Happy New Year 2010!

As the year closes, it is hard not to ponder what 2009 brought for us.  I could speak of it in both good and bad terms (it was definitely a challenging year to say the least), but we really had some GREAT times and it ultimately ended in the best possible way!

It is moreover difficult to peer into 2010, as I am certain of only one thing...it will be a year unlike ANY we have had before!  Adapting to the addition of a baby to our family will be challenging and unpredictable, but we are so blessed to be given the opportunity to be parents.  (Raising Pico is hardly comparable...but also was challenging!)

So Happy New Year 2010 to all of you! 

I hope for only the best things for our family and friends.  Make this year into everything you have dreamed and do things you have always wanted to do!

Wanna Hear?

Hey,

So James had the brilliant idea of recording the baby's heartbeat and posting it here for you to hear!
Tomorrow I will go in for my ten week appointment and I have a list of questions that I've came up with........hehe (me with a list......what?)

Anyway, heartrate measures at 170 on the doppler and here it is!
http://98.131.38.219/BabyHeartBeat12212009.mp3

Heartbeat at Home

9w2d...

So James and I purchased a fetal doppler so we could hear baby's heartbeat at home.  I tried it last night, thinking it was too early to hear....and we heard it!  It took me awhile to find it and we had to turn the volume way up, but it definitely was the baby's heartbeat.  Fast like "galloping horses" like they said it should sound like.

So just thought I'd share that with you.  Off to work for me after hardly sleeping at all last night. (yeah, still dealing with insomnia)

Happy Thursday.

9 Weeks

Hey everyone,

Not much of an update today.  Today is my first day back to work after a four day weekend.  We accomplished a lot of Christmas shopping and I worked on our Christmas cards.  I now work straight through the next three weeks (even weekends), so I might be kinda crabby by the end of it all.  Sorry, I will apologize now ;) 

I've been feeling great...so yay for that!  However, I felt like I have a little more of a belly today.  I don't know if I'm just bloated or if I'm actually starting to show.  Seems too early to be showing, so I'm going with the bloated theory. 

Just 10 days until Christmas, so I have to get some final gifts purchased and wrapped yet.

See you all soon!

Scary Evening!

Time for an update again... 8w2d...

So I've continued my worry streak for the last week, as my lack of symptoms has been driving me nuts.  Out of the blue, last night I started spotting again, dark brown blood.  I called the after hours nurse, who advised that as long as I wasn't feeling weak and since the blood wasn't bright red, not to be worried and to just call my physician in the morning.

This morning, I called Dr. Nash and she suggested I come in for another ultrasound. 

The ultrasound turned out well!  1.5 cm baby has a heart rate of 170 bpm!!  Still doesn't look like much of a baby to me, but relieved it's still growing! 

I then met with my physician, who said everything looks well in the ultrasound, but they had found a "clot" that was likely the culprit of the bleeding.  She said this sometimes forms from the act of implantation and is not too concerning.  She said this should just go away on it's own, but to take it easy for now.  She said if it turns to bright red blood, then I should call her back.  She also took a culture, six tubes of blood, and a urine sample...and I have no idea what they will all test for, but she said she wanted to save me time at later appointments and get them done now.  Alright.

Well, after a night of horrible worry, I can rest easy again tonight.

So now I'm waiting for James to come home from work.  The server crashed at work today, so he had to fix that before coming home.  Our driveway hasn't been blown out yet either, so that might not get done until tomorrow.  Welcome winter!