2nd Gift At lunch when we came home, we had a gift in the mail from Mic & Bry. They got us a cute little pregnancy journal - to write appointments and things to buy, and general pregnancy notes. and they got us a sonography frame (meant for ultrasound photos) - very cute! i almost cried about 3 times.
also at lunch, this is a miracle, I ATE SALAD. i'm so proud of myself. mind you, DH had to put it into a bowl for me and had to feed me the first bite while i covered my eyes HAHA. but it worked. i'll probably have to do that a few times before i can get used to it again. I still have nausea and have a hard time opening the fridge most of the time. i'm sooo lucky to have my husband, what an awesome guy to spoil me like this. he's done all the grocery shopping for me too for about the last month or so (with my card, of course, but still!).
2008-04-11 (10 weeks)
our first ultrasound our appt was at 12:30 (we had to be there at 12:15 to register), but we were a bit early. i did the pee test yesterday to see how much i could handle. so at 11:10am i started chugging down the first bottle of water. i figured that's all i would drink. at 11:25, i thought maybe that wasn't enough (since i didn't drink anything at all since i got to work just before 8am). so i proceeded to drink more... as much as i felt i could until 11:30. i ended up drink another 1/3 bottle. DH left at 11:35ish to come pick me up at work. while i waited downstairs for him, i felt like i might not have had enough water, and was hoping to feel a slight urge to pee soon. (i was also really nervous and was even shaking a little cuz i worry that something will be wrong). i didn't want to be turned away for not drinking enough!
as soon as we got to the hospital, the urge started... DH paid $5 for parking, and we went through the maze (they have construction going on at the hospital) to the MRI/Ultrasound room. the receptionist took my health card and my form and pointed us to where we had to wait. i HAD TO PEE. i started pacing the room *L* and trying to focus on other things to make myself forget about the urge. finally, after probably only 5 minutes (could be longer...it seems like it may have been!) it started to hurt. i sat down and asked DH if he could tell the lady that i HAD to go. i was afraid to stand up! i had to pee so bad!
the lady brought me to the washroom and said "see those cups? 3/4 full"... and they were actually fairly large...like paper beer cups. i was sort of surprised i could fill it up that much! anyway, i only filled it about 1/3 cuz i remember my sister saying they couldn't get a clear image for hers cuz she didn't have enough left in her bladder for the u/s she had with Eth. When i finished, the technician was waiting for me outside the bathroom door, and asked if i was ready. yes! :)
DH still had to wait while i went in. i said "oh, i should probably take this thing out" and was just about to remove my belly button ring, and she said no no no, you don't need to. that was good.
so, laying down, i watched her expression while she watched the screen. she looked pretty serious, which worried me...almost a confused look perhaps. as she started pressing down on my bladder i was like ohhhh my gosh, and had to cross my legs as i guess i still had a really full bladder!
...then she turned the monitor, and there was our baby!
he/she was wiggling around. it was so amazing, and just completely unbelievable. of course my eyes started welling up a bit and i shed a few tears the whole time. (not from having to pee *L*) She showed me our baby, "standing on it's head" haha...i said that it looked uncomfortable, and she said they like it in there. I guess he/she was wiggling a lot cuz she said the baby was like "catch me if you can!" She also showed me my bladder, and seconds later she had me go to the bathroom again to let out 3/4 of a cup. so i did this time. i felt a bit better after - what a relief!
i went back in and she showed me the head, the legs/feet, the arms/hands (hard to make out any fingers on that screen, but i think they're there :), a close-up of the heart, and she went to the screen that showed the pattern of heart beats...really rapid. she told me his/her heart is beating at 177bpm. i asked if that was good, and she said, "oh ya." that made me happy. she also said the baby doesn't look like 11 weeks / almost 12 weeks, but she put us at 10 weeks, 6 days, and our due date is November 1st. (kind of funny too cuz my mom ran into my old friend Jul B on wednesday and she asked how i was doing. well, her b-day is Nov 1!) She asked my height and weight (98lbs from last doctor's visit), and DH's height and weight. i said about 185lbs and he said i was right. She also showed me the baby's belly with the umbilical cord attached. pretty cool. She told me not to ever drink that much water and hold it in like that (they said to drink 4 large glasses - i didn't drink near that much! i'm thinking maybe if i was a marathon runner and worked up a sweat beforehand, perhaps?) So next time, i'll probably just drink 1/2 a bottle. She also said that they did send me in too early, so i get another ultrasound (plus the ultrasound later on to find out the sex - and she said that one takes about an hour, b/c they show us lots of stuff :) so they can do the "NT" which she said was the downs sydrome test, and they have to do it between 11 and 14 weeks.
Then she got DH and he got to see the baby lying on his/her back and sort of wiggling up and down, and that's where we got our photo from - that angle. We both got to hear the heartbeat too, which was really cool - very rapid. DH said that's what his heart sounds like when he leaves work (he's a little stressed right now b/c of his supervisor)
The technician booked us our next 2 ultrasounds - one on April 28 (my bro's b-day. and i already have my 3rd prenatal appt that day, so i'm going to have to call and change that on Monday) and, this is really neat - our 3 ultrasound (where we find out the sex) is on our 1st anniversary! i didn't even notice the date until we got home. i think that's so neat.
So anyway, as far as i could tell, the baby seems healthy (what do i know really though? i just have to keep praying and hoping for the best!). I asked her too, if now that we've seen all this that it's probably safer to tell people... she said people do the 3 months and it's totally our call. i guess she'd have to say that, so really, dumb question... but soon enough we'll be able to tell everyone. i can't wait.
Anyway, hopefully soon i'll be posting our baby's first photo.
i emailed it to Mic and she said her coworker thought something was wrong cuz Mic was about to bawl, she said. haha :) she said she gets so emotional. she agreed with me that it is the most amazing thing in the world :)
i can't wait to see more of our little baby :) it's so exciting. everytime i think of the images i saw, my eyes start to tear up. it really is so amazing.
DH said it starting to sink in a bit (he's just really stressed, so it hasn't sunk in completely, but he's excited he says :)
this was the most amazing day. all i want to do is protect our baby and keep him/her healthy and knowing that we love him/her.
2008-04-10 (10 weeks)
ultrasound tomorrow! wednesday night, i had a dream that i was getting ready for my ultrasound and i really had to pee and i was trying to hold it bad, and then i woke up - and man did i have to pee!
to test out how much water i can actually hold, as i had a feeling 4 large glasses would be a little TOO much, i tried it out today. i ended up drinking a glass (half a bottle of water each time) at 10:30am, the next one at 10:45am, the next one at 11:05am.... ya... couldn't drink more than 1/3 of that glass. by 11:12am i had to pee! so basically 1 and 1/6th bottles of water. i'm going to drink ONE bottle of water tomorrow starting at probably 11am and finishing by 11:30 and that should fill my bladder more than enough (plus whatever i've had to drink that morning!). i hope i'm not in pain, having to pee, like my sis and my friend Mic!
i looked through my weekly tummy pics yesterday, as i thought i wasn't really getting bigger (because i mostly just bloat), but WOW there is a difference! i was actually quite surprised!
yesterday, and the day before, i ate peanut butter! for the first time in a long time. i can't handle a lot of it yet...but i'm trying... My biggest feat will be eating a salad again (still, hard to type...bleh).
also, i was hoping i'd have my new belly button ring (the one i ordered on friday - flexible one) by tomorrow, but i haven't heard anything. i noticed the top hole is getting a little red along the bottom, which worries me. i thought i was just pulling the ring by accident while cleaning it in the shower, but i'm thinking it's hurting cuz my body doesn't want it in there anymore. i'm going to stop by the shop tonight and see what they say. if they say take it out, that's what i'm going to do. i'll just have to re-pierce, which is kind of crappy, but i guess we'll see how i feel about it when that time comes. i'll miss my ring :(
this is TMI, but i was starting to get constipated... i think that's fixed now though, and i'm back to normal, which is good.
i saw DH's coworker's 3D ultrasound video (DH had to make some copies for her). it was pretty neat, but not as clear as i thought (i've seen clearer pictures on the internet). DH said he's not at all interested in getting one of those done. we'll see how it goes...
gotta run, off to the piercing shop!
2008-04-07 (10 weeks)
4 days till my ultrasound! can't wait!
my mom and i were shopping on saturday and we ran into my grandma & her sister "De" and grandma mentioned about seeing my "little round belly" and the girl in the store we were in said something about how cute a dress would look on me, and i said "not in a couple months!" and she asked me if i was expecting and all that and "De" didn't hear any of the conversation i guess so i guess she still doesn't know. we'll probably start telling everyone once we get the u/s and the photos. (hope all is well)
we went to half pint on saturday too, (my mom and i) to look at a couple crib ideas quickly. i have the EG Camille 350 set in mind, in cherry. College has a nice crib too, quite similar, but i can get it in a darker colour...
we told Jef yesterday, finally. DH called and Jen answered. Jef was at church helping with a kids program and would be back to pick them up to go to church and she said to call at about 4pm. so we did and Jef answered. we didn't even think to get Jen back on the phone, but we told Jef and he congratulated us about 4 times and said he had a big grin on his face, and he also thinks we'll be great parents (haha, i hope so... we'll certainly try!)
My coworked is sick today and DH is sick today (i think he got too much sun yesterday as we were out in the yard working for a long time)... well, he was out for 4 hours, and i was out for a couple hours before that washing patio furniture, so i know i got way more sun then he did and i definitely didn't feel so great last night. i raked the front lawn, and he starting building the wall for the flower bed by our driveway. i still don't feel so great right now, but i'm the only one here and i have a rush ad to do! better get to work cuz i want to leave at 4:30 today!
my only pair of jeans that i wear, that i could do up... i can't do them up today.
