9 Weeks Pregnant, What a Wonderful Thing To Be Thankful For!

Well, we had a little bit of a scare last week. I had some slight spotting on Friday and Sunday (after regular dr.’s hours, of course)

It wasn’t very much, but it was still enough to freak us out. Luckily, I own a fetal Doppler and was able to listen for our little one’s heartbeat. He (or she) sounded just fine. I was still really anxious to get to my dr.s appt though.

 

My dr. performed an ultrasound and said the baby looks great… it’s measuring perfectly on schedule and has a very strong heartbeat. He could see the source of the bleeding also. Apparently, the babies placenta is “low-lying” which means it’s at the bottom of my uterus. This situation corrects itself over time, as the pregnancy progresses it should move up higher. This is whats’s causing the spotting. He said it’s a common thing and I shouldn’t worry. But he does want me to take it easy the next couple of weeks until the babies placenta can “fuse better” as he put it. So no heavy-lifting (sorry Nathan), and no exercise.

 

As if I wasn’t going to put on enough weight over the holidays lol! Whatever it takes to make the baby ok is fine by me though. I go back for my next appt on Dec 16^th. I’ll be 12 weeks along by then. It’s crazy to think that I’ll be in my second trimester by Christmas! I really hope the nausea gets better soon. My morning sickness has been so bad that my Dr. prescribed a Phenagrin gel for me to use. He said it’s safe to use in pregnancy because it’s an antihistamine. I’m so relieved, there have been days when I couldn’t hold anything down till 9 or 10 at night.

 

Btw, the nurses think I’m having a girl. My babies heartrate is consistently in the 170’s and 180’s. They said anything over 140 is usually a girl. I guess we will see!

 

On another note, Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I am so excited about getting together with the family. I have seriously been craving Thanksgiving dinner since this pregnancy began, so I’m planning on gaining back all the weight I lost from the morning sickness lol!

 

 

The Best Sound In The World

I got to hear my little one’s heartbeat for the very first time today. For those of you who don’t know the ends-and-outs of early pregnancy, you can SEE the heartbeat as early as 6 weeks gestation, but it is difficult to HEAR it for many weeks after that. It’s a different type of dopler wave…. way to complicated for me to understand lol.

Well, I rented (and eventually purchased) a fetal dopler from babybeat.com when I was pregnant with Nathan. After so many losses, I really needed the piece of mind of being able to hear him whenever I had worries. I absolutely LOVE it! With him, I didn’t purchase it till I was 11 weeks, because that it the time that dr.s usually attempt to find it. But with this baby, I did some research and found out that the heatbeat can be detected as early as 7 weeks. It’s just really super hard to find, and there were several warnings about NOT PANICKING if you can’t find it. I had developed a pretty good technique after having used it for so long with Nathan, so I felt comfortable trying to find this little one a bit earlier. I’ve been trying since 7 weeks, and today, I finally found it! It was so amazing!

It was also really awesome because Dh was off work today, so he was laying next to me when I found it! It was so neat hearing how FAST it’s beating, and hearing the tiny swishes as the baby swam around.

This is one of the milestone’s that I have been soooo anxious to get to. I hate the early weeks when there are no kicks and no heartbeats to tell you everything is ok. I am DYING to feel a baby kick again, I loved being pregnant with Nathan and feeling him as I went through each day. It helps the time go by faster. I felt his kicks at 18 weeks, I’m hoping I will feel this baby a little earlier, as most subsequent pregnancies do. Just a couple more months!

One last thing, here are a couple belly pictures I’ve taken over the last few weeks. I don’t have the best stomach in the world anymore, but it is worth it to have my beautiful babies!

5 weeks pregnant

8 weeks pregnant

There’s definitely some “rounding” happening lol!

The cutest baby ever!!!!

…besides Nathan at least!

 Seriously, how adorable is that!

 

 It’s amazing how quickly it is growing! It’s tiny heart was beating so fast, the technician measured it’s heart rate twice and it was 158 beats per minute (bpm). That is a lot faster than Nathan’s was, his was always in the 120’s. Everyone keeps saying that means it’s a girl, because girl’s heart rates are always faster. Some people say it’s just an old wive’s tale, but everyone in my family says it worked for them. So I guess we will wait and see! Walter says it looks like a girl lol. I told him that people are still saying that Nathan looks like a girl, so that doesn’t really count for much lol! I am just so excited, I don’t care what we are having, as long as it’s healthy!

 

 

 

BTW, here is what our baby looks like this week. It is an inch and a half long, but it already has every single part of it’s body that it will ever need. Now, it’s sole focus is on growing bigger and stronger! I read that baby’s at this stage have been seen sucking there thumbs and grasping there umbilical cords. It is so amazing!

 

I am so happy, I almost cried during the ultrasound. That little baby’s heart beating away was the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time. As far as physically, I am absolutely exhausted with this pregnancy. My nausea is A LOT worse than it was with Nathan. It always hits in the middle of the afternoon. I am having a really hard time finding foods that don’t make me sick. I can handle anything with milk…. Cereal, ice cream, cream of wheat…. Ect. It stinks because milk is crazy expensive, and I go through about three-quarters of a gallon a day.

 

Please keep us and our little one in your prayers! And loads of babydust to all those still ttc!

8 weeks!

Wow, I can’t believe that I am 8 weeks! I am soooo glad that this is going by fairly quickly, I absolutely HATE the first few weeks. It is absolute torture not being able to hear the baby’s heartbeat with my doppler whenever I want. I am anxious to be at the stage where I can feel those wonderful little kicks and know that everything is ok!

I feel so bad for not writing yet, I feel like a bad blogger. So much happened the last two weeks. Here’s a short recap.

• Went on vacation. Had totally amazing time with hubby and son. (Pictures coming soon)
• Proceed home. Car breaks down. Apparently something blew up and car is now totaled. Meaning we have no car. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• WONDERFUL relatives pay for us a hotel, rental car, and tow service to get us across 2 states to get home.

Because of this, I had to  miss my doctors appt. I was able to reschedule it for the second I got home, but I was so upset. Not to mention that I feared that all the crazy stress was detrimental for the baby.

Well, we got to see our little one. It was so precious! It blows my mind how quickly they change, we could see it wiggling around in there doing somersaults

We also got to see it’s little heart beating away. DH says it looks like a girl lol. I told him he’s gonna feel bad if it’s a boy, because people are always thinking Nathan is a girl, and it drives us crazy lol

Anyways, my dr’s ultrasound machine is like 3,000 years old, so he is sending me to get a good ultrasound tomorrow! He said I will get some good pictures, I’m just praying I don’t get that snarky *%$@^ from last time. Dh and I have already decided to say something before she even gets started if we get her again. I’m not risking not getting any pictures again.

One last note, the morning sickness has kicked in BIG TIME. I was never this sick with Nathan, I’m literally zonked by 3pm each day. At least it’s a good sign, right? lol