14 Weeks

No belly pic tonight, I will get it up sometime this week.  I've had kind of a rough afternoon, my lower back is KILLING me, I wanted to cry at work it hurt so bad.  I need to get in to get a massage, I've called the lady I went to before to see if she does prenatal massages but haven't heard anything back yet.  I'm hoping its just my chair at work that is bothering me, but even if it is that it is going to make for a LONG 6 more months!

 

 

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 14 Weeks

Gender: Don't know

Maternity Clothes: Nope, but some of my pants are fitting a little more snug!

Weight gain: Nothing that I know of, I go to the Dr. next week so we'll see then, I'm sure I've gained a few pounds.

Movement: Nothing I can feel

Sleep: I've been able to stay up a bit later, but this leads to wanting to sleep in later and during the week that just isn't possible.  I slept till almost 8 everyday of Thanksgiving break and it was WONDERFUL! :)

Symptoms: Nauseous, comes and goes-- Hoping I'm almost done with it.  Lower back pain as you read at the begining.

Cravings:  Fruit and Veggies(cold ones with ranch dip)- and a glass of Moscato D' Asti, but I will just have to wait oh another 6 months to satisfy that craving! :)

Aversions: Pizza, I use to love this but just the thought of it makes me wanna puke!

Best moment this week: I guess just being 14 weeks and being able to sleep in/stay up later, I was usually wide awake at 6:30- on the weekends, that drove me nuts!

Things I'm Thankful for

In no particular order these are some things that I am VERY thankful for this year.

My Hubby

These 3- and my Momma, she wasn't with us here.

Family in general- ALL OF YOU, even though I don't have a picture of everyone! :)

The greatest parents in the world and soon to be Nana and Paw Paw :) - I love them both SO much!!

BAMA football

This little peanut- we still don't know if it's a he or she! :) And I can't wait to find out!!

This place, Gulf Shores, it isn't vacation no matter where you go until you've come here once a year! It is seriously the greatest place EVER!! Better than the resort we went to in Cabo, in my opinion.

These girls, and some others that I don't have a picture with- Great friends! :)

I'm thankful for a wonderful job in a new building! :) And great people to work with as well!

These are just SOME of the many things that I am thankful for, I could write a veryyyy long post but that would take wayyy to much time.  I'm also thankful for my loved ones who have passed, I miss them all very much and have special memories with each, it's especially hard around the holidays!! Happy Turkey Day to Everyone!!

12 Week Belly Pictures

Well here they are, I can't promise that I will show my bare stomach each time, especially later on.  We'll see though.  The first picture its hard to see where my shirt and the wall are.  There's not a whole lot there, but lemme tell ya I feel huge!!!

That is all I really have to share.  We are moving tomorrow at work, so I'm sure I'll be exhaused come tomorrow night.  However, I am thankful to be moving into a brand new building/ brand new work area.  :)

12 Weeks

I had planned on putting a belly picture with this post but I have had a rough evening/ not feeling the greatest.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better and I will get one posted.  Other than that there's nothing really new to share.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 12 Weeks

Gender: Don't know

Maternity Clothes: Nope

Weight gain: Nothing

Movement: Nothing I can feel

Sleep: Going to bed between 7:30 and 8:30 because I am just so tired. I sleep well until midnight then it seems like I'm up every hour or two.

Symptoms: Nauseous, especially in the evening/night and still very tired.

Cravings:  Saltines and Strawberries -- And depending on the time of day I crave Steak n Shake, in the evening if I think about it it usually doesn't sound that good, but then again nothing does.

 

Aversions: Pizza, I use to love this but just the thought of it makes me wanna puke!

Best moment this week: Reaching 12 weeks, telling our family the news, telling people at work & seeing baby (last week) on the U/S.

Second Appt.

I went for my second appointment on Wednesday (11/9).  I went by myself this time since Michael was busy with work.  These are some of the neat pictures the tech got, I LOVED this tech, she switched it into 3D so you could really see the baby.  It reminds me of the little lego men.  So NEAT though.  The other pictures are too hard for someone like myself to make-out.  I do have a SIL who is a x-ray tech and does sono's so she was able to point everything out to me when I was showing her the pics, which was so nice! The tech took a ton of pics.  I met with the Dr after and she said everything looked excellent which was good to hear, the babys hearbeat was 170 bpm, so much faster from the first time.  I go back in another 4 weeks just for a regular visit and the next time we get an U/S is when we can find out the sex!!

Again, sorry the quality isn't the greatest. 

We're Expecting....

So my reasoning for not blogging much lately is due to the title of this post.  I have been EXHAUSTED, meaning in bed by usually 7:30 every night. 

If you look close you can see the very faint line.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photos.  Anyways, Michael and I have known for a while that we were pregnant.  We came home from the Bama game that Sunday (9/25) and I still hadn't started so I decided to take a test not really thinking it would be positive.  On a side note I had some cysts earlier this year and I thought that it may take us a little while to get pregnant.  So Michael was laying on the couch watching football and I kept saying I think I'm pregnant.  (I had been so tired, but it was hard to tell because we drove 10 hours to Tuscaloosa and my sleep pattern was so screwed up, but I really thought it when my mom and I were shopping at the mall in Tuscaloosa and I was sooo tired I couldn't even shop!)  So back to that Sunday, I decided I would take a test just to either confirm yes or to let me know that I'm just a few days late.  When it turned positive I was SO shocked, yes I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I was so scared, excited, nervous, everything.  I came running out and told Michael "OMG your never going to believe it, its positive"  He was soo excited, I will be honest I was still unsure, I didn't know what to think and I couldn't believe it had happened so quick. 

I ended up calling the doctor the next day (Monday 9/26) to see what I needed to do from here, they said I needed to have blood work done.  My Dr. is in Bloomington and I work in Pontiac and had just taken that past Friday off so the last thing I wanted to do was take off time to go to Bloomington to get blood work done.  Luckily they said I could go to the hospital in Pontiac and they would just send the results to my Dr. 

After that I had scheduled our first appointment for October 3, since I would be off for Columbus Day.  Michael went with to the first appointment.  Here is a picture from our 1st Ultrasound.  Again please excuse the blurriness, I'll have to start scanning them at my moms!! The tech said my sac was shaped like a heart, she thought it was cute.  I was still just in shock!! The heartbeat at that appointment was 140 bpm.  The doctor confirmed that my due date was May 29, 2012, which is what I thought after looking online. That is 3 days after my mom and I's Birthday which is May 26. 

We decided after this appointment we would wait till our next one to tell people which would put me just over 11 weeks.  We thought if everything looked good there then we would go ahead and share the news! I have some neat U/S pics from our last appt. that will be another post! I still can't believe I'm pregnant, maybe once my stomach pops out I'll believe it more, even though I already feel HUGE.  :)

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Today is a HUGE day in Bama Football and I'm soooo EXCITED.  I hope they come out full force in the first half and don't wait until the second half to kick it in gear. 

The weird thing is... Michael was sooooo CLOSE to buying tickets to this game instead of the Bama/Arkansas game.  He has been kicking himself ALL week, anytime its brought up he just says "I don't wanna to talk about it."  It would have been neat to be there with game day... Oh well maybe next year! Anyways hopefully you'll all be cheering on the TIDE!! :)

 Happy Saturday and ROLL TIDE ROLL....