9dpiui (#2)

Well today is 9dpiui and I've been really crampy and bloaty. Yesterday I felt sharp pokes and twinges in my abdomen so I'm hoping that was implantation. I also got a fortune cookie that said 'you will receive happy news this week.' I sure hope so. I feel like all our money woes are my fault for having to go through the IF treatment. I honestly don't know what we'll do if this doesn't go as planned... Back to happy thoughts! This will work and DD will be a big sister soon!

7 dpiui (trying for kiddo #2)

Nothing lately but exhaustion, but that's likely due to the progesterone that I've been taking for 4 days. I've also had sore bb's and feel like they look different, weird, I know. I've completely stopped drinking caffeine and alcohol for a month now and I'm hoping it pays off. I'm also so busy at work that I don't have time to think about much lately! I hope that this works because it's our one shot for a while to have #2. DD would be such an amazing sister, I just really want this to work. Other random "symptoms"-ovary twinges (6dpiui), really dark urine despite only drinking water, waking in night to go pee, going to bed early

21 weeks

Well, today is the 21 week mark. Everything seems to be going great, doc said everything looked good, and drew blood for the quad-screen test. I'm going to call on Monday to see what the results are (guessing by my age and history it should come out negative--knock on wood).

One month until school starts (for teachers anyways), and I'm ready and not ready at the same time. I want to get it started because the sooner it starts the sooner it's November and I get to meet our little miracle. Other than that, we are pretty boring here, just preparing for baby. The room is painted and finished and I will try to get pics up as soon as possible.

19 weeks

Technically speaking, my pregnancy is halfway over. Last night I was reminiscing about the day we found out I was pregnant and was telling the baby how special s/he is, and it made me start crying (but right now, everything does). I can't believe how blessed we are to have such a great miracle happen and I feel so honored to become a mom.

Last night we were at a tribute band-esque concert, and the baby starting kicking along to the beat, so cool. I can't wait until Brian can feel it, that will be amazing. No big new on our front though, routine dr's appointment Wednesday, and lots of nothing for me--it's times like this I LOVE being a teacher!

Now onto the World Cup, lets go USA!

18 weeks

So as you can see we got to see the baby this week! Friday was the ultrasound and the baby is measuring a week ahead of schedule! We did NOT find out the sex and it really isn't bothering us at all! It's bothering my sister-in-law though who thought that I would have someone put the sex in an envelope and then just she'll know--yeah right.

Getting ready to have both our families over for Father's day, talk to you later!

Been a while!

Well it's been a few weeks since I updated, so here goes!

School's done, and last week we were in Jamaica for what I learned is called a babymoon. We enjoyed every second and didn't want to come home. On our way down there, while sitting on the plane, I'm pretty sure I felt the baby move. It hasn't been consistent or anything, but I'm 99% positive that's what I felt.

Saturday marks the 18 week mark and Friday we have our big ultrasound. I'm sooooo nervous, but at the same time very excited to see baby D and how he/she has grown! I'll try to post more pictures, too, since I think I have it figured out.

Father's day is Sunday and both the fam's are coming over for a BBQ. It's nice to have everyone over, but also a huge pain in the a$$. I've been to the grocery store 4 times so far this week and am putting my foot down and not going anymore, lets see how that works. Other than father's day, we have a busy weekend: wedding/CWS/party/CWS after party to do on Saturday. Obviously not going to make it to all of the places that we were invited, but we're going to try. The wedding will probably go to the wayside, it's 2ish hours away.

Going to finish packing our lunch, we're going to the zoo before the 'massive' storms come in this afternoon!

14 weeks down, 26 to go :)

Well, I'm 14 weeks and 2 days along this journey and feel AWESOME!!! I haven't been nauseous in over a week (unless I don't eat, nice, huh). I can't wait to feel Baby D move, but that's a few weeks off. My sister-in-law says that I have a baby bump now, I just think I look fat, but hey, I'll pass it off as the baby :) Started making lists upon lists, lists of furniture to buy, lists of clothes we'll need for the baby, and oh goodness, it was a panic attack waiting to happen.

Anyways, all is well here, my next appointment isn't until June 2, which seems like forever. We probably won't even have an ultrasound until the big anatomy scan at 20 weeks, so I sill have 6 weeks for that. I just want a healthy baby!

Baby Room

Well we decided on a theme for the baby room--beach/island!!! Yay, I'm so excited to get started but bummed that I can't help out more with the painting, etc. If you all have any ideas, please feel free to share them!

As for me, I've been having lots of headaches. It sucks, but I guess I'll take a headache over terrible morning sickness. Not too much else going on. 9 more days of school and 19 days until we leave for Jamaica!

1st trimester. . . .gone

So today I am 12 weeks and 2 days along. Some websites say that's it some say it's at the end of the week. I think that I am now entering into the 2nd trimester, so there :) My energy level has picked up a bit and I did some yard work on Saturday with Brian. I also enjoyed my first "mother's" day, even though I'm a mommy-to-be right now. Brian got me a cute card and a picture frame and my parents and brother got me flowers--how sweet :)

I feel truly blessed to have made it this far through the journey. You hear horror stories from women at work about the dreaded "m" word and it makes you even more nervous to really know how often it occurs. I hope that this is the beginning of a wonderful journey into parenthood. I am so thankful for everything.

Heartbeat!!!!

Well Tuesday, we had another appointment and finally, baby D cooperated and we heard the heartbeat. It was amazing just to know that everything is ok in there. On top of that, somehow I lost 4 pounds since my last appointment (I also hadn't eaten lunch so we could hear better, and went to the bathroom before hand), so I guess I'm not quite packing on the pounds yet--soon though :)

2nd trimester starts Saturday (according to half the websites I visit daily) so that will be a relief as well since chances of miscarriage decrease significantly. I started wearing maternity clothes--they're so comfy!