Remodel

Gezz I can't believe how busy Chad and I have been. We painted the living room, dinning room and cleared out the spare bedroom to an empty space ready to begin the nursery. I am so excited to have things checked off my list, yet I feel like I have a hundred other things to do before this baby comes. We wont be doing much on the nursery until we find out the sex of the baby so that gives me some more time to organize the rest of the house. We are selling a bunch of stuff at Chads mom's garage sale this coming weekend. So hopefully we can get rid of it all and makes some money. Also our garbage man isn't going to be too happy either. Its crazy how much garbage we had and never threw away. Thats going to change! Anyways I can't believe 12 weeks is coming up this Wednesday. I am almost 3 months along. so crazy!

The Living Room Before

The Living Room After

The Dinning Room Before

The Dinning Room after

Your fetus currently enjoys a 1:1 ratio between body and head, and has skin so transparent that blood vessels show right through. But, fingers and toes are no longer webbed, and hair follicles, tooth buds and nail beds are forming -- setting up a significantly more attractive future


How far along? 11 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Up 4 pounds from my appointment
Maternity clothes? Still wearing regular clothes and Be Band (which sucks when you sit all day)
Stretch marks? No new ones
Sleep: Sleeping with a blanket in front of my stomach. The chiro popped me back in place, so my back doesn't hurt as bad.

Best moment this week: Dr appt again and got to see the babe and heartbeat.
Movement: none
Food cravings: Wish I could drink water like I used to. Pickles...Yum
Gender: boy/girl
Labor Signs: None

Belly Button in or out? In
What I miss: Clear face. Acne is not fun.

What I am looking forward to: Cleaning out the spare bedroom and starting the nursery.
Weekly Wisdom: Im running out of wisdom again.

Milestones: Dr appt and got another picture and saw the heartbeat, couldn't hear it but saw it beating away, also you could really see the fingers and toe distintions vs just a webbed look. so cool.

10 Weeks

Wow 25% done with this pregnancy. It seems like its been moving fast but Im so excited to keep moving along.

With bones and cartilage starting to form and vital organs beginning to function, baby is making major progress. Body length will almost double in the next three weeks, and arm joints are now working. (Soon, legs will too.)

How far along? 10 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Up 4 pounds from my appointment
Maternity clothes? Still wearing regular clothes and Be Band (which sucks when you sit all day)
Stretch marks? No new ones
Sleep: Sleeping with a pillow between my legs and a blanket in front of my stomach. maybe I should invest in a body pillow.

Best moment this week: Feeling better
Movement: none
Food cravings: Wish I could drink water like I used to.
Gender: boy/girl
Labor Signs: None

Belly Button in or out? In
What I miss: Not feeling so "fat" or bloated

What I am looking forward to: Our next appointment 4/16/09 Thursday!
Weekly Wisdom: Im running out of wisdom.

Milestones: Running the mile and maxing out with my trainer. I never thought I would be able to do that again. haha

Update with Pictures

How we told our parents: my parents are isu fans and chads parents are iowa fans.


I am so excited for our little one to wear these, especiall the booties. So cute!

9 Weeks

I am a little behind and will try to catch everything up. But here is the 9 week post 6 days late. opps.


Your little embryo has now officially graduated to fetus-hood. Adding to the excitement, a Doppler ultrasound device might be able to pick up the beating heart. With basic physical structures in place and increasingly distinct facial features, baby is kind of starting to look like... well... a baby!

How far along? 9 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Up 4 pounds from my appointment
Maternity clothes? Bought maternity clothes and kinda excited to wear them, the tops are too big though but I plan to start wearing the pants pretty soon.
Stretch marks? No new ones
Sleep: Sleeping with a pillow between my legs.

Best moment this week: Feeling better
Movement: none
Food cravings: nothing to exciting.
Gender: still think girl
Labor Signs: None

Belly Button in or out? In
What I miss: bloody mary's

What I am looking forward to: Our next appointment 4/16/09
Weekly Wisdom: Don't get in the routine of laying on the couch all the time, its not healthy.

Milestones: Every day is a milestone.

Weekend

Well this weekend we decided to go visit the younger brother at college. Too bad I couldn't party it up with him. But oh well. I have been feeling the same lately where I usually feel nauseous until I eat some animal crackers or some fruit loops. Usually I feel fine throughout the day but its supper time that I start to feel ill. Not fair, I just want to be able to eat a meal! Some day maybe. I went shopping this weekend and bought some maternity clothes from Old Navy. They didn't have a very large selection but I still managed to spend plenty of money. I bought more shirts than I intended to buy, got one pair of jeans yet no work pants. The item I need the most. Will probably have to order online or find another maternity clothes store in town. Great. I am already wearing my fat pants to work and today I actually had to unbutton them. Yikes.

Well the days just seem to go by so slowly these days. I want to be home, laying on my couch. I don't know how I'm ever going to get back into working out. God, my trainer wants me to max out this week but the problem is I feel like butt around 5 each day. This sucks!

I ran into some people this weekend who have been pregnant before and all they could do was complain about when they were pregnant. I'm not trying to complain, I just don't like feeling the way I do. I love being pregnant and what it means and I look forward to the times that I don't necessarily feel ill. It is just a big adjustment for me and I'm excited to see what else happens to me.

Ultrasound Update

We went to get an ultrasound Friday, March 27th. We ended up seeing the baby and it was measuring at 7 weeks and 3 days. 1 day ahead of what I thought. Also the heartbeat was 164 beats per minute. A very healthy little peanut as everyone called it after they saw the pics. It measured 1.22 cm long. Right on track. So excited to get another one of these, they are awesome.

We did have to do it internal which wasn't so bad until she went looking for my overies to check them out. Gezz talk about annoying pressure. Glad that was over. Anyways here's some pics for viewing pleasure and we got a video of the heartbeating away too.

8 Weeks - 7 months to go...wow

Your baby is growing like mad, putting on about a millimeter every day and continuing to straighten out in the trunk. Though you can't feel it yet, baby is moving those little arms, legs and (now only slightly) webbed fingers and toes like crazy.

How far along? 8 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Not quite sure
Maternity clothes? Have been wearing the only 3 pants that fit me, the Be Band rolls on me and drives me nutts. I am sure I will be purchasing maternity clothes shortly.
Stretch marks? No
Sleep: Waking up all the time, tossing and turning. It is annoying

Best moment this week: 1st Ultrasound - so awesome
Movement: apparently alot, everytime we saw it on the screen it kept changing positions.
Food cravings: eating constantly, still eating fruit loops like they are going out of style. Wish I could drink more though.
Gender: toss up
Labor Signs: None

Belly Button in or out? In
What I miss: not feeling "hungover"

What I am looking forward to: sleep
Weekly Wisdom: even though you feel like crap, in 7 months it is all worth it.

Milestones: Ultrasound pic, heartbeating, telling more people, telling one person i work with. lol.