Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Hair
Even though I didn't have much hair until I was 2, I am pretty damn certain that this baby is going to have a LOT of hair at birth! Yep, I have been having some serious heartburn.
Best Intentions
I had every intention of taking an updated picture today to post. I got my picture clothes on, moved the mirror from the hall, and dragged Aaron upstairs. He turned the camera on and it looked like snow on the TV! We changed the batteries and tried a bunch of different settings, but I think the camera is dead! To be honest, I'm not sad! It is 5 years old and digital cameras have come a long way in that time and I've been wanting a new one before the baby is born and now we have to get one!
The bad thing about no pic today is that Aaron looked at the last pic (2 weeks ago) and then looked at me and for the first time said he thinks I look different. So you'll have to wait a few more days to see (hopefully not longer!).
The bad thing about no pic today is that Aaron looked at the last pic (2 weeks ago) and then looked at me and for the first time said he thinks I look different. So you'll have to wait a few more days to see (hopefully not longer!).
Friday, June 13, 2008
Wiggle Worm
I felt my first real kicks (as opposed to "flutters") last Friday. I haven't posted because I haven't been feeling it very often and it took a while before I was really sure it was the baby. But, I'm sure that's what it is. Wednesday and yesterday it was really active all day. The previous days I'd maybe feel it 3 times in 5 minutes and that was all for the whole day. Every time I feel it, it surprises me -- almost like having someone come up behind you and tap your shoulder when you're not expecting it! Last night when I was going to bed I was laying on my stomach and for almost an entire minute, I kept feeling movement after movement. It was so neat. Now, I can't wait until you can feel it on the outside so Aaron can feel it moving, too.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Our 16 Week Check-up
Today was our 3rd appointment. Unfortunately the office moved to a new computer system today. So, when we got there instead of the normal check-in period, we had to wait behind about 15 other women to check-in. It was a mess, but the staff was very nice and still seemed to be in good moods. It really didn't take too long and the doctor was still on schedule, so we actually only had to wait in the waiting room about 1 minute. The nurse did the normal routine, weight, blood pressure, and urine test. I think I've gained 4-5 pounds since my first appointment, but probably more like 8 pounds since pre-pregnancy. The doctor said it is right on track. My BP was perfect. I had been worried it was going to be high because I've been getting really out of breath, more than I would expect to be due to pregnancy (I figured it was probably due to rising BP). And whatever they check with the urine -- protein and sugar levels? -- was just right. The doctor felt my belly and said it is right on track and then we listened to the baby's heart beat for a bit. This time it was fluctuating between 145 and 150 bpm.
For my last couple appointments they have been trying to get me in to see the lady that helps with choosing which hospital to go to and working with insurance payments. I'm very lucky and my insurance covers everything except one $20 copay, and I know that I want to go to Overland Park Regional for delivery, so I'm not too concerned about seeing her, but every time I've been in she's gone to lunch before I get out of my appointment. It is annoying. Apparently they don't "schedule" time with her, so you just have to see if she's there. This time they were bringing me back to her and another couple was right behind us. She was farther along than me, so they suggested that I wait until next time. When I was checking out I heard 2 other people say they needed to see her, too. I don't know if they all waited or not, but it certainly seems like that process could be more efficient!
Our next appointment will be on Tuesday, July 1st at 9:00 am. We'll have our ultrasound and then meet with the doctor!
For my last couple appointments they have been trying to get me in to see the lady that helps with choosing which hospital to go to and working with insurance payments. I'm very lucky and my insurance covers everything except one $20 copay, and I know that I want to go to Overland Park Regional for delivery, so I'm not too concerned about seeing her, but every time I've been in she's gone to lunch before I get out of my appointment. It is annoying. Apparently they don't "schedule" time with her, so you just have to see if she's there. This time they were bringing me back to her and another couple was right behind us. She was farther along than me, so they suggested that I wait until next time. When I was checking out I heard 2 other people say they needed to see her, too. I don't know if they all waited or not, but it certainly seems like that process could be more efficient!
Our next appointment will be on Tuesday, July 1st at 9:00 am. We'll have our ultrasound and then meet with the doctor!
The Big Day Will Be...
JULY 1st!
Yep, that should be the day we find out the baby's gender! We are so excited! Originally the doctor was going to have me schedule for the next week, but I asked if we could do it sooner and he said, "no problem." So, we only have 3 weeks and 1 day to wait!
Yep, that should be the day we find out the baby's gender! We are so excited! Originally the doctor was going to have me schedule for the next week, but I asked if we could do it sooner and he said, "no problem." So, we only have 3 weeks and 1 day to wait!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
So You Had A Bad Day...
First off let me say, I am fine and the baby is fine. Now that that's out of the way, let me tell you about my day yesterday -- it was a bad one!
It started off with me taking one of my vitamins. They are in a blister pack and when I went to pop it out, my thumb hit just right so that the plastic bent and formed a perfect little knife and sliced my thumb right where your nail meets your thumb. It bled a bunch, but didn't hurt too bad. Of course it is on my left hand and I'm a lefty, so every time I press something with my thumb, it hurts. That was the best part of my day...
I planned to get to work about 30 minutes early, but one of the stop lights on the highway were out (reinforcing my question about why there are stop lights on a highway, but that's another story). There had been an accident in the intersection and there were cops directing traffic. It was a mess and there were about 8 cops directing and they weren't completely in sync. I saw twice when they started to direct two opposing lanes of traffic at the same time. That added about 15 minutes to my drive, and my computer froze up when I got in to work and I had to restart it, so when it was all said and done, I didn't stark working until about 5 after 8.
About the time I got to work I realized I forgot my lunch. I had been so excited for it, too (left over Chipotle Bol).
Now, here's the really bad part of my day. Lunch. I went to Target to do a little shopping and since I didn't have a lunch, I decided to run to Burger King to pick up something on my way back to the office. The BK I went to is in the same area as a mall. There is a "mall road" that runs between the BK and the mall parking lot. Usually there isn't much traffic. When I was heading out of the parking lot, I could see traffic backed up all the way around the mall and then I looked behind BK to where the road I wanted to get to was and it was backed up, too. I decided to go out the opposite direction and get back to work a different route. That meant I needed to turn left out of BK. There were two lanes of traffic to cross. The first was completely backed up, but the 2nd wasn't. Because of all the cars on the lane closest to me, I couldn't see oncoming cars in the other lane. I was waiting to get an opportunity to leave and a lady waved me out. I pulled through her lane and was inching out into the other lane (remember I couldn't see the traffic coming in that lane). WHAM! I had inched out too far and got smacked. Since traffic was backed up already, I waved to the other car and put it in reverse and pulled back into BK. The other driver was fine, but anxious to get home (she had just left her 8 week old baby for the first time ever to go to a quick doctor visit). We decided we needed to file a report, so called the police. Well, traffic had been backed up because of a fatality wreck on another road and there had been another serious accident because of it, so we were (rightly so) at the bottom of the barrel (even though the Olathe police station was literaly less than 1 mile away). It took over an hour and 3 calls to the police station for an officer to show up. They finally came and took our info. The only damage to her car was to the front license plate. She had just moved to KS from MO and hadn't changed her tags, so they were trash anyhow. My car wasn't quite so lucky. Her license plate punctured my front bumper, which in turn hit my battery. Not really sure why the battery sits right behind the front bumper, another reason to not buy a Chrysler Sebring if anyone is considering it. The battery spilled acid all over, but we didn't know it. We saw a small area of what we thought was water (it has rained a lot here lately and there were lots of puddles on the road). Only later when my car wouldn't start did we realize it was battery acid. Apparently I'm lucky it didn't catch fire according to a few people I've told about it. Since the accident was at such a low speed I felt fine, but the longer we sat there waiting for the police the more I started to worry about the baby. For some reason, I did not have the OB's phone # in my cell, so while the police were writing the report I called Aaron to tell him about the accident and to get the number of the OB from a pamphlet at home. I started bawling as soon as I heard his voice - poor guy. I told him that I was sure everything was fine, but that I couldn't stop thinking about the baby. He told his boss he had to leave and immediately got on the road. I think he made it there in record time. By the time he got there, the cops had left (I was listed as the at fault party, but they didn't give a ticket because of the circumstances due to the other accidents). Since the other girl's car wasn't damaged I gave her my insurance info and phone number, but she said she wasn't going to file a claim. Aaron looked at my car while I called the OB. I talked to a nurse and she said she was going to talk to the doctor and call me right back. 15 minutes later I hadn't heard anything, so we started driving to the office. I called again once we got there (about 30 min later) and they said to come in and we'd listen for the heart beat. Everything was fine and we could hear it kicking through the Doppler, so that made me feel even better. On the way back we picked up a new battery and called Aaron's cousin Chris to see if we could borrow some tools (his house was closest). So, he came by and he and Aaron changed out the battery. Now the car runs fine, the front bumper just has a little hole in it. I don't think we'll get it fixed, my car has been going down hill lately as it is and we're just driving it until we have a really good reason not to and this wasn't really a good enough reason. So, all-in-all everything ended up fine, but it was a really bad day. :)
It started off with me taking one of my vitamins. They are in a blister pack and when I went to pop it out, my thumb hit just right so that the plastic bent and formed a perfect little knife and sliced my thumb right where your nail meets your thumb. It bled a bunch, but didn't hurt too bad. Of course it is on my left hand and I'm a lefty, so every time I press something with my thumb, it hurts. That was the best part of my day...
I planned to get to work about 30 minutes early, but one of the stop lights on the highway were out (reinforcing my question about why there are stop lights on a highway, but that's another story). There had been an accident in the intersection and there were cops directing traffic. It was a mess and there were about 8 cops directing and they weren't completely in sync. I saw twice when they started to direct two opposing lanes of traffic at the same time. That added about 15 minutes to my drive, and my computer froze up when I got in to work and I had to restart it, so when it was all said and done, I didn't stark working until about 5 after 8.
About the time I got to work I realized I forgot my lunch. I had been so excited for it, too (left over Chipotle Bol).
Now, here's the really bad part of my day. Lunch. I went to Target to do a little shopping and since I didn't have a lunch, I decided to run to Burger King to pick up something on my way back to the office. The BK I went to is in the same area as a mall. There is a "mall road" that runs between the BK and the mall parking lot. Usually there isn't much traffic. When I was heading out of the parking lot, I could see traffic backed up all the way around the mall and then I looked behind BK to where the road I wanted to get to was and it was backed up, too. I decided to go out the opposite direction and get back to work a different route. That meant I needed to turn left out of BK. There were two lanes of traffic to cross. The first was completely backed up, but the 2nd wasn't. Because of all the cars on the lane closest to me, I couldn't see oncoming cars in the other lane. I was waiting to get an opportunity to leave and a lady waved me out. I pulled through her lane and was inching out into the other lane (remember I couldn't see the traffic coming in that lane). WHAM! I had inched out too far and got smacked. Since traffic was backed up already, I waved to the other car and put it in reverse and pulled back into BK. The other driver was fine, but anxious to get home (she had just left her 8 week old baby for the first time ever to go to a quick doctor visit). We decided we needed to file a report, so called the police. Well, traffic had been backed up because of a fatality wreck on another road and there had been another serious accident because of it, so we were (rightly so) at the bottom of the barrel (even though the Olathe police station was literaly less than 1 mile away). It took over an hour and 3 calls to the police station for an officer to show up. They finally came and took our info. The only damage to her car was to the front license plate. She had just moved to KS from MO and hadn't changed her tags, so they were trash anyhow. My car wasn't quite so lucky. Her license plate punctured my front bumper, which in turn hit my battery. Not really sure why the battery sits right behind the front bumper, another reason to not buy a Chrysler Sebring if anyone is considering it. The battery spilled acid all over, but we didn't know it. We saw a small area of what we thought was water (it has rained a lot here lately and there were lots of puddles on the road). Only later when my car wouldn't start did we realize it was battery acid. Apparently I'm lucky it didn't catch fire according to a few people I've told about it. Since the accident was at such a low speed I felt fine, but the longer we sat there waiting for the police the more I started to worry about the baby. For some reason, I did not have the OB's phone # in my cell, so while the police were writing the report I called Aaron to tell him about the accident and to get the number of the OB from a pamphlet at home. I started bawling as soon as I heard his voice - poor guy. I told him that I was sure everything was fine, but that I couldn't stop thinking about the baby. He told his boss he had to leave and immediately got on the road. I think he made it there in record time. By the time he got there, the cops had left (I was listed as the at fault party, but they didn't give a ticket because of the circumstances due to the other accidents). Since the other girl's car wasn't damaged I gave her my insurance info and phone number, but she said she wasn't going to file a claim. Aaron looked at my car while I called the OB. I talked to a nurse and she said she was going to talk to the doctor and call me right back. 15 minutes later I hadn't heard anything, so we started driving to the office. I called again once we got there (about 30 min later) and they said to come in and we'd listen for the heart beat. Everything was fine and we could hear it kicking through the Doppler, so that made me feel even better. On the way back we picked up a new battery and called Aaron's cousin Chris to see if we could borrow some tools (his house was closest). So, he came by and he and Aaron changed out the battery. Now the car runs fine, the front bumper just has a little hole in it. I don't think we'll get it fixed, my car has been going down hill lately as it is and we're just driving it until we have a really good reason not to and this wasn't really a good enough reason. So, all-in-all everything ended up fine, but it was a really bad day. :)
Monday, June 2, 2008
Quickening
I think I've started feeling some very slight movements the past 4 or 5 days. I only feel it in the morning between about 9 and 11, but every few minutes I'll feel this little flutter in my tummy. I'm pretty sure it is the baby, but it is so subtle that it is hard to really tell. Today it was a bit stronger movement, but still not a good ol' kick to let me know that's what it is for sure. Just a couple more weeks I'm sure!
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