Pink Pink

On Monday of this week we had our anatomy ultrasound and found out that we are having a girl. We did a gender reveal party afterward with a cake that was pink and had pink frosting inside. The frosting was bubble gum flavored. After having Davy I have gotten into the habit of always looking for boy things and ignoring the girl stuff. Now I have to look for both. I think it will be fun to have a little girl, but I am guessing that it will be much different than having a little boy. It will be interesting to see how it all goes.

1st Ultrasound

My first ultrasound will be on May 18th, I will be 7 weeks along at that point. Hopefully I will also be able to find out whether I am having twins or not. I am still on the progesterone shots and will probably be on them until I am about 10 weeks along, that is quite a bit of time still. The progesterone is making my backside numb in the areas where I have gotten the shot. The nurse said this is normal. It is a good bit weird but it also tends to work out well because in some areas Kevin doesn't even need to worry about hurting me because I can not feel the needle even go in anymore.

In other news I have been dealing with back pain like crazy, my neck and shoulders are super tense and have been sending jolts of pain down my arms. I have been feeling morning sickness for weeks now but have not yet gotten to the point of throwing up. I am kind of happy for that. It is kind of weird, I have basically told everyone about our pregnancy, except the people at work. I probably will not tell them until I hit the "safe" zone where miscarriage is pretty much not going to happen. And they wont really notice since I don't come in very often.

Tests and more tests

So, last week I got further testing done, and had to finish another 24 hour urine test. The test results came back normal. But I didn't hear my urine test until today. Last Friday the doctor took me off bed rest. I had an ultrasound and another test that monitored the baby's heart beat and monitored whether I had any contractions. The ultrasound was cool, the baby is doing well and looking well, the tech did some 3D shots of the baby, it was very neat to see the baby's face. It looks like he has Kevin's lips, my mom says he looks like Kevin. After the ultrasound they did a test where they strapped two devices to my belly, one tracked the baby's heart beat and the other tracked whether I was having contractions. We listened to the baby's heart beat for 30 minutes. Baby is doing well and I had no contractions. Then we met with the doctor and discussed everything. The baby is growing well, and looks to be doing good, it's heartbeat is perfect, my test results were good, all except for my urine test which is showing more protein than it did in my first test. So back on bed rest again.

Doctor now wants to see me twice a week. She also wants me to have ultrasounds and the Fetal Heart Rate test twice a week as well. She wants me to repeat the blood work tests and the urine test each week as well. Oh joy. This is until my urine tests get better and stay better. Lets hope my protein pee disappears soon. In other news, I am 7 weeks away from my delivery date. On a good note, the baby's room is pretty much ready for him. More updates when I know more.

Surprise!

So the ultrasound was on Friday. It went really well. Our ultrasound tech was a guy, which was interesting because we are used to having women techs. But it went really well. He checked the amount of amniotic fluid in my uterus and then had me empty my bladder, which was a relief! Then he started measuring the baby. Turns out the baby was at 21 weeks and 4 days for size, which was very close to where we were at that point, we were on the last day of my 20th week.

The tech showed us the head and the arms and the legs and we discovered that the baby is now no longer an it but now we know that the baby is a little boy. A very little boy right now, but he will grow. It was a BIG surprise for both Kevin and I because we both thought that the baby was a girl. Having proof in a picture makes it undeniable though. We are planning on naming him David Isaac, but we may change that to Isaac David. We will have to see. What is funny is that while the tech was showing us the gender Kevin goes, "That is David." and the tech says, "You are planning on naming him David?" and Kevin says, "Yep." and the tech says, "That's my name." He had been talking about his son (a 6 month old baby) and told us that his baby's middle name is David. And I said, "Wait, so your baby is Isaac David, and our baby will be David Isaac." It was a pretty neat coincidence.

I am still trying to wrap my brain around it, I have been thinking girl for so long that I now have to do a mental switch to a boy. I think I may talk Kevin into going to stores tomorrow to do baby registries with me, putting a bunch of boy stuff on my registries will help me flip the switch to boy. It is exciting to know more about our baby!

Ultrasound

Today is the day. I can't wait for it, even though I am nervous about it all. Last night Kevin came home at 2:15 am, the dogs heard him and woke me up. We talked a little bit about our plans for today and then we both went back to bed, except I could not seem to get back to sleep myself, I tossed and turned till about 4 am and then finally fell asleep until the alarm woke me at 6 am. During that time though as I lay in bed and tried to sleep, I thought about today, I thought over everything that was going to happen and what I should do. And through it all a thought came to my mind.

Yesterday my senior manager brought in a bunch of Ferrero Roche chocolates for our group to share. My thought was that if there were still some left that I would bundle up three of them to use as a thank you gift for our ultrasound tech. When my doctor talked to us about the ultrasound she made it sound like the ultrasound techs could be a bit tempermental and she joked that we might want to bring cookies or something. Before leaving home I looked around for something to wrap the possible chocolates in, and I found what I needed in the gift from my fertility clinic doctor that I had yet to unwrap. The gift was wrapped in clear celophane with a yellow ribbon. I unwrapped the present and took the wraping to work with me. When I got there I discovered that there were indeed one of each of the three types of chocolate that was in the chocolates box, so I wrapped them up and now have them in my purse. I feel happy knowing that I have something to give as a thank you gift and that hopefully it will help us to get what we want out of the ultrasound. The gender of the baby, and pictures. We shall see how it all goes.

Appointments and heat

My ultrasound is tomorrow, I double checked just in case. Sure enough they have me in the system, thank goodness. I also double checked on my OB appointment for Monday, good thing I did, they had me scheduled with a nurse practitioner, considering that I am looking for an OB out near Rochelle this will probably be my last appointment with my current OB and I would have been super disappointed if I hadn't been able to see her. I had them schedule me for a later appointment that same morning with my OB. So aggravating!

Lately I have been feeling hot, really hot, uncomfortably so. To the point that I usually strip down to my underwear and try not to touch things. Last night I slept with all my blankets kicked off. I woke up freezing but still feeling hot. I even took my temperature the other day because I felt like I had a fever, turns out my temp was low, at 97 degrees, but I still felt like I was burning up. I also have been feeling and hearing my pulse. Often, especially when I feel hot I can feel my pulse in my torso and belly areas, also in my arms. Sometimes I can hear it pounding in my ears. I plan to bring it up to my doctor on Monday.

I can honestly say now that I am feeling the baby. Every so often I will feel it move, almost like a sliding across my stomach. I am looking forward to when Kevin will be able to feel it, but then again I am not looking forward to the sleep people keep telling me I am going to lose from it. It seems more real now, the reality that I have something living inside me, a little person who will be born someday. It is an odd thing to have hit me at this point. It makes me happy and slightly spooked at the same time. It doesn't change anything though, I am still excited.

Tomorrow, it seems like it can't come fast enough, tomorrow I hopefully should be able to find out what gender I am having. I am looking forward to that.

It has moved fast

So, tomorrow is my doctor's appointment, just a regular check up with my OB. Then Friday is my ultrasound. It all seems to be moving so fast. I can't believe I have 30 minutes left to my work day and then tomorrow the baby stuff starts again.

I spent a good part of today researching hospitals. I called around to the doctors in the Rochelle area that would take me and found out what hospitals they used, then I spent a long time searching for their ratings. Finally I broke down and called one of the hospitals and talked to an education person who gave me a lot of good info. I am thinking about seeing if I can talk Kevin into going hospital touring on Saturday. He has something else he wanted to do, but I really need to find out about these hospitals sooner rather than later so that I can set up my new OB before the end of the month.

I need to do shopping tonight after work and get things ready for Friday. I need to put my paperwork in the car so I don't forget them. Oh and I forgot to make a list of things that I need to ask my doctor about. 20 minutes till quitting time, better get on the ball.

Yick and Yay

Still sick, made the mistake last night of brushing my tongue while brushing my teeth, and last night's dinner ended up in the sink. Thankfully Kevin was there to help me clean up. Today I have been feeling nauseous as well. Before lunch I nearly lost it, and then when I walked into the break room I nearly lost it again, but the second time was due to someone having a seafood salad for lunch. Fishy smells really just sets me off. This Saturday starts my 20th week, halfway there and I am feeling like the throwing up is not going to end. I think once I accept it then it won't be so bad because I won't be hoping for it to stop. I will just wait till the baby comes.

Five more days till the ultrasound. Yay! I am hoping that the baby will coorporate and that we will be able to see what gender we are having. Now that it is so close Kevin and I are getting really excited about the ultrasound.

Because we are looking at moving I decided to look up a OBGYN in the Rochelle area and see 1. if they are accepting new patients, and 2. how late in my pregnancy they will accept me. The office I called is accepting new patients and will take me up to my 30th week. So I basically have 10 weeks in which to move. I may also call a OBGYN in Rockford and see what they say. Either way my OB will be about 25 to 30 minutes away from us if we move to Rochelle, and who knows how far away the hospital will be. Oh joy. Then again my current hospital is about 25 to 30 minutes away as well. It just doesn't seem as long. I am looking forward to us finding a house so that I can figure out the details of new doctors and such.