I can just feel you in my arms!!! Smell your newborn sweetness!! I cannot wait to see your face, and you obviously don't want me to see it until the big day. Mommy and Daddy paid $150 to try and see your face with a 3d ultrasound. You were too busy napping and sucking on your thumb. We were disturbing your peace so the most you gave us was a quick glance, sucking hard on your thumb, and few blinks of your eyes before turning your head into the placenta! The tech rescheduled us for a complimentary second visit since you didn't want any pictures that day. I had an ultrasound at the Drs office yesterday, to check your growth and position. You are now head down and facing my spine. All I saw yesterday was the back of your head! Tomorrow is our complimentary visit to try and see you again. If you don't turn around, we'll just have to frame our 3D picture of the back of your head.
Sweet boy, you cannot be camera shy b/c your mommy has a camera just waiting on your arrival!!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
30 weeks
The final stretch!!
Last week, we actually had a little scare! Mommy had to go to the Labor and Delivery ward to be monitored and we found out that I was having contractions. The nurse gave me a shot to stop the contractions and I was released with medication to take every 8 hours and orders for bedrest. No more work for me, just in case you were wondering why you hadn't heard any babies crying lately ;)
So now I'm spending my free time, in between resting of course, to fix up your nursery and prepare for your arrival. I cannot believe I'm going to be meeting you in less than 2 more months!! After 7 yrs of waiting for you, you are almost here! Words cannot express my excitement. Mommy loves you!
Last week, we actually had a little scare! Mommy had to go to the Labor and Delivery ward to be monitored and we found out that I was having contractions. The nurse gave me a shot to stop the contractions and I was released with medication to take every 8 hours and orders for bedrest. No more work for me, just in case you were wondering why you hadn't heard any babies crying lately ;)
So now I'm spending my free time, in between resting of course, to fix up your nursery and prepare for your arrival. I cannot believe I'm going to be meeting you in less than 2 more months!! After 7 yrs of waiting for you, you are almost here! Words cannot express my excitement. Mommy loves you!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
28 weeks
Boy are you getting heavy!!! Mommy feels HUGE! I still love to feel you move around in there. You are still very active, although I expect you to slow down a bit in a few weeks b/c I know you are running out of room in there.
In 3 weeks, we get to see you again on the ultrasound. We may also schedule a 4d ultrasound to see if we can get a good look at those chubby cheeks and your cute button nose (I'm already sure those are two traits you will be born with!). And then, in 11 weeks or so, I will be snuggling you in my arms. I simply cannot wait. Excited is an understatement baby. Love you!
In 3 weeks, we get to see you again on the ultrasound. We may also schedule a 4d ultrasound to see if we can get a good look at those chubby cheeks and your cute button nose (I'm already sure those are two traits you will be born with!). And then, in 11 weeks or so, I will be snuggling you in my arms. I simply cannot wait. Excited is an understatement baby. Love you!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
26 weeks
Time's flying!! Pretty soon, you will be here with us :)
You are getting so big and, oh boy, are you active!! You like to flinch about and sometimes kick hard enough to make me jump. You make my tummy look like an alien resides in it. You get hiccups quite often and it's still really cute, although stronger than they were a few weeks ago. I'm sure within the next few weeks I will be wishing there was a way I could help you be rid of those darn hiccups. But for now, I love them. I love feeling you move about. I know your schedule, pretty much, now and it's so cool that we're bonding already. I love how you wake up as soon as your big brother gets homes from school :)
Mommy and Daddy are working on your room now. I have so many ideas in my head for how I want your room to look, so I hope I can get them out of my head and into your room!
Also, some great news! I think you may FINALLY have a name! I haven't called you by it and I will not even write it out, for fear that it will change...AGAIN! So for now, just rest assured that you will not be leaving the hospital nameless. We love you!!
You are getting so big and, oh boy, are you active!! You like to flinch about and sometimes kick hard enough to make me jump. You make my tummy look like an alien resides in it. You get hiccups quite often and it's still really cute, although stronger than they were a few weeks ago. I'm sure within the next few weeks I will be wishing there was a way I could help you be rid of those darn hiccups. But for now, I love them. I love feeling you move about. I know your schedule, pretty much, now and it's so cool that we're bonding already. I love how you wake up as soon as your big brother gets homes from school :)
Mommy and Daddy are working on your room now. I have so many ideas in my head for how I want your room to look, so I hope I can get them out of my head and into your room!
Also, some great news! I think you may FINALLY have a name! I haven't called you by it and I will not even write it out, for fear that it will change...AGAIN! So for now, just rest assured that you will not be leaving the hospital nameless. We love you!!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
25 weeks
Oops! It's been a while, but you are not making it easy for me to sit up and blog weekly! We had a small scare last week, with some severe pain I'm having on my left side in one small area. I had a fibroid removed years ago so there is scar tissue inside of my uterus that will be stretched as you get bigger, so the Dr feared that it was getting weak already (which wouldn't be a good thing). So I went in for another ultrasound and you were head down and obviously running out of extra space to flip as much as you used to. Then the Dr asked me to point to the painful area. He put the wand in that spot and there was 85% of your entire body! All stuffed on my left side! So you are putting more pressure on my left side, which is where my scar tissue is, but so far so good. I just have to bear with the pain. It's better on some days though and feeling you move around and have hiccups outweighs any growing pains! I love you lots and cannot wait to meet you. However, stay put as long as you can :)
Friday, September 2, 2011
21 weeks
You definitely scared me this week!! I thought I would be writing from bed this week. Early Tuesday morning, I turned over in my sleep and started screaming in pain. My back felt as if something stabbed me and was turning the knife inside me. I tried to stay still in bed and just sleep it off but by morning, I could barely move. It hurt so bad. I stayed in bed all day and just dealt with the pain but by the afternoon, it was just too much to bear so I called the Dr. The nurse thought it could be a UTI and the Dr wanted to see me the next day just to check things out. And of course you wouldn't stop there...I started having braxton hicks, which are really just painless contractions. So I got in bed for the night and prayed everything was ok. I knew you were fine b/c you kicked and moved around all night. You were more active than ever and even daddy was finally able to feel a kick from outside. That should have given me a clue as to what happened...
The next morning, my back felt much better. Just a little sore. I kept my appt b/c I was still having the braxton hicks. Got to the Dr and the first thing he did was try to locate your heart beat. You have been hanging out on my left side for the ENTIRE pregnancy, so far, so naturally that's where the Dr went to find you but you weren't there. It took a bit longer to find your heartbeat this time and lo and behold, we finally found you in my lower right side. So then we knew what caused that awful back pain...you flipped! You are now head down and that's probably why we were finally able to feel those kicks from outside. And when you flipped, it must have pushed out my ribs. I just know that it hurt! And since you still have room, you will probably flip again. But do mommy a favor and hang out in that position for a while longer ;)
The next morning, my back felt much better. Just a little sore. I kept my appt b/c I was still having the braxton hicks. Got to the Dr and the first thing he did was try to locate your heart beat. You have been hanging out on my left side for the ENTIRE pregnancy, so far, so naturally that's where the Dr went to find you but you weren't there. It took a bit longer to find your heartbeat this time and lo and behold, we finally found you in my lower right side. So then we knew what caused that awful back pain...you flipped! You are now head down and that's probably why we were finally able to feel those kicks from outside. And when you flipped, it must have pushed out my ribs. I just know that it hurt! And since you still have room, you will probably flip again. But do mommy a favor and hang out in that position for a while longer ;)
Thursday, August 25, 2011
20 weeks!!!!
HALFWAY THERE BABY!!! I cannot believe that in about 18-19 more weeks, I will have you in my arms!
We had our big ultrasound on Tuesday. Mommy and Daddy planned to let it be a surprise on delivery day, whether you were a boy or a girl. In the beginning, I honestly didn't care either way, whether you were a boy or a girl and soon I started to hope you would be a boy so Jayden could have a little brother. But once my family found out I was pregnant, everyone was convinced you were a girl. People were referring to you as she. Your nana was subconsciously choosing gender neutral items that had more pink and green in it than anything else. You future godmother had even went so far as to go out and buy girl clothes for you! I have to admit, all of this talk of you being a girl made me start to believe you were. It also made me start wanting you to be one. When thinking of names, I mainly focused on girl names. Right now, I have a list of about 12 girls names and only 2 boys names (one which was vetoed by your daddy!). I started to worry if I could go the next 20 weeks or so, not knowing. I feared being disappointed on delivery day if you weren't what everyone expected you to be. I prayed on it the night before the ultrasound and asked God to speak to me and tell me what to do. That night, I woke up from a nightmare...You were born and the Drs announced "It's a boy!" and I was so disappointed I cried and didn't want to see you. That broke my heart! Right then and there I knew I needed to find out.
I was so excited at the appointment. My palms were sweating and my legs were shaking. I just couldn't wait to see you and watch you move around. The Dr didn't keep us waiting. We immediately saw your sweet face, although it was covered by your hands AND your feet. Oh my goodness, it was the absolute cutest thing ever to see you all curled up like that. At first you weren't moving around, so the Dr went to do other measurements until you decided to finally move your hands and feet out of your face. Once you started moving, I felt everything and seeing it on the screen was just amazing. Your feet!! Oh my goodness they are so cute and I cannot wait to kiss your little toes! We saw your eyes and you opened and closed your little mouth. The Dr then measured your legs and when he was done measuring he moved around and all of a sudden I knew right away...A BOY!!! You are a sweet sweet boy!! I was overjoyed and so happy that I found out! I love you so much already and I am so happy that I had that joy in my heart and won't have to fear the feeling of disappointment simply b/c you are not what everyone else expected you to be. You are exactly what I expected you to be...My healthy, sweet baby!!
We still haven't told the entire family yet. They will find out at the baby shower. I think that will be so fun :) We may have a name picked out for you, but I won't refer to you by that name until I'm absolutely sure it's your name! Until then, you are mama's little man and I cannot wait to meet you, sweet boy.
We had our big ultrasound on Tuesday. Mommy and Daddy planned to let it be a surprise on delivery day, whether you were a boy or a girl. In the beginning, I honestly didn't care either way, whether you were a boy or a girl and soon I started to hope you would be a boy so Jayden could have a little brother. But once my family found out I was pregnant, everyone was convinced you were a girl. People were referring to you as she. Your nana was subconsciously choosing gender neutral items that had more pink and green in it than anything else. You future godmother had even went so far as to go out and buy girl clothes for you! I have to admit, all of this talk of you being a girl made me start to believe you were. It also made me start wanting you to be one. When thinking of names, I mainly focused on girl names. Right now, I have a list of about 12 girls names and only 2 boys names (one which was vetoed by your daddy!). I started to worry if I could go the next 20 weeks or so, not knowing. I feared being disappointed on delivery day if you weren't what everyone expected you to be. I prayed on it the night before the ultrasound and asked God to speak to me and tell me what to do. That night, I woke up from a nightmare...You were born and the Drs announced "It's a boy!" and I was so disappointed I cried and didn't want to see you. That broke my heart! Right then and there I knew I needed to find out.
I was so excited at the appointment. My palms were sweating and my legs were shaking. I just couldn't wait to see you and watch you move around. The Dr didn't keep us waiting. We immediately saw your sweet face, although it was covered by your hands AND your feet. Oh my goodness, it was the absolute cutest thing ever to see you all curled up like that. At first you weren't moving around, so the Dr went to do other measurements until you decided to finally move your hands and feet out of your face. Once you started moving, I felt everything and seeing it on the screen was just amazing. Your feet!! Oh my goodness they are so cute and I cannot wait to kiss your little toes! We saw your eyes and you opened and closed your little mouth. The Dr then measured your legs and when he was done measuring he moved around and all of a sudden I knew right away...A BOY!!! You are a sweet sweet boy!! I was overjoyed and so happy that I found out! I love you so much already and I am so happy that I had that joy in my heart and won't have to fear the feeling of disappointment simply b/c you are not what everyone else expected you to be. You are exactly what I expected you to be...My healthy, sweet baby!!
We still haven't told the entire family yet. They will find out at the baby shower. I think that will be so fun :) We may have a name picked out for you, but I won't refer to you by that name until I'm absolutely sure it's your name! Until then, you are mama's little man and I cannot wait to meet you, sweet boy.
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