in the middle of the night feeling very ooky.
Gender: I don't have a clue.
Belly Button in or out? In.
What I miss: Subway has sounded amazing lately, but I'm avoiding lunch meat to avoid lysteria.
What I'm looking forward to: Thanksgiving :)
Weekly Wisdom: Going to bed at 8 o'clock is not a bad thing.
Milestones: 2nd trimester!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
9w appt.
We had our 9w appt with the midwife yesterday, it was our 1st appt with her, so Chuck came with to meet her. It really was a simple, quick appt. Saw the nurse first, did the customary pee in a cup, blood pressure and weight check. The midwife J came in. She is wonderful! I think we are really going to enjoy working with her! She has a daughter just a few weeks older than Em, so we shared some 2 year old stories while getting acquainted. She then went through our medical history, said everything sounded great and then my favorite part.....checking for the heartbeat :) I was worried they wouldn't attempt, since before 10w it can be hit or miss, but she said she always makes the attempt. Lucky for us, we found it very quickly...170s. It sounded great and I'm pretty sure I could have listened to it all day long! Next appt in 4 weeks (Nov. 22nd). Hopefully nothing exciting between now and then!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Grow baby grow!
To start--a picture....this is Ninja Blasty at 7w1d old.
Ninja is the little gray blob in the right hand corner of the big black circle (my uterus). Dana my most fav. u/s tech did our u/s for us and everything looked absolutely perfect. We saw Ninja's heart beat...146bpm....something I could have stared at forever and ever. Ninja measured exactly 7w1d so right on track. After the u/s we met briefly with Nurse Wendy, who said we were good to go, she would send our records on to the ob's office. We were to continue PIO until 8w, but at that point there is no need to check levels or anything, so we were to just stop. This was a little nerve wracking to me, being the control freak that I am, but I did as was told, and so far everything seems fine.
We are now 9w2d and see the midwife on Monday. I am hopeful to hear the h/b or better yet, get an u/s to check on ninja, but being a new office, I'm not sure what to expect. I've been feeling good for the most part. The worst so far is the extreme exhaustion, I am in bed most nights by 9...which is making it difficult to keep up with housework and such, but it is what it is. I also have had lovely "morning" sickness, except in my case it seems to be afternoon-evening sickness. It usually sets in at about 2-3p.m and lasts until I go to bed. So far just feeling icky, which I can deal with. Suppers have kind of been pathetic because of it, but such is life. So that is where we are at...hopefully I can be a better blogger, but I'm kind of thinking lack of blogs, means boring pregnancy, which is a good thing!
Ninja is the little gray blob in the right hand corner of the big black circle (my uterus). Dana my most fav. u/s tech did our u/s for us and everything looked absolutely perfect. We saw Ninja's heart beat...146bpm....something I could have stared at forever and ever. Ninja measured exactly 7w1d so right on track. After the u/s we met briefly with Nurse Wendy, who said we were good to go, she would send our records on to the ob's office. We were to continue PIO until 8w, but at that point there is no need to check levels or anything, so we were to just stop. This was a little nerve wracking to me, being the control freak that I am, but I did as was told, and so far everything seems fine.
We are now 9w2d and see the midwife on Monday. I am hopeful to hear the h/b or better yet, get an u/s to check on ninja, but being a new office, I'm not sure what to expect. I've been feeling good for the most part. The worst so far is the extreme exhaustion, I am in bed most nights by 9...which is making it difficult to keep up with housework and such, but it is what it is. I also have had lovely "morning" sickness, except in my case it seems to be afternoon-evening sickness. It usually sets in at about 2-3p.m and lasts until I go to bed. So far just feeling icky, which I can deal with. Suppers have kind of been pathetic because of it, but such is life. So that is where we are at...hopefully I can be a better blogger, but I'm kind of thinking lack of blogs, means boring pregnancy, which is a good thing!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Best laid plans....
This week is the week of appts. and I thought I had it all figured out. Boy was I wrong!
I had my family dr. yearly appt yesterday--where I was planning on getting a pap and not a flu shot. I ended up with no pap and a flu shot!
She said she wanted to leave the pap for the ob because she wasn't sure what all they cultured for now, and didn't want me to have to have 2, which I much appreciated! I told her I was leaning towards waiting till 2nd tri for the flu shot, and she said it was perfectly safe to get it now, and that the protection in this flu shot is supposed to last a full year and not just 6 months, so the sooner I got it the better. When it came down to it, she said if it were her she would get it now, which convinced me to go ahead with it.
Today was my nurse visit at my ob--and I am super duper excited about how that worked out! I decided to switch ob's because I didn't love the majority of the nursing staff there. There was 1 nurse I loved (we actually went to h.s together) but she had gone on maternity leave a few months before Em was born and I didn't think she had come back. So I switched to a very highly recommended ob elsewhere. While he is very highly recommended I was still nervous that he wouldn't "work" for me, or that the nurses would be worse than office 1. Imagine my surprise when I walk in and the nurse I loved from my last practice is there!! We had a nice chat about why I switched ob's and why she left the other office...it sounded like it was very similar reasons, which made me feel really good about my decision! There is both an ob and a midwife there--we will see the midwife for the majority of our 1st and 2nd tri visits and then will alternate between the 2 so we are comfortable with both for delivery. Oh and she said I don't even have to get a pap because I have had more than 3 without any problems, so I can wait 2 more years before getting one! Glad I waited on that one!
Now we just have to get through the u/s at the RE on Friday and officially graduate!
I had my family dr. yearly appt yesterday--where I was planning on getting a pap and not a flu shot. I ended up with no pap and a flu shot!
She said she wanted to leave the pap for the ob because she wasn't sure what all they cultured for now, and didn't want me to have to have 2, which I much appreciated! I told her I was leaning towards waiting till 2nd tri for the flu shot, and she said it was perfectly safe to get it now, and that the protection in this flu shot is supposed to last a full year and not just 6 months, so the sooner I got it the better. When it came down to it, she said if it were her she would get it now, which convinced me to go ahead with it.
Today was my nurse visit at my ob--and I am super duper excited about how that worked out! I decided to switch ob's because I didn't love the majority of the nursing staff there. There was 1 nurse I loved (we actually went to h.s together) but she had gone on maternity leave a few months before Em was born and I didn't think she had come back. So I switched to a very highly recommended ob elsewhere. While he is very highly recommended I was still nervous that he wouldn't "work" for me, or that the nurses would be worse than office 1. Imagine my surprise when I walk in and the nurse I loved from my last practice is there!! We had a nice chat about why I switched ob's and why she left the other office...it sounded like it was very similar reasons, which made me feel really good about my decision! There is both an ob and a midwife there--we will see the midwife for the majority of our 1st and 2nd tri visits and then will alternate between the 2 so we are comfortable with both for delivery. Oh and she said I don't even have to get a pap because I have had more than 3 without any problems, so I can wait 2 more years before getting one! Glad I waited on that one!
Now we just have to get through the u/s at the RE on Friday and officially graduate!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Update..
Apparently I've turned into a bad blogger (even worse than I used to be!). Here's a quick update on Ninja...our 2nd beta was drawn Monday the 20th and came back 976, which is more than doubled so we were done with blood draws :) Our next date to look forward to is Oct. 8th, which still seems like forever away, for our ultrasound! At that point we should see little Ninja's heartbeat and most likely be released from the RE.
As far as being released from the RE, that means I need an ob to go to. I think I have decided to switch ob's. I really liked the ob that I went to with Emily, but her nurses kind of rubbed me the wrong way sometimes, and since that is who mainly is taking care of you, that is an important relationship. I called my primary dr. to see who they would recommend and the girl that answered the phone very whole-heartedly recommended another ob who practices in the same building as my previous ob. She said many of the girls there have gone with him, and I know several other people who have used him and really like him. So I went ahead and put a call into his office. Of course they don't really know what to do with me, since I am under the care of an RE currently, I'm not a "normal" patient yet. We finally decided to go ahead and schedule my nurse intake visit for next week (the 5th) and from there we will schedule my next appt. probably a couple weeks after I am released from the RE. Hopefully I will enjoy this dr. and staff as much as others have!
In Ninja news--he/she is the size of an apple seed this week, which is ironic because we are studying apples at school :) So far I'm vacillating between symptoms and no symptoms depending on the moment. It's hard because a lot of the symptoms can also be blamed on the pio, so I don't know what to blame them on. My symptoms seem to be worse later in the day and before bed. I usually feel pretty good in the mornings. They are definitely much more intense at this point than I remember them being with Emily...hopefully that's not a sign of things to come!
As far as being released from the RE, that means I need an ob to go to. I think I have decided to switch ob's. I really liked the ob that I went to with Emily, but her nurses kind of rubbed me the wrong way sometimes, and since that is who mainly is taking care of you, that is an important relationship. I called my primary dr. to see who they would recommend and the girl that answered the phone very whole-heartedly recommended another ob who practices in the same building as my previous ob. She said many of the girls there have gone with him, and I know several other people who have used him and really like him. So I went ahead and put a call into his office. Of course they don't really know what to do with me, since I am under the care of an RE currently, I'm not a "normal" patient yet. We finally decided to go ahead and schedule my nurse intake visit for next week (the 5th) and from there we will schedule my next appt. probably a couple weeks after I am released from the RE. Hopefully I will enjoy this dr. and staff as much as others have!
In Ninja news--he/she is the size of an apple seed this week, which is ironic because we are studying apples at school :) So far I'm vacillating between symptoms and no symptoms depending on the moment. It's hard because a lot of the symptoms can also be blamed on the pio, so I don't know what to blame them on. My symptoms seem to be worse later in the day and before bed. I usually feel pretty good in the mornings. They are definitely much more intense at this point than I remember them being with Emily...hopefully that's not a sign of things to come!
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