great ultrasound today!

After all our worrying we had a great ultrasound today! The baby was measuring right where it should be and the heartbeat was 135 bpm!  They even showed us on the ultrasound where the baby's spine was starting to form! We are super excited and can't believe that it's real. If you look at the ultrasound picture the baby's head is at the top. The little circle at the bottom is called the yolk sac and thats what feeds the baby until it's about 12 weeks or so. Then the placenta takes over and I'll stop feeling sick too!

so tired

the last couple of days I have been EXHAUSTED! It seems no matter what I do or how much sleep I get I am still tired. I slept until 10:30 today and still I want to go back to sleep. I guess I didn't think that you were this tired during pregnancy. Again another symptom that I can thankfully chalk up to the baby hopefully being healthy. That is my main concern right now and I only have to wait 2 more days to find out. The last week I have gotten more nervous as my next appointment gets closer. Just the thought of it makes me scared. I am pretty sure everything is fine but knowing what happened last time I just get scared. I really happy that Sean is coming to this appointment too. We will let everyone know after our ultrasound how it goes.

6 weeks

Yesterday (Saturday) I was 6 weeks pregnant! Here's what it says about the baby at six weeks: You might be coping with full-blown pregnancy symptoms (sorry), but there's plenty of good news too. Your baby's jaw, cheeks, chin, eyes, ears, and nose are beginning to form what will eventually become one adorable face. In addition, her kidneys, liver, and lungs are developing, and her heart is now beating 80 times a minute (and getting faster every day). All this and she's still no bigger than the length of a nail head (about a quarter of an inch) from crown to rump! The baby is the size of a sweet pea! 

I am dealing with some morning sickness and it comes at all times. No real throwing up just mostly nausea and a not so good feeling. So far it's something I can deal with if it means getting a healthy baby in the end :) Only 5 more days until we have another ultrasound and I'm very excited and hoping that everything is ok. With all the symptoms I've had I'm pretty hopeful that everything is going to be fine. I didn't have any of these symptoms last time so I'm taking that as a good sign. Can't wait!

Consignments Sales

Saturday morning Sean and I ventured out to a consignment sale someone had told me about. It's for baby, children and maternity only. They don't have a store just have sales about once a season. There are more though since we live in a big city then just once a season! This one we went to is called "Just between friends." I was nervous that it would be super crowded with people grabbing stuff all over the place. I also thought it would be picked over since we were going on the second day. I was WRONG! People must not know about these sales because there was only 3 other ladies shopping in the entire convention center! Plus tons of clothes, toys, blankets, shoes, books, etc....... I can't even name all the things they had. It was pretty amazing. I was pleasantly surprised at how clean everything was as well as some things were still brand new with the tags on them :) We ended up finding a used maternity pillow that I was super excited about since it's pretty expensive in the stores. We also bought a pack of burp cloths that were brand new, a newborn sleep sack, and two maternity tops.

We went home and I tried out my pillow right away. It was about 5 minutes later when we realized that the pillow must have been from a home with a cat. I was sneezing, my face was red and my entire body was itching.  We went back to the sale the next day and thankfully (even though all sales are final) they took it back for store credit. Since it was the last day of the sale everything (except tags with stars on them) were 50% off. WOO HOO! Again I thought it would be picked over but there was still tons of stuff to look through. My favorite thing we got was the little cable knit sweater with the button on the shoulder. All the pajamas were $1-$3! I will definitely be attending the next sale. I'm super excited since the next one we will know the gender. This time we only got gender neutral items. 

Saw the baby again

On friday I was having some pain on my left side (it's all ok, I promise). So my doctor had me come in for another ultrasound to make sure everything was ok. Saw the baby again (sorry no picture this time) and the sac was bigger and there was a yolk sac. I was also measuring 3 days ahead of where I am suppose to be so the doctor said if next time I am also measuring ahead then they will move my due date up. I'm just excited that the baby is growing FASTER this time. Again happy to hear good news :)

I guess I should start from the beginning

This blog is so family and friends can see the progress of our pregnancy while we are living so far from most of you at the moment. Please feel free to comment and I'll try to keep up with this as much as possible.

Our first ultrasound went great and I wanted to post a picture of the little tiny sac that showed on the screen. This was only me 4 weeks pregnant and showing anything on an ultrasound this early is a GREAT sign. Also my beta hcg (thats the pregnancy hormone) was 1,187 on Monday and more than doubled on Wednesday at 2,755! Doubling is also a great sign of a healthy pregnancy. The numbers being that high also make it even more great. So far everything being so good makes Sean and I very happy and it makes the worry a lot less.