Week 11

How far along? 11 weeks 0 days
Total weight gain/loss? about 3 lbs, if i´m being honest..
Maternity clothes? Yep.
Stretch marks? not yet...
Sleep? I wish I had more of that
Best moment this week? feeling the baby move
Movement? little nudges here and there
Food cravings? Veggie Subs, Ice cream
Gender? Don´t know yet!
Belly button in/out? in
What I miss: Sleep
What I am looking forward to: finding out if it´s a boy or girl!
Milestones: Morning Sickness is going away
Daddy Symptoms and Cravings: Daddy Morning sickness …

REW - Catching Up

On the first (and awesome) Monday, of the sixth month, of the twelfth post second millennium year,  it was confirmed by the ‘n-th’ pregnancy test that Lindsay and I were going to have a baby. Before long we had our first doctor’s appointment, it was scheduled on July 12, 2012.
We went to the hospital in Greenville because Lindsay found out that a group of midwives offered their services at that hospital. Here is photographic evidence of her first checkup:

First appointment with the midwife

That same day we had to go to an off-site lab to get her blood-work done, because of insurance related reasons. Here is Lindsay suffering through the vampiric process of acquiring her blood for testing.

On July 16, the midwife scheduled our first Ultrasound. We were hyper-excited because it would be the first time we would see our developing baby. We got to the hospital just in time, but in proper health care provider style we were made to wait. We waited and waited some more, and after 30 minutes of ‘nervexcitement’ we were called back to the ultrasound room. After Lindsay changed into her gown, we were ready to take a trip into her body and visit our baby for the first time. The technician tried doing it abdominally first, but to no avail, so she called upon the help of the vaginal probe. After a few seconds she was able to track down our baby, there she was our little baby.

The technician performed the measurements and everything that the protocol required, but she started acting strangely and started asking questions about our baby’s conception and Lindsay’s last period, etc. According to the midwife Lindsay was 8 weeks along, but due to mathematical problems, of algebraic proportions, she was wrong, and it turns out that our dear baby was only six weeks old. Because of that stupid mistake we weren’t able to hear it’s precious little heartbeat, which we were extremely excited and I had already rehearsed imitating it...

Lindsay at our first ultrasound (dis)appointment

Lindsay and I were severely disappointed, and unleashed an avalanche of nerves and fears upon us. “What if there is something wrong with the baby?”, we asked ourselves. We would tell ourselves, “It was just a mistake, the baby is still young, we’ll hear the heartbeat in a few weeks when it’s older.” Because six weeks is still considered young by the doctors and the technician, we had another ultrasound appointment scheduled for July 31st.



By then the baby will have grown quite a bit and would actually be eight weeks old, thus the increasing the probability of being able to hear it’s little heart pumping away.
The next two weeks were anything but easy. In between us and our baby’s second grandiose appearance were fears, questions and a big move from an apartment to our new house. After what felt like endless days and hours, the 31st of July finally came around. And at (give or take a couple of minutes) 8:45AM of that day our precious little baby was made visible by ultrasonic sound waves, and this time she had an aural present for us, one that clocked in at 164BPM.

Lindsay at the second ultrasound appointment,
with our perfect baby in the background

Our baby has grown and developed quite a lot since those early and uncertain days. Meanwhile Lindsay and I eagerly await for the overlord’s arrival upon this fun and chaotic thing we call our life.


Eddie

Baby´s Heartbeat at 11weeks, 1 day

Today the heartbeat was very easy to find. Found it within seconds and it was 168 beats per minute, with a big kick in the middle!

Angel Sounds Fetal Doppler, 11 weeks!

I was 11 weeks yesterday! Which also happens to be the exact day that we received our AngelSounds doppler in the mail (Thank you Amazon! :D)

I was so super excited about it! We got it out of the mail box and assembled it right away. I was really hoping we would hear the baby's heartbeat right away but unfortunately, after 20 minutes of use, we couldn't find it. Bummer :(

I decided to give it another shot last night and after a few minutes of moving the doppler around a few inches below my belly button, I was able to find the baby's little heartbeat! 168 beats per minute :D Wow, Can't believe I'm already here at 11 weeks! Time flies when you're having fun! :)

First Post! Week 10 :)

How far along?  10 weeks 0 days
Total weight gain/loss?  about 0 lbs at this point..
Maternity clothes?  Not yet, but soon.. 
Stretch marks? not yet...
Sleep? all the time
Best moment last week? The ones where I could eat without being sick..
Movement?  little nudges here and there
Food cravings? Pizza, Watermelon and Sushi!

Gender? Don´t know yet!
Belly button in/out? in
What I miss: Certain types of sushi, at times
What I am looking forward to: finding out if it´s a boy or girl!
Milestones: Not being able to button my pants! :)

Daddy Symptoms and Cravings: Daddy has some major heartburn and craves doughnuts ;)

This is our first post on our pregnancy blog... The purpose of this blog is to keep a chronicle of pictures, text and memories throughout the pregnancy, infancy, and beyond, to share with our friends, family and others!

This is a picture and symptoms from week 10! It´s hard to believe that the first trimester is nearly over, just two more weeks at this point. Dr´s appointment is still two weeks away. The worst part about this week is the headaches and fatigue that have begun to set in. The best part is the morning sickness seems to be easing up. 

It seems that Eddie is pregnant right along with me. He experiences nearly all of the symptoms that I experience, and perhaps more. He´s always taking my Tums for heartburn and indigestion. He even wakes up in the middle of the night to pee, at times! ;) Also, he has major cravings to go along with it!