13 Weeks Today!

First of all, I have been sick for a WEEK now! My whole head has been just completely congested -- I can't breathe and I have a sore throat and a headache...it will not go away! I have pretty much been taking it easy for the last week but not much seems to help.



And, I'm 13 weeks today! As you can see we have a NEW fruit of the week: PEACH!
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.)



Yay! It's so cool to read about the developments that are taking place. My little one is now between 3-3 1/2 inches, is able to smile, grimace, frown, and squint! BUT, I'm still not even showing yet! In fact, when we went to the ultrasound, we found that I've LOST weight. It's not even like I've been sick or anything! It must just be the fact that I've been trying to eat healthier and no longer drink coffee! Well I hope I start to show soon...!

In fun news, I've started painting sheep on the baby's bedroom walls. They are SUPER cute. I'm going to upload photos later on. So far the room is verrryyy blue. The walls were already dark blue and now there are blue and white sheep... I figure, if it it's a girl then I will just paint some pink flowers on there and we'll be all set :) I'm sure she would get enough pink stuff to girly the room up a bit so I'm not too worried. I mean I'm a girl and I love blue and sheep. haha.

I think thats all for now -- 3 more weeks until my next midwife appointment. 7 weeks until I find out if my baby is a boy or girl!

12 weeks 3 days again!

Since we got back from the ultrasound, I feel like I haven't even had time to breathe! We have been so excited, finally telling everyone our news. SO many people are excited for us which makes it even more exciting for me because I feel like we have so much support. I already have people telling me which nights of the week they can babysit! haha.

Unfortunately I am now SICK. blah. I woke up this morning with a headache, stuffy nose, sore throat,...the works. Not fun. However, I am now excited because I want to make stuff for the baby's room. Adam and I are going to get a sewing machine so that I can quilt away! I took a quilting class in highschool and absolutely loved it, so I decided that I want to make a bumper for the crib and a matching quilt to go with it. I'm SO excited and I've found a children's fabric website...so I've already planned pretty much the whole thing! I admit that the colors I've chosen are a bit more boy-ey, but what can I say? My nana said it's a boy and she's never been wrong! If it is a girl, I don't mind because I'm a girl and I love blue! The theme at the moment is sheep...which is appropriate since we live in the agricultural heart of England!

I still can't really believe that this is all real. I have to say that my excitement/scared factor has gone up by about 100%. I can't wait to meet my little girl or boy. The ultrasound was so amazing, we got to see the heart fluttering, the arms and legs waving, the spine of the baby, and the little black hole that was the stomach! As I mentioned before he/she is currently measuring at 12 weeks 3 days, at just over 2 inches big.

The other day we chose these foam-wall stickers for the room, hence the beginning of the sheep theme. They are super cute and I couldn't resist...plus they were cheap! :)

I think that's all for now. No more appointments for a few weeks, I have a midwife appt at 16 weeks and then my next scan at 20 weeks. Too long to wait to see my baby again!!!

Oh. My. Goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a photo of my beautiful, wiggly baby! Due August 8th, 2010, currently measuring about 5 1/2 centimeters. :)

12 weeks today!!

Well, from what I have heard, today is the big "land mark." While I am excited about this, I still have my nerves reserved until I see my baby. Ugh, I cannot WAIT to just not feel anxious about it all. Once I see that it is really in there, life will be much better!!!

On a fun note, I found a cute website which says what size fruit your baby is at specific weeks. As of today, my little boy or girl is a Plum! Yay!


Cute right? haha.

In other exciting news...last night I slept the entire night without getting up to go to the bathroom. When the alarm went off this morning I was so confused! It was very exciting, haha! I also actually called the midwife today to get some reassurance about all the cramping I have been having but she was less than helpful. She basically said that sometimes it is normal and sometimes it is bad. She said I will have to wait until Monday to find out. Thanks a lot! Geesh. I have been reading some stuff on a pregnancy site I am part of and it seems that everyone seems to have cramping. Oh well. 3 more days until we find out.

Please be praying for Monday, I know that if you are not me then you think I am being silly -- but I have never been pregnant before, and I feel so strange being told there is a baby growing in me when I can't feel it!!! Just please pray that everything goes well and our baby is really in there, safe and sound.

I won't blog again until Monday...so keep an eye out.

11 weeks, 5 days, a bump?

I keep checking and hoping that I will soon have a little bump appear. Since I've never been pregnant before, I can't really tell what the "bump" is supposed to look like. Someone tell me! Is THIS a baby bump? I will be 12 weeks on Friday. :)

11 weeks 3 days!

One week from today is my ultrasound appointment! Oh, the agonizing wait. I have joined a parenting/pregnancy group that my sister-in-law Julie recommended to me, and that has been passing my time quite well as far as all my questions about being pregnant. I think the most difficult thing from the group though is the number of people who are all of a sudden leaving the group because something has gone wrong and their baby didn't make it. I just keep praying that I will not be in that minority.

I am (still) very excited and very nervous about the ultrasound -- I wish so badly that this week would FLY by. Fortunately I just started full-time college this week so my time is quite consumed with that.

On the food front, I felt a little better today although I slept horribly last night. I woke up about every hour to wee (this has only now become a symptom), and at 3am I was starving so I got up and ate a cereal bar. Needless to say it didn't satisfy the hunger so I felt asleep feeling tired and hungry. It was not fun.

I have been trying to drink all the water I can but have just read somewhere that this ridiculous amount of water that I am supposed to be drinking can actually be water, fruit juice, or milk...so I've been downing orange juice like it's my job. So much more satisfying than water.

So today I am 11 weeks 3 days, not really showing yet although I think I can see a little bump forming. It's hard to tell though when I am used to seeing myself every day.

That's all for now!

Water, Headaches, Hunger

Well, while there's no real "new" news, I'm sad to say I've hit the headache part of pregnancy. I get them nearly every evening. Nothing makes them go away.

My main question at the moment is, do people REALLY drink 2-3 liters of water a day? I drink water all day but can't seem to manage more than 1 to 1 /2 liters. I hope my baby is okay!!! When I get a headache I think, "oh, I'll just drink more water." But I've drank so much water that it feels like its making it even worse. I get to the point where water makes me feel sick.

And finally, hunger. This is ridiculous. I get hungry pretty much every hour, and if I don't eat something IMMIEDIETLY, I feel horrible. Not fun!

That's pretty much everything. 10 more long days until the Ultrasound. I hope and pray everything is okay... I'm so nervous and excited!

Ultrasound Date!!

Well, I finally gave up on the mail coming and called the maternity ward myself. My ultrasound date is January 25th, 2010 at 4:15pm. Yay! I'm so excited and nervous at the same time. I just keep praying and praying that my little baby is okay in there (I still don't believe that I'm pregnant..it was hard to type that!)

That's pretty much the only new news. Today I am 10 weeks 4 days. I'm crampy and feel hungry a lot . Other than that I do not feel pregnant! Which I guess is a good thing assuming the baby is okay.

I think I'm going to make some french bread today, that will be fun. Oh, and I started full time college yesterday. I've been doing part time since June but I thought I would give full-time a try. Now that I'm distracted (to say the least) I'm just hoping that I will be able to concentrate.

What a long 13 days it is going to be. I will be 12 weeks 3 days when I have my first ultrasound.

All for now:)

10 weeks 2 days

In England, when it gets icy out, mail men decide that its too "dangerous" to deliver people's mail. This is really annoying because not only are we expecting 4 packages, but I'm waiting to get my ultrasound date!!! I'm getting really impatient. I hope it comes tomorrow.

We told our news to our boss and co-workers on Friday over lunch, it was really fun and everyone is very excited for us. I've still warned them though not to tell anyone until I've seen an ultrasound! I know it sounds silly to everyone else but until I have real proof that there's a baby in there, I don't want everyone to know.

I bought a pregnancy magazine yesterday. I've also found some a baby line that I'm in LOVE with. It's a collection of blankets, bumpers, baby robes, curtains, everything! I've attached a photo of it, along with the link to it's website. This collection is sold pretty much anywhere though. I love it!

http://www.lollipoplane.co.uk/classic/range_profile.php?collectionID=6

SO adorable.

Well there's not too much to update, except I got some blood results back which was reassuring. Thankfully I do not have HIV, Hepatitus B or Syphallus. I'm immune against Rubella, and my blood type is O positive. yay.

I'm 9 weeks 6 days today (or 10 weeks according to my midwife, but I don't believe her.) I still feel fine really, except hungry a lot and I get tired. But I've always been kinda lazy.

So I've decided to put up my first photo of my belly. I'm hoping there's something actually in there that will grow within the next 7 months. So hopefully this is the first, but not the last photo of my baby belly!

Oh, also, I made homemade hummus today! It was awesome. I'm so proud of myself. Plus it made me eat tomatoes and a carrot. haha. Seriously, I can't stop eating though!!

That's all for now. Enjoy the photo. Bahaha.

9 weeks 5 days!

Ughh, I can't wait much longer for an ultrasound. I haven't gotten a date yet for it, I was really hoping it would come today. Maybe tomorrow.

I've felt really tired today and absolutely starving even after I had a decent breakfast and some snacks. By lunchtime I was ravenous, ate 2 peices of pizza and then still felt sick. It was weird because I normally LOVE pizza, but today I could hardly eat it. It's the weirdest feeling ever to know that I love certain foods but to not want them.

Last night though I did insist at about 8pm that Adam and I go to the pub down the road and get chocolate fudge cake with cream. I then insisted that we order some fudge cake from Tesco.com. It's being delivered tomorrow. haha.

I'm still not quite convinced there's actually a baby in me, and I'm getting increasingly nervous about having the ultrasound and seeing something gone wrong. I just have to keep praying about it. I know God's in control but it's really difficult not to worry!!!

Well, I think that's it for today. I'm laying in bed because I'm very tired and hungry but don't want to eat anything. blah! :)

First Midwife Appointment, 9 weeks 3 days

I thought I was prepared for the blood taking I knew they were going to do. Unfortunately it was a lot more painful and slow than I was hoping for. I almost threw up, it was painful and horrible.

Other than that the visit went well. I haven't yet met my personal midwife but I met with one in Bridgwater who told me everything I need to know at this stage. She also told me that according to her calculations (which I'm not sure why they are different from my doctor's), I'm due August 5th and I'm 9 weeks 3 days, not 2 days.

The midwife has sent off a request for an ultrasound. Hopefully I will hear back in the next couple days when it is - it will be sometime in the next 2-4 weeks. I'm hoping that it is good news! The unfortunate part is that at the ultrasound I will have to let them take my blood again. The scan and the blood are really to test the baby for downs syndrome, which I'm not that worried about, I just want a scan to see if he/she is healthy and really in there!

My arm is killing me. I still don't have any major symptoms other than not feeling great and I'm crampy.

That's all for now!

9 weeks 1 day, too many things to say

I could probably string this blog out to be about 12 pages considering everything that has happened in the last 2 days. I'll try to summarize. I'm not good at summarizing though.

America to England

Starting from when we left Portland, Maine at 3:30am Thursday morning, it was a sad day and needless to say I was emotional. I didn't cry or anything but it wasn't easy to leave. We got to the airport, waited around a little until our flight left at 5:45am. The flight was short and I HATE those puddle-jumper planes. I slept though which was good.

We landed and because our plane had run late, we had a very short layover. This left very little time for breakfast and then even less time to figure out what I was going to do once I realized that we had packed the wrong passport. I not only did not have my visa to re-enter England, but I had no passport. So technically, I have no idea how or why they ever let me on the plane. I knew though that once we landed there was no way that immigration was going to let me through.

Either way, I had an 8 hour flight to think about it. So Adam and I got on the plane which was absolutely massive. So massive that Adam and I sat 10 rows apart from each other. The people next to me wouldn't switch seats. At this point I did cry. £900 worth of plane tickets, leaving home, having no passport, being pregnant, and not being able to sit with my husband. I was not a happy bunny.

We landed and immigration not only wouldn't let me through, but made me wait for an hour before they presented me with a copy of "their records." The lady looked up at me and said, "I'm sorry, your visa expires in 10 minutes." At this point I got really angry and started raising my voice. What on EARTH was she talking about? My visa expires in JUNE. I had my marriage license to prove it (Marriage visas are 2 years and I have only been married 1 and 1/2). Ugh. Eventually she got sick and tired of the whole situation and gave me "two months conditional entry" (assuming I wasn't lying about my visa expiring in June.) Oh England. I really don't love you enough to fight to be here, but some how I keep finding myself doing so. I just like Adam a lot I guess.

Telling the In Laws

We stayed at Adam's brother's house in London Thursday night and his parents and sister came over the next day. As soon as we woke up at 11am, we got out of bed and had our christmas. We wrapped up some cute little onesies, one said, "Mom + Dad = Me" on it! hehe. It was good though to spend time with the fam for the day, especially Adam's sister who I love! It also gave us a day to rest before heading back to Cannington, where we live.

Home Sweet Home ...

We arrived home late Friday night to find that our back door was suspiciously unlocked and the window in the dining room was open. It was weird. But after a throrough investigation, nothing was missing. It was just FREEZING in our house. Also, our loft has become a cozy home to a large number of rats and/or mice. Great.


Pregnant still!

Tomorrow at 1:30pm I have my first appointment with a midwife. I'm 9 weeks 1 day along today, so I'm hoping they'll schedule me an ultrasound in 2 weeks or so. Hopefully everything is going well. A couple more weeks until I find out if my baby is in there!!!