RLP sucks

The diagnosis for my pain was Round Ligament Pain (RLP). It pretty much means that my uterus is growing and it's perfectly normal. Once the nurse told me this yest. morning I can't tell you how relieved I was. Everything and I mean everything was going through my mind on what could be causing this pain and it scared the heck out of me. *Phew* I can now breath just fine. I will be okay, I will be okay! :)

Something wrong...?

Today is the first day that I've been concerned about my pregnancy. For the past couple of days I've been having on & off cramping but have been ignoring it. Today is the day that I realize I should call my doctor. It could be nothing but it could be something and I'd rather find out it's nothing then be worried all day. I have cramping and I'm very shaky. I'm quite worried but trying to make it until 8 when I can call my doctor. Dear god, please let this be nothing!

15w2d bump

I'm finally updating with a new pic. I still don't feel like I have the pregnancy bump that everyone is talking about but, then again, I'm not the skinniest person in the world so maybe it will take me a little longer to go from lumpy to pregnant..LOL!

Besides that I've been feeling great and getting more and more anxious for April 28th to come!

14w4d apt.

It went really well. All the tests came back great and I'm 100% healthy! I did lose the 10 lbs. that I gained my first 2 months of pregnancy. The doctor looked at me and asked me why I was losing weight? I'm eating - I swear!! She's not concerned though so, in turn, I'm not. We heard the heartbeat and it's in the 150's. The doctor (who is hilarious) said it was a girl, looked for my reaction, and then said 'Just kidding, I really have no idea.' LOL - jee thanks lady! She then showed me where my uterus was and said that everything is measuring up right on time! I'm SO relieved! :)

April 28th is the big ultrasound day!! I can't wait!! I'm so glad that we have a super busy April so the time will fly by (hopefully!).

I feel so lucky

Seriously, I do. Not only am I blessed to be pregnant but I'm very blessed to have such a great husband. Sitting here about all the things he does for me and, now that I'm pregnant, he'll stop at no lengths to make me happy. I woke up this morning to my lunch already made in the fridge. I get in the car and there's a note from him saying how much he appreciates me working so much and he got me a 3 Musketeers Bar as a 'treat'. I realized at 10 PM last night that I was out of vitamins so he ran to the store and got me some for the morning.

He's also been working so hard so I could be a stay at home mom. We've talked about putting our child in daycare because that is pretty much our only option but we have since thought that it would be amazing if I was able to stay at home. He's working on building a side business with a couple of his friends and he's stayed up long nights to get this thing going. He'll go to bed at 12 and wake up at 4:30 to go to work and doesn't complain once. I've never seen him so deticated over something like this before. He gets emotional talking about it because he tells me all the time that he's not just doing this for me but for our family.

Maybe I'm just hormonal but I truly do feel very blessed.

12 week 'bump'

I wouldn't say that I have a 'bump' yet but I def. notice some type of change...I think it's just fat. :-P

Please ignore the messy bathroom &, oh yeah, I'm well aware I should turn off the flash when I take a self picture.

So I'm a little slow...

I really need to get better at updating this thing. I'm almost 12 weeks already and I feel like time is flying by. It seems lately that all I do is sleep, eat, & work and I don't have time for anything else. My last doctors apt. was on March 3rd and everything is going good so far with baby M&M. It has a heartbeat in the 160's and is developing right on time.
The only concern at this time is that my pelvic bone is supposed to be curving and right now it's straight so if it doesn't start curving I'll be having a C-section. :( I've come to the realization that if the baby is healthy then that's all that matters and I can deal with being cut open because the end result is ALL worth it!

Onto exciting things: baby purchases!! So far the baby has about 10 outfits and 8 of them are sports related. We took at trip out to WI for Mark's grandfathers funeral so we stopped at a store up there and picked up some Packers onesie's. :) Baby M&M also also some Blackhawks outfits as well as WHite Sox shoes. Yes...our baby is going to be one decked out sports baby. I can't wait to find out if it's a boy or a girl because I've seen the girl cheerleading outfits for sports teams and they are SO cute! :)

My next apt. will be on March 31st but we won't get another ultrasound until the 'Big' ultrasound in about 8 weeks. I think it's going to take forever to get here.

I will update, hopefully, this weekend with belly pics. I took one at 6 weeks and I will take one this weekend at 12 weeks and we'll see if we see a difference. I'm sure you will be able to! :)

All signs point towards boy

Yes, I'm aware that it's WAY to early to determine the gender but everyone, every SINGLE, person that we have told has said we are having a boy. My friend Stacy said she had a dream we are having a boy. The chinese gender calender on the Bump says we are having a boy. I haven't had much if any morning sickness and I was reading last night that it's an old wives tail that if you don't have much morning sickness then you are having a boy. Who knows? I guess we will find out in 12 something weeks what it really is.

I guess we should start working on boy names, huh (just incase)?

We heard the heartbeat!

It was the most amazing thing ever! When we went into the ultrasound room and as soon as we got a picture on my inside on the screen the nurse has a big smile on her face. She pointed at the flicker on the screen and told us that that was the heartbeat. Mark asked if we could hear and she said of course so we heard it and it was music to our ears. It was beating at 120 BPM which the nurse said was perfect. :) The baby is measuring at 6w4d which is also right on with where I should be. Even though it's so early on it was still such an amazing appointment!

I then could not wait to tell my parents so we drove over to my mom's work to tell her. She was SO excited about it. We then called my dad & sister and told them. Both were very excited about it. I"m glad that I finally told them because I was about to burst. Scratch the previous blog about the Blackhawks magnet because I couldn't wait to tell them. We will just use it for our fridge. :)

How we are telling my parents!

Okay...my dad is a HUGE Blackhaws fan and my mom is too...to a lesser degree. I found this magnet on E-bay and I thought it was perfect for them! Since I'm going for an ultrasound tom. I figured I would use that picture to put into this frame. I hope that this ships super duper fast beucase I'm SO anxious to tell them. :)

Ready to Explode!

I want to tell my parents, I want to tell my sister, I want to tell the world! I know better than that though. One more week and then, hopefully, after a successful ultrasound we will tell my family. Every time we talk to my brother-in-law calls he asks how the 'egg hunt' is going and I finally want to be able to tell him that it worked. I can be strong, I can be strong!

On a side note I'm a little worried because I don't have any symptoms. Yes, I know that they come and go but I can't help but worry. Besides being tired I've been doing just fine. I'm going to worry myself stupid one of these days. I'm sure that it's only going to get worse once this child is born. Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeat. :)

First Ultrasound!

Being that I am only 5 weeks along the doctor didn't expect to see anything on our ultrasound but so wanted to see if she could see anything going on in there anyways. 2 mintues into the ultrasound we see a little dot! She points out that that is our little one! OMG - we have a dot! So far the doctor says everything is looking good and going well. ::crossing fingers::

First Apt.

My first apt. was yest. (20th) and it went so-so. We talked to the doctor about concerns we had and she took some blood. She mentioned that she'll call me today to let me know my HCG as well as my Progesterone Levels. If my progesterone levels came back below average then I will need to start taking pills to boost it up until my 12th week of pregnancy. I have a follow up apt. on Thur. to get more blood taken as well as my first ultrasound! I'm going to be 4w6d on Thur. and I already get my first ultrasound! I hope we can see the little peanut. ::crossing fingers::

Right now I'm feeling crampy but I'm SO nervous.

As of my doctors apt. yest. my EDD is Sept. 25. It's weird because Marks dad's birthday in Sept. 24th and my Mom's birthday is on Sept. 29th. Maybe they will get a baby for their birthday this year!

If you don't believe in God..

Here's a story for you.

We've been TTC since Jan. '08 w/ the m/c in May/June. We went to church on Christmas Eve because it's something we like to do on Christmas to celebrate the real meaning of it. We went in search of our pastor that married us after the service to talk to him and see if he could say a prayer for us. We found him and we caught up on things. Before we left we asked him to pray with us in hopes of having a baby in '09. So he said a beautiful prayer for us and we left the church with high hopes. Who knew that less then a month later we would be pregnant. It could be coincidence but I like to think it was the power of god. :)

Off to my first OB apt.! Yes..already! I can't wait.

No way..no way...NO WAY!

Am I in disbelief? Yes!

Here's the story:
I had been feeling super crampy for a week and whenever I touched my stomach..it hurt. Weird? Yes. AF was due on the 19th but I decided on the 18th to test anyways because I figured I should get it over with. After trying for months & months I've been pretty much set up for failure. So, I test and don't see a second line. Of course I start to get upset but I figured I would wait around another minute to double check. All of a sudden a second, very faint line, appears. I yell for Mark and he comes running into the bathroom. I said 'I think I'm pregnant' and he looked and said he saw a faint line. He wanted me to confirm with a digital so he made me drink a gallon (no lie) of decaf Iced Tea. 30 min. later I was ready to test again. I tested, left it on the counter, and then we both went into the bathroom together and sure enough the words 'Pregnant' appeared on the test. All I could say was 'Oh my god' over and over again. We hugged, we cried, we prayed. Dear god, Please let this be our miracle we've been waiting for!

Being that I had a miscarriage in May, I will already be high risk so I need to get in the doctor ASAP to start my blood tests. I'm going to be calling today to get an appointment. I can't wait to go but I'm SO Nervous!!