It's a boy!

It's a boy!!

Long awaited yes.. especially when I found out what my lil stinker is going to be back in December!  But yes, HE is a BOY!  Whoop!!   Then the next question, name? No name yet.  We are being very picky!!  But it's a big deal trying to figure out the name of someone.  I like my name but some never learn to love their names so we continue to search for his perfect name. 

Newer updates:

So I have discovered that being 29 weeks pregnant and working (third trimester) is not fun.  I go home wanting to get things done but find myself glued to my recliner because my hips, legs, and feet are achy.  Oh the joys!  But after about 30 minutes to an hour my body feels much better.. = ) 

Also, sleeping is becoming just as exhausting as working.  I wake up 3 or 4 times just to go to the bathroom and then only God knows how many times just to turn over or to find myself on my back. Let me tell you, waking up on my back is VERY painful.  All the weight of the baby and my uterus on my spine, need I say more?  Not to mention the heart burn.. yuck! Then all the other times I wake up is because William's knee is all of a sudden too close to my belly for comfort so I wake up to a grunt (me) and pushing his leg away.  William then wonders why I go to bed any where between 8 and 9:30 every night.. it's because I wake up enough to make it where I get around 7-8 hours of sleep. 

Lol.. am I complaining?  A little, but it is all worth it in the end.. = )

My next doctor's appointment is March 2nd and from this point on I go every two weeks then in the last month I go once a week.. Lots of doctor's appointments!!   I have not had any abnormal blood work come back (Praise God).. the only thing I have had is a bacterial infection that I took some antibiotics for and cleared it up.  

All in all, a great pregnancy so far.  My belly is huge and everyone likes to remind me, including the 3rd grade girls that like to rub my belly (weird).. = ) 

I will be posting some pics from our snow day that reveal the belly so check out my facebook!!

Love all!

Andrea

18 weeks, 2 days..

Yes, I know. I am a slacker!
But who wants to write about nausea, constipation, food aversions, and the fact that I really don't know what is going on! LoL. Sorry if that was WAY too much information for your taste but I have learned that pregnancy is not about glamour, but about learning how to give up your rights as an individual and just surrender to the little one growing inside. It's a joy, but hard.

So recent news, we don't have the much awaited doctor's appointment on Thursday, December 17th to find out if we are having a boy or a girl. Sad, huh? I think so! It has been postponed to my 20 week mark, which is the week after Christmas. So we will be getting a late Christmas present this year! (As far as I am concerned though, it is a boy.)

I am sure that at this moment you are thinking, names?? Well we have a name picked out if it a girl and for the boy well let's just say we keep bouncing between several names. The girl name is Azaria Carlin (Ah-zar-eea). It means "Helped by God" and "Little Champion." So she is helped by God which allows her to be a champion. Cute, huh? My mom hates it but it will grow on her. I love it and so does William. As for the boy name, we want something strong but with good meaning (whether in actual meaning or family tradition). So we have tossed around Wesley William (William's name but reversed), or Ethan Wesley, and actually several other names that I just can't remember (preggo brain).

So with all that said, nothing new has happened. I am just growing. Yepp, no longer can I look down and see my knees without leaning forward. People are starting to come up to me and say, " Oh my gosh! You popped! How cute!" Meanwhile they are touching my belly (I hate that). I want to touch their belly when they touch mine, but that would be just as awkward. With that, I am actually OK when family touches my belly as long as it is not done just to annoy me, lol. But distant friends or acquaintances, I like my bubble.

Love you all.
 
Andrea

First Doctors Appointment

So today was the first visit. I had been counting down to this day since I found out I was pregnant. So this morning I got up and decided to look up what they did exactly at this first visit. I should have gone in ignorant! I became SO nervous when I found out what most doctors do.

So let's start at the beginning…

As usual, I get there with William 30 minutes early in case they need extra paper work. Plus, you never know they could actually be running early. So I check in, no big deal. Then we wait. We waited 2 hours in that room. Every time that door opened I had hope but was turned down as "Smith?" was called. I told William that I was never going to go in and we were going to be forever stuck in the waiting room. It could actually be a good thing because I would not have to go far to deliver! = ) About an hour and a half into the waiting I had to use the potty so bad that I went in the mysterious door and told them I was going regardless of what they said and so that was when they gave me the wondrous cup. I hate the cup.
Alas, I was called. Two hours later may I remind you! They checked weight and blood pressure. When I saw the weight I wanted to tell the nurse that at home I was two pounds lighter but decided that it was not that important. = ) Then she walked me into the room that I was going to get well acquainted with since I was to spend another 30 minutes waiting for the doctor to come in. This may be WTMI (Way too much information) but I had to sit there (for 30 minutes) with a sheet over my lap, need I explain any further?
Finally, my doctor came in. She is a wonderful doctor and I am way excited for the next months with her. But she did the tests she needed to and then we called William into the room. This is when it got good! The doctor was doing the ultrasound and kept saying there were all these shadows. Of course I was like shadows? It's dark in there! Duh! LOL. Turns out that even though I went to the bathroom before I was called back, my blatter was FULL. The life of a pregnant woman is spent using the potty.
So finally she was able to get the heart beat. What a beautiful sound that was! It was fast but steady and loud! William said, "Wow, you are actually able to get that?" I giggled... Then she got a really good picture of our baby. We found out that we are actually 7 weeks along (I thought 8) and due on May 17, 2010.

So that was the first appointment in a nut shell. =) I of course left out some details for the sensitive eyes. But it was nothing like what I had researched and thought the appointment was going to be like. Thank God!

As a celebration William took me out to lunch at Cafe Capri and we ate some REALLY good pasta... Ask William about his, he might not be able to stop telling you about it. = )
( I would post the ultrasound but we cannot find our camera cord to load it to the computer so I will load it when we find it)

Love you all!

Oh the joys..

So during my 6th week of pregnancy I thought to myself, "This is a breeze! I am tired, but no sickness, no dizziness, nothing! Am I still pregnant?" I was able to eat whatever I wanted and enjoy the smells of every food place I drove by. Well let me tell you that I am wishing I was still thinking the same thoughts. Now everything looks awful. Food has become an enemy that soon shows itself up again within the hour after eating it. So much for thinking I inherited my mom's gene of just being a little nauseous.

Smells could not be so strong right now! I had car duty this morning (stand outside and open car doors for kids) and the car smells were about to make me toss my breakfast there and then. Of course I don't look pregnant so I just look sick so you can guess that most avoid me like the plague!

So now I wait. My first appointment is on Monday, September 28th at 10:15am. I cannot wait! All I want to hear are the words "You are healthy!" and the steady but quick heartbeat of my little blueberry (the size of my baby as of 7 weeks). I will be 8 weeks on Sunday. = ) Please pray that all goes well!


After my appointment I am telling the world that I am pregnant. Facebook will be my choice of delivery for the news. Yay!!