15 weeks!!!

The past three days mark a few important milestones!!! Saturday: Christmas Eve, Sunday: Obviously Christmas duh, and today: 15 weeks pregnant!!




Saturday we had the annual Christmas Eve family get together over Helen's house. We ate tons of awesome food, opened some great gifts, and spent some quality time with the whole family, even Mike and Matt's new dog, Biggie. CUTE! Per usual Auntie was late, lol only by an hour or two this time HAHA! I cannot believe how music older the kids are getting. I remember when everyone was born!! I told Isabel how I used to call her mom everyday towards the end of her pregnancy to see if she had had the baby yet. Its so funny that now she will probably be babysitting for us come summertime! CRAZY how time flies! 


Christmas was equally as cool. In the AM I sang in the morning church service at First Baptist Church in Boston. Everyone was superfriendly and nice and I got to see some Longy peeps. After church me and Dan headed to his parents where we ate and opened presents literally all day! 


Me and Dan we both super surprised at how generous our families were with gift giving this year!! Some favorites were a bird feeder (yea, we are lame and like wildlife to fester on our balcony and torture our kitties), some gift certificates, and I got some maternity shirts which were much needed. We bought our house a new couch and got iphones. Bye bye, blackberry!!


So I am 15 weeks pregnant today!! wow, talk about time flying by! 

Size of baby: Orange 
Total Weight Gain/Loss: +1 lb. 
Maternity Clothes: Regular shirts mixed with maternity ones, totally in maternity pants!
Gender: I think girl and so does Dan, lots of family and friends think boy!
Movement: I think I can feel a little flutter action but im not sure. 
Sleep: I go to bed and cannot sleep through the night. I find myself wide awake after being asleep for a few hours. I am not NEARLY as tired I was in the first trimester. 
What I miss: Wine, sushi, raw oysters. 
Cravings: Watermelon, chocolate, and fruit of all kinds. I might have to go buy a watermelon right now, but as I was writing this I remembered I have some oranges. hmm....
Symptoms: A growing baby bump!! :) Its totally there now, its like it just appeared over the last few days!! Some pregnancy zits, EW. I never got zits, not even when I was a teenager. I am mega thirsty all the time, and I have wacky dreams at night. Morning sickness still appears once in a while but I consider myself super lucky to have not had it badly at all!

14 Weeks!!!

Today I am 14 weeks pregnant! It feels great to be in the second trimester, I can't believe I am one third into this pregnancy!

My symptoms are easing which is a blessing. No more extreme exhaustion, no more nausea (but I am skeptical its gone lol), and some of the other minor discomforts of the first trimester are gone.

My little baby bump is getting there and I am pretty much in maternity pants all the time.

Christmas is almost here and I finally have the house decorated and, surprise, there were 2 Yankee Candles in the decorations that I forgot about so it even smells like a Christmas tree.

As I said before, me and Dan got a new couch for Christmas but he is also buying himself a blackberry tablet and Im buying myself an Iphone 4s!!! A NEW PHONE!!!! My beloved blackberry curve has been a life saver since my Evo and Blackberry Tour had short lives (btw I got insurance on the iphone!).


Here are some pregnancy highlights!

How Many Weeks? 14


Size of Baby? About the size of a lemon, 3.5 inches long and weighs about 1.5 ounces.





Total weight gain/loss? About a pound at this point. Sometimes Im up one pound, others I have lost, and then sometimes, its pre-pregnancy weight.


Gender? We go in for the ultrasound on January 19 (exactly one month)!! and we will hopefully find out! For the record I think girl and most of our families think boy!


What I Miss: Sushi and sleeping through the entire night without getting up once, wine.


Cravings/Aversions: Chocolate Ice Cream!! YUMM!! Still no burgers, or red sauce. 


So my next OB appointment is on Jan 4 and I have a glucose test. Apparently this office tests twice, so naturally I have to drink this icky orange thing twice. Blech!!

13 weeks pregnant

Today I am 13 weeks pregnant! My next appointment is in 3 weeks and we will be having the next ultrasound on January 19. Hopefully we will be able to find out if baby is a boy or a girl. Almost everyone thinks boy but myself and a few others think girl!! Either way I just want he or she to be a healthy and happy baby!!!

We have given up the name search until we find out the baby's sex. It just makes things a lot easier.

My baby bump is getting bigger by the day. My regular pants don't fit with the exception of one pair that might fit for another week or two. I have not gained a single pound since finding out I was pregnant so its not like i'm just getting bigger LOL. In a few weeks my belly will look like a legit baby bump instead of being in the weird in between period where you can't really tell if Im pregnant. Every pregnant woman goes through this at some point and its terrible. I feel like I need to announce it because I just look fat LOL.

Here is a cute survey...

Total weight gain:  0

how big is baby: about the size of a peach

Maternity clothes:  Mostly, I can still wear regular shirts

Sleep:  The insane exhaustion is gone but I wake up every two hours or so..

Best moment of the week:  Hearing baby's heartbeat on the doppler at the Dr's office

Food cravings:  none really but I want fresh fruit of any kind all the time.

Food aversions: None really. Possibly red pasta sauce

Symptoms:  frequent urination, super thirsty, hungry all the time

Movement:  None that I have been able to feel yet

Gender:  Me and Dan think girl, everyone else thinks boy

What I’m looking forward to:  Kicking, knowing the gender, having a legit baby bump!

What I miss:  Sushi

Next appt:  Jan 9

Flu shot

Here is a small rant: for 6 years I have managed to "survive" without getting a flu shot. No, Dr's, I have not died! Now that I am pregnant it was strongly recommended. I denied said shot twice over two appointments, and was asked yet again yesterday at my appointment for a third time. The Dr. said the shot will protect the baby after its born for the first 6 months. She also said that infants make up about 4% of those who become infected with the flu but are among 25% of those who die from it as well.  Trying to be a good mother I reluctantly got the shot. The last time I got the shot I was a college freshman and I only got it because it was free, I have asthma, and convenient. That year I did get sick from the shot (not with the flu but a mild reaction to it:fever aches and chills). You cannot get the flu from the flu shot because there are not live cultures in the shot. You can just develop mild symptoms as you body gets used to what it is, as with any shot: tetanus, MMR, booster, etc.

 Well, what do ya know?! Lo and behold 6 hours after the shot I had a fever of 101, body ache, and chills. Every pregnancy book and Dr I have spoken with says if you get a fever of 100 and above you need to be seen. Well, isn't this just as bad as having the flu because even after taking Tylenol (which I hate taking) I no longer have those symptoms but I can feel like they are just numbed and as soon as the Tylenol wears off they will return. Now I can say, I will NEVER get another flu shot! In fact, that Dr just might get an earfull the next time I have to go in there.  If I am going to get "flu-like symptoms" but not the flu wth is the difference? All I was missing was a runny nose and a cough. Apparently getting something exactly like the flu, but not the flu is better than the flu, when essentially its the same. ya, ok.

12 Week appointment

I had my 12 week appointment this morning and it went very well. My uterus is measuring the size of a grapefruit, which is apparently the appropriate sized fruit for it to be measuring right now. I heard the heartbeat today for the first time too! It was in the 150's! The Dr. was using the doppler device to find the heartbeat and the baby kept moving away from it! Defiant from inside the womb! 'Atta girl/boy!! ;)

I have not gained any weight since my last appointment which is good! The Dr. said I should gain a little weight by my next appointment, maybe 2 pounds or so. I have been hungry despite the morning sickness that developed halfway through week 10. I pray I am not one of those women who have slight morning sickness throughout their pregnancy!!!!!!!!! I have only felt sick may 10 times total, and half of those were terrible and resulted in...yea.

My next regular OB appointment is in 4 weeks. January 19 we have a fetal scan/ultrasound which could determine the baby's sex, which we have decided we want to know!

I mailed out our cute Christmas Cards yesterday and am ALMOST finished writing out all of the thank you cards from the wedding. I still have one unclaimed gift: a beautiful Tiffany and Co wine glass set. I would love to thank the gift giver for such a thoughtful gift!!

I have no idea what the family Christmas Eve and Christmas plans are yet, and my shopping is no where near finished. Dan and I bought the new couch as a gift for the house so we will only be buying a few little things for eachother this year. Hopefully he will buy me a new phone to tide me over until I can get an Iphone, which is about 80 days away (I think) and hopefully he can get me that for my birthday!! (HINT, HINT!) As far as shopping goes, with the baby on the way we have decided to only get gifts for immediate family. I usually get a little something for the children in our family, but I would rather put that money aside towards my maternity leave or buy one of the countless things our baby will need. Its a tough decision but a necessary one. I have always been self sufficient and got gifts for people because I like gift giving. I think its a nice gesture and I always did it because I enjoyed it, not because I expect gifts from other family members. To be quite honest I thought I was going to stop getting gifts when I went to college, but my family has always been generous and has been giving me gifts STILL!!! I love prezzies!!! :)

I would like to buy myself a new dining room set. The one we have is old, and has mismatched chairs and only seats 4. I want one that seats 6 and can be extended to 8. I need to go to a furniture place and see what will fit in our dining room!

We haev yet to put up the tree but I think we will be doing that this Saturday. It has been operation CLEAN since the worst of the first trimester exhaustion seems to be over. I am still tired a lot but not nearly half as much as I was for the first 10 weeks or so. The child was literally sucking the  life out of me, hence I think its a girl. Almost everyone else thinks its a boy though! either way, I am hoping for a bright, beautiful, bouncing baby no matter what its sex is!!!

So what do you think??? Girl or Boy? Post a comment below!!!

12 Weeks Pregnant

Today I am officially 12 WEEKS PREGNANT!!! I am soooo happy this first trimester is coming to a close! I consider myself to be very lucky that I have not had any major morning sickness. I had about 2 bouts of it between weeks 5-10 then week 11 hit and I felt sick almost everyday. Today is not one of those days, however, and I hope the worst has past!

By now, your baby weighs a full half-ounce and is about the size of a large plum. Most of his systems are in place, though there's still plenty of maturing to do. For one thing, his fetal digestive system is beginning to practice contraction movements necessary for eating, and his bone marrow is busy making white blood cells — weapons against germs once he's out of your safe haven. The pituitary gland (at the base of the brain) has started producing the hormones that'll enable him (or her) to make babies of his (or her) own in a couple of decades or so. 

My next prenatal appointment is on Wednesday!! So exciting!!