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9 Weeks

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October 30, 2012

Weekly Updates:

How far along: 9 weeks

Baby’s size: Grape – Your baby has grown to the size of a grape, weighs a fraction of an ounce, and is almost 1 inch long.

Sleep: Sleep has been fairly good, especially now that we put in blackout curtains. The only time I don’t sleep well is the night before an ultrasound since I have a small anxiety attack. I am hoping this gets better.

Maternity Clothes: Same as last week. I am in my comfy clothes since I sit around the house all day. 🙂

Food Cravings: I satisfied all my food cravings from last week. I don’t have any for this week yet.

Food Aversions: Still a no-go on a lot of sweets 🙁 I’m hoping that changes as the holidays are coming up and I have so many recipes I love to make and eat.

Symptoms I have: Nauseous & Dry-heaving — I finally was well enough to head out to get the Sea-Bands. They work! I am not near as nauseous as I was before, but I am still slightly nauseous. The only downside is that the pressure point they use makes my wrist hurt after wearing them for awhile, so I can only wear them about half the day. So far, if I wear them in the morning, I am usually fine the rest of the day. 🙂 Yay! Thanks Joni & Kendra!

Doctor’s Appointment: We have been released from the RE, so now I have to set up appointments with the OB and the Midwife. Midwife hasn’t called me back, but the appointment at the OB is for next Wednesday morning. Then the OB will refer me to the MFM and I will schedule an appointment there. Oh, the joys of being considered moderately high-risk.

Movement: None so far. Lots of bubbles, but no actual movement. We did see movement on the ultrasound yesterday!

Belly Button: Innie.

Gender: Unknown until birth.

What I’m looking forward to: Getting the NT ultrasound at 12 weeks to make sure there are no neural tube defects and getting out of the first trimester! (Hoping the nauseousness goes away.)

What I miss: Nothing yet. Give me a couple weeks and I might start missing not being able to see Sprout every two weeks. We will see how the appointments line up for the other doctors. Maybe we will have them split like we did last time so we see at least one of them every two weeks. Who knows!

 
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2nd Ultrasound

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October 29, 2012

Today we had our 2nd ultrasound at the fertility clinic. Everything is looking good. Sprout is growing properly and is even cooperating for the photos. When we got our pictures of Pixel during our 8th week, it looked just like the 6th week only bigger. You couldn’t tell that it was actually a baby. Sprout’s are a totally different story. We could see the umbilical cord going from Sprout to the placenta and we were able to see that the umbilical cord was pulsing normally. We were able to see the yolk sac that is slowly shrinking as the two lining are coming together. We could see the fluid where the brain is developing and it looked like everything was forming just like it should. We won’t know for fact until later in the pregnancy. We could see the little arms and legs forming, and Sprout even waved them around for us. It was such a better ultrasound than any we had with Pixel. We are so excited and happy.

Our clinic gave us the choice to either come back to them in two weeks for a last ultrasound or to go ahead and be released to the OB, Midwife, and MFM. We decided to go ahead and be released. So now I have to call both the OB and Midwife tomorrow to set up appointments. At our first appointment with the OB, we should be getting a referral to the MFM so that we can go ahead and do our 12 week Nuchal Translucency (NT) ultrasound there. That should be where they can tell us whether they see any defects in the forming of the spinal column and let us know what our chances would be for another neural tube defect.

That’s about it. We are excited that Sprout isn’t camera shy and is letting us get good ultrasounds. It certainly eases our minds a little bit. I admit that I have been having small anxiety attacks the night before each ultrasound and probably will before every appointment until we hear the heartbeat. I’m glad they only hit the night before instead of like the week leading up to it. I can handle one night of restless sleep. 🙂

So, pictures!

The picture on the left is of Sprout. The outlined area is the heart. You can see the umbilical cord towards the top of the screen and the little blob towards the bottom left is the shrinking yolk sac. The picture on the right is a measurement of Sprout. Measuring a few days behind, but fairly balled up, so it’s not a big deal.

These two look the same, but the picture on the left is of the front view of Sprout. You can’t make out facial features yet. The picture on the right is the backview and you can kind of see Sprouts spine.

And last but not least — the heartbeat! It was a beautiful measurement of 174. Perfect for this gestation! It was a very strong heartbeat with no dips (the dips you see on the measurement was the doctor accidentally moving the wand just a little bit).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that is our little Sprout! We are almost 1/4 of the way there. 8 more days!

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Busy, busy weekend

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October 28, 2012

We had a very busy weekend this weekend. We had been procrastinating on a couple ideas in our head and we finally had the money to just go ahead and do it. It probably didn’t help that we found some awesome deals so it cost us about half of what we thought it would end up costing us. Yeah!!!

So first project on Saturday was to install a cat door. We had been talking for awhile about moving the litterbox to the garage and installing a cat door so that they will have access to the garage. Plus it would allow us to use our Guest bathroom when people come to visit instead of them having to shower in our bathroom. Needless to say it was a little bit more of a feat than we thought it would be. Turns out Darrell didn’t have quite the right tools for it, so we ended up buying him another tool. But we got it installed in only a few hours. Now the big step is to get the cats to actually use it before we move the litterbox. So far they will only go through it if we have it taped open.

After we put in the cat door and spent some time trying to lure the cats through, it got to cold in the garage, so we came inside.

We have lived in our house for just over 2.5 years and we have only had sheets over our windows (college style). We had been talking about putting in curtains, but never before found curtains we both liked. We were at Lowe’s getting Darrell’s new tool for the cat door and we stopped to look at the curtains that we liked, but weren’t sold on quite yet because of the price. Well, some of the curtains that we liked happened to be on a massive sale for over 50% off. Yes!!! So we went ahead and bought them and Darrell installed our bedroom ones last night so we could see how dark it would keep our room in the morning since our room windows face East.

We were pretty pleased with the way they look. They are thermal blackout curtains. They still let a little bit of light in around the edges, but nowhere near as much as the sheets were letting in. This morning we decided that we really liked them, so when Darrell took a break from studying, he went ahead and put the rest of the curtains up. We put the same curtains in the Guest bedroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we put up the curtains that we got for more than 50% off. Those went in the Kitchen and the office because they blocked the glare, but they aren’t blackout curtains, so light still comes through.

Overall, we are very, very happy with the way that they turned out. It is always exciting to mark something off your list that has been there for over 2 years. It gives us some sense of adultness. 🙂

That’s pretty much all we have had time for this weekend. We did a lot of running around on Saturday, but we got a lot done and are pleased with our results thus far. (Just have to get those cats trained :P)

Tomorrow morning is our bi-weekly trip to Ft. Worth. We get to see Sprout again and are excited and hoping for some nice growth.

 

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8 Weeks

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October 23, 2012

Weekly Updates:

How far along: 8 weeks

Baby’s size: Kidney Bean – Your baby, now comparable to the size of a kidney bean (just over 1/2 inch long), is constantly moving and shifting.

Sleep: I have been taking fewer naps throughout the day, but I have been sleeping really well at night (for now).

Maternity Clothes:Same as last week. I am in my comfy clothes since I sit around the house all day. 🙂

Food Cravings: I have had two this week. I wanted a Whataburger Chocolate Shake and Darrell was kind enough to oblige over the weekend. And the other item I want is a BBQ bacon cheeseburger with the fixings. Yummy! I am hoping to talk Darrell into heading either to Red Robin or to Chili’s to fulfill this one sometime soon.

Food Aversions: Still a no-go on a lot of sweets 🙁 I’m hoping that changes as the holidays are coming up and I have so many recipes I love to make and eat.

Symptoms I have: Nauseous & Dry-heaving — nothing seems to be helping. I need to see about those sea-sick wristbands that my cousin told me about, maybe those will help. Today was the best day this week, but who knows how long that will last.

Doctor’s Appointment: Next Monday!! October 29. We will be going back to Ft. Worth and will be seeing our little sprout again.

Movement: None so far. I have felt lots of movement in the tummy region, but it isn’t Sprout.

Belly Button: Innie.

Gender: Unknown until birth. (at least that’s the idea for now)

What I’m looking forward to: Monday and making sure Sprout is still growing like (s)he is suppose to and still has a heartbeat. And getting the NT ultrasound at 12 weeks to make sure there are no neural tube defects

What I miss: We just got our order of wine from Navarro that we ordered in June. I wish I was able to enjoy a couple glasses. I might have a couple sips though :). Good thing we ordered the grape juice as well. 😛

** sorry for the bad photo. I did it with my cell phone and I have a hard time holding that still**

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7 Weeks

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October 17, 2012

How far along: 7 weeks

Baby’s size: Blueberry – Your baby, having doubled in size since last week, is as big as a blueberry (about 1/2” in length)

Sleep: Sleep comes and goes. I am up early no matter how early or late I go to bed. I have resorted to occasional naps during the day.

Maternity Clothes: I still fit in my jeans and have been wearing them. The bloat has really gone away, so I am just staying comfortable. I know I will have Darrell pull the maternity clothes out of the attic before the new year.

Food Cravings: No real cravings. I haven’t started eating jars of pickles yet like I did last year, so we shall see when that starts.

Food Aversions: I still can’t eat a lot of sweets and sometimes, the fruit juice I have been drinking makes me nauseous, so I try to limit my intake of those items.

Symptoms I have: I am still tired a lot. Nauseousness is totally an up and down thing. My days of non-puking stopped at 5. :/ But the doctor today gave me some prenatals that should help a little.

Doctor’s Appointment: October 29. We will be going back to Ft. Worth and will be seeing our little sprout again.

Movement: None. But I cannot wait until I can feel Sprout moving. It will really put my mind at ease since Pixel only did a lot of rolling. I am hoping this one is a mover and shaker.

Belly Button: Innie.

Gender: Team Green all the way!

What I’m looking forward to: Getting the NT ultrasound at 12 weeks to make sure there are no neural tube defects noticeable and seeing Sprout in two weeks. (And possibly talking Darrell into a doppler we can use at home to hear Sprout’s heartbeat after about 10 weeks just to ease our minds)

What I miss: Being able to enjoy the pregnancy without feeling anxious. But other than that, I don’t miss anything!

 
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