a haiku

A Haiku

panera lady;
sorry you heard me throw up.
Pregnancy puking.

sorry ive been super lame by not updating anyone on anything in the fascinating life of me...

we've just been pretty busy with quite a few things going on. we went to the beach for a week, the littles turned the big O.N.E., went to the dr to see and hear the new bebeh, and in between all of that there has been a lot of gagging, dry heaving, and throwing up in public places like the panera bread.

first, beach. was a great time, but when a baby plays hard, they will also cry hard and be a grumples mcgee when they do not nap on time. and it was super easy to get him to take a nap when all he wanted to do was swim in the pool or play on the beach... ugh. but at least he liked it, that kid wouldve crawled the entire beach if we had let him. red, swollen knees from crawling in the sand all day- thats nothin for a little man on a mission! ha ha!



so after our week of fun came the week of craziness... trying to unpack, clean the house, and get everything ready for the big birthday. before now, i had absolutely no idea how much work goes into even the simplest of birthday parties. yikes. you invite all these people, have no idea who will show up, decorate, make all sorts of food, get all sorts of desserts, and then throw them all away a few days later because the number of guests that actually showed up was much less than what you had planned for... but the baby dino had a good time, and woke up the next day feeling like it was christmas when he saw all of his new toys again. and he clearly loved his chocolate cupcake.



next on the list we went back to the ob to get another ultrasound done to check on the newest little addition to our family. everything was great! they bumped my due date back a few days to may 5, but being the crazy person that i am i hope that its actually may 6. then the b-day will be 5.6.11... you know, 5+6 = 11. yay! mathematical birthdays! i am the dorkiest mom ever. so we got to see the tiny baby, and there was actually something to see this time! woohoo! we also got to see and hear the heartbeat which was going strong. and the doctor even said that he would be very surprised if we lost the baby just because both of the ultrasounds so far have looked so normal, so he truly believes that this baby will be fine, it was really reassuring to hear him say that. im actually really liking this new dr a lot. he totally gets my craziness. i like that.

and finally, the new baby hates me and all foods that i consume. i cant even remember the last time that i ate something and actually felt good. i feel like vomitting almost constantly and yesterday it finally happened with a vengence when the hubs and i went out to lunch. i think i had maybe three bites of my sammy when the littles dropped in juice cup. so i pick it up and go to the bathroom to clean it up, but when i get there i absolutely hated the smell of the bathroom and immediately started gagging. terribly for me and all other patrons of panera, the main door to the b-room was open, so i hold back the pukage and shut the big door then run back into the stall where i am gagging uncontrollably. i look at the dirty floor and this further disgusts me so i start vomitting up the little but that i had eaten. disgusting. and this poor woman walks in to use the bathroom like a normal person only to be met with the wonderful sounds and smells of the pregnant women in the stall next to her, i cant imagine that that is what she hoped to encounter upon her entrance to the bathroom before enjoying her lunch. so, i am very sorry lady, but i dont think it was necessary for you to stand outside the bathroom to give me a dirty look as i left the area, next time i might puke on you.

17 days & another ultrasound.

yay! 17 days... hopefully. i went for a check up yesterday and i am not dilated at all! ugh. i was so hoping to hear that i was dialted at least a centimeter or two but no, we got nothin. i was even thinking that the little man has finally dropped but the dr didnt fully agree to that either. but i am not feeling nearly as much pressure up underneath my ribs as i was before so im gonna keep on thinking that he either dropped or is definitely in the process of doing so.

ok so i have to complain about the snotty little nurse at the office yesterday... in my experience, all the nurses in an ob office are pretty nice and really try to make the hormonal pregnant women happy. i believed this until yesterday. my name gets called and i go back to be weighed, which of course is everyones favorite part, and she immediately starts it out at the 200 lb mark. not even cool. she couldve at least pretended that she didnt think i was that heavy... but poo poo on her, she had to adjust back down to the 150 mark. ha! but then when she wrote down my actual weight for my chart, she added two extra pounds! what was up with that lady?! i thought i might hit her. then she mumbled the rest of the time and i could barely hear/understand her. all i know is she better watch herself next time!..

and after all the talk about him being little and no one really having a problem with it, other than the sono tech, i got a call yesterday afternoon telling me that now they are concerned... so my ob's office made an appointment for me to go to the hospital today to have another ultrasound and some other tests (a biophysical profile) run to see how the little man is doing.

www.webmd.com/biophysicalprofile

i guess they are hoping to determine whether or not hes small just because hes small or if there is some sort of problem. and if there is a problem, it will also dictate when he comes, and whether or not i have to deliver by c-section. at this point, im just hoping hes alright in there...

ill try to update again later when i get all the results of the tests, but who knows if theyll tell me anything today. doctors are awesome at being vague.

a very little man.

almost to 37 weeks...

i went to the dr yesterday... twice. i thought i was getting strep throat, ironically this was two days after i had my strep test at the ob in my downtown. awesome, right? ha ha! so anyway, thought i was getting sick so i went to my regular dr, shes thinking possibly a sinus infection so i have antibiotics, woohoo! i was trying to hold off on taking them but i have some awesomely green boogs this morning so i think im gonna go ahead and take the plunge.

a couple hours after the first dr visit, i went to the ob to have one more sonogram before the big day! of course i was super excited to get to see my little man again, its been about 15 weeks since my last one. i dont know why i get all excited, i have not left a single ultrasound feeling all warm and fuzzy... i guess i was just hoping this one would be different. but no, after measuring his torso, head, and legs, the tech determined that my little man is indeed a very little man. hes measuring at about 34ish weeks when he shouldve been closer to 37, they estimate hes weighing about 5 lbs, 10 oz. but that isnt even one full pound less than what my hubs weighed when he was born so im hoping everything is ok. and the spot is still in his heart, but i kinda knew it still would be so no big change there. i think i just wouldve like to have left with someone saying 'ok ms. persons, everything looks great!' instead i get, 'please wait right here while i show these pictures to the dr, im not sure if shes going to want to come in here herself.' bah.

oh, but that tech really pissed avery off. ha ha! she was pushing down so hard on my belly it was an absolute rebellion on his part. he was completely uncooperative and proceeded to be unhappy for the rest of the day. he pushed and kicked on me so hard all day long, i was in some serious pain. crazy little man, he seems much happier today, thank goodness.

we got a penis!

ok, i was mistaken in thinking that yesterday was the longest day of my life... it was most definitely today.

i was told not to pee for an hour before my appointment... i was finally taken back into an exam room where the tech allowed me to urinate before doing anything. i think it was fun for them to torture the pregnant woman by telling her to hold it for over an hour...

after two hours of rolling from side to side in a futile effort to get the baby to change his position, we found out that we have a little man in there! the doctor said everything looked ok, but apparently my son is already very stubborn and absolutely refused to let anyone get a clear shot of his heart, so we will most likely have to go back soon for them to make sure everything is good to go...

so next we went to buy buy baby in springfield to start our first registry! woohoo! we spent no less than two and a half hours there... i had no idea that babies required so much stuff! we were scanning and scanning and 10 pages later we finally decided that we were done for the day. we didnt even register for any bottles, sleep positioners, a stroller, or furniture... i dont even know what we did register for!

i am exhausted.

bulldogs and babies.

first and foremost... we are currently 18 weeks and 3 days, and i know ive been slacking with the updates lately, but i guess thats a testament to how ive been feeling, much better! ive had some back pain that i know i just have to deal with, but other than that, we've been doing well. :)

i went to richmond for the weekend a few weeks ago to hang with my very excited soon-to-be aunt little sister where we spent almost the entire time shopping for baby. also where i made my very first baby purchase of the super awesome bulldog onesie to the left. my sister in law has decided that once the baby comes we need to get stelly a shirt with the baby's picture on it and they can wear them together. i will admit that i LOVE this idea...

we had a dr's appt last week which was pretty much just a standard check-up. the heartbeat was at 147, so down a little from the last time, but still good. i also had some blood drawn for the test for down syndrome, and i guess no news is good news because i havent heard anything back. but the most exciting part of that whole thing was that i was finally able to make my appt for the BIG ultrasound! woohoo! may 12th we find out what we're having and make sure everything with baby persons is lookin good! i cant wait!!! it will make this whole name process so much easier!

i also started a prenatal yoga class that i was a initially a little apprehensive about but am super happy about now! completely superficially i was worried that i would either be the most terrible looking preggo there or that i would look like an idiot having never taken a yoga class before in my life... but the class was awesome, there were maybe 7 of us ranging from 9 weeks to 6 months and pretty much everyone was new to yoga so it made it much more comfortable. i felt really good after the class and im really hoping that this will eventually help to relieve some of the back pain. the first 30 minutes was a lot of breathing and kegels! ha ha ha! always with the kegels...

12 weeks!

i definitely didnt think id get another ultrasound this soon, but since there was a chance of multiples and my first u/s was so early, pw obgyn thought it was a good idea for me to go ahead and have another just to be sure...

there is officially only one baby persons. :) i know wil was super relieved to hear that! other than finding out we only have one in there, the tech said that i currently have placenta previa (the placenta is covering my cervix) but there is really no reason to worry yet. she said that in most cases that women do show signs this early that there is a really good chance that the placenta will shift around as my uterus continues to stretch so it will most likely solve itself. so im gonna try to not really worry about it until the next ultrasound at week 20.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_praevia

this ultrasound was so much better than the first! the baby actually looks like a baby! he or she was moving all around, touching her face, it was absolutely awesome! and im not sure if they even can hiccup this early but the baby definitely did something that looked like it, i cant even explain how great it was to go in there and see the baby and know that everything is going well. such relief!

a bag of rice

here's the picture of our grain of rice, that's what the ultrsound tech called it anyway, and wade said as long as it isn't a bag of rice, he's fine with it... silly boy.

i know a lot of people were curious as to whether or not there would be more than one because of the fertility meds, but the tech said she only saw the one, it could change later on since we are still so early, but we're thinkin its just our one little sweet pea, and i am totally happy with that! we also got to see the heartbeat which was totally awesome!!! it just looked like a little flicker, but to know that that little flicker was out baby's heartbeat was absolutely crazy! i definitely teared up a bit... i know, im so emo lately. the rate of the heartbeat was 124 bpm, and the tech said that was really good, but i have no idea, i'm sure she tells every mom everything is 'really good' to not freak us crazies out!

i go back to the dr next week to have more blood work done, actually my appointment is scheduled for friday the 13th and i do not like that at all... so i might change it. i don't need anything working against us right now, and the only dr in that day is one i'm not too fond of, so even more reasons to switch. we'll keep you informed if anything funny or weird happens this week! so check back later...

gummy bear

tomorrow is the big day!

we will hopefully get to see our baby for the first time ever!... even if it does look like a gummy bear with a heartbeat. and i will probably be one of those moms that posts the picture and sends it to everyone even though no one will even know what theyre looking at... and you will all love it! cause you know its gonna be on this most fantastical of all blogs by tomorrow evening!

nothing too great happened today... i think i might be experiencing slight morning sickness every once in awhile, ugh, i hope not.

oh, wait! heres something... so we ordered subs for lunch at work today and i specifically asked for mine to be hot since there is some weirdness about preggos eating deli meat. so we wait over an hour for the two subs to be delivered from no more than a mile and a half away and my sub was definitely not heated. stupid jerks. i waited for what seemed like an eternity for a sub that i couldnt even eat once acquired. theyre lucky i didnt call and yell real hard about them teasing me with the promise of food that i could eat... i am hormonal you know. they wouldve deserved it.