Week Nine

It's officially week 9 today. We're now in our 3rd month!

The baby has graduated from an embryo to a fetus. It's grown about an inch and is now the size of a large green olive. Arms and legs are in place and muscles are now twitching and moving, but I can't feel it yet. We could see the arms and legs on the ultrasound on Wednesday. The baby's head is starting to look more like a head. I think all in all the baby is starting to look more like a baby!

We made the decision to find out the sex of the baby so as soon as we can do that we're going to. There's just too much to plan for not to find out. We would both like to be surprised, but neither one of us wants to wait out the nine months until we know. So, come week 20 we're going to find out. (Now watch the baby not cooperate and keep his/her legs together!)

I've been waking up in the middle of the night hungry. I guess because I go to bed so early! Anyway, I get up with Roxie and we have a snack. Tommy's been sleeping thru the whole thing. It's just weird for me to wake up hungry in the middle of the night.

Feeling Better

Okay, we're feeling much better these days. I've still got the nausea in the mornings, but I have figured out that a bowl of cold cereal helps. It's really strange. I hate cereal. I can't stand anything soggy. It grosses me out but makes me feel better at the same time. Very weird.

The spotting has stopped so the hemorrhage must have corrected itself already. This is good news! Double Yeah!! We appreciate your thoughts and prayers thru that scary time. They worked!

I've gotten most of my Christmas shopping done. I still have to get a present for the Mize Christmas gift exchange and Tommy is being very uncooperative this year. He hasn't given me any ideas yet, but he hasn't given anyone any ideas. I think he'll be getting lumps of coal for being bad.

Roxie is taking it easy these days. She played with her nephew the other day and decided kids weren't so bad. We'll have to see what happens when we have a little one here that doesn't go home!

A Little Scare

We had a little scare last night and this morning. I had a tiny amount of bleeding. We called the doctor and they worked me in this morning. Everything is fine and I'm taking it easy the rest of the day.

They did an ultrasound and found that we have a subchorionial hemmorage. They were able to locate it on the ultrasound. The tech discribed it as a broken blood vessel. We were told that it is normal and should resolve itself with no complications. From what the tech said, these are pretty common. Mine happen to be about a 1/2 inch long and located at the bottom, therefore, the bleeding.

The good thing is that they did another ultrasound and the baby is about twice as big as it was last week. The heart rate this time was 167 beats per minute. So, I guess we're out of the boy range of heartbeats and we've moved on to the girl range if you believe the old wives tails. It was cool. We could see the arms and legs and the beginnings of the spine. The heartbeat is still good and strong and we could see it and hear it beating.

Correction, 224 day to go. I can't read!

Eight Weeks Today

And only 225 more days to go.

The books say the baby is the size of a kidney bean at this stage. It's developing eyelids and hands and feet. It's amazing to see the pictures of what it looks like at this stage. Something so small can make me feel so sick. It's crazy!

The countdown continues...

Now if Tommy would only let me start decorating the nursery!!! Ha Ha