Here is our baby!

We finally got to see our baby on the 19th.  It could not have come any sooner.  The Friday night before the ultrasound I was walking up some stairs behind the basketball stadium and I thought I was at the top step but I had one more so I totally tripped and fell right on my knee.  Luckily I didn't really land on my belly at all.  Just the left side of my ribs.  The baby was super active after that happened so I knew that he must have been okay even though I was still really scared.

So Monday morning we went to the hospital and got a good glimpse of our not-so-little baby.  Here is a synopsis of the ultrasound here (its the first time I've done a video on my own so pardon a few errors please):

 

If you watched the video you will know we're having a BOY!!  We're so excited.  I've been having baby boy dreams the entire time.  If he is anything like my dreams he will also have blonde hair and blue eyes.  Blue eyes are a given but we'll have to see about that blonde hair, its possible!

And here is my 20 week baby bump:

Its starting to bulge!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Second trimester to current (17weeks 5 days)

Life in the second trimester has been interesting.  Right around the same time I entered the second trimester David's foot got so stressed that he was no longer able to walk on it.  The Dr's noticed a stress fracture of the navicular bone and rushed him into surgery.  They put 2 screws in his foot to stabilize and give support.
I was a wreck.  David had been doing the brunt of the cooking and cleaning in the first trimester and now everything seemed to be on my shoulders.  He is in a hard cast and crutches so he can't do much.  Not to mention, what will David's season be like?  It's his senior year and he had planned on graduating and playing pro ball somewhere.  What would this do to our plan?  This is why we had tried getting pregnant when we did.
I guess life never works out exactly as planned.  We're still in the process of figuring out what we're going to do.  This whole ordeal is still a sensitive issue for me so I only give myself a few moments during the day to formulate options for what our final decision will be.  David has been a rock this whole time, he really inspires me how he is able to take these trials he seems to get every year and get stronger from them.
Thank goodness for family, friends, and our ward.  My visiting teacher comes over almost every week and takes my laundry so I don't have to worry.  We've had many people bring us food since I'm still getting back into the swing of cooking again.  It really has been an outpouring of help.  I don't think I could have gotten through the last 4 weeks without it.

Here is a bump update:  I am 17weeks, 5 days along today.  I started feeling the baby kick a little about 2 weeks ago.  Some days the baby is more active than others and I love the strange feeling the movement brings.  We have our first (and only) ultrasound in 2 weeks where we will be finding out if its a boy or girl.  I can't wait!  Luckily its first thing in the morning so I don't have to wait all day.  I'm still exhausted, but I'm able to swim a couple times a week so far for about an hour.  The heartburn is horrible, especially right when we go to bed, and I'm at the weird size phase where my normal clothes don't fit and maternity clothes are too big.

Now before I show you my bump let me preface by saying I lost weight in the 1st tri from the nausea and lack of appetite.  According to my last visit 2 weeks ago I gained 1 pound since then.  My dr will probably get mad at me if I don't gain another 3 or 4 by Dec 19th, if I haven't already.  I'm supposed to gain 1 pound a week from here on out.  Let me say, its not as easy as it sounds.  I could get into that but let's just look at my bump:

Here I am not pushing it out but standing as I do normally:

And here I am trying to slouch and let it all hang out:

Anyway, if you can't tell I'm not packing much yet.

I'll try to do these every other week or so.  Hopefully I'll be more on top of it and make an update after our ultrasound.
5 more months!

Life in the first trimester

After finding out I was pregnant it was then time to figure out how my body would handle the changes.  I remember right off the bat I was just exhausted.  My boobs got heavy, but I hadn't experienced any nausea yet.
Well, 6 weeks comes around and I got hit by the nausea bug.  It was an all day feeling and it royally sucked.  I did my best trying to force myself to eat when absolutely nothing sounded good.  I found out chicken was the devil and I got sick of meat very fast.  What was strange for my case is you couldn't really call it morning sickness because I was the most sick starting at about 7pm everyday.  I threw up twice as much at night as I did in the morning.
At about 8 weeks I had to stop going to the gym because I didn't have the ability to hold my gag reflexes anymore and I was just so tired after work.  Thank goodness that I was still able to work!
Once 12 weeks rolled around and life was still miserable I got a vitamin B shot and that seemed to clear things up for a couple weeks.  I was able to eat without force and I went to the gym to swim.  That was a good week.
I thought I was in the clear until one day during week 14 I was humbled.  I woke up to get ready for the day and all I did was clear my throat and up came whatever was left in my stomach.  Yuck.  I laid down for about a half hour then went to work feeling crummy but good enough to get things done.  I forced myself to go swimming after work which felt great.  I ate my dinner and things seemed okay until I started getting ready for bed.  I was just brushing my back teeth when I knew that I was going to be throwing up again soon.  I had thrown up so many times by then I could tell when my body would do it.  The horrible thing was I had eaten a burrito with hot salsa for dinner.  Salsa is always hotter coming back up... just a word to the wise.  I broke down crying because I thought I was "safe" from these experiences.
I got another vitamin B shot soon after that and tried to gracefully make my way into the second trimester.

Finding out our next chapter

I'm pretty sure most of you know our newest development but let me give you a little background.  After not getting pregnant the second month of trying (the month I REALLY wanted) I decided to try charting.  If it didn't happen the third month I wasn't going to do it anymore and I would just got back to guessing when I ovulate.  The tricky thing in the third month was it was our North Carolina trip.  So I packed up my basal body thermometer and was determined to have fun while trying in North Carolina.  Here is my chart for anyone interested.
Since it was my first month charting I evaluated every temp change way too much.  Especially after my predicted ovulation date.  We flew home on August 21st from NC and if you looked at the chart you notice a slight dip from the 21st-22nd.  I tried not to think into it at the time but I remember when we were flying home I was having some cramping that I dismissed as gas.  Hmm... possible implantation cramps?  Anyway, enough of the scientific part... lets move forward.
I knew the earliest I could test (9-10 days past ovulation) was the 26th.  I wanted to test early so bad!  I remember on the 25th I was at the gym running on the treadmill and I got tired faster than usual and my boobs felt so heavy that I wanted to test right when I got home.  David calmed me down and told me to test in the morning.  I realized that was the best option.  We woke up together and I rushed into the bathroom.  At first I dipped a cheap test into the cup and when a line didn't appear immediately (you're supposed to wait a couple minutes) I threw it out.  I ended up using a first response test next and covered it up with a piece of toilet paper and tried to start getting ready without peeking.  Lo and behold there was a very faint second line!  I showed David and he didn't believe me because the line was so faint.  I tried to convince him that any line was a line and I am in fact pregnant.  He brushed it off and told me to test again the next day.  Nothing could bring me down that day!
I tried taking a picture of the first test but the line was honestly so faint that none of our cameras could pick it up.  We had to babysit for my bosses kids that weekend so there was no way of testing again until Monday (the 29th).  I think this test convinced him:

I had so many cheap tests left that I tested once everyday until I ran out.  Still pregnant!

According to my date of ovulation, my predicted due date is May 8, 2012.  Our 2nd anniversary exactly.  Great timing I guess!

A little holiday fun

Here is something to entertain you while I think of a way to catch you up on everything that has happened since August.  It's been a lot.

Funny dancing family