10 posts tagged “pregnant”

You know as a kid or even as an adult as you count down the days for something and time seems to crawl.  Thats how this pregnancy felt in the beginning. 40 weeks always seemed so long, but now that I am almost down to 7 weeks, it seems as thought time is flying.  Similar to when you are vacation and suddenly it is over.

Not that i'm not excited to see my baby, its just the whole getting to that part that kind of freaks me out.  I know I will figure it all out and all will be well, but its just the great unknown that tends to cause my nervousness. Its like doing anything new for the first time, although this one comes with a baby at the end.

Not sure if I am making any sense or not.

I am starting to tire of the question "So how are you?" from people I know don't want to hear the answer mostly people I work with or am aquaintances   The short answer I am fine. I think they want me to complain and I have very few of them .

I actually am surprised that I enjoy being pregnant.  My only complaints are the inability to sleep through the night and occasional acid reflux/heartburn.    I've heard people complain about the baby moving too much, but that's silly I like trying to figure out what he is doing there.

Next weekend is my shower and my work shower is after that, that is exciting.  I'm just really in shock that time seems to be flying.

Thanks for listening to my ramble.

I promise not to take pictures of everything I buy or am given, but most of these are by request

So they are from left to right

Sweater and cordoroys from a friend at work, Santa hat purchased at Target on clearance, 2 photos of a football onesie I bought for my husband. It says Shhh  I am watching the game with Dad!!! and finally the two pair of babylegs.

Last night as my husband is pulling into a parking spot at the local grocery store minutes from our home. A cop pulls up behind us and shines his spotlight on the car.

We turn off the engine and wait as he comes along side my door.  I roll down the window and he peered into the car.

He then looked puzzled as he said " Oh, We thought we saw a baby in the front seat of your vehicle."   I wanted to say, there is one in my belly, but refrained as he apologized and left.

Bizarre.

So this was the scheduled weekend to register.  A bit on the early side since I'm not due until April, but with the holidays, the winter weather, the multiply registering inquires already coming our way, we decided to go early.

Keep in my mind that I had already read up and done research. I had already started the target registery online, but due to incentives that I couldn't pass up and a need to physically see the things I was registering for, we headed out to Babysrus yesterday.

My hubby hates shopping and I must say for the most part he did a really good job.  He wanted to register for everything and I had to keep saying oh we don't need that or oh i registered at target for that.

We spent an hour in the store and tackled most of the major things. I freaked out at finding the right crib and mattress, too many choices, and we gave up on the diaperbag selection in store.

The process went pretty smoothly instore, and we got our $10.00 gift certificate and free samples for registering instore.

We then proceeded to target to add just a few items that I still hadn't decided on, namely a diaperbag.  After doing babysrus, I must say that the system at target is much nicer.

After a trip to a craft store for nursery project and to dinner, I headed home to look at the registry online and delete a few things we had added but didn't want them.

Imagine my dismay when I couldn't login, turns out the associate at Babysrus put everything in caps. UGH.
Once I logged in, I realized that a few of the major things didn't scan. No car seat, no breast pump.

Needless to say I spend the rest of my night trying to fix things.  I still don't know that its prefect, but I guess it is good enough for now.

If any moms or educated adults out there notice something I didn't register for please let me know.

A month ago when I went for my appointment I happened to arrive while they were doing their practice fire drill. Luckily it was warm and we weren't outside for long.

I go to my appointment this past thursday, check in and wait patiently. Get called back only to find out the computer system had crashed.  Now normally this wouldn't be  big deal as the normal OB appts latel have been pretty standard. Weight, Bloodpressure, Urine Check, Listen for Baby and questions. The big deal this time is that I wanted to know what my doctor saw if anything in the Ultrasound photos.  I asked and he said "Well honestly if something was wrong I would have let you know by now, I don't really recall though"  I then said well would you mind calling when things were back working.  And he said that sounds fine. 

So I waited patiently for the doctors office to call and all is well. My next appt isn't until the 28th so lets hope that time that the appt goes smoothly. I like my doctors office alot, just seem to have bad luck lately.

Next week is the ultrasound, the one where I get to see more of the baby then just the tiny blur.  The one where I hopefully find out the gender.  Yes I want to know. I don't like secrets, I don't like waiting to find things out. I also think knowing might in someway calm a bunch of my fears of the unknown.  Thats the thing with pregnancy , you have this being growing inside you and for the whole time you know nothing at all about them. You see a picture or two, hear the heartbeat and eventually feel them inside, but it is all so abstract and until they get here you worry that they will be ok. So for some reason knowing the gender is something I hope to be able to know.

That being said I know the question is which do I prefer?  The answer is I don't really have a preference. I can see the fun in having either a boy or a girl.

Any predictions?

Tomorrow marks 18 weeks.  I just celebrated my 3rd year wedding anniversary, my 34th birthday is next week (how did that happen.)

I am not sure where the time has gone.

Today starts week 17. Were is the time going. According to the pregnancy updates I receive, Baby is 5 inches long and weighs 5 ounces (about the weight of a turnip it says).   I should be feeling the baby move , and may have for all I know and not recognized it.  I am feeling fine, a bit more tired then usual and hormonal, but nothing that I can't live with.

Note to self, going to at 2:40 movie while pregnant is not a good idea. I had to take two potty breaks. Fun stuff.

So I told work this week. It went pretty smoothly.   It is interesting to see how people react. All reactions were postive just varying ranges of excitement. I've already been given way too much advice or should I say recaps of how different people's pregnancy were. My favorite, "well you know  I only gained 15 pds when I was pregnant.

Those of you who have been following this blog may be wondering where I've been.  All is well, just have been trying to figure out how to shift the blog from one focus to another.  So here goes. I am 16 weeks pregnant, due in April.  These are exciting and adventurous times as I am learning and experiencing a ton right now.  I promise to blog more now that the cat is out of the bag so to speak.  I still haven't told everyone I know and have the fun task of telling work this week, exciting times ahead thats for sure.