18 weeks, almost halfway there

I have been so lazy, so not to active on here, I need to get it together

We missed week 16 pix but we did take week 17 pix so here they are

eww I look fat.... sometimes at night when I wake from my always full bladder if I feel my stomach just under my belly button, its hard as a rock, I assume that is my uterus being forced up by my bladder

and about this whole full bladder thing, I have no idea how I am going to handle it when its gets worse, because I am so annoyed at the fact that my bladder ALWAYS feel full. but yet so little comes out at a time, what am I gonna do

no pix since the last one. Our big U/S date is Feb 8th, where we get to find out the sex!!! woohoo, will we be Team Pink or Blue... what do you think??

Week 15 ish

I finally got over my yucky cold and feel much better, we took some new pix this morning, I think I'm in week 15, the U/S I had last Friday at work would put me at 16 weeks today though.

my appetite seems to be back to normal, I'm not as ferocious anymore, but the last 2 days my bbs have been extra sore, still not feeling anything yet, I expect that to come later since this is my first pregnancy

We bought a new desk for the spare room so we can rearrange the furniture and make room for baby stuff, its exciting, but this room is a huge mess right now, I have a lot of work to do a and a lot of things to get rid of to make more room

like I said I had an U/S at work last friday and it was super cool since now you can see all the bones, the fingers, we could even see the 2 individual bones in the forearm way cool

I took more video and pictures, but the baby was in a weird position and they dont really look like much of anything, just blobs on the screen, I'll put the videos up though so you can see a little and some pix

here you can kind of see the spine and ribs, with the head and neck to the left

this is the measurements she did to calculate age, the picture is when she measured the femur, she also measured the head and abdomen

this was when she measure the heart rate 150 bpm

Here is the first video, another girl I work with was scanning me, thats her talking, we got to use the machine ourselves, so we aren't experts and the pictures aren't great, but you can see the arms and legs moving, the pictures are at angle like your looking down on its head from above

here you can see a little hand/fingers towards the bottom left


this video is a little longer (1.5 mins) at the 1 min. mark you can see the legs crossed at the ankles


and we can't forget the belly shots

Checking in at 14 weeks

Wanted to check it with new pix and measurements
I am approx. 14 weeks now

I had sore throat last week and the doctor thought I caught a virus going around, which then evolved into lots of congestion, coughing, sneezing, and a very irritated throat, not sleeping very well, it worse at night, so I bought a humidifier, but it didn't help any last night

last week I weighed 139, today I weighed 136.8
measurement just below belly button was 34 inches

wow all the pictures we just took with the digital camera just disappeared when I put the card in the computer to load them, like they were never there...



ugh look at that belly

3rd measurable Ultrasound - week 11 ?

*update with pictures and video*

pix from my cell phone


this is a video from my cell phone

I had Tien give me an U/S today, and I got to see the baby jumping around. I took pictures with my cell phone and a video from my cell phone too since we cant print pictures here at work. Its sooo cute! I'll have to load them on here tomorrow, their not perfect quality but the video is great to see.

We saw a little hand, I thought I could see maybe feet, and we saw the profile of the face, every time Tien pushed on my belly it would jump, so cute!!

I'm measuring 11 weeks 6 days and 5 cm. My first U/S is saying I'm 10 weeks 6 days today. and my second U/S says I'm 11 weeks 5 days today. I think we may be due the end of June instead of July.

We keep forgetting to take belly shots, we missed last week, so I'll try to remember to do that tomorrow also

I had a very tired week last week, I could barely keep my head up at work and I just layed around the house when I was there, I even stayed in bed until 2pm on Sunday, that's how tired I was, also a few little twinges and light crampy feelings to go along with it, must of been a big growing week for me.

I'm flying home next week for Christmas, I can't wait!!!

here are week 11 belly shots, I forgot last week woops, no big changes

oh I'm a week late - week 9

Well this will probably happen a lot, I didn't post last week, and I still haven't taken my belly pictures for this week, but I do have them from last week to post

No big changes, just still eating a lot. I'm really loving fried potato's, they are my favorite. And I actually went out an bought donuts today, I really wanted one, so I bought six. yikes. I also managed to finish Davids breakfast yesterday, he usually finishes mine

My belly seems a little poochier and my bbs are definitely growing, I've been having soreness more often, and as always I'm tired, I slept a lot these past 2 days, sat night I stated in bed for 10 hours, woah! and took a nap Sunday.

I'm seeing a trainer at the gym, and she has given me some great exercises, I just get tired really easily when doing them, but I have manage to get some of the 20 minutes walks in there, but not quite everyday as expected

David and I went for a walk yesterday around the track at the school by our house, We walked I think 5 or 6 laps, maybe 5, but I was soooo exhausted afterwards and hungry!!

Chocolate tastes soooo good all the time

Well here are my latest belly shots

I actually look smaller than last week

Journal entry 11/19/07

So I haven't written anything else down until today

11-19-07

I had my first official OB appt last Thursday 11/15. There was something more than a little speck in there this time and we saw it attached to the yolk sac. David got to see the heartbeat for the first time. she didn't do the Doppler though so we didn't get to hear it yet. It was really exciting and I Loved having David with me. I will make sure he can go every time, its not the same without him there.


This U/S measures at 7 weeks and says my EDD is 7-2-08, but according to my LMP my EDD is 6-20-08, the Dr. said early U/S aren't as accurate at calculating EDD, so I'm due sometime between 6-20 and 7-02

Our next appointment is Dec 13th, another month, just before I fly home for Christmas too!

My bbs are getting more and more sore everyday. I'm not as tired all the time like I was but still most of the time and still HUNGRY!

The worst thing right now for me is all the zits on my face, I'm breaking out really bad, I haven't had this many zits in forever! I had two REALLY bad days of bloating on friday and saturday.

I started my blog today (here I am) and hope to transfer what I write here onto there and post pictures of U/S and belly pix.

I told Shelly on Thursday after the appt. I called her and left a message that she would never believe who I saw today and that she had to call me back asap to see the picture. I tried to make it seem like I saw someone famous. So she called back all excited. Then I emailed the picture of the U/S to her titled "OMJ check this out". I think she may have thought it had to do with Josh Groban, her computer finally downloaded the picture and she was confused and laughing, saying what is this, and realized the person I saw today was my baby in my belly :0

I told Christopher & Jessica last night. She sent me a link to a really cute website that puts your face on an elf that dances and sings Christmas music, and it was so hilarious, of her, Christopher, Dylan and Addison, I couldn't stop laughing. So I came up with the idea to create one of us making a third elf with the U/S picture. Then when I got them on the web cam last night I emailed it so they could be surprised when they saw it. I don't think Jessica was very surprised, she had that smile like "I knew it". When I was on the web cam at Aaron's Halloween party she heard me say to David "should we tell them"

I am planning to tell my closest friends at Christmas when I go back home.

I got an email from my friend Jenifer today and she said she is trying for baby #2, how fun, I may have to tell her sooner, who knows

We took belly pictures yesterday also, finally, Ive been slacking off. We plan to continue that every week if we can or every other week, nothing but bloating so far.

11-14-07 my first written entry

Until now I have written in a journal twice including today just to catch myself up on whats been going on. I want to buy a pregnancy journal I just haven't found one I liked yet so Ive been jotting down notes. Here is my first entry to catch everyone up.....

11-14-07

Here is the official start of my journal. My first OB appt. is tomorrow at 8 am.

I stopped my BCP Saturday Septemeber 8th and started my AF Wednesday September 12th. I wet out of town 10/12 - 10/22 and took 3 negative tests in that week. I finally got a positive on Oct. 23rd, which was 2 weeks late on my next AF. The last negative one I took prior to that positive was a week earlier that Wednesday.

I started out really tired, probably at first from jet lag and traveling but it never ended. The day I flew home on the 22nd I did get really emotional from leaving my cellphone in the airport bathroom, and realizing this after leisurely walking out of the security area. Then I was so tired and so BLAH for 2 weeks with no desire to do anything

When I got my first positive test I didn't know whether to scream, cry, or throw up, I was running all over the apartment in and out of different rooms. David left his phone at home so I couldn't call him and I couldn't get a hold of my mom for over an hour. It was brutally painful and awful not to be able to tell anyone at that point :0) I then drove to Davids work to "bring him his cellphone" and showed him the positive test, and he picked me up hugging and swung me around.

David proceeded to tell every one he knew which made me jealous because I wanted to wait at little while. So the next person I told was Rhonda. She left me a message a week later, saying she had a dream I was pregnant. I called her back and talked for a little while waiting for the right moment to say something. Then she reminded me that she had the dream and I nonchalantly replied by saying she must be psychic. It was pretty cool since I dreamt she was pregnant and found out 2 days later she was with Lainey :0)

I plan to tell Shelly tomorrow after the U/S.

My first symptoms were tiredness and swollen bbs. They just seemed a little bigger. Then I very shortly started getting hungry about every 2 hours and peeing a little more.

This last week I've had to get up every night around 4 am to pee and last night my bbs started to get more sore when I layed on my stomach, my bbs have grown a lot in this last month, and seem a lot more full.

My belly is growing from having to eat every 2 hours. so far measurements at the biggest part is 34.5 inches, and I weigh 135lbs. It'll be fun to see how much that grows

yesterday and today have been the first time I've felt like I've had some energy, for at least a few minutes that is. I've also noticed a few weeks ago my face not looking so clear, more redness and bumps, and I woke up this morning with a pimple :0(

Well I'm hungry again and I am very excited for my appt. tomorrow. Last Wednesday I saw the heartbeat when Tien scanned me at work, hopefully we will see more tomorrow.