16 weeks "Baby Says"

Today marks 16 weeks along, wahoo!!!!! On Friday I made a remarkable discovery that my regular jeans wont button now!! Normally that would be devastating but I was so excited that I told all my coworkers about it.

 

Jim and I have been busy with registry stuff and picking out colors/decorations for our nursery. We stopped into Buy Buy Baby today to do a little peeking around... finally I got to take advantage of the Expectant Mother parking!!!



We looked around for a little bit and found some bedding options we liked better than the ones they had at BRU, so we scanned those in instead. We also sat in a few gliders :)  The one I liked the best was almost like a memory foam material but it was special order only and no way to scan it, bummer :(  It was also almost $600 so I doubt anyone would buy that and we surely aren't going to buy it either, lol!!! After we were finished looking around we got a goody bag full of amazing samples and coupons plus a pacifier from NUK!!! Baby's first paci!!!

 

15 weeks Baby Says AND baby is a.....

 

 

Today was my highly anticipated day, the early gender scan. It started off ok....brunch with Jim and my MIL then went to Target to shop for some onesies to surprise Jim with when I found out. While I was driving to Target, the weather started getting kinda shady looking but it happens sometimes so I decided to go shop anyways.  While I was in Target, I overheard the employees rehearsing their emergency drill including the message over the loud speaker asking customers to head to the back of the store.....ummmm, that isn't very good to hear. I hurried up and bought my stuff and as I was nearly home I heard on the radio a tornado touched down outside Joliet and was headed our way. No sooner than I got in the door than the tornado sirens started going off, so Jim, Chesney and I headed to the basement!! I'm thinking to myself, "Of all days for this to happen this child is going to make it difficult for me to get to see him today. Must be a boy".

 

Then things calmed down, thankfully the tornado that was on the ground in the town next to us shifted paths and went the other way. The sun came out and my MIL came over for a little bit before picking up my SIL who lives close to us. All of a sudden, I started getting spots like a migraine. I thought, seriously this kid doesn't want to be seen today...must be a boy.

 

Eventually after a little coffee, the spots went away and I felt decent enough so I headed to the Peek A Belly place. It was soooo cool!!! They had a really nice spa like room and two big screen TVs on the walls to see the ultrasound. As soon as she put the wand on my belly she says, "This baby is all scrunched up....try going to the bathroom. If your bladder is smaller baby has more room to stretch out." Well, I did that and when I came back, baby was still in the same spot. Wiggling and jumping all around but legs crunched. The tech jiggled my belly a little bit and we both laughed, as I said again, "This has to be a boy"....all of a sudden baby finally moved and ....its a boy!!!!  LOL....she took a 3D pic of him and he looks MAD!!!!  Like, why are you making me move lady? I was comfy !!! Too funny!!!  Here are some shots we got today including the mad picture.

So when you leave there they give you a balloon and a gift bag with some formula samples and a magazine to read about baby's development. I took that bag and emptied it....filled it with blue stuffing I got at Target and the onesie that said "Daddy's #1 Draft pic" and headed out to meet Jim while he was at work. I hid the balloon with my coat so when I met up with him I made him turn around while I got it out of the car and then, "Surprise!!!!!" He was so happy, and of course so am I!!!!  I'm so in love even more so now and cant even wait to see how much I love him when he gets here!!! This is so exciting!!!

A coworkers Baby Shower is tomorrow....

and I'm excited!!!   Its such a fantastic feeling to be HAPPY for someone for a change I just wanted to help as much as I could. I picked out the decorations, I hope they like them!!!

Jim and I went into BRU last weekend so I could buy the shower gift and take a look at a few things I had on my registry so far. Anywho, tonight I was wrapping up the set of Born Free bottles I bought for him and his wife and just couldn't stop staring at the box. I held it up to Jim and said "Can you believe it....a few months and these things will be all over OUR house?!?!"  (well Dr. Browns, not Born Free but you get the idea, LOL)  I'm completely beside myself with this feeling that I'm going to be a mom next year this time. Wow.

My parish's website said they had a blessing for expectant mothers after the 9am mass on the 2nd Sunday each month. Last month was the 2nd Sunday so after the mass we waited, and waited but no blessing. We finally asked the pastor and he had no idea what we were talking about. I guess he could tell we were disappointed so he gave me a blessing anyways. Baby is extra blessed now :)

In 3 days I'll have my early scan done. Its exactly 15 weeks so I'm not going to be too upset if they cant tell. Its at least another chance for pictures of baby since I haven't seen him/her since our 9 week appt. He/she is probably huge by now!!! To be honest, if they say its far enough along I don't know that I'd believe them unless they said its a boy. I keep thinking about my friend's friend who was told she was having a girl and SURPRISE eeeets a boy!!!! I figure if they see the goods on a boy there's no mistaking that, LOL. We do have our anatomy scan scheduled already too to confirm whatever we're told this weekend. Its the day after we get back from our cruise at 19 weeks. Can't believe all these things are coming up so soon!!!

That's all for now, probably have more after my scan on Sunday plus the 15 week edition of "Baby Says"

14 weeks Baby Says....2nd Trimester today!!!

Cant believe it, 2nd tri today!!! Wahoooo!!!!

2nd OB appointment!

Monday was our 2nd OB appointment already, time is flying!!!

We were brought back right away and the moment of truth came fast....dun dun dun....the scale. I was worried because of Halloween and the candy I'd been eating but I've only gained 2lbs since my last appointment 4 weeks ago. Not bad!!

We were then taken back to our exam room where the nurse took my vitals. So far everything is normal....BP, pulse and temp all look good! She had me lie back and got the Doppler out to listen to the heartbeat. She did warn us that it might take her a few minutes since I'm not really that far along yet, however it only took her a few seconds and there was that little horse clip clopping sound that I've recognized from Google videos :)   Baby's heartrate is 152 which is perfect for where baby is at!

After that the OB came in, which was a different one from last month. This guy was really awesome too, I love this practice! He reviewed my bloodwork and urine culture results from last month and everything was normal there as well, he said that was "Awesome". I tend to agree! That was the end of the appointment, I kind of like this whole being a normal pregnant lady thing!

We made our next appointment for early December before we leave on our cruise....then when I come back from the cruise we'll have our official 20 week anatomy scan. Speaking of anatomy...

My friend's Dad is a gender predictor and he said boy for me. More I think of it, most Old Wives Tales point to boy.....Chinese charts say boy, I'm craving salty foods, I'm not sick, I didn't have any acne or oily skin. Plus my Mom when pregnant with me was really sick and her and I are pretty similar when it comes to health issues so everything is pointing to boy. I was so intrigued when my friend's Dad said boy too that I moved my early gender scan at the Peek a Belly place up a week. You have to be at least 15 weeks and I'm going on the day my ticker changes to 15 weeks. Hope they can see baby's goods!!!

At any rate, that's all I've got for now!

This feels weird....but in a good way

Having seen many IF blogs turn into pregnancy blogs, and feeling happy for them but so sad for myself.... I've decided to branch out into this secondary blog about the pregnancy of Baby Payne.

We searched so long to find him/her that while I'm so excited to be sharing the good news and updates, I know there is still a world of people out there that will be saddened and I don't want my happiness to cause someone else sadness.

The only thing I could think of to make the transition from IF blog to pregnancy blog was to split them into two separate blogs. This way, those who aren't in the best of places don't have to follow both, unless they want to.

On that note, without further ado....here is 13 weeks "Baby Says"