17 weeks

It feels like I have been pregnant for a really long time. I can't believe that I'm not even half way yet. Hopefully the second half will zip by (yeah right).

I've been feeling better mostly. I still get nauseated everyday, but my medicine actually works now. My nausea has become manageable enough that my medicine works when I take it.

My stomach feels like its going to pop. I know it's going to get a lot bigger but so far I feel like there's not a spare inch.

I put up my Christmas decorations today but it took me a long time and I didn't get to the outside. I go pretty slow and have to take lots of breaks. I'm pretty much exhausted all the time and can fall asleep anytime anywhere.

After the first of the year we are going to change over the guest room and paint it, get it ready for the baby. We're also going to work on Colin's potty training and big boy bed.

My next appointment is Friday December 14th and ill have another sonogram. It'll be my last sonogram unless there is a medical reason. They will verify the sex and take measurements of everything to make sure things are growing properly.

I guess that's all for now. See you next week.

16 weeks appointment

My 16 week appointment was really quick and uneventful. They took some blood and listened to the heart beat. It was in the 130s which she said was completely normal. We talked about my next appointment which is the 2" weeks sonogram appointment where they take measurements of the baby to make sure things are the right size and look good and verify the gender.

16 weeks

Today I went and visited my cousin Tara in the hospital. She just had a baby girl Friday afternoon who is very close to the same size Colin was when he was born. Going and holding her today and remembering what it was like to hold my new born Colin bear made my own pregnancy very real. I still have a while to go but it will be here before you know it and ill be holding my own little bitty baby.

I have an appointment tomorrow with my OB. I think it will be pretty short and to the point. Just a heart beat check with the Doppler. The next appointment after that is my 20 week and ill get another sonogram to confirm the sex.

I got my results back from my last sonogram at 13 weeks and everything was great. I'm very low risk for the baby having Down syndrome or either trisomies.

I've been feeling pretty good this week but as I have learned the hard way, that is no indication of how Monday morning could be, which for some reason seems to be my worst day every week. I'm still waiting to hear back about my FMLA. It'll be the new year and I won't need it by the time it gets approved.

Earlier this week I woke up and my ankle was hurting really bad. It felt sprained. I thought I must have done something to it in my sleep. The next day it was worse and there was a red circle forming on the inside of my ankle. And my whole ankle was swollen on both sides. I made a doctors appointment for Friday but was directed by my OB to go to urgent care. There I found out I had a skin infection, cellulitis. I was prescribed an antibiotic to take for 10 days plus Tylenol and heat on the ankle. It's feeling a little better now but is still slightly swollen and aches when I stand too long. So hopefully that clears up soon.

Ill make another post tomorrow about how my doctors appointment went. I'm crossing my fingers that I won't be sick on thanksgiving and can enjoy all that yummy food!!!

15 weeks

Sorry this is a little late! I was pretty tired on Sunday and I think that equated to me being very sick on Monday. If I had written this post when I was supposed to- on Sunday, I would have told you that I felt like I was turning a corner and feeling better. But now, after being sick all day and having to miss work I'd have to say that corner seems very far away right now. It's very discouraging to be sick today, and panic is starting to set in that this may last a lot longer than I want it to. I want to write about fun things like names and nursery themes but this sickness just consumes me and I can't focus on the future, only getting through the day I'm in. I have applied for intermittent FMLA because I'm out of sick time. It will renew in January but today proves that I can't control this sickness and never know when I'll need to be off work. I hope it gets approved soon because I don't have a single hour of sick time left.

My doctors office has been very incompetent with any sort of paper work, so these FMLA forms are proving to be tricky for them. The FMLA office says this is very normal and many pregnant women apply for intermittent FMLA for doctors appointments and physical issues but my doctors office can't seem to get the form right. They checked 'No' on the question that asked if I have any further appointments for my medical issue and 'No' on if I have any flare ups that keep me from performing my job duties. So I was denied the first time. After explaining what those things meant to the secretary that was filling out my medical forms (I know... Why is a secretary filling out my medical forms???) she resubmitted them. So lets hope they are approved soon. If I didn't have a history with this dr and I wasn't already this far along, I would really look into getting a new dr. I had a bad feeling when I came in for my first appointment and didn't recognize anyone but the doctor. Her entire staff had turned over. So lets cross our fingers and hope that the rest goes smoothly.

14 Weeks

The baby is as big as a navel orange this week! My belly is definitely feeling tighter and bigger.  All my organs are starting to feel squished and thats going to keep getting worse. I have started to feel a little better this week, though I still have nausea everyday.  But it's definitely more manageable and I don't feel like i'm about to die all the time. haha. I hope that this continues to get better until it finally goes away for good.

I have started to think of names since we are now pretty sure that its a boy. But its so difficult to imagine calling him anything. Every name sounds so weird. Like I can't imagine that actually being his name.  It took so long to figure out what Colin's name would be, i'm kinda dreading the naming process of this one because Cameron and I have such different ideas of what we want. I've also been thinking of nursery themes.  I usually like something sweet and light and Cameron likes sports and an older boy look. We bascially don't meet eye to eye on a lot when it comes to design stuff, so it's difficult to find middle ground. But it's still all very exciting to be planning for little brothers arrival. 

First trimester screening

I went to a specialist doctor in Plano to get testing called a first trimester screening. This is a blood test and sonogram to test for down syndrome and trisomy 21 and 18. The sonogram showed that everything looked completely normal for all measurements regarding down syndrome. And for the trisomy blood test will be back early next week.

Also during this sonogram, they can possibly tell the gender of the baby if the baby cooperates. So the doctor said that she would only tell me if she was 95% sure. Otherwise we would have to wait to know till our 20 weeks appointment. She very quickly moved the sonogram to the side of my belly and said... This looks like a little brother! So most likely another boy for us!