10 weeks!

If anyone is counting...yes this is early for my 10 weeks post. I had my ultrasound today and i was a week further than originally thought! I feel like I am getting a freebie or something, I am just that much closer to that 2nd trimester!!!! I am so excited!
Not much to update since I just posted a few days ago, I am still eating pickles with orange juice, my hips are coming unhinged, and my hair is still a WRECK!
What is new is the fact that I have seen my little one! During the ultrasound they found the baby first and it was facing the screen kicking it's little arms and legs! It look like it was treading water and it had the biggest eyes ever!!!! I was amazed! The technician decided to go ahead and measue my ovaries and cervix and we lost sight of the baby. When it came time to take the still shots of our little pumpkin we found it on it's back facing up on the screen. It had the sweetest profile ever. I could make out forehead, nose, and chin. It quickly flipped to it's stomach and tucked it's little arms and legs under itself. It looked like it was doing an earthquake drill!!!! After much poking and prodding, I got 4 terrible shots! Just a curled up blob, no cute profile, no waving arms and legs, no big round eyes....just a blob. After my pictures were printed it resumed it's swimming routine as if it hid from the probe on purpose. Being the scrapbooker I am, I am disappointed that this little darling is apparently camera shy :)
The heartbeat was 167! Iwas very excited about that. Things just keep getting better!!!!

I will post my weekly picture and my scans of THE BLOB when i get my scanner hooked up, hopefully tomorrow. I love technical difficulties!

9 Weeks!

This week has been very chaotic due to work! I have had parent teacher conferences, meetings, and lots of tests in my graduate classes. I am exhausted! This week has also marked the beginning of a new phase, freaky hair. My hair will not part where it should, it is growing like crazy, and it seems to be changing color! I am going to blame this one on hormones. I am also having trouble with a hip that won't stay in socket!!!! It keeps popping out when I am walking or when I lay on my right side. I am going to blame this symptom on our little pumpkin and try not to complain too much.
I bought a body pillow, and i have decided that anyone expecting should have one of these great inventions! It has helped my back so much!!! I sleep much better with it (when Kevin hasn't stolen it and used it for himself). Speaking of my dear husband, he constantly complains about heart burn which I think is ridiculous, but pretty funny! He is still pretending that there is no baby, he's trying to ignore things until we are out of the first trimester, I am assuming he is still very nervous. He did go to babies r us and pick a crib out though! I was impressed, he didn't pick out anything hideous or ungodly expensive!!! I plan on starting on the nursery soon just so I don't have to worry about it later.
This Wednesday is when I go back for another sonogram and I am too excited! I can hardly wait. Strangely enough I'm not too nervous and most worries that I have had lately are pretty much gone. I am feeling good and I am getting quite a bit bigger so I am taking that as good signs and just trying to enjoy this as much as I can!
I don't have a 9 week picture to post yet, I will post one on Wednesday when I post everything I learned at my appointment. I can't wait to see this little one on the screen again!

8 weeks!

Time seems to be speeding up a little bit! Just a little over a week and it will be time for my second ultrasound! I am so excited! This past weekend we finally announced to our parents that they will be grandparents again. I fixed "I love my grandma" and "I love my grandpa" picture frames with baby clip art in them that said "picture due October 31st 2010"...i put the picture frame in little Easter baskets and we passed them out. Kevin's mom is ecstatic! She probably hugged me a dozen times. She is wanting another granddaughter very badly! Grandpa Parkest seems pretty excited himself. My mom took the news fairly well. She just wanted to know if this was an accident or something planned...It is hard to believe that we have been trying for this baby for three years! I can not wait to hold this little one in my arms!!!!

St Patrick's Day!!!

St. Patrick's Day was a really exciting day for me...besides the festivities at school I received my first shipment from Babies r Us. I know it is early but it has really made me feel less worrysome and a little more confident to buy things for our little pumpkin. I bought my bedding, a lamp, a night light, a toy box, and a diaper stacker. I decided to go with the Winnie the Pooh Soft and Fuzzy line...it's mainly pastels and I think it would be cute for either a boy or a girl. It really got me excited about fixing up my nursery.

Also on St. Patrick's day Kevin bought four baby ducks to put in our pond, unfortunately they are too small to go outside so they have to live in our breezeway. I told Kevin this will be a perfect opportunity to practice taking care of a living, breathing being....we will see how he does!

7 Weeks!!!!!

This week has been a long one. It's hard to bellieve that I am almost 2 months along. I have been more tired than ever before! I've also been having some pretty strong and crazy cravings. I've learned a lot of new things this week, like under no circumstance should I eat chicken and that green and yellow skittles (my favorites) taste like window cleaner. I am not complaining though! I am just glad i still have not thrown up!

It is still a bit unreal to me right now that I could be a mommy by next Halloween. The thought that I will never have another childless Thanksgiving or that I will have someone for Santa to visit on Christmas Night seems pretty impossible at the moment but I think with time and with more of these crazy symptoms I might just start believing.

I go back to the doctor on the 31st and that seems like an eternity from now. I just can't wait to go and see my baby on the screen. What I really can't wait for is a couple of months away when I find out WHO I have in here. I also can't wait to announce our good news to our families! There is jut so much to wait for!!!! I am so impatient and I know it will only get worse!

Here is my 7 weeks picture, not very impressive but I don't care!

Love,

Jamie

1st Doctor's Appointment!!!!

March 10th was a very exciting day for us! I had been so worried about this pregnancy and very anxious to get to the doctor but the morning of my appointment I dreaded going to the office because I just knew I was going to get bad news.
The appointment started like any other; urine sample, conference with the doctor, checking dates, and discussing prenatal vitamins...but then Dr. Turley said it was time to take a look and see if we could see the infamous sack that should be visible by the 6th week. The first attempt was with the belly ultrasound and unfortunately she could not see anything (of course not, I had just emptied my bladder) so she said we would have to "go in from the bottom".
By that time I was so nervous that I could have had a stroke right there on the table. I couldn't see the screen as she searched around, all I could see was her face and the look that spread across it was alarming as she stopped moving the probe around. "Wow, there's a baby with a heart beat!" she exclaimed. She turned the monitor toward me and there on the screen was the sweetest little flicker of a heart beat!!!! I was so shocked and needless to say a bit mesmerized!!!
She told me I was measuring a bit large for my dates and that I would have to come in again to get a sonogram on the big and better machine...and then hopefully we will have a better idea of how far along I actually am.
The good news is that she said it was great to see sucha big healthy baby this early. Things looked great! AND better news is that March 31st I will get to see my little one again, and hopefully this time around maybe I will recognize something that resembles a baby. LOL!

6 Weeks!

Three more days and it will be time for my first doctor's appointment. This week has been so long. I am just so ready to see Dr. Turley and get reassurance that everything is moving along well. I have had some back pain and nausea this week but it is just very hard for me to accept that this pregnancy could be healthy and in just over 8 months we could have a son or daughter. I am just keeping my faith that eventually our prayers will be answered and we will be blessed with a little one. I am sure most women worry some, but with the loss that we have experienced it is so hard for me to imagine that this little miracle could actually happen for us. I want to be excited and make plans for this little one but I don't feel like I can until we see or hear a heartbeat. I think then I will actually have to believe that possibly that our little pumpkin will arrive in October.

I am posting my 6 week picture. I know it is bloating or something but people at work are already starting to ask if we are expecting and my close friend Mary commented that my child will surely be the size of a horse since I am already getting a belly! That kind of makes me smile, surely an increasing waistline is a good sign!

I will be sure to update after my appointment on the 10th!

Love,
Jamie