Baby's room

This is the bedding in her room. We are going to paint the top of the walls pink and the bottom light green and put a chair rail separating the colors. We don't have all the items shown in the picture but enough to make it look cute!

Doing good!

We had another appointment today. I had my glucose tolerance test and passed, so no gestational diabetes! My uterus is measuring exactly where it should be. Our doctor was feeling around on my stomach and said that her head was down, so we don't have a butt head as Andy calls it (Andy's parents called him butt head jokingly because he was breach and the doctor said there's his head and it was his butt). The doctor was able to find the heart beat with no troubles, as she is getting bigger and can't swim away from the doppler anymore. Her heart was beating at 144 beats per minute. We also scheduled my next Ultrasound for March 24th so we can look at the placement of my placenta since it was low lying from the 20 week Ultrasound. She continues to be active with kicking, moving around and getting hiccups occasionally. I love being able to feel her moving around and Andy likes to push on her and make her change positions. We scheduled our child birthing class and breastfeeding class, both in April. We will start seeing the doctor every two weeks now instead of every 4 weeks.

We got the crib put together and the bedding put on. Andy is hoping to paint this weekend. I am having my first baby shower tomorrow in Lincoln with my friends from high school. I will have another one March 14th that my sister and aunt are having for me with family and friends. We are getting closer and closer each day and can't wait to meet our little girl.

Just an update on our growing pumpkin!

I had another appointment yesterday. She continues to grow and get more active. I am measuring at 24.5 weeks, so I am right on schedule. When the doctor was trying to listen to her heart beat with the doppler, she only let us listen for a few seconds before she kicked the probe. Her heart is beating at 140 beats per minute. The doctor said that from my ultrasound at 20 weeks, the placenta is sitting low, its not placenta previa (where the placenta is over the cervical opening), but she wants to do another ultrasound at 32 weeks to make sure. I will have another appointment in 4 weeks and do my glucose testing. I will then start to see the doctor every two weeks.

In the last few weeks, she has become very active. She likes to kick and do summersaults. She has also had the hiccups a few times. Andy has been able to feel her kicking on a daily basis now. The first time he felt her kick was about 2-3 weeks ago. It is pretty amazing being able to feel her moving around inside.

It's a Girl!!!!!!

We finally had our ultrasound on Friday. Despite all the old wives tales telling us we were having a boy, there's a little girl in there. It was exciting to see her moving around on the screen even though it looked like she was picking her nose. We have talked about a few names and have decided not tell anyone yet so that if she doesn't look like what we've picked, we can change it without too much confusion. The little angel now has a "face". That's pretty much all for now.

We got a WILD ONE!!!!

We had another appt yesterday. As we listened to the heartbeat, the Dr was trying to count bpm, little baby decided he/she didn't like that and kept kicking the doplar probe. We didn't get a good count, but we're guessing around 140 bpm. We scheduled our ultrasound Fri. Dec. 26 (finally, Andy is getting impatient) where we will hopefully find out what color to paint the baby's room. Andy can feel the baby kick occasionally and I can feel some movement too.

Its a boy!

Well, we don't really know the sex yet, but according to old wives tales, with the heart beat being 144 (slower heart beat), its supposed to be a boy. We had another appointment today and got to hear the heart beat. I wish I could hear it everyday, its such a wonderful sound. I have started having a few 'flutters' of movement. The doctor measured my fundus (the top of my uterus) and it is measuring 2 finger breadths below my belly button. The second trimester is going good so far, no more morning sickness and I am not near as tired. We will have another appointment in 4 weeks and we will schedule our ultrasound at that time. Hopefully with the ultrasound the baby will play along and let us see if its a boy or girl.

This is Andy. I know everyone is probably wondering how I am doing so far in the pregnancy soI just thought I'd let everyone know that I feel just fine. I haven't had any morning sickness, fatigue, or sore boobs. The fatigue I can handle, but first signs of the other two and I'll probably be at the doctor. Anyway, I hope everyone likes the relevant information on the blog. Later.