12 weeks

 Had my 2nd appointment this past Monday. I'm officially 12 weeks today if you go by my Dr.'s stupid wheel thing but if you go by my ovulation chart then I'm 12 weeks and 1 day. Either way, I'm pretty excited about reaching the 2nd trimester next week. I got to hear the heartbeat at my appointment. That was pretty amazing. Jay almost cried but was so tired from working midnight - 8am that morning that he couldn't cry. My Dr. said I lost 6 and a half lbs. I'm pretty sure it's because I don't think I'm eating enough. I know it's not the morning sickness cause that's gone for the most part. I really only get sick now when I'm hungry and haven't ate yet. Even when I do eat, my stomach is growling like 10 minutes later. I really do eat though lol. Guess I will just try to eat more. 
      On another note, Jay and I picked out the play pen we are going to buy. It's super cute, we seen it at Toys R Us while shopping for Christmas presents. It's got a little monkey mobile on it and the monkey on the pad is really soft. That's really all for now, but here's a few things to keep you occupied until my next post!

Your baby's crown-to-rump length is almost 2.5 inches and she now weighs between 8 and 14 grams! In just three weeks, your baby's size has more than doubled and begins to look a lot more human. Even though you won't be able to feel your baby moving at this time, you can stimulate him and he will squint, open his mouth and move his fingers or toes.

By the end of this week, your uterus is too large to remain completely in your pelvis. You might be able to feel your uterus above your pubic bone. The uterus will continue to grow throughout your pregnancy and will return to its usual size within a few weeks after delivery. Before pregnancy, the uterus is almost solid and holds less than 0.3 ounces. During pregnancy, your uterus will become a thin-walled, muscular container that will hold the fetus, amniotic fluid and placenta. Before pregnancy, the uterus weighs approximately 2.5 ounces and when your baby is born, it will weigh almost 40 ounces! 

Double Digits Baby!

10 Weeks today! I'm so excited that I have finally hit the double digits. Only 30 more weeks to go now. Gosh, that really seems like forever. Symptoms are starting to taper off finally. Still exhausted most of the time but the nausea is definitely slowing down. It's funny though, as I just typed that, I can feel the nausea striking me again. Only 12 more days until my next appointment. I can't wait, we should be able to hear the heartbeat then. 
    I had the most interesting dream last night. I know they say during pregnancy you get vivid dreams but I don't remember having this many with Matt and Bri. Anyway, the dream was amazingly strange. Jay was working for the president (not Obama, it was a white man lol). Jay, some other body guard, the president, and me went to this hotel. Well, Jay and the other BG had to get the president somewhere, I stayed at the Hotel. This Hotel was amazing! I was hanging out in the biggest suit I have ever seen in my life, decided to take a stroll and found a really cool area in the Hotel. It was almost like a birthing room but it was just for ultrasounds and massages, stuff like that, to be pampered, of course isn't that what Hotel's are good for! So I go into the room and get an ultrasound. It was amazing to finally get to see our baby. I was 12 weeks in the dream and the baby was perfect. A perfect baby boy, healthy and growing right on schedule. I think it really gave me a little piece of mind. At least enough to be able to wait patiently until my actual ultrasound! 
    
   Let's see here... 2 more days until the kids are out for Christmas break... 10 days until Christmas...12 days until my appointment... 13 days until my 26th Birthday... 20 days until the kids go back to school after Christmas Break!


There are 209 days until your due date on July 13, 2011.
You are 71 days pregnant.
You are 2.3 months pregnant.
You are in your 3rd month of pregnancy.
Your 1st trimester: October 06, 2010 to January 04, 2011. (0 - 12 weeks)
Your 2nd trimester: January 05, 2011 to April 19, 2011. (13 - 27 weeks)
Your 3rd trimester: April 20, 2011 to July 13, 2011. (28 - 40 weeks)

Cloth Diapers!

 Jay and I decided to cloth diaper this baby. We made this decision several months ago, before even getting pregnant. We are both very confident in our choice and realize that quite a few people we know think we are absolutely crazy. Perfectly understandable. My first thought of cloth diapers, big ugly cloth pieces that have to be safety pinned on each side of baby, washing poopy diapers instead of throwing them away. Gross, who wants to do all of that? Cloth diapers are so much healthier for the baby as well, he/she isn't as likely to get diaper rash, they are good for the enviroment and after doing all of the math, we learned it's so much cheaper to do cloth diapers. Not to mention they are so much prettier than a regular disposable diaper! From my calculations, the entire diaper stage costs approximately $1800 for disposables (pampers, huggies and all the other brands as well), cloth diapers on the other hand will cost us about $500 to get through the first year and that goes up to 35lbs, then after that, we are looking at about $300 for the rest of the supply of diapers to get through the diaper stage!  My best friend Allison bought us our first cloth diaper and I am absolutely in love with it! 

Sea Bands

So I bought some Sea Bands from Amazon the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Sea Bands are for sea sickness, nausea, morning sickness, and anything else that makes you sick. They work by using acupuncture on your wrists or something like that. Honestly I wish I could write about how good they work but guess what... I STILL HAVEN'T RECEIVED THEM YET! These are the times that I absolutely HATE Amazon. It's not really Amazon either, it's the company that I bought them from. I wish everyone that chooses to sell something on Amazon should be required to do the tracking package option. What's the point in having that option if you can't track every thing that you buy. What lazy bastards! I just want my relief from the nausea! I guess I will update when I finally get them in and then maybe I can say how awesome they are!!


Update... So I got my sea bands in today. Man these suckers are very uncomfortable. It's almost like one of those work out sweat bands but it's got the button on the inside that presses firmly against your wrist hitting the pressure point. It may just be me but it looks like it turns my hands a purplish color as if my circulation was being cut off. I can't say really if it helps the nausea or not just yet. My worst bouts with nausea are in the mornings when I first get up so I guess I will have to test them out in the morning. Not sure if I'm supposed to wear them all night or not (I haven't read the directions yet) but thinking about it now, it would scare me to sleep with them on in case they really are cutting off my circulation. That's all for now, will update again tomorrow after I test them out. 

    So I realize that I have not updated this blog since I first started it. What can I say though, I have like a million blogs because... 1. I forget to update and 2. I forget so long that I lose my password and everything. So I'm really trying not to do that here. This blog kind of got screwed up though. It was originally intended to be about our  (my) infertility problems but I actually got pregnant sooner than I had expected. To be perfectly honest, I didn't think this would ever happen. Jay kept telling me that it would happen and I just needed to be patient and not lose hope. I think I should have listened. 
    Even though I was temping and charting everything, in October, I just kind of gave up so to speak about it ever happening. I broke down. Jay and I just kind of had a "moment" I guess you could say. We cleared everything from our minds and just had some fun and enjoyed each other. It payed off though. And here we are, 8 weeks tomorrow. I owe it all to Jay, for calming me down and making me relax. Basically just going with the flow of things. 
     Well since I cheated and copied my posts from my pregnancy blog  <-- That's a link btw!, I guess I could at least put in some of the stuff I left out. Like symptoms for instance. If I happen to repeat myself from another post, I apologize, it's baby brain! 
     So lets see here... I started taking pregnancy tests around 8dpo (Days past ovulation), of course that was way too early but I did it anyways, tested on 8dpo,9dpo,10dpo and all came up negative. Allison (BFF) kept telling me over and over again to stop and that I was testing wayyy too early.  She kept telling me that I was pregnant and that I just needed to way it out a couple of more days. So I finally listened to her and I stopped testing, I only had 2 more hpt's anyway. So I waited, I was supposed to get my period on 13dpo. Like I said in the other post, I woke up, took my temp, and my temp was still high. Now most of you don't know what the temps even mean. I will NOT go into that since I explain charting on a daily basis. It tends to get annoying after a while. I will however, tell you that when your period is expected, your temp will drop, so the fact that it was high is what prompted me to test with FMU (first morning urine). My first positive pregnancy test since I was pregnant with Briahnna. We all know how I reacted after seeing that so I don't need to go into details with that part. 
      So now I will skip to symptoms. The exhaustion and tender/sore breasts started wayyy before I ever got my positive. I thought it was just the progesterone since that gives you the same symptoms as pregnancy symptoms. I started getting nausea around 4 1/2 to 5 weeks, full on morning sickness hit me around 6 weeks. Now the nausea and breast tenderness is on and off and has been the last 3 days. Not really much changing right now, I hope the symptoms start leveling out though. At least I have those to reassure me that everything is going well and the baby is growing properly since I have to wait so long for my ultra-sound. I guess that's really all for now. 
        Oh one more thing... here's a pic of what the baby looks like as of tomorrow since I will be 8 weeks tomorrow!

7W5D Appointment

So I had my 1st appointment yesterday.  I think it went pretty well. The doctor is an old man, probably in his late 50′s, he kind of reminds me of my dad. He has a serious look to him but you can tell he has a sense of humor as well. He was doing my internal exam and asked about the sizes of Matt and Bri at birth. Jay of course mentioned that he was almost a 10lb baby, Dr. Hunt looks at him and says,”There’s room for a 9lb baby to come out of there!”  Did he just say I have a big vagina? Or is it because I’ve had two kids and have stretched out before? I didn’t take it personal though I think that I almost should have.  Jay found it amusing. So Dr. Hunt said my uterus was measuring between 6-8 weeks and that everything looked fine,changed my EDD to July 13th since I knew the day I ovulated, gave me a list of what meds are safe to take and sent me to schedule my next appointment. I think my favorite part about the whole time being there was my time with the nurse. Of course I love anyone that hands me a bag of free goodies! Jay started examining the bag while I was with the doc and I finally got to look in it when we got home. The bag was full of magazines, a pregnancy book, and a box from enfamil. The box was filled with 2 hospital sized bottles of liquid formula, a box of on the go packs of formula, Vitamin D drops for the baby ( very important to have when breastfeeding) two empty hospital sized bottles, and a nipple for the bottles.  Overall I was pretty pleased with the entire experience.

WE DID IT!

November 1,2010 started as a normal day for us. I woke up at 6am, took my temp (bbt). I was expecting my period today but instead, I woke up and peed on a pregnancy test! Finally I got that BIG FAT POSITIVE!  After a couple seconds of holding it in my hand and not seeing anything, I laid the test down on the counter and waited patiently. That second line came up, my knees started trembling, tears were slowly forming in my eyes, my heart pounded faster, and knots formed in my stomach. I literally freaked out. It was so hard to find the words just to get Jay’s attention to come and look. But I did it, he didn’t know what to think. Of course he didn’t believe it at first. After taking Mathew to school, we drove around until we could find a store open, and bought a First Response test. We went to Mcdonald’s for breakfast after picking up the test. After all it was going to be a little while before I could pee again. I tested the second time as soon as we got home and sure enough there was that second line again. Jay called his mom, I called mine. Then the inevitable had to happen. We had to get this verified! Unfortunately in order to see a Dr. I would have had to wait a couple of days so we cheated and went to the Health Department! That line did not want to show up there though. Of course I had already been to the bathroom twice by then and it’s still pretty early on. After waiting and waiting and waiting, the nurse was ready to give up, I looked at the test and seen the line, then she seen the line, then Jay seen the line. Thankfully, we all seen that line starting to get darker and darker! So here we are, after 7 years I’m pregnant with my 3rd baby and Jay’s 1st. We are both filled with so many emotions right now, and it still doesn’t even seem real yet. I’m sure it will hit us soon though!

Light through all of the Darkness

Last cycle was so confusing! 18 days in and my damn period shows up. I was so confused, still am really. I started my Vitex regularly this cycle and lo and behold, I ovulated early! CD19 and I actually ovulated instead of not Ovulating until CD50+ Man that shit was for the birds! I just don't know if it was the Vitex that did it or if it was the crazy cycle regulating me. That would be amazing if that's what it was. So as of today, I'm 7DPO. Not sure about any symptoms yet though, except being extremely tired. It feels like someone slipped me an Ambien, I even took a nap this morning! I guess that's really about it for now!

Truly the funniest video in the world!

6 Months in...

I always thought having sex was all you needed to do to get pregnant. After all that's all I did as a teenager and was blessed with 2 wonderful kids.  I've wanted another baby for the last 7-8 years. I never in my life thought it was going to be this hard though. I was never "actively" trying in the years before, just basically having sex and hoping it would happen. I never knew how much work was involved in it. Now I am charting my basal body temperature to indicate when ovulation occurs, charting cervical mucous and position to determine "fertile" status, and peeing on ovulation prediction tests to determine ovulation is coming! I've only been charting "religiously" for about 2 cycles, which for me is about 4 months. I feel like I'm not obsessing ENOUGH about trying to get pregnant. There is so much more I can do to help the process along. I also feel like Jay doesn't want it as bad as I do, we don't talk about things regarding the subject, I feel like I'm doing all the work, but at the same time, all the charting, now feels like second nature and it doesn't seem like I'm doing it for the benefit of getting pregnant. Maybe I obsessed about it so much over the past years that I'm just numb to it now, I want to obsess over it with out be depressed over it. I don't want to give up yet but I want it to be easier, I want to stop thinking about it in my head and be able to have a serious conversation with Jay about it as well. I don't want to feel alone, I want someone I can talk to that will comfort me as well as being my rock. I'm tired of feeling this way.