The Countdown Begins

Only 9 more weeks until baby Kate is here! Its hard to believe there will be a baby around in just two short months. We have been very busy this week with baby stuff. On Sunday we purchased her dresser, thank you everyone who got us Target gift cards! Then I washed all her new clothes and sorted them out by size and Jeff helped me put them away. I think its amazing that she has so much clothes already and she isn't even here yet. She must get that from me : ) Yesterday, we brought her bedding, I just need to wash it then it can go on her bed. I was going to wash it today but when I came home from work the power was out, it has been very windy here today. So I was forced to snuggle with Bella on the couch instead of doing chores. She was cold and sad, I had to! Jeff is going to paint the baby's room sometime this weekend and she only needs a few more things then we will be ready!!! Ill make sure to take pictures when the room is done.

We have also starting birthing classes. Although we have already been slackers and skipped class yesterday. I know shame shame! But next week we will be doing the hospital tour and learning about the different things that will/could happen to me. Needless to say its not something I'm looking forward to but I don't think any woman in her right mind looks forward to labor. I just keep telling myself that there will be good drugs to help with the pain and there is an end point and Ill finally get to meet this little girl who we love so much already!

Im sorry belly button

Oh my poor belly button I'm sorry Ive neglected you for so many years. Ive tanned you, pierced you, and never put lotion on you. I took for granted how cute you were and now you are deformed!!! The baby's new thing is to push out my belly button to freak me out! At this moment half my belly button is an outie and the other half is an inie! The baby did this last night too but when I stood up it went away but not this time. Hopefully she will get bored soon and leave it alone. I told Jeff when my belly button popped I was done, like a turkey. But I'm not done yet. This baby has to cook for at least two and half more months!!!

There must be something in the water

On Saturday we had a party for Jeff's birthday and there were five pregnant ladies!!! I don't think Ive ever known so many people pregnant at one time. I'm due in February, Mandi is due in May, Emily is due in May, Cynthia is due in April, and Ashley will have her baby in March. Needless to say there will be a lot of babies around this summer and don't worry those are virgin margaritas!
I had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything is going well. I'm up ten pounds from my starting weight. It was kind of shocking when I stepped on the scale but its mostly baby right. According to the baby book the baby is about 2 1/2 pound and 16 inches long! Its kind of weird to think that our baby is that big and fits somewhere in my bump. Thankfully, she likes to be all curled up, even if its all curled up under my ribs. That seems to be her new favorite place to be which makes it a little uncomfortable to sit down. I either have to stand up or lay down and stretch out.
I also had my first baby shower on Sunday. The girls from work were so nice and set up an amazing brunch. We got lots of clothes and blankets for the baby. We also got our infant/toddler seat.

Its time to party!

So the baby is awake! And I think having a little dance party! She has been moving around for a good 40 minutes now, if only she would of been like this yesterday. She is even playing little games today, by games I mean I push on my belly and she pushes back. Well at least I know this about her personality so far, she will never do what you want her to and she is a good sleeper. I guess Ill take the good with the bad!

Sleepy Little Girl

So Thursday was Jeff's birthday, the big 3-0, he is officially old or aged to perfection! Anyways, for his birthday I set up an ultrasound so him and the baby could have their first daddy-daughter date and she slept through the whole thing! She wouldn't wake up for anything! Thankfully our ultrasound tech was so nice and let us reschedule. So we scheduled another ultrasound for today at 11. I ate something an hour before, I even skipped the recommended juice and went straight for the caffeine. And still nothing! She slept the whole time again! We did get some movement this time but it was just her moving her hands in front of her face. She is so cute though. The pictures are from Thursday night, the ones from today don't show her face because she has her hands in her face and then she turned her back towards us.
Her hands up by her face. Her smiley face and her chubby cheeks : )Her foot in front of her face! You can also see that her mouth is open.She just loves to sleep, look at that smile!!!What a happy baby!

Even though we didn't get to see her moving around it was so nice just to see her face. This is what she is going to look like when she is born, hopefully and little chubbier but that is her face. We also have a DVD of the ultrasound so that is a nice little keepsake. I can just see it now, when she is a teenage we will show it to all her friends or be watching it when some boy comes to pick her up for a date. If I can figure out how to download the DVD to the computer I will post it for everyone to see.
Also this week I have gotten a lot bigger. Or at least that is how I feel.

Another exciting thing this week is that we have finally decided on a name! Her name will be Katherine Elizabeth Sagel and we will call her Kate. Finally she has a name!

Double Digits

On my home Google page I have a countdown until the baby is due and today it went to double digits!!! Only 99 more days!!! It so crazy, I'm six months pregnant now and I will soon be in the third trimester. Time is sure flying by!!! I feel like I'm in the perfect stage of my pregnancy. The morning sickness is gone, thank god!!! I'm not too big yet so I can still do daily activities, even though laundry is getting a little hard to carry up and down the stairs. Ive been just pushing it down the stairs hoping that the laundry stays in the basket. I get to enjoy the little kicks and pushes from the baby multiple times during the day. I think she even had the hiccups the other day. It was a little very steady movement. It was kinda neat! I hope this stage of pregnancy last a lot longer.
My baby bump has grown quite a bit since the last picture and looking back on the picture its amazing how much I've changed in four weeks. And Ill only get bigger!
Halloween was good at our house. We had lots of little kids come trick or treating. Then we went to Grandma Focke's, Jeff's grandma, to visit with family and to see the girls in their costumes. Just think next year we will have a little girl that will go trick or treating. Well maybe not trick or treating but she can dress up and help hand out candy. I think the animals will enjoy that, my energy will go towards the baby and not them.
Hopefully the baby will be more cooperative and happy about her costume.

3 Hour Glucose Test

So I had my test on Tuesday morning and results came back fine! It really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The four hours went by quickly and I didn't feel horrible from fasting. Having my blood drawn four times in four hours wasn't fun but it wasn't too bad either. All in all everything worked out!
I had another first yesterday! Everyone that I work with in my department knows that I'm pregnant. After two weeks of being sick I had to tell them that it was morning sickness and not a horrible disease. Anyways, everyone in the department knows but very few parents or children know. So yesterday I was working and one of the moms asked if I was pregnant. That was the first time anyone asked if I was or not! I guess there's no hiding my baby bump now! Baby Sagel wants to be seen and as Ive come to find out she like the attention!

Failed

So I had my appointment today and everything looks good with me and the baby but I failed my one hour glucose test. This doesn't mean that I have diabetes it just means that I have to take a three hour glucose test. The three hour test will tell me if I have diabetes or not. So tomorrow at 7:30am I have the pleasure of sitting in the hospital for three hours and to get poked every hour! Hopefully tomorrow the finger poking goes a little better, they had to poke me four times before they could get enough blood. I also have to fast before this test which would normally not bother me but telling a pregnant women she cant eat is like telling an infant not to cry. Hopefully everything will be fine!

24 Weeks

I will be 24 weeks on Tuesday. Only four more weeks until I'm in my third trimester. Crazy!!! I feel like the second trimester is going by so quickly. It could because I'm not sick everyday anymore. I am starting to slow down again, I don't have the energy I did a couple of weeks ago. I'm also starting to feel sick again, I haven't gotten sick I just feel sick off and on.
I have another doctors appointment tomorrow and my glucose test is tomorrow too. I have to drink this orange drink and have a blood test within an hour of drinking it. They are just checking to make sure I haven't developed diabetes. I don't think this will be a problem, so hopefully I pass. Well I hope so at least. I don't think I can live without sugar : )

Goodbye Morning Sickness

That's right its been two weeks since Ive gotten sick! I didn't want to get too excited last week but this week I am excited! Ive been waiting for this day for three months!!! (Happy dance) Pregnancy is pretty enjoyable right now, I feel like a normal person. A normal person that needs 12 hours of sleep at night, but a normal person!
The baby is now about a pound and she is moving like crazy now a days. It seems like she is awake in the morning then sleeps most of the day and back awake right after dinner. Her kicks are getting stronger they even make Jeff say "man that must hurt". They don't hurt but it is distracting. Its hard to focus when it looks like your baby is making popcorn in there.
The baby's name is still under debate. Jeff has made up his mind and wont consider anything else. That man is so stubborn!!! His choice isn't a bad name I just have some issues with it. Ill just keep thinking of better names : ) Hopefully she will have a name by the time she arrives.

Holy Cantaloupe!

Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, speaking of the diaper situation... baby's genitals are now fully formed!

I remember going to the grocery store and looking at the plums, peaches, lemons, and even the oranges each week and thinking my baby is that big and being excited. But as I walked passed the cantaloupes this week I said "O my" and started to think I'm only half way there!


As you can see I'm starting to look like I have a baby hanging out in there. The baby is still moving around like crazy. I feel her a couple time each day mostly when I'm laying or sitting down. I'm also feeling better. I haven't had morning/day/evening sickness in over a week! KNOCK ON WOOD!!! I still get car sick though so I have to wear my seabands, even though Prince stole one and of course he hid it somewhere. So now I only have one, Ill be seasick on one side!

Baby Sagel is a...

GIRL! If you couldn't tell by the pink background. We had our ultrasound on Tuesday and everything looked great. The baby is about 11 oz now and she was moving like crazy! She was a little stubborn about showing us the gender, she had her legs crossed the whole time and when the tech would give her a little push to get her to move she just waved her arms around but wouldn't uncross those legs. She didn't show until the very end of the ultrasound and after the tech made me change my position. Maybe she was just being a lady or she likes to keep her mommy in suspense.

Side view of the baby. All curled up.Front view, looking at the baby's face. I call this one our terminator baby picture. A little scary I know.
This is the 3D ultrasound, pretty cool. Its kind of a side view, the baby's head is at the top right you can see her eyes and nose. Her hand is also up by her face. You can also see her round little belly and her feet all curled up close. She is pretty cute! But I'm a little bias.

18 Weeks

Your fetus has become amazingly mobile (at least compared to you), passing the hours yawning, hiccuping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking and swallowing. And, baby's finally big enough that you'll be able to feel those movements soon.




Aww my sweet potato baby : ) Sorry I havent updated the blog soon Im really almost 19 weeks, almost half way there!! I have been able to feel the baby move/kick a lot more this week. I was even able to feel the baby from the outside, the stronger kicks of course. Even more exciting Jeff was able to feel the baby! He was so excited, very cute.
More exciting news is that we purchased the crib this week. We got an awesome deal for the crib and mattress.
Now all we need to do is find out the gender of Baby Sagel so we can start working on the nursery because right now my guest room is a little cramped with a crib in it. But that day will be sooner than later, Tuesday at 9 am!!! Im so excited to see our little baby again. Its hard to believe that last time we saw the baby it was only the size of a grain of rice now its a sweet potato!!
Morning sickness has turned into evening sickness and still has no signs of easing up. Booo!!! I'm still dreaming of that day when I wont have morning sickness but that day might not come until the middle of February. O well I guess. I've also had a really bad case of "pregnancy brain" this week. I physically cant do more than one task at a time, my brain just cant handle it. I was loading the dishwasher yesterday and Jeff asked me to turn on the radio in the living room. I dropped everything I was doing and went to the living room for probably 10 minutes to find a good station, came back into the kitchen and asked Jeff why the faucet in the kitchen was on. I had left it on and had no idea.

Dear Morning Sickness

Dear Mr. Morning Sickness,

I can only assume that you are a man because a women wouldn't annoy me for so long. She would have gotten the hint by now and moved on. You have been around now for 12 weeks, that's 3 months!!! I think you have over stayed your welcome and you can pack up and leave anytime now. There are other pregnant women that need your company. They might even enjoy your little 2am wake up calls and not curse your name every morning. You will be happier with them, they can give you a better home than I can. I'm sorry this hasn't worked out but I think its for the best.

Your friendly complainant, Susan

17 Weeks

Baby's skeleton is hardening, changing from rubbery cartilage to bone, and fat is finally accumulating around it. The umbilical cord is getting thicker and stronger, and those little fingers and toes are now topped by one-of-a-kind prints.




Morning sickness is getting better and my appetite is growing. For the past four days I've gotten up at 7am and have been starving. I cant even ignore it and go back to sleep I have to get up and eat. But I will take this over morning sickness any day.
The baby is still moving a lot and I'm starting to notice the movement more and more. I also learned a new trick today. If I drink orange juice it makes be baby dance! It made the baby constantly move for 40 minutes or so. This is the longest Ive have felt the baby move. Usually its only for a few minutes.
We also went to Target today to check out their baby furniture. I was pleasantly surprised to see that not only did they have them in the store but that the quality was comparable to other cribs that we have looked at but they were much cheaper. Only two more weeks until we finally know what gender our baby is and can start preparing for its arrival.
Jeff is also excited to learn that our baby now has fingerprints which means in his mind it now has an identity.

16 Weeks

Watch what you say... tiny bones forming in baby's ears mean the little one can now pick up your voice. Eyebrows, lashes and hair are starting to fill in, and taste buds are forming. And, if you're interested, an ultrasound might be able to determine gender.




How far along? A little over 16 weeks

Maternity clothes? Only pants. Maternity shirts are still way too big its like wearing a tent.

Stretch marks? Nope and I hope it stays that way!

Sleep: Great as long as I have a pillow between my legs.

Best moment this week: Being able to feel the baby move : )

Movement: Yep started on Sunday morning.

Food cravings: Not really. I wish I had cravings it would make eating easier.

Gender: Only a few more weeks. I cant wait until September 15th!

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss: Waking up knowing I'm not going to be sick that day. But at least the morning sickness isn't everyday anymore.

What I am looking forward to: Finding out the gender. I cant wait to start on the nursery.

Ive finally felt the baby move on Sunday. Jeff and I went camping last weekend and I had just came back from one of my many trips to the bathroom and laid back down. Then there it was a little push in my abdomen. At first I just blew it off as another weird pregnancy thing. But there it was again, and again. It didn't hurt it was just a pushing like something poking me from the inside, or should I say someone. Right away I woke up Jeff to share the exciting news, our baby was moving! Since then Ive felt the baby at least once day but I only notice it when I'm sitting still. I think the baby might be able to hear Bella's heart beat or maybe its just the change in pressure but when Bella lays her head on my belly the baby always seems to start kicking. Either the baby already likes Bella or he/she is saying "Hey you! Get off me and my mommy!". I cant wait until you can feel the baby's kicks from the outside, it will be funny to see how Bella reacts.

14 or 15 Weeks?

So the doctors always measured me a week behind my due date so I was going by what they said thinking that my due date might be moved. But according to my due date, February 9th, I'm at 15th week. Anyways, at our appointment yesterday the doctor said that everything seemed to be caught up. So I'm going with the due date that means I'm 15th weeks!





Continuing the march towards normal proportions, baby's legs now out measures the arms. And, finally, all four limbs have functional joints. Your fetus is squirming and wiggling like crazy down in the womb, through you probably still cant feel the movements.




Nothing has really changed. I'm still sick most of the time and lately I haven't even had a good day. I never thought it could happen but the vomiting has even gotten worse. I get sick at least once a day and at times it can be violent and exhausting. I'm just so ready to start feeling better!
Anyways, to the fun stuff. We had a doctors appointment yesterday and everything looked good. The baby's heart rate was 156 which is good. I asked why it would have gone down so much since last visit and she said that the baby was probably just sleeping. Seeing that our appointment was at 9am Im hoping that this is a sign that the baby likes to sleep in as much as mommy and that this habit continues. Hey a girl can dream cant she! Also, even though Ive been so sick Ive gained a pound since the last appointment. This could be because for two days before the appointment I was starving to death! It was horriable, I would eat something and not even twenty minutes later I was starving again but yet I couldnt keep anything down. Thankfully that little episode has ended.
And for the biggest news!!! Our big ultrasound is scheduled for September 15th! Hopefully baby Sagel will be so nice as to let us see if its a boy or girl! I think mommy has earned that. Im so excited. I cant wait to know what our little baby is then we can start preparing for its arrival. We can finally start thinking about names seriously, its been really hard to think about names when we didnt know the gender. And we can finally start working on the nursery : ) Only a couple more weeks!

13 Weeks

Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)




"You know that you're not out of the woods yet, but at least it feels good to be able to catch your breath today." I think my horoscope explains how things have been going lately. Last week I did have more good days than bad days but I'm still having those bad days. I hit my first pregnancy milestone this weekend, I brought my first pair of maternity pants! I have to say they are really comfortable. I have been having a lot of stretching and sharp pains in my abdomen the past week, the doctor calls them "growing pains". Most of the time they are just annoying but some times I cant help but stop and grab my side.

12 Weeks

As you move into the second trimester, baby shifts into the growth and maturation stage. After weeks in the critical developmental stage, almost all of baby's systems are fully formed.






The past couple of days Ive felt really good and thought maybe this could be the end of the all day sickness. But around 9pm last night I started to feel sick again and haven't been able to keep anything down since then. I feel a little discouraged because I got my hopes up that the all day sickness was over and I could finally start enjoying being pregnant. Hopefully that day will come sooner than later.

The Stork

Where is my stork!?! My mother says she never told me about the stork but I don't believe her!!! Either she told me that when I got married and was ready to have a baby that a stork would bring it to me or she let me watch Dumbo too many times and never told me the truth. I can remember up until around 4th grade I really thought that is how babies got here. Oh if that were only true.
I think that either my hormones are making me crazy or I've come to the realization that I'm going to have a baby. I know I wanted this and couldn't wait to get pregnant, don't get me wrong I am so excited and cant wait to hold my little boy or girl but I am scared. I am so scared! I'm the type of person that wants/needs to know exactly whats going to happen and how its going to feel. That cant happen in this situation. I can spend all my time reading books and learning about everything that will or could happen but still wont be prepared for what is going to happen. Even more scary than not knowing whats going to happen is how much its going to hurt. I have nothing to compare it to. Ive never had surgery, I have broken a bone and had stitches but I was too young to even remember. I know I will be fine and in the end I will have my baby but until then I'm going to be scared of the unknown.

11 Weeks

Your fetus currently enjoys a 1:1 ratio between body and head, and has skin so transparent that blood vessels show right through. But, fingers and toes are no longer webbed, and hair follicles, tooth buds and nail beds are forming -- setting up a significantly more attractive future





***WARNING I COMPLAIN A LOT DURING THIS BLOG SO IF YOU HAVE THIS IMAGE OF ME AS A HAPPY PREGNANT WIFE WHO LOVES LIFE I WOULD NOT READ THIS AND SEND THOSE HAPPY THOUGHTS MY WAY!!!***

So the medicine the doctor gave me last week was not the magical drug that I thought it would be. To tell you the truth it hasn't help very much at all. When I take it I don't feel the urge to run to the restroom when I eat but I still feel sick to my stomach and it make me even more tired than just the normal pregnant fatigue. The worst part is that the medicine only keeps the nausea away for about two hours, I can only take the medicine every four hours. The medicine is also very expensive, $650 for 30 pills, I was only given 30 pills for the month and the insurance may only pay for two refills.
I told myself when I first found out I was pregnant that there were going to be parts of this pregnancy that were going to suck and at times may make we want to give up but that I had to keep my head up and not complain about it because at the end we would have our baby. I just didn't know that it would suck so soon into the pregnancy! I was thinking about when I started to get bigger and the baby was kicking me and I couldn't sleep and then of course labor! But not morning sickness I thought this would be fine I would be sick a little bit of the day then I would be fine and could continue with my day. I wasn't ready for this all day sickness, where I can barely eat anything even when I try I get one bite in and go running for the bathroom. Now I have the motherly guilt that my baby is starving because I cant keep anything down and when I can keep something down its not the healthiest things.
I not only have motherly guilt I have wifely guilt too. Jeff has been wonderful the past month he has done all the cooking and most of the cleaning, he even went grocery shopping by himself this past trip. He is doing all of this while I lay on the couch and think of all the things that aren't getting done or how I wouldn't have done it that way. Or how I think I can smell the litter box when I'm in our upstairs bathroom, the litter box is in the basement, so I yell at Jeff to clean it even if he just cleaned it the day before. I know what you're thinking I'm a horrible wife that I have this wonderful husband that would do anything to make me happy and you're right! I think that's why you're suppose to get married then have kids. You fall in love with this person who is everything you want in a partner and you decide you want more, you want to have kids. Then the lovely wife, me : ), goes crazy from the all day sickness and the overload of hormones but by this time its too late for the husband, Jeff, you've already vowed to spend your life with this crazy person! In sickness or in health : ) But enough complaining this to shall pass right?

OK back to fun baby talk...

How far along? 11 weeks
Maternity clothes? Two weeks ago I thought I would be wearing nothing but maternity pants now but with losing 6 pounds I went from not being able to zip my pants all the way up to not only being able to zip them but button them and have plenty of room to breath.

Stretch marks? Nope and I hope it stays that way!

Sleep: I'm getting lots of this. However the past few days Ive had to go to the bathroom every half hour which makes it hard to stay a sleep! I'm not sure if the little lime is leaning on my bladder or what but something is going on there.

Best moment this week: Nothing yet but its only Monday.

Movement: Nope but only a few more weeks hopefully. They said around week 14-16.

Food cravings: I wish

Gender: Only 9 more weeks until we find out!

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss: Nothing really

What I am looking forward to: That wonderful day when I wake up and don't have morning sickness ever again!!!

10 weeks

We had a doctors appointment this morning and everything is looking good. We got to hear the baby's heartbeat again it was 164 beats per minute, which is wonderful. I did however lose 6 pounds since my last appointment about a month ago, that's what happens when you have morning sickness all day long! So they finally put me on anti nausea medication, Zofran, http://www.drugs.com/zofran.html. I took it around noon today and I felt fine for about an hour but I'm starting to feel a little sick again but nothing compared to how I usually am so maybe its working! I did read a little about it and its kinda made me uneasy. It's a new drug and it's never been tested on women who are pregnant only pregnant animals so they dont know if it effects the devolpment of the fetus or not. I think I will only use it when I cant keep anything down and have tried everything else.
According to the what to expect with your expecting book, the website I've been getting the weekly updates from is not working so no cute picture this week : (, the baby is the size of a prune which is about 1 1/2 inches long. Bones and cartilage are forming and the baby's elbows are beginning to work. The stomach is starting to produce digestive juices and the kidneys are producing larger quantities of urine. Every time i think about this it kinda grosses me out. Someone is peeing inside me, YUCK!!! Also this week if the baby is a boy his testes are producing testosterone!

9 weeks

Your baby has officially graduated from a embryo to fetus. This week tiny muscles are starting to form. This will allow your fetus to move his or her arms and legs, though it'll be at least another month before you'll be able to feel those little punches and kicks. The baby's heartbeat can now be heard via a Doppler device at your practitioner's office.




Nothing is really new this week. I still have morning sickness that last all day. At the beginning of last week I had two days in a row that I felt fine and I got a little hopeful that I was over the hump, but I haven't had a good day since and that was last Tuesday. My mom bought me a book that contains old wives' tales, traditions, poems, and stories; it is very interesting. Out of a desperate attempt to solve my morning sickness, I read that section again hoping it had some magic cure, it didn't. Anyways it said that in Korea, where my grandma is from, that women welcome morning sickness and call it the enjoyable sickness. Ha! My inner Korean laughed so hard she fell off the couch! Enjoyable is not how i would describe this.
There are some things I'm looking forward to. I have a doctors appointment next Tuesday and I'll get to hear the heartbeat again : ) Also it is exciting to think that in four weeks I'll be able to feel the baby move! And in eleven more weeks we will know the sex of the baby and we can start preparing for our little olive to arrive.


I don't know if the baby bump is any bigger than the last picture but I sure feel like it. I told Jeff the other day that now when I look down my belly sticks out more than my boobies (Jeff's editing! ha!) for the first time forever. I also can't wear any of my pants without the bellaband. I already feel uncomfortable with my new self and its only the beginning.

8 Weeks

Your baby is growing like mad, putting on about a millimeter every day and continuing to straighten out in the trunk. Though you can't feel it yet, baby is moving those little arms, legs and (now only slightly) webbed fingers and toes like crazy.

This week has been a little rough. Ive had morning sickness everyday, excluding yesterday, from the time I got out of bed until I went to sleep that night and even a couple nights I had to run to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I wouldn't mind it so much if it was only in the mornings, why do they call it morning sickness in the first place!?! But to have it all day, every day is very discouraging! I just hope it eases up soon.

First Ultrasound

Here are the pictures from our first ultrasound on Tuesday. The ultrasound tech said the baby is about the size of a grain of rice, at least in these pictures its probably a little bigger by now. The pregnancy book says about the size of a blueberry. We also got to hear the heart beat, the tech said that the fetal heart rate was 107, which she said was good. I know it sounds a little low for the first ultrasound but its because the baby is only about 6 1/2 weeks old. The heart beat only started to beat at the beginning of the 6 weeks. I know this because I read that the heart beat should be between 110-120, searched the internet and my pregnancy book for hours to figure out why it wasn't in that range; I know worried mom already. I can't wait until our next appointment in mid July to hear the heart beat again. It was so amazing!







As for only having "hunger" sickness I wish that was the case. I have full blown morning sickness which just happens to last all day long. It's really hard to get out of bed in the morning and to function during the day. I've been trying to drink sprite and that seems to help a little bit-thanks Robyn!!! I've also learned to trust my stomach when it tells me I shouldn't eat something or stop eating something. The thing I can't stand to eat or even smell is pizza for some reason. It's also hard to prepare dinner if it has any raw meat that needs to be cooked. So as you can probably guess, Jeff and I have been eating out a lot this past week.

Something else is new this week. I can't button my pants anymore! So I went to Target and got what is called a Bella Band. It goes around my waist, over my pants/shorts to hold them up. I'm hoping that this will get me through the rest of the summer so I don't have to buy any maternity shorts.

Chinese Birth Chart

So out of boredom and curiosity i decided to do the Chinese birth chart. I did the best out of three and all three were, drum roll please, Girl!!! Jeff still believes it will be a boy. I guess only time will tell.
I'm still feeling fine. No morning sickness just "hunger" sickness. Anytime I'm just a little hungry i start to feel sick. And i wonder why Ive gained so much weight in the past month! 5lbs! I like to think its just water weight : )
I am so tired this week. Today i came home from work at 1 slept from 3-4 then took another nap from 8-10. I'm glad i only had to work until 1 i don't know what i will do when i have to work all day tomorrow. Jeff read today that a pregnant woman uses as much energy as he would body building so that made me feel better about all my naps!

We're Pregnant!!!

As most of you know Jeff and I went to the doctor today for our first appointment. We are about 6 to 7 weeks along and our due date is February 9, a couple of peoples birthday!

How far along? About 6 weeks
Maternity clothes? Nope not yet. But my pants are getting a little tight.

Stretch marks? Nope and i hope it stays that way!

Sleep: Great but i wake up twice a night to go to the bathroom.

Best moment this week: Going to the doctor and finding out how far along i am.

Movement: Nope

Food cravings: I suddenly really like Skyline.

Gender: Don't know yet but Jeff is convinced its a boy, we will see!

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? In

What I miss: Coffee in the morning

What I am looking forward to: Hearing the heart beat next week!

Everyone seems to be taking the news very well and is really excited, except Rusty.

Maybe we shouldn't have told him at the top of the stairs!!!

We hope this blog will help everyone stay up to date with everything that will happen in the up coming 9 months.