Week 11 and counting...

Well as of today I am 11weeks and 5 days pregnant! We had our second doctors visit last week and Patrick was able to see the heartbeat and the baby moving for the first time. He was so excited and talked about it all the way home. It is amazing how fast these little creatures grow at this point. This week our baby is the size of a fig (about 1 1/2 inches long) from head to rump. I still dont look pregnant, just fluffy! Soon I am sure :) We are so anxious to find out the sex of the baby. We should hopefully be able to tell at our 18 week ultrasound...unless I can get Patrick to come up to my work and we can do an U/S sooner. It is good to have connections :) !! I am feeling really good at this point, no more nausea and I don't feel the urge to eat everything I can get my hands on! I have been really fortunate thus far! Keep praying for us!

9 Weeks and 4 days...

Well...my abdomen is starting to "thicken" just enough to where I can only wear like 2 pair of pants that I own. I know you are supposed to get bigger when you are pregnant but it is really hard being in the "is she fat or prego?" phase. So far pregnancy only = looking fat + nausea + exhaustion! I think when I feel the peanut move for the first time it will all be more real. Last night at work I did an ultrasound for fun and saw our little alien looking peanut moving around for the first time. I could see him/her waving her little hand/nubb!! It was so cute! It is so strange to have something growing and moving inside of you and you can not feel it! We have our next doctors appointment on Monday, so I will keep your posted with more photos.

Daddy to be....

Patrick is so cute! He is so excited, he can hardly wait for december to get here. He gets me to roll over every night so that he can rub my tummy and always asks do you think the baby can feel me rubbing? He has also been so understanding of my extreme need to sleep and has been really good already with helping me take care of things around the house. Pat always make sure to include the baby when he says we loves me. Now he says "I love you and the baby!" I am so blessed to have such a sweet and sensitive daddy to be!

6w1d....sigh of relief!!

On saturday at work I saw our gumie bears strong heart beat for the first time at 6 weeks and 1 day!! We are so relieved!! I know I am still early, but that is our first milestone we have accomplished! Now comes the first prego symptoms....I am exhausted all of the time, I get headaches (that don't last very long), I am always hungry, and get nauseated if I do not eat promptly every couple of hours. But so far, nothing major! They say that all of these symptoms are good signs that my hormone levels are high and that all is well!! So yay!! It is so weird knowing something is growing inside of you, but you cant feel it....well not yet anyways!

Our 1st OB appointment

At our first appointment last thursday we had the first ultrasound....to find out we were a little behind what we had originally thought. So we were only 5w5d along. Therefore, there was no heart beat yet but, we did see the egg yolk and the sac. So far so good, but this changed out due date to December 26, 2009. So we will have to wait a little bit longer to see the sweet relief of a heart beat!

Dad's First Blog!

Hmmm, So daddy started to read his first baby book tonight and in the first chapter it covers like...a million terms! As I continued to read, it gives you a lot of things to look forward to and I gotta say, I am super stoked! So, as my first post, I'll leave it with, I love my wife and our new baby!
-Daddy

Yay we are pregnant!!

Well....this is our first pregnancy. We are super excited/scared. But, I guess that's normal. I got off of my BC pills in the beginning of March, thinking it might take awhile for us to get pregnant because I have been on BC for 13 years. Well....SURPRISE....just ONE month later....we find out we are pregnant!! We are soooo excited and still in the "freak out/nervous" stage. We just found out last week, but we are trying not to tell EVERYONE because we know it is still so early (5 weeks). But, it is really hard not to blurt it out when I am with my friends in excitement. I am an L&D nurse and some people think that that should make this whole process easier, but it doesn't. I feel like I know TOO much about the risks and complications and it makes me more worried for what could happen. I am not afraid so much of the delivery, but more so of the next few weeks and the well being of this little tadpole growing inside of me. We have our first OB appt next week....I am so nervous that there will not be a heart beat. Pray for us! We will keep you posted!! :)