told grandparents C so we told my parents yesterday! i didn't make it to the store to pick up a frame and DH didn't see the point of doing both. but i was fine with just doing the bottles. although, the frame might have helped *L*...
i insisted we all sit and have a drink and mentioned we picked up a new drink at the liquor store..."DH already tried it, and he liked it so..." My parents sat down on the couch, and DH grabbed his video camera that we had strategically placed in the kitchen and i grabbed the bottles, already filled with malibu and rootbeer. one had a pink cap, and one had a blue cap. i brought them out and set them down in front of my parents and they looked at me and laughed! they were like - haha, we're not drinking out of that! you try it! i just looked at DH and he looked at me... it was so funny.... after about a minute or so, my mom points at me and goes "YOU'RE EXPECTING!" i just smiled. my dad was like "WOW!" i'm glad we got that on video. They were both happy, of course :)
so we asked them not to tell anyone... mostly because it's too early, and also because we want to tell people like my grandma, etc.
i was expecting us to have a whole lot of baby talk after, but we didn't. my dad said on our way back from KW that why don't we stop in London and look at cribs! :) i thought, hm...maybe, but i think it's too early, and we should wait a little bit. My mom asked if we had names, but i just told her the ones we already thought of (yep, i always seem to be 8 steps ahead!)...here they are:
Boy: Lucas Xavier (L = mom's initial, sis's initial too...and i've always liked "Luke"; DH loves Xavier)
Girl: Sydney Jade (Sydney = comes from "St. Denis", and pretty much one of the only girl names we could really agree on; Not set on the middle name... wanted something that starts with a J for my grandma's name, but her name is already attributed in my sis's middle name...so it might not be "necessary")
Mom also asked if i was getting sick yet. (not yet! could be too early)
I can't wait to get out the "scary section" of the first trimester and into the more safe part. i'm so excited to start getting things ready :) i'm sooo happy!!!!
something else...kinda strange/coincedental in a dorky way... we played "Life" last night and Dunc had twin sons and two other sons, and i started out with a son (but then i think i landed on adopt a son and a daughter)...but the weekend before when my sis was down too, played and i had twin sons. haha, dumb, i know, but we'll see!!! Dunc definitely wants to find out the sex, and i'm pretty sure i do too. we'll be using my office as a nursery but we'll have a bassinet upstairs for nighttime for the beginning. (ya, we had it planned a while ago... even though originally i wanted to use DH's office as a nursery, but he just won't fold. he loves his walls too much *L* i did say to him yesterday, that how bout if it's a girl, she gets my office, and if it's a boy, he gets his office, and then i grabbed his hand and made him shake on it! whatever, we all know that either way he or she will be in my office *L*
(just for the record...i'm 20 DPO today. and fertility friend said i conceived on Feb 4...my dr was guessing the 5th or 5th. i plugged the 4th into a calculator at this site:
www.amazingpregnancy.com and it told me Oct 27/08 is my due date. and that i'm 8% through my pregnancy and still have another 92% to go! ahhh! *L* seems so long, but once again, i need to get out of the scary part so i can fully enjoy this :)
2008-02-23 (3 weeks)
still pregnant! okay, so i HAD to do another pee test today. DH & i are telling my parents today and i just wanted to be "sure" since i couldn't get a confirmation from my doctor (too early to tell from an internal exam). So, DH and i went to the dollar store to pick up a pink, and a blue, baby bottle b/c when my parents come here (after mom and i go shopping), we'll sit them down, and insist they have a drink and the bottles are what we'll bring to them. (DH's idea - except he said sippy cups originally... i changed it to bottles) BUT i still want to do something special...mushy.... someone wrote in here about a picture frame with a note from baby inside and i think that is a great idea...i might have to use it. So i'm going to run out to the closest picture framing place (in "NG" Plaza) and hopefully find the perfect frame. and we'll give it to them right after the baby bottles. I can image DH will want to revise this a bit, but here's what i have right now...
Dear Grandma & Grandpa,
Right now, I am four weeks old.
I am referred to as an embryo, and
I am only one-sixth of an inch long
(about the width of a pencil). I am
rapidly developing inside mommy.
Mommy & Daddy wanted you to
have this picture frame so that
when I meet you in the fall
(possibly around October 28, 2008),
you can put a picture of me here.
I can’t wait to see you both.
Love, your newest grandchild-to-be,
Baby " I "
...and then we went to shopper's to pick up some more pee sticks. DH talked me into buying the cheap brand (life brand). but they worked fine cuz i got a positive (haha, if i got a negative i'd probably blame it on the brand and go get some more!...not to mention that i'd be really confused!)
I also wanted to finish writing about my appointment from yestesrday. So i'm sticking with my doctor...yes, he's a male, but i've been to him my whole life and he knows my history so i'm happy to stay there, and since he doesn't deliver babies anymore, he said he can refer me to someone. i mentioned dr "R" (who my sis had for her first) and he said he'd get the ball rolling cuz she's hard to get into. (You know what, they don't do epidurals in this city either, so uhhh...ya... doesn't bother me too much right now, but i'm not exactly in labour! my sis had her eyes closed the whole time and didn't scream or anything...i can only hope i can be that graceful when our time comes!) My doctor told me the lab was closed until monday but i could swing by the hospital [yesterday] to get the blood work done and get the results on monday. So i thought...hmmm...go back to work and try to sneak out again on monday? orrrr do it now? well that was a no-brainer. Well, the lady who took all my blood (- 5 frickin viles of it! at least it went super quick and i don't even have a bruise from it. she did good!) said i could call my doctor's office to find out my results probably mid-week, next week. so of course, that's what i'll be doing! :) i kind of worry about my hcg levels cuz of my friend, "N"...she had a miscarriage back in September (i think...?) last year and that was sooo sad. i don't think i could handle it as well as she seemed to. there's no history of miscarriage in either of our families (DH & mine), as far as i know but who knows if that really matters. anyway, i have a good feeling that our "BB" (as DH has written in an email to me. i thought he was talking about a boob at first!) is here to stay, and am trying to stick with it.
2008-02-22 (3 weeks)
feelin' sad i'm not feeling so pregnant right now and it's makin' me sad.
i haven't had any cramping or anything so i'm guessing that's a good sign. i feel slightly hungry still... so that's good i guess. i'll keep eating (of course!) and hopefully the little one will show me a sign to let me know he/she is growing. i think i'm just nervous about going to the doctor's. i really hope i am pregnant and that's it's for real. my bb's are still a little tender... yes, i'm checking for any pregnancy sign i can! something weird, my first pee stick line is fading...it's almost gone :( the second pee stick line is still there, the same shade.
last night DH, and i (and puppy too, of course) were all snuggled into bed. not a minute later, i'm like - i'm hungry... DH laughs and asks me if he can get me something. he's so sweet. i asked him for two arrowroot cookies, and he brings me four. of course i ate all of them.
last night for supper, i had a decent sized salad (that i had to dip in mustard! the salad dressing we have has corn syrup in it - which the book says to avoid. perhaps a little won't hurt...?) and i boiled some eggs for some protein. i made an egg salad sandwich with just a touch of miracle whip and UGH it was so grossed. i almost gagged on it. i only ate half of it. i still have two eggs left...i wonder if i'll attempt to eat another one today...
DH and i have a plan to tell my parents tomorrow (if i get good news from my doctor. hopefully i can find out today! i'll go nuts if i can't! i'll have to buy another pee stick, and then i still won't be able to tell my parents until i get a confirmation)
anyway, for now, all i can do is hope and..
FIRST APPOINTMENT (12:30pm - DR W)
i got in his office at about 2pm. Because my last period was Dec 21, that confused the nurse/assistant cuz she thought i was 2 months along! i wish! it was a good thing i brought my bbt chart to show my doctor too. So, i asked my questions...he said don't worry about food so much (what's right and what's wrong), just eat a healthy diet. If i had a raw egg diet (for one of my food concerns) then that would be something to worry about. And he said people who have done worse things than that (like cocaine - for a total extreme!) have given birth to healthy babies
Sleeping on my back is nothing to worry about...my body will tell me when not to.
Belly button ring - after about 3 months i could decide to take it out. right now, not a problem (baby's in pubic area right now, but once baby moves up, then you get more of the stretching in that area)...which i pretty much knew anyway.
Anyway, he basically said to not stop what i'm used to doing (my daily routine... and like exercise, etc.... not that i do a whole lot of that! bad)
Also, everyone's talking like i'm pregnant (the lady who took my info at the hospital asked when my due date was! that's something i didn't get from my doc so i told her this was off the top of my head - Oct 28 [from a due date calculator online], but i still don't want to get too excited (even though, it's hard not too)....just in case...
and i got a pap smear done today. lucky me!
By the way. i weigh 94 lbs!
(but i eat, trust me, i eat!)
2008-02-21 (3 weeks)
baby bump? it's funny, but ever since i found out on tuesday... i've noticed a bit of a pooch that i seem to be sporting. i said to DH yesterday, hey, maybe it's twins! haha. he said, don't even start that! haha.
anyway, gagged on my last bite of raspberry yogurt this morning. too many seeds... i guess i should be eating plain yogurt with wheat germ it in anyway. and frozen or fresh fruit in it. and i totally could have cried about 4 times this morning again... just reading the what to eat when expecting book (again!)
i woke up at 3:30ish am this morning and couldn't get comfy enough to fall back alseep. i think i need a body pillow. every time i stretch out, i feel my tummy pulling...not sure if i like that. (if it's bad...?)
something i thought was really cute.... i dropped DH off at work after lunch and as he got out of the car he goes, "later baby...and 't" too"...awww.
doc appt tomorrow! yippee!! i guess he'll do an internal and some urine test and schedule a blood test. i thought i'd get a blood test tomorrow... i've already peed on sticks, isn't that enough peeing? speaking of that, do i ever want to pee on a stick today! i knew i'd go insane! i don't feel as hungry or thirsty today. i definitely have my tummy pains still though...and tender bb's. the peeing is not as much as yesterday, but that's cuz i don't think i've had as much to drink as i did yesterday.
my coworker asked me if i wanted a tea from Tim Horton's... i said no thanks, no caffeine for me (she's under the impression that i have a new year's resolution to eat/drink healthy...or at least i keep trying to tell her that..and have been for a while!) and then she said, well you can have decaf...? i said, no, no thanks... and she's said, well maybe you're pregnant! (this isn't the first time she's said it to me either *L*...almost every month since like September she's said it to me...except in January... So i keep saying "i wish"... and this time i didn't mind her saying it so much though, cuz at least i am (as far as i know!) this time so it doesn't hurt so much - wishing i really was.
keep on growing little one...
ps- thank you Elaine & Katie, if you're reading this, for your messages in my guestbook! you're the first congratulations i've gotten! can't wait to tell our family and friends too :)
