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!!!