16 weeks!

I'm just amazed that I am growing a little human! I get updates from babycenter.com and this week, this is what the baby looks like

Thats not what MY body looks like though. LOL. I'm starting to become a lot "rounder" than I am usually. I'm at the point where people are probably thinking "Wow she's really let herself go" But no... not getting fatter, just pregnant. For some reason I was excited for when the baby had toes... well this week, he is growing toenails! So amazing. I should start feeling he/she moving around soon. I am feeling great for the most part, although I do have a bug of some sort today.. my throat is sore... and for those of you who dont know - when you are pregnant, you can't take any of the amazing medications that would make you feel better... you just kind of tough it out.
So wish me luck with the sickness... for now I'm just going to pretend that I feel awesome.

14 weeks, 6 days

I heard from the doctors office yesterday, finally. They said my 24 hour urine was fine, it must have been a fluke that my blood pressure was high. So everything is going good with the baby growing. This morning I read Happy Birthday To You! by Dr Seuss out loud to the baby, a co-worker was asking me if I had been reading to him/her which I think is kind of odd. But if the baby can hear or gain anything from me reading out loud to it, then I guess I might as well. I was thinking about all the things it "hears" all day... probably me griping a lot, or singing horribly to old 80's rock on the radio. Poor baby.

Our next appointment is coming up quickly, May 5th. At that appointment I will make the appointment to have the "big" U/S! It should be that following week... we are excited to see if I am toting around a little Martha or Hank. I bought an intelligender test at Walgreen's last week, its a urine test that is supposedly 90% accurate in telling the gender of the baby. If its right, then we will have a boy! But it really has no science behind it , so the way I see it - it had a 50% chance of being right... HAHA! Oh well, it will be fun to see if it was right or not!

13 weeks, 4 days!

Today was our first appointment where we could hear the heartbeat... we were both pretty excited and looked forward to it all day. We waited for an hour to see the Dr. and then he said that my blood pressure was a little higher than they like it to be, so now I have to do a 24 hour urine collection. Gee am I excited. He assured us it was probably nothing to worry about, a just in case type thing... so don't worry about tiny Hank! We heard the heart beat on the Doppler, what I mean by "we" is me and the Dr... Matt didn't really hear it much I don't think... He will get closer next time! It was all short and sweet and we didn't learn much at all... but I was relieved to hear that the baby is zooming around in there, doing just great. At one point I could hear the heartbeat really clear , and then there was a "whooosh" and it was gone- the Dr said that it was moving, so he went to the other side of my belly and found it again! Pretty neat that the little guy/gal is just swimming around in there! We are anxiously awaiting our next ultrasound so we can see how everything is growing.

I am feeling SO much better than before... I actually have energy to get out of bed now... and I really don't have any complaints! Still really excited!!! :)