21 weeks today. We get another ultrasound tomorrow.
Miss Kat has been moving like a maniac, she stomps more than kicks too. She always moves when daddy talks to her, he has started reading her stories.
I am so excited! She is amazing to me now, I can only imagine how mind blowing she will be when she actually arrives.
Last Dr's appointment they took my blood for the quad screening for chromosomal abnormalities, and if it comes back elevated they will want to do an intensive diagnostic ultrasound. I am blown away by some of the things I have read on message boards...one woman was encouraging amniocentesis to another because after 3 miscarriages she and her husband had one because he "couldn't handle parenting a special needs child" and thus they would be able to terminate if there was something "wrong" with the fetus.
Their were "no problems" so her mind was put at ease. She felt this would be the case for everyone. I really hate being judgmental but having already lost 3 babies I don't understand how someone could get to this point in pregnancy and decide that this wasn't the "right" baby. I feel her squirming around in there while I am writing this, she hears daddy's voice and starts dancing, we love her beyond reason and she hasn't taken her first breath yet. I just don't understand it,there is nothing that could be "wrong" Miss Kat that could change that love and desire to be her mommy.
I am however super impatient for her to arrive. Can't wait to see who she will be, and love her so much no matter who that turns out to be.
Guess that's all for now, Miss Kat stomps her approval.(I think she is hoping for a snack)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
It's a.......
Right, sorry to leave you hanging like that. The holidays are always such a crazy time.
We learned at the ultrasound that Miss Kathleen Carmella will be joining our family in May, and the LOML always insists on adding, possibly June.
We are very excited to be able to refer to our beloved "Bean" by her proper name, we will be calling her Kat for short.
I am still super dizzy which the nurse midwife assured me is normal and the last time I had my blood pressure taken it was 106 over 62 so yeah I guess it's understandable that there would be some lightheaded ness.
We bought Kat an outfit to come home from the hospital in for Christmas, and my sister (whose youngest is going to be a teenager soon found some adorable hand-me-downs in her daughter's doll clothes. Which of course made me cry. Being older and everyone else in the family having babies at the "normal" age, I thought no one would have any hand-me-downs left for Miss Kat. Makes me glad my niece has her mom's save EVERYTHING mentality.
We have an appointment with the nurse midwife on Thursday and will probably be scheduled for our next ultrasound, and I believe we will get the quad screen done on this visit.
We also need to find out about birthing classes, we want to take them in February I believe,although that seems pretty early to me. We shall see.
I think that's all, except I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday and wish you all great joy and many blessings in the year ahead!
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Ps almost forgot, my resolution is to make sure to feed Miss Kat at least 3 times a day, which will be much easier to remember when she can remind me herself, during the second half of the year. :)
We learned at the ultrasound that Miss Kathleen Carmella will be joining our family in May, and the LOML always insists on adding, possibly June.
We are very excited to be able to refer to our beloved "Bean" by her proper name, we will be calling her Kat for short.
I am still super dizzy which the nurse midwife assured me is normal and the last time I had my blood pressure taken it was 106 over 62 so yeah I guess it's understandable that there would be some lightheaded ness.
We bought Kat an outfit to come home from the hospital in for Christmas, and my sister (whose youngest is going to be a teenager soon found some adorable hand-me-downs in her daughter's doll clothes. Which of course made me cry. Being older and everyone else in the family having babies at the "normal" age, I thought no one would have any hand-me-downs left for Miss Kat. Makes me glad my niece has her mom's save EVERYTHING mentality.
We have an appointment with the nurse midwife on Thursday and will probably be scheduled for our next ultrasound, and I believe we will get the quad screen done on this visit.
We also need to find out about birthing classes, we want to take them in February I believe,although that seems pretty early to me. We shall see.
I think that's all, except I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday and wish you all great joy and many blessings in the year ahead!
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Ps almost forgot, my resolution is to make sure to feed Miss Kat at least 3 times a day, which will be much easier to remember when she can remind me herself, during the second half of the year. :)
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Ultrasound and the great gender mystery...
So, we had the ultrasound on Monday and it was truly AMAZING! The Bean was moving around like crazy and we got to see it all. The tech measured the baby's head and belly and with a bunch of measurements determined that Bean is 5 days more developed than what the due date suggests. Also, determined that Bean weighs 8ounces already....my baby weighs half a pound...Already? I am thinking we won't need any newborn sized stuff after all.
We also found out the Bean's gender but aren't telling everyone until after Christmas.
(It's part of my FIL's gift to be the first besides the LOML & I to know)
People keep trying to get us to "spill the Bean" to quote my MIL but we haven't yet.
That's part of the reason I haven't blogged about it yet. It's hard not to say Bean's real name, now that I know it. I find myself starting to type gender specific pronouns,and have to stop. I will re-read this about 50 times before I post it, just to make sure that I didn't let it slip at all.
We did pick up an outfit to bring Bean home from the hospital in and are super excited to be able to call Bean by what will be its name.
May seems ages away but my belly feels more taut everyday. Can't wait yet still so much to do.
Love my little....Bean!
:)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
We also found out the Bean's gender but aren't telling everyone until after Christmas.
(It's part of my FIL's gift to be the first besides the LOML & I to know)
People keep trying to get us to "spill the Bean" to quote my MIL but we haven't yet.
That's part of the reason I haven't blogged about it yet. It's hard not to say Bean's real name, now that I know it. I find myself starting to type gender specific pronouns,and have to stop. I will re-read this about 50 times before I post it, just to make sure that I didn't let it slip at all.
We did pick up an outfit to bring Bean home from the hospital in and are super excited to be able to call Bean by what will be its name.
May seems ages away but my belly feels more taut everyday. Can't wait yet still so much to do.
Love my little....Bean!
:)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Friday, December 14, 2012
Note to self: don't research baby stuff right before bed
So, I have had insomnia for years, and now with my husband working nights and wanting me to nap with him, I have been having a hard time getting to sleep. So, sometimes I read, or blog, or write in Bean's journal. But when I do baby-centric stuff, I find I get too excited to sleep afterward. Reading up on breast feeding makes me so excited to hold and nurture my baby I become like a kid on Christmas Eve or the first day of school.
The other night I was imagining up to the first day of high school for cryin' out loud!
Can't help it, and the closer the ultrasound gets, the more excited I get.
We are now only 3 days away from the ultrasound! Which is probably part of the reason I am still up.
Today though something fairly amazing happened, I was laying on the daybed and the LOML came over and was talking to my tummy/the Bean and I felt something, kind of like how soda feels on the roof of your mouth, except in my lower abdomen. I was amazed then thought it may have been nothing, then he talked to my tummy again and it happened again. (Like 5 times) so, I felt the baby move and it was awesome!
Super excited and can't sleep again.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
The other night I was imagining up to the first day of high school for cryin' out loud!
Can't help it, and the closer the ultrasound gets, the more excited I get.
We are now only 3 days away from the ultrasound! Which is probably part of the reason I am still up.
Today though something fairly amazing happened, I was laying on the daybed and the LOML came over and was talking to my tummy/the Bean and I felt something, kind of like how soda feels on the roof of your mouth, except in my lower abdomen. I was amazed then thought it may have been nothing, then he talked to my tummy again and it happened again. (Like 5 times) so, I felt the baby move and it was awesome!
Super excited and can't sleep again.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Saturday, December 8, 2012
I have become such a girl!
Don't get me wrong I have no problem with women who are "girls girls". I have just never been one myself, and so to suddenly get all weepy over things that pre-pregnancy I wouldn't have thought twice about is strange for me.
Need examples? I have a plethora of them.
The other day, I caught the last 10 minutes of a romantic comedy (I don't even know what the name of it was, and have never seen it before...) not having invested anytime in the characters I should be completely unaffected by their getting together or not...right? Pre-pregnancy, I probably would have just kept flipping the channel to begin with but now? Oh yeah I cried, didn't even get the reference to earlier parts of the movie, still cried.
My husband will say something to me that he has said 5,000 times before (pre-pregnancy, I may have even laughed every time.) now,for some reason, the floodgates open.
And it's not just weepiness either, I have been getting aggravated way more easily too. Like people on Reddit make me want to break things, and I got so frustrated with my phone while trying to post the last blog post that I ended up with both! Simultaneously tearing up in frustration and wanting to hurl my phone out of the window.
I am going to blame the hormones and let it go at that.
As for the Bean?
4-5 inches long and weighing up to 5 ounces, and the tiny bones in the ears are in place which means Bean can hear us, yes we've been talking to my tummy. In just about 8 days we get our next ultrasound and we will get another one around the new year. We also need to get an updated schedule for birthing classes, we are taking them in February, I believe.
We are super excited, if you can't tell.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Need examples? I have a plethora of them.
The other day, I caught the last 10 minutes of a romantic comedy (I don't even know what the name of it was, and have never seen it before...) not having invested anytime in the characters I should be completely unaffected by their getting together or not...right? Pre-pregnancy, I probably would have just kept flipping the channel to begin with but now? Oh yeah I cried, didn't even get the reference to earlier parts of the movie, still cried.
My husband will say something to me that he has said 5,000 times before (pre-pregnancy, I may have even laughed every time.) now,for some reason, the floodgates open.
And it's not just weepiness either, I have been getting aggravated way more easily too. Like people on Reddit make me want to break things, and I got so frustrated with my phone while trying to post the last blog post that I ended up with both! Simultaneously tearing up in frustration and wanting to hurl my phone out of the window.
I am going to blame the hormones and let it go at that.
As for the Bean?
4-5 inches long and weighing up to 5 ounces, and the tiny bones in the ears are in place which means Bean can hear us, yes we've been talking to my tummy. In just about 8 days we get our next ultrasound and we will get another one around the new year. We also need to get an updated schedule for birthing classes, we are taking them in February, I believe.
We are super excited, if you can't tell.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Fat lady encouraged to put on weight, weirdest feeling ever.
Okay,Monday I had my appointment with one of the nurse midwives, and she said I had put back on some of the weight I had lost in the first trimester. She also didn't seem terribly concerned about the weight loss to begin with. The other questions I had for her were about a minor cardiac issue I have on occasion and the amount of dizziness I am experiencing. (need to let them know if I have another "episode" I guess we will call it, but unless there is chest pain or any heart attack symptoms she isn't worried and said it shouldn't effect the Bean.) The dizziness is normal, my body still doesn't have all of the blood which it has been making space for...
Now, that was Monday, today (Thursday) I had to go in for a "weight check" for WIC. If you are unfamiliar with WIC, it stands for Women Infants and Children and is a program through the FDA to encourage good prenatal and early childhood nutrition. IT IS NOT FOODSTAMPS, NOR IS IT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED.
Anyway I had to go in for a "weight check" today because I dropped 12 pounds during the first trimester and so they want to make sure I start gaining or at least maintaining weight.
Now, if you haven't been heavy (there's a word that won't make everyone uncozy, unlike the f-word which I put in the title of this post f*t)anyway I am not sure you can grasp how very strange this is to be told. I have been big my whole life. Not always as big as I am now but always obese. This is the first time in my life that I stepped up onto a Dr's scale and had someone a bit disappointed that I lost a few ounces. I don't know quite how to react. I know I actually do need to eat more often, have only been having about two meals and maybe one snack everyday but, need to start feeding the Bean more often than that. So I may just have to switch to a bunch of little meals, or grazing as my ex-mil used to call it. Feed the Bean every few hours. I think the strangest part is that I have been losing weight but my tummy is getting bigger. (the LOML, keeps laughing at me when I say this and just replies with a matter of fact, "because you're PREGNANT".)
I have also been dealing with hormones that are through the roof but as I am posting from my phone again, and as it isn't being cooperative, I will post about that another time.
Ciao for now ~
marymontama
(please be understanding of typos until I can correct them, as I said my phone is being less than cooperative)
Typos fixed, thanks for your understanding.
Now, that was Monday, today (Thursday) I had to go in for a "weight check" for WIC. If you are unfamiliar with WIC, it stands for Women Infants and Children and is a program through the FDA to encourage good prenatal and early childhood nutrition. IT IS NOT FOODSTAMPS, NOR IS IT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED.
Anyway I had to go in for a "weight check" today because I dropped 12 pounds during the first trimester and so they want to make sure I start gaining or at least maintaining weight.
Now, if you haven't been heavy (there's a word that won't make everyone uncozy, unlike the f-word which I put in the title of this post f*t)anyway I am not sure you can grasp how very strange this is to be told. I have been big my whole life. Not always as big as I am now but always obese. This is the first time in my life that I stepped up onto a Dr's scale and had someone a bit disappointed that I lost a few ounces. I don't know quite how to react. I know I actually do need to eat more often, have only been having about two meals and maybe one snack everyday but, need to start feeding the Bean more often than that. So I may just have to switch to a bunch of little meals, or grazing as my ex-mil used to call it. Feed the Bean every few hours. I think the strangest part is that I have been losing weight but my tummy is getting bigger. (the LOML, keeps laughing at me when I say this and just replies with a matter of fact, "because you're PREGNANT".)
I have also been dealing with hormones that are through the roof but as I am posting from my phone again, and as it isn't being cooperative, I will post about that another time.
Ciao for now ~
marymontama
(please be understanding of typos until I can correct them, as I said my phone is being less than cooperative)
Typos fixed, thanks for your understanding.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
T minus 20 and counting...
So, in 20 days we get our next ultrasound and get to see for sure that everything is okay in there. We have an appointment next week where we should get to hear the heartbeat again too.
I can't wait to see how much the Bean has changed since the first ultrasound, 5 weeks ago...by that point 8 weeks. I am sure it will be crazy, considering the rapid growth rate.
And am still waiting, none too patiently to feel the baby move. (I will feel better when I have regular reminders that everything is going okay in there.)
I am pretty excited about being in my second trimester and past the nausea crap! Now if I can shake this cold I can get some serious packing etc done. (Wish me luck)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Oh yeah and Bean is about the size of a large navel orange this week.
I can't wait to see how much the Bean has changed since the first ultrasound, 5 weeks ago...by that point 8 weeks. I am sure it will be crazy, considering the rapid growth rate.
And am still waiting, none too patiently to feel the baby move. (I will feel better when I have regular reminders that everything is going okay in there.)
I am pretty excited about being in my second trimester and past the nausea crap! Now if I can shake this cold I can get some serious packing etc done. (Wish me luck)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama
Oh yeah and Bean is about the size of a large navel orange this week.
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