Going by too fast!

The other day in the car cody asked how many days until Halloween. So we told him about 90. Then i said and about two weeks later the baby will be here!!!! That just doesn't seem that far away at all.
So School starts in Aug. Cody turns 7 in Sept (I turn 32) and Kaitlen turns 4 in Oct then Abigail is coming mid Nov. Shoot I think wrestling starts in Aug too. I think Code and Kaitlen will both be doing that and Kaitlen also wants to do dance. I need to check what nights classes will be on. Hhhmmmmm, now to think about Halloween costumes.

Abigails new clothes

Auntie Tina sent Abigail some clothes.

This outfit she got for Matthews birthday, but Kaitlen liked it so much that she's wearing it.

24 weeks

Well time is flying. It's amazing how fast this pregnancy is going. I still feel pretty good. Some heartburn and edema, not to bad yet. It's a little hard to bend over and put M's shoes on. I have to bring his foot to me instead of me to his foot. Ben still hasnt felt her move, she's smart, she knows when im touching my belly and when Ben is. LOL. Actually all the kids did that. They'd stop moving as soon as Ben put his hand on me. She sleeps alot, or dare i say sleeps alot in the day and is up at night while im sleeping when i dont feel her moving. YIKES, a night owl. Next week I'll go in for my GGT test and then see my Dr towards the middle of Aug.

OB appt today

I had my appt today. I am 21.5 weeks. I somehow schedualed the appt at a time that Ben could not come but it also interferred with Matthew and Kaitlens nap. I had to wake them when we got there so i had two very grumpy kids with me. Both wanting me to hold them and then taking them all with me to the bathroom for the urine sample. (cody got to hang outside the bathroom door). then the Dr ran behind schedual, but the kids did good while he was in there and i told him that last night i stepped on a very rusty and large staple while pulling up carpet and i brought it with me so he could see it. I earned myself a tetnus shot because i was over due for it. Somehow it didnt hurt at all. The heartbeat sounded good. Ben has yet to hear the heartbeat :o(. next time. when i was waiting for my tetnus matthew had a meltdown while laying on the floor, when the Dr came back in Matthew just layed they quiet and still. I thought it was kinda funny and a nice break from the whineys. we were going to go to wal-mart afterwards but when i got into the parking lot the two older ones started going whacko and i almost went down the wrong direction in the parking lot and when i went to correct it i scared a man thinking i was going to hit him. So i called it quits and left the parking lot and went home.
oh, before my next appt i do go in to have my GGT done so they have it in time for my appt in Aug. With Matthew it was 137, 3 point under the radar. That number was actually very high for me, but in Ca they dont start off with the 1 hour you automatically do the 3 hour GTT. Here i wouldnt need to do the 3 hr unles my 1 hour is 140 or more but even with the first 3 pg i always had a very normal reading. Even one time with Kaitlen i had to have a random finger stick and it came back 97. so we'll see. Hopefully it's fine. I wouldnt have a problem controlling my diet or blood sugar it's just i dont need to birth any bigger babies than what i have.

Come meet Abigail Betty

Yep, it's a GIRL. I think everyone knows already, but i don't think everyone knows her name. We have had Abigail picked out for a very long time and of course Betty is Bens mom.

Ultrasound Schedualed

They schedualed it for Fri. I will be exactly 20 weeks. First, of course i hope all is fine. No low lying placenta, no choriod plexus cysts, no abnormal kidneys or anything new that my other kids havent already had. All the above resolved for the kids that they belong to (except codes kidney is still abnormally shaped, BUT functions normally) Then ofcourse i hope they can tell the sex of the little one.
i will update on friday

19 weeks

WOW, 19 weeks already. I totally skipped my 18 week post but thats ok, not much happened anyway. This little booger is bumping into me all over the place :o) i really cant wait for Ben and the kids to feel it.
Still trying to get my ultrasound appt schedualed, i swear it's like a stupid circus at my Dr's office. Its supose to be schedualed for the first week in July (actually originally june 27th) and would you believe the girl on the phone said to call back on like July 10th?!?!?!?! to schedual it. wow, yeah, I know........ so they are looking at having someone schedual it at the hospital, umm, sounds good to me if someone from my dr's office would call me back. i dont know, i worked in a Dr's office for 5 yrs and it's really not THAT difficult. I do have to say it wasnt like that when i was pg with Matthew.......... mini rant, guess i need to get that out. so cross fingers the the back office girl will call back. Here's another little irk, i was never offered or reminded of the AFP testing and by my next appt it'll be to late, good that im not a 1st time mom and relying on my Drs to get this schedualed. I dont want to have it done anyway, wouldnt change anything about my pregnancy. My GTT is coming up soon, again noone has schedualed that either. suppose to be at 20 weeks.............. boy lets insert ~*circus theme song*~ oh, my july prenatal check up still isnt schedualed either, it's to be schedualed the 1 week of July also..............

17 weeks

nothing really new this week. Can't say I feel the baby anymore than what i thought i was before. I found out i really like sunflower seeds which goes really great with swollen ankles. We've been buisy this week. Cody started basketball camp and it finishes up tomorrow and then monday he starts football camp. He's pretty excited. I have been more buisy since school ended that when he was in school.

heard the heartbeat!!!!!!!!!

I went for my breast ultz results and he turned it into an ob appt. a student dr measured my stomach and it measure 16 weeks and my dr went for the heartbeat and we heard it. :o) it was so nice. that was the first time. Ben wasn't able to come to this appt (we really thought it was just going to be a F/U plus he's training an officer and today was the first day) so i felt bad that he missed the heartbeat. my dr pushed the ultz into july so im looking at after the holiday before we get that done, which is fine. the older the baby the easier it is to see the sex. (if s/he cooperates) if for some reason babyv is stubborn we have a back up plan :o) to go pay for one at one of those places. we had one with kaitlen and it was worth every penny.

16 weeks

Well I can't say that i officially feel the baby move. There is an occasional thump but I would have to say it skipped the whole fluttering feeling. This placenta is anterior so imagine that has alot to do with it. Codys was anterior too. I remember when I had the amnio with him they had to put the needle through the placenta.

15 weeks

i'm 15 weeks and it's gone by pretty fast. well 5 of those weeks i didnt know i was pg. some times i think i felt a tiny bump into my belly but not sure enough to say that i felt the baby move. with Thomas i felt him move at 18 weeks, Cody at 17 weeks, kaitlen at 16 weeks and Matthew for sure at 15 weeks but thought i felt something at 14 weeks. so any time now i'm hopeing to be sure about the baby moving.
Today was an exciting day. I found out that the wild kitten that bit me on tues and was having severe nurological problems on wed came back negative for rabies. My vet advised me to quit messing with wild animals. It was quit a scare so i'll be leaving any stray animals alone.

Whoa belly

This was at the creek this weekend and my sister-in-law took this pic and emailed it to me today. I had no idea i was that big. Now i know what Ben has been talking about. LOL I guess i was 14 weeks that day. Thats my niece Emily squirting me. She wants me to have a girl too.

Had to laugh

I was on Ivillage looking at my pregnancy calendar and i was reading all the way into week 17 and came across this..
Beyond hormonal changes, some men worry that they might hurt the fetus or that the fetus might be watching them while having sex (all untrue, but nevertheless not very arousing notions). Men can be unsettled by the realization that sex is for making babies, and breasts are for feeding them. Plus, because of hormonal changes, your vagina is darker-colored, has more discharge, smells different, and has more hair, which may make your partner feel like someone snuck in and redecorated his favorite room in the house.
OMGosh, I had to crack up that they even put that in there. Thats like something a guy would call it.

Thank You Heather

Thanks for my new template, I love it. It turned out really great. :o)

bought a maternity outfit

After Matthew was born I gave all my maternity clothes to a freind. We had no plans to have anymore lovebugs. (did the same thing after we had Kaitlen, lol, not a very effective form of birth control) Bens brother is getting married this weekend and i needed something to wear. i can fit in one pair of my pants, but they are denim and it wouldnt go for a wedding. The wedding is a Hawaiian theme so i didnt have to get anything dressy. So we went to kohls and they had a small but descent selection. Its a greenish color top and some brown pants that dont have that stretchy materal over the belly. they look like normal pants. it's a cute outfit, but i looke huge in it. its not that im showing, its just i dont fit in my pants. Though ben says that i am showing.

My rings don't fit

my fingers swell to much to keep wearing my rings. This is the earliest this has ever happened. So I am now wearing Bens wedding band that doesnt fit him anymore..... lol..... along time ago I got Ben a new band because his original didnt fit him anymore. so now i wear the one from the day we said I do. It's a little loose now but by the time i deliver it won't be. On our one yr anniversary i had it engraved with our song, Buicks to the moon by Alan Jackson. The guy probably though i was weird but when Ben saw it he got teary eyed. So even though I'll miss my big hunkin diamond (ok, it's not abnormally big or anything, it's normal) I do enjoy wearing his band.

10 weeks today

We'll I am 10 weeks today. I'm even further along if you go by my doctor but I wont get my hopes untill after the ultrasound. Im still tired and still have morning sickness. Actually it's worse in the evening. The little thing above is a ticker and tomorrow it should say 10.1 weeks pregnant. i'l have to see tomorrow if it works.

ETA: I don't think blogger supports gif. so no working tickers here. o'well

can't eat sweets

They make me really sick. It's kind of a bummer. I told Ben not to bring anything sweet home anymore. His birthday is next friday, i know we'll have a cake. would he be upset if i made a sugar free cake..... lol. Poor guy. maybe i'll have sugar free pudding or i could probably do sugar free strawberry shortcake. shoot, i remember every summer when betty would do strawberry short cakes and have a seperate bowl of strawberries for Bill. his were sweatend with sweet and low although i think he had the same cool whip that the rest of us used. i know they make a sugar free one, if not whipping cream is just fine. I hope this isn't hinting toward gestational diabetes. I was only 3 points under with Matthew. I had never been that high with any of the others. We shall wait and see. oh geez, that drink is going to make me sick.

My surprise OB appt.

I went to the Dr for the f/u on my breast pain and Dr. Burrow decided to do my first OB appt so i wouldn't have to come back next week. I thought OH great, i didn't shave my bikini line, not that he cares, but I do. I quickly got over that. So he rechecked my breast and still found nothing wrong. The pain is much better since matthew was weaned, but not completly gone. Since it's getting better and it wasn't that long ago that matthew weaned he wants to give it 2 months and if it's still there then we'll go for a mammo. He also schedualed my first ultrasound for May 15th at his office and then after the ultrasound I'll have my next ob appt and I'll finally get to hear the heart beat. I'll see it on the ultrasound, maybe hear it on there too. I guess the ultrasoud will also give me my final duedate. He is going with the one on the 7th or 8th, I dont even remember what it is. whoops........

My OB nurse appt

Today I saw the OB nurse and had my blood drawn. The lab did good at drawing the blood, yea. The appt with the nurse went fine. She just went over my history and she did change my due date. She went off the first day of my cycle but didnt adjust the days for it being a 36 day cycle. So i believe she said Nov8th, but i *know* it cant be. so I'll stick with Nov 17th untill the ultrasound. Because Nov 8th would put my weeks off and I wouldn't get my shot for being Rh- during the right week and if they induce again this time it would make the induction to early. So we'll wait and see. My appt with my Dr is on the 25th.

sleep, sleep, sleep

Thats all I want to do these days. I am wiped out all the time. last night I fell asleep after dinner and didnt get back up untill after 9pm and then this morning. I get up at 10:45 only because Ben called to see if were amoung the living and the phone woke me up. It's kinda weird that the kids slept that long too.

8 weeks!!!!!!

Well today i am 8 weeks along. The morning sickness is alot better. They gave me Meclezine (sp?) im to lazy to go check the spelling on the bottle, maybe later i'll edit it. You wont believe what i went throught just to get it. you would of thought i was asking for some addictive narcotic or something. I am extremely fatigued, it's crazy. I see the nurse on the 13th and then she'll schedual my 1st Dr's appt.
ETA: Meclizine, correct spelling

Pregnancy blog

I thought I'd set a blog up just for this pregnancy.