19 weeks!

Almost half way there! Holy moly!! Movements are getting much more regular during this week! I think I even felt some from the outside...although Dillon says he couldn't feel it. My mom went to the Dr with me on Wed of this week....HB was about 140....so sounding like a boy! Kolby came and stayed the weekend with us! It was so much fun he's SO smart and well behaved and I love watching Dillon with him! It was great! Oh I also took comparison belly shots...definitly have grown! We ordered the crib sheet set this week from Wal-Mart.com just have to wait for it to be sent to the store! It's jungle themed I'll PIP it too..I gave up on my stars theme..dill didn't dig it and the colors of sheet sets weren't bright enough. I want the kid to have some major color stimulation! Plus everything I've read has said don't spend too much because you can't use the comforter not supposed to use the bumper...no one sees the ruffle..so it's like an expensive sheet ;).
Allison and Jenn have said they are going to do my shower sometime in July! Can't wait :) I love getting everyone together! It's so much fun!! :) Plus we get gifts :) And I can start decorating! We need furniture for in there too! After we get Izzy's schooling paid for that will be our next big purchase!
Izzy goes to retreiver training in June..she'll be gone a month :(. But she needs to learn to settle down when she's told too..I hope she isn't like Marley and is untrainable haha! Nah she'll do fine!

So here is baby info and picture:

19 Weeks Pregnant

This week your baby starts bulking up and packing on the grossly named "brown fat" he'll need to keep warm when he gets evicted from his comfortable uterine home. Other highlights this week:

Vernix, a milky white coating that protects your baby's skin, appears all over your baby's body to keep his skin from getting pickled in the amniotic fluid. Think of it as if your baby has been dipped in yogurt, like those delicious but fake-healthy yogurt-covered raisins and pretzels. Ooh, we feel another craving comin' on. ... Under the vernix, a fuzzy layer of hair called lanugo now covers baby's body. Don't worry, your Mini won't look like Cousin It when he's born. Most of the fuzz will fall off before baby makes his grand entrance.

Good news: Your baby's kidneys are fully functioning and producing urine this week. Bad news: That means there will be lots of diapers in your future. But so far you're safe—at the moment the pee just passes into the amniotic fluid.

He or she now weighs about 8½ ounces and measures 6 inches, as long as a turkey sub from Subway on warm, delicious Italian Herbs and Cheese bread (or Honey Oat bread, or Oregano bread or ...)


Here are comparison pics from 13w to 19w standing and laying down...




and here is the bed decor..not the bed just the stuff that goes in it :)


k i think that's all for this week!

18weeks....

Time is flying! I love feeling good..it's SO much better. The hunger is a little much at times but that's alright! I was supposed to go to the dr this week but we had to reschedule! Not much happened that I remember during this week... so here is the baby info

Your Baby
Your baby's ears are now facing forward and are completely formed so she can actually hear you talking now. You don't need to abandon your potty mouth just yet, but you might want to start thinking about it! Other highlights this week:

This week is also the beginning of ossification. And while that sounds like some long and involved paperwork you'll have to fill out, it's really a fancy medical term for the hardening of your baby's miniature bones. And that's a good thing.

Your baby's nerves are making more and more complex connections. Her sense of smell, taste, sight and hearing are all developing. A substance called myelin, which makes nerve connections travel faster, is now coating your baby's nerves.

Your baby now weighs between 5 and 7 ounces and is about 5½ inches long—about the size of a pickle from the corner deli. (You're familiar with pickles, right? Your regular accompaniment to a big bowl of ice cream?)

18 Weeks Pregnant

17th week..a little late.

So I'm getting worse about posting! Hopefully I will get better now that school is over and I just passed the GRE! phew! :)

So we had our ultra sound the day after my last post. It was SO cool! I had no clue you would be able to see both hemispheres of the brain and the cerebellum. We also could see all four chambers of the heart, two kindeys, two lungs a stomach and a liver! We asked the tech to not show us the sex, although the first position the baby moved into was the straight up the butt legs spread eagle! Pretty sure there was something there! We also have a mover on our hands! The tech couldn't keep him/her on the screen! At one point she said "I usually take these measurements in order, but yours is moving too much so I'm grabbing them as I can!". It would be on the screen and then gone 2 seconds later! It was measuring 17w3d exactly a week ahead of schedule, which probably isn't possible so I'm guessing it has my genes of big long bones! We also got to see it's hand open and close and all 5 fingers...it was SOOOO cool :) heart beat was 145! here are the pictures! Oh the tech also said he/she weighed about half a pound which is pretty big for the point we were at?!?!


Here is the info on baby at this point
Your Baby
Speaking of packing on the pounds, that what it's all about for baby this week. He's adding fat stores that will keep him warm and cozy after he's born. Your baby's weight will increase approximately six times over the next four weeks. Good to know you're not the only one tipping the scale. Also this week:

Your baby is hard at work honing his sucking and swallowing reflexes—all the better for eating that 2 AM (and 5 AM, and 8 AM ...) meal in a few months! The finger- and toenails are beginning to grow from their nail beds, which would explain why he'll need them trimmed almost as soon as he's born!

Your baby weighs nearly 5 ounces and is a little over 5 inches long—about the size of a baked potato (load on the butter and sour cream, please).
and the pic comparision

17 Weeks Pregnant

16th week.

Time flies. People say it gets worse once you have kids. EEK! Things have been okay this week, threw up a little this morning, the burning nasty vile stuff. Yuck, but then I was a lot better afterward! So that's better. I maybe getting a cold. I've had a headache for two days. Or it could be pregnancy symptoms either way it's not fun. I forgot to mention in the last post. That I think I felt movement for the first time last Wed night. So I would have been 15w2d. It was like a rolling sensation in my lower belly area, but on the inside of course. It was a sensation I haven't felt before. Kind of a push/tap feeling. I was laying on my stomach when I felt it. It's been hard to tell the difference between heartbeat and baby. But when it's different, it's different. So I'm guessing that's it. Then earlier this weekend, I had the "feels like gas, but no gas comes out" feeling. And the movements are coming with a little more regularity (like when I lay down, or sit down/still for a long time). So I'm pretty sure it's baby. Or I'm thinking so hard I'm hallucinating. Either way, I LOVE IT! :) Tomorrow is ultrasound day. I can't wait. I've told Dillon finding out the sex is his choice. I still don't want to know it, but if he does, then we can find out, since I make most of the decisions around here, this one is his. :) I don't think he's decided yet.
so after tomorrow, I'll have a real 16w picture, but here's the other one for now:

16 Weeks Pregnant

and the info.
Your Baby
Your baby is already mugging for the camera as she practices all sorts of facial expressions, such as squinting, yawning and grimacing, which will come in handy when you introduce her to pureed spinach. Check out what else is happening in utero:

You're just getting comfortable with being a new mom, but you're actually on the road to being a grandma. If your baby is a girl, her uterus is fully developed and the ovaries already hold primitive egg cells. Did that just make you feel a thousand years old, or what?

Your baby's skin is still translucent and wrinkly, not unlike an old man's, but more fat will soon accumulate under the dermas to plump her out. If you could peer inside right now, you'd be able to see all of her veins under her skin. And speaking of veins, your baby's heart now pumps about 25 quarts of blood per day, and she hasn't even seen Orlando Bloom yet! Also, her eyes are now locked and loaded at their final destination, facing forward rather than to the sides. (Whew!)

This is the week women get an amniocentesis, if their doc recommends it. In addition to supplying doctors with a boatload of info about the baby's health, amnios are also more than 99 percent accurate in determining what version of baby you'll be having. So if you want to know and you're getting an amnio, now's a great time to find out for sure.

Your baby weighs about 3 ounces this week and measures between 4 and 5 inches, about the length of your mascara.


I'll hopefully post soon after the u/s. We're going to go eat at Cheesecake factory. Then go to BRU, and bass pro! it's gonna be a fun day!! keep us in your prayers!!!

15 weeks finished.

Ah. 15 weeks along, well 15 weeks completed. Yes that's how I'm going about it. Sorry for those that say they're in week 16...it gets confusing to me. Anyways. This. Was. Not.A.Good.Week. Wednesday I was pretty sure I was going to need the ER. I couldn't quit throwing up. It was terrible. I felt like I was going to pop veins in my face it was coming out so hard. I had to work. It took all that I had. I wanted to cry all day. I guess it was harder, because I had been doing so good for a couple of weeks and then WHAM!. Thursday was a little better, I could smile and be some what pleasant. Next week is the U/S! so that helped this week. The weeks are just flying by. It's crazy. Here's the baby this week!

15 Weeks Pregnant

and the info...(isn't it starting to look so human like!)
Your Baby
Although many women don't start feeling the baby move until the 17th week (or later), your baby has been having his own party in the amniotic sac he calls home. If you feel a little flutter in your belly this week, don't discount it as gas or hunger. It could be your babe banging around. Here's more to look forward to:

Baby's head is now resting on his well-formed neck instead of directly on his shoulders like Igor. He's beginning to grow eyebrows and eyelashes this week. (All the better to give you that "Mom, you're crazy" look when he's a teenager.) The hair on the head also begins to grow and, with some creative styling, you'll be able to turn those locks into a Maddox Jolie-Pitt faux-hawk some day.

Although baby's eyes are sealed shut, he's now able to sense light. His eyes and ears finally look like real baby features now. As your baby practices sucking and swallowing actions, he may actually hiccup. You'll know he's had one too many shots of amniotic fluid by the steady thump-thump you feel.

Over the next month, baby will grow faster than ever, so make sure you load up on enough nutritious food and fluids to support his growth. Your baby now measures nearly 4 inches, about the size of a Kit Kat "finger" (regular-size, not the Big one you get at the movies), and weighs almost 2 ounces.

week 14.

So time flies. week 14 it really hit me. I'm not sure why but GOOD GRIEF! haha. This week was just a shocker, everything else seemed normal, but then when I started saying I'm 14w however many days, it really was like wow. I'm going to blink and this will all be over. I still felt really good this week. I had A LOT of energy. Actually it was during this weekend that I wore Dillon out around the house. (Doing chores mind you.) I felt like I was going to run a mile, but I was still pretty tired at the same time. Finally. Energy and I'm not throwing up. Yes!
Here is our pumpkin this week.

14 Weeks Pregnant

and info on him/her
Your Baby
Think of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:

Your baby now has fingerprints! Book 'em, Danno! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.

Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom.

Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control.

Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same.

3 weeks behind?!

Am I seriously THREE weeks behind?! Jeez! Someone needs to poke me with a cattle prod I guess. So lets go back to week thirteen! The week we heard our lil pea pod for the first time. wow. Everyone was so right. There could not be a more amazing sound. I wish there were words. Everyone says the sound you'll hear in heaven is unbeatable, hopefully it sounds like my babies heart whooshing away :). And to hear Dr Phelps say "here it is". ugh. I wanted to say leave that thing here with us, you can go see other people we'll listen to it all night. haha. She then said "it's in the 160's"...so we're borderin girl/boy. We'll see tomorrow how fast it is?! Dillon was kind of speechless. He doesn't talk much but his tone says everything. When we got to the car, I said that was so cool. He said his normal "yeah, it was" but his tone completely changed, from the normal. I could tell he was in shock :). So that was March 25th. I was 13w2d. My blood pressure was a little high, which typically is not normal for me, I always run 120/70. So she asked that I start taking it two times a day. I assured that it was because my heart was beating so fast out of nervousness that I was sure it was about to come out of my chest, therefore making it high. She didn't really care. So I bough a blood pressure cuff/stethoscope. Which actually has been really cool! We can listen to the baby with it. Can't really hear the heartbeat yet, but definitely hear the swooshing around of the flood and baby taping/hitting right were the stethoscope is placed. So while we were there that day they said they would go ahead and call St Lukes to schedule the level two ultrasound in three-four weeks. WHAT! Holy moly wow. :) So we got the call the next morning, that we would be going april 16th (yay that's tomorrow). So here is what baby s looked like at 13 weeks, and the info on the baby.

13 Weeks Pregnant

our Baby
Your baby can make a fist and even suck his or her thumb this week—both skills that are über-cute during infancy ... and not so much at the age of 9. If you're really lucky, you might catch a glimpse of baby's thumb sucking on an ultrasound photo. That's a framer! Other exciting developments include:

Your baby's eyelids are fused shut to protect his eyes as they develop. His bones and skull are solidifying and soon itsy-bitsy ribs may appear. (Baby ribs! How cute is that?!) Baby's intestines are finally right where you want them—in his or her belly instead of poking out into the umbilical cord. Baby's tooth sockets are all loaded and ready to pop out baby teeth six or seven months after baby is born (causing baby a lot of pain and you a lot of lost sleep).

Who's that singing? Elton John? Could be your baby: His vocal cords and larynx are completed now. He won't be able to make any sound yet, however, because sound waves travel through air and baby is submerged in fluid.

Your baby-to-be now weighs about 20 grams and is nearly 3 inches long, or about the size of a Nutter Butter, covered in chocolate. OK, it doesn't have to be covered in chocolate, but isn't everything better that way?
oh i took a picture of myself around this time, but i haven't loaded it in yet, i'll get to that!