Sunday, August 28, 2011

Exciting News!

I have some exciting news!......Michael felt Little One move today! We were laying in bed and Little One was really moving around, so I put Michael's hand on my stomach. After a few little kicks, Little One really let his hand have it. He felt several kicks, and his facial expressions were priceless. He went from really excited to.......uhh.....so there really is something in there? :) And then back to excited.
It was the pick-me-up we both really needed.

Now what we are really looking forward to is finding out the gender! Luckily, our ultrasound is only a little over a week away.....September 8th! Which is so crazy, time is flying!

18 Weeks

Little One this week:

Size:
Baby is about 5 to 5 1/2 inches long from top to tail and weighs a little more than five ounces, about the size of a lobster tail.

Development:
While in earlier weeks, the baby may have been able to sense sound with it's primitive ear structures, this week, the bones of the ear become fully formed along with the part of it's brain that processes signals from it's ears.
There's still plenty of room in my uterus, so the fetus can be quite active with it's new muscles. Baby may change positions frequently, cross it's legs, recline, suck it's thumb, and turn somersaults.
The baby's retinas have become light sensitive, and the baby may be able to detect a glow if you shine bright lights at your belly (even though it's eyelids are sealed).

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Updates

Well I have missed a week of updating on Little One...but it has been a hard couple of weeks and blogging was in the back of my mind! :) So here are some updates.....

The biggest/most exciting news is that I can feel Little One moving!!! Yay! It is such an amazing feeling. I first really felt the baby moving last week (so I was 17 weeks). Michael of course can't feel it yet, but hopefully he will soon! Little One is trying to let Michael feel it.... every time I put Michael's hand on my belly, when baby is moving, Little One starts moving right where his hand is. But it is still just too faint.

For the past week or so, I have been having some pretty severe pain over my ribs. Which is NO fun! The other night it was really bad, so we called the doctors office and talked to the on-call doctor. She thought it was muscular. She said that when your diaphragm is expanding, it can actually start to tear the muscle off of your ribs.....yuck. So she advised that I call my regular doctor the next day and get an appointment. So I called the office and ended up finally talking to my doctor's nurse, but by that time it was too late to get an appointment for that day, so we scheduled an appointment for the next day. We went in and it was a tough appointment....let me start by saying that Little One is perfectly healthy! The thing that was tough about this appointment was getting the doctor to understand where I was hurting. In the end she decided that it must have something to do with acid re-flux.....which does not make any sense to me. So I left feeling misunderstood and very upset because I was in so much pain. But after talking to my mom, who calmed me down, I plan on calling the doctor on Monday to really get this straightened out. So here I sit with a heating pad on my poor ribs...
And on top of all that.......this last week Michael got 2 of his wisdom teeth taken out. The Army decided that they would pay for it, but it had to get it done right away. So he received about a day's notice. So I went with him to the dentist, because we figured that they were going to knock him out. Turns out the Army only paid for local anesthetic, which we now know is NOT the way to go! It took them 6 vials of anesthetic to get him numbed initially, but he was burning it off so fast that they had to keep giving him more. So in the end it took 2 dentists 3 hours to get his bottom teeth out! I felt so bad for him......I was watching the whole time (which was not a good idea) and I could just see that he was going through so much pain. But we did learn a lesson from this experience. I was going to have 2 of my wisdom teeth pulled by local anesthetic, because I am pregnant, and we now know that it is not going to happen! There is no way that I could handle it!

Now it's time for both of us to hobble off to bed to try and get sleep. Here's to a better week next week! Love and miss you all!


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Me at 16 Weeks

Yay, I'm starting to actually look pregnant! :)

Luckily I'm slowly starting to feel better and get more energy!
 Knock on wood!
For this week (or very soon), I'm hoping that I will feel Little One move. I have started playing music and talking to my stomach, hoping that it will trigger some movement.
I can tell that the baby is starting to move up and out of my pelvic area...........my ribs are killing me! Sleep is not going very well either..........oh the joys of pregnancy! But I have to admit that I would not trade this experience for anything in the world! I thank God daily for giving me this precious gift and for letting me experience it with an amazing person like Michael!



16 Weeks

Little One this week:

Size:
Baby weighs about 2.8 ounces and is about 4 1/2 inches from crown to rump - roughly the size of a small gerbil.

Development:
At any time, I will begin to feel fetal movement as the baby's bones harden, and will start a big growth spurt. The baby has plenty of room - baby could fit in the palm of my hand. This is a great time to be a fetus. At any given time, the baby might be playing with the umbilical cord (which baby is now able to grasp), putting it's thumb in it's mouth, or kicking at the amniotic sac.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

15/16 week Doctor Appointment

Today we had our 15/16 week doctor appointment. This was just a small check-up and only took about 30 minutes.

Dr. Fealko is our doctor and is awesome. I love that she still gets excited when it comes time to discuss the baby. She was just as excited to listen to the heartbeat as we were. When she was checking the heartbeat, little one was being stubborn and moved away every time we heard it. She just smiled and said "Baby is really rockin' it in there!" Anyway, baby's heartbeat is nice and strong. While listening to the baby, Dr. Fealko asked us if we wanted to know the sex at our next appointment (of course we do!). Then she asked if we wanted to know her opinion/guess on the gender....we said yes, and she thinks it is a boy! Now she was not just guessing, she said that babies with faster heartbeats tend to be boys. I guess we will all see in about 5 weeks......

In the meantime, Michael and I are doing well. We are still trying to wrap our minds around it, but that gets easier every day. My morning sickness is just about gone, but unfortunately it has been replaced with a very keen sense of smell that can send me to the bathroom just as easily...oh well, the joys of being pregnant I guess.  Anyway, that is all the time I have to write. Gotta get up early and go to work.

15 weeks

Our Little One this week:

Size:
About 4 to 4 1/2 inches and about 1 3/4 of an ounce.

Development:
If you could see your baby's face, you might be able to see it wince and grimace, because it's facial muscles are developing and flexing.
All of the baby's tiny organs, nerves, and muscles are starting to function. The baby's pancreas begins to produce insulin, a hormone which turns sugar into energy.