I don't have much to report, it's been a very uneventful week and a half! Thank god! I've had the same worries that every pregnant lady has at some point early on in pregnancy. Most of my symptoms started going away late last week, so of course, I started worrying that something was wrong. I had no other reason to think something was wrong other than the fact that hormones play dirty dirty tricks on pregnancy brain. So Monday night when I got to work, I took out our little doppler (it's kinda like the ultrasound without a screen-just a speaker) to see if I could hear the little heart beating. They say it can take up to 12 weeks to be heard by doppler, but it can be heard in some as early as 8 weeks. I was 9 1/2, so I thought I'd give it a shot. And it worked! Little Cletus the T-Rex angel-bean was whooshing away! Ahh the conviences of working in a hospital. I can hear our little punkin's heartbeat whenever I want!
Today is the 10 week mark! Only 30 more weeks to go! Like I said, most of my symptoms are gone. I'm still pretty tired, and I'm peeing all the time :) and that's pretty much it. Tom hasn't even had to suffer from the hormonal rage yet! I have read that that fun time may still be to come! Poor guy!
Oh, I have had some pretty bad heartburn already, so I'm gunna put in an early bet that little beanie is gunna have lots of hair! :o) My next appointment is November 6th, but it's just with a prenatal nurse. I'll see my new OB doc on the 21st. That's it for now!
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
We Got To See Our Baby Again!! Ultrasound #2
We had our 2nd ultrasound on Monday the 13th. Here's the first picture, it's my little angel!! It's got a little halo! :) If you
look really closely (the yolk sac is the halo, the head is right underneath) you can sort of make out the outline of the beginning of a nose and a little eye dot! How cute is that! I can't believe how much it's grown, it has tripled in size in 2 weeks! I would read in all my books how much was changing, but it's a whole different thing to actually see the changes. It's absolutely amazing! In the second picture you can see the little arm and leg
buds. The legs are the little white blurs at the bottom and the arms are right under the "chin". It was wiggling around in there! It gave us a little wave! It was too freakin cute! All Tom and I could think about was that dinosaur cartoon that came out not too long ago where the T-rex says "I've got a huge head and little arms"...it's hilarious! We laughed...a lot!! I found the video, you have to watch it to see what I'm talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7rezDwqEI So now, after sharing this story with dear Heather, a new nickname has been given to Bean/Cletus the Fetus...he/she is now T-Rex! The third picture is the heartbeat 
picture. The heartrate was 183 this time! Up from 138. The nurse said this is pretty normal, the heartrate starts out slow then peaks around this time. It will go down again later in the pregnancy and level out in the third trimester. So we have a very strong little angel T-Rex!!
look really closely (the yolk sac is the halo, the head is right underneath) you can sort of make out the outline of the beginning of a nose and a little eye dot! How cute is that! I can't believe how much it's grown, it has tripled in size in 2 weeks! I would read in all my books how much was changing, but it's a whole different thing to actually see the changes. It's absolutely amazing! In the second picture you can see the little arm and leg
buds. The legs are the little white blurs at the bottom and the arms are right under the "chin". It was wiggling around in there! It gave us a little wave! It was too freakin cute! All Tom and I could think about was that dinosaur cartoon that came out not too long ago where the T-rex says "I've got a huge head and little arms"...it's hilarious! We laughed...a lot!! I found the video, you have to watch it to see what I'm talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7rezDwqEI So now, after sharing this story with dear Heather, a new nickname has been given to Bean/Cletus the Fetus...he/she is now T-Rex! The third picture is the heartbeat 
picture. The heartrate was 183 this time! Up from 138. The nurse said this is pretty normal, the heartrate starts out slow then peaks around this time. It will go down again later in the pregnancy and level out in the third trimester. So we have a very strong little angel T-Rex!!Tuesday, October 7, 2008
We Finally Got to Tell My Side of the Family!
After three long weeks of keeping quiet (which was absolute torture) we fin
ally went to Holdrege over the weekend to tell the Coxes and Buettners! I'm so glad I don't have to keep it in anymore! It was especially hard to talk to Laura and Andy and hear about their pregnancy woes-I just wanted to say "I know what you're talking about! I'm preggo too!" But I had to wait, I love to see surprised faces! Dad walked right into it when we got home on Thursday night. He was just then giving Laura and Andy their congrats card (even though he'd known for almost a month-hmmm, I wonder who I get my horrible procrastination from :) ??) Well, our scheme was to have him read a congrats card that he thought was just for Andy and Laura (which it was of course). So I handed Andy and Laura their card and gave Dad his and told them I just forgot to get them in the mail. I made Dad read his out loud. So he's reading this long congrats poem, then at the bottom, I added a little poem of my own. It said "They say being a grandparent is such a joy and a treat, we sure hope so cuz you will be twice in one week!" He read the last part like he was asking a question-it didn't quite register at first! But Jenny got it right away, so I'm pretty sure the screams gave it away! :) Then we told Grandpa Buettner and Grandma Cox. They were pretty happy too. Grandma kept saying how "exuberant" she was, and of course, she started stopping people in the hallway right away to start spreading the news! It was a fun weekend. I'm definitely turning into a party pooper though! I can't stay awake past 9:30! I'd say the fatigue has officially kicked in!
ally went to Holdrege over the weekend to tell the Coxes and Buettners! I'm so glad I don't have to keep it in anymore! It was especially hard to talk to Laura and Andy and hear about their pregnancy woes-I just wanted to say "I know what you're talking about! I'm preggo too!" But I had to wait, I love to see surprised faces! Dad walked right into it when we got home on Thursday night. He was just then giving Laura and Andy their congrats card (even though he'd known for almost a month-hmmm, I wonder who I get my horrible procrastination from :) ??) Well, our scheme was to have him read a congrats card that he thought was just for Andy and Laura (which it was of course). So I handed Andy and Laura their card and gave Dad his and told them I just forgot to get them in the mail. I made Dad read his out loud. So he's reading this long congrats poem, then at the bottom, I added a little poem of my own. It said "They say being a grandparent is such a joy and a treat, we sure hope so cuz you will be twice in one week!" He read the last part like he was asking a question-it didn't quite register at first! But Jenny got it right away, so I'm pretty sure the screams gave it away! :) Then we told Grandpa Buettner and Grandma Cox. They were pretty happy too. Grandma kept saying how "exuberant" she was, and of course, she started stopping people in the hallway right away to start spreading the news! It was a fun weekend. I'm definitely turning into a party pooper though! I can't stay awake past 9:30! I'd say the fatigue has officially kicked in!
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