Nearing the 22 week mark

Ok so I've again been a bad blogger...sorries!

My sweet loving (albeit very outspoken) Granny came for a visit and we went to our 1/2 way ultrasound...so she got to see that the baby is a GIRL! We are so overly excited. I can't believe that in a few short months we will finally after all this time be holding our Precious baby girl. Everything is on track and she looks healthy. Her heartbeat is normal and her heart is beautiful. They have found nothing physical with her that should be of concern and I am released from the Perinatologist! On to just the OB for us! I still am in shock that we are even pregnant much less that everything is going forward so smoothly. So far so good.

I am feeling better. Still tired alot...but I am guessing that is to be expected. I look like a small Budda..but I am happy and I eat often, just not alot at one time.

So that's all for this post.

Tapeworm is a Girl...not a tapeworm...more like a wiggle worm.
We have family coming in for Thanksgiving and then off to see the Saints whip on the Cowboys! Whoo hoo!

19 weeks and please can I have a nap?

Alrighty made it week 19 today. Finally moved into prego pants, due to my little pooch I got going on. I just have to know, what the heck, my friends all told me about this little enegery burst they got in the second trimester of their pregnancy...where the heck is mine? I am sooo tired all the time. I bet its as the Dr. says "due to my age". I just want to sleep. Can I please quit working so I can nap when I want to? Please!

Well Tapeworm is a moving and a shaking in this little belly of mine. I feel it from time to time and its amazing. I wish it was more often and a little stronger just so the Mr. can feel it more!

As far as eating goes...well here is a plus, I am loving being able to eat and eat what I want when I want, meaning all the time!

Plans coming up, FAMILY TIME! Granny coming 1st week of Nov to be with us as we find out if Tapeworm is really a tapeworm or a girl or a boy! Then Thanksgiving will come with my Brother in Law and family and My Daddy! I can't wait! Then to the In Laws for Christmas and back to NOLA for New Years...then my most wonderful Feb where my "girls" in my family will be here to do a baby room weekend! My cousins and Aunts and Grandma and my Momma! Yay! Then it will be March before we know it and Tapeworm will make his/her appearance. What an amazing experience I am having.

Oh for the complaints, still with the pesky headaches and my hips are KILLING me. And did I mention my sinsuses? I've never had to take meds like this before! But I guess its not much and could be so much worse and I am still happy happy.

Things are always going to work out in the end.

"Life isn't fair, but it's still good."

18 weeks

I wrote this one and it didn't post. Ugh.

Yes I made it to 18 weeks. There was a time when I thought I wouldn't even be pregnant much less be pregnant this long! Almost half way! I can't believe it. I was watching Guilliana and Bill Ransic show and cried my eyes out as they go thru IVF. I was just there. I remember every moment, every tear, every worry, every thought. It was rough...but we did it, my body did it and here we are. Though I can't say I still don't worry that the baby and I won't make it all the way. I still try to enjoy all the happy parts. Like last night, getting a massage, the massagist was working on my hips and tiny little kicks. It was like the Tapeworm was saying, hey I'm here rub me too! LOL.

There have been so many crazy stressful things going on in our life recently. And I am trying to learn to take it one day at a time and one issue at a time. Easier said than done, but at least I am trying. And I am doing it. In the end it will all work out for the best and in the end it will just be as it should be.

Lastly just sending out prayers for those I know need it..Granny, Gma, Mom, darling Mr. and my Treen (i love you)

I will never go in the attic alone again...I promise.

This past lovely weekend I went up in the attic while Mr. was out car shopping. I wanted the fall decoarations down and thought it was no big deal. I've done this many times before and the box is very light and so is the wreath. I got it all together and put it at the top of the stairs. As I was getting ready to get down (OH I must write the story about the words Get Down another time) I was on the small edge to the left with one foot, Reached to the right with my hand to grab the two by four to steady myself and reached down with my other foot to step on the stairs. And thats when it happened! My toes slipped (yes I was doing this with no shoes on and in my pjs), my foot was dangling, I was in a split with one leg on the ledge in the attic, my arm stretched as far as it would go and my body convlusing with fear. As I dangled I imagined falling and hitting my head and landing like Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes her, all broken and backwards.
I finally composed myself and got my foot on the ladder and layed against it, still in a split while I stopped shaking. Grabbed the wreath went down and went back up and got the box. I really wanted to decorate. And closed up the attic stairs.

I promise to never go in the attic alone again.

But my door and my house look like fall now!

Ehh 16 weeks?

Now tell me this isn't crazy. First we are told we are due March 17 by the IVF Dr., Then by the OB Dr its March 18, now by the Perinatal Dr its March 19...someone make up your mind. Geeze. I am tired of all the date changes. Baby comes when it comes, you do all your weird dating and keep it to yourself. And really if you want to know I think more like March 6th time about.

And little one had the legs crossed the whole time. WOuldn't show nothing. But they continued to guess that its a girl. So yay Team Pink! I think we are pretty much settled that it will be a girl.

The pics are cute. I am feeling better each and everyday, execept for my sinuses draining. Maybe we will give this another shot next year!

16 Weeks

Wow we made it to the second trimester, to the begining of the 4th month, to 16 weeks. This little Tapeworm has been moving and a shaking off an on for weeks now. And I love it. Last night I think I may have felt something on the outside of my tummy and not on the inside. I can't wait till darling Mr. gets to feel it too. What a great time we are having.
Now time for the carpet and getting the bedroom set up. Need to get registered and be prepared for baby showers and what needs to be bought for this little one. Only 5 months left to go! And I need to be prepared!
This week thanks to one of our most special friends I bought a bassinet, pump, and boppy pillow. Then she lent me some big girl clothes and some baby jumpers! So cute.
Tomorrow will be our Dr. apt to hopefully figure out if its a boy or a girl! Geaux Team PINK! And also the day to say good bye to my ever loved Escape. Back to the dealership with you. She'd done me good for three years and now its time to move on.
This past weekend we got to watch our nephew marry our new niece (who we already love) and take on the roll of parent to his wife's precious little boy. He danced all around the floor and was so happy. And we are just so happy to have them enlarge our family even more! They were the ones who came to visit us just to go see Jack Johnson with us. They are so totally cool! (REF: Happy Feet)
I was wondering last night as I looked into the baby room last night...will the Tapeworm and all the stuff fit? I may have to use the guest room to help store things!
Anyway...I am slightly stressed and ready for work to be over. And just ready to bring this little one into the world.

San Fran and Food Crawling

We just got back from San Francisco. What an amazing trip! We Lit-tri-lee walked all of the town from China town to North Beach down to the wharf and into Nob hill and Union Square. And we ate our way around. Everytime I was hungry I ate. Ahhh best thing about being pregnant!
Our little Tapeworm decided it likes to fly. The whole flight TW was rolling around in there making me feel like I was popping some corn in my belly!
Then we went to Napa valley...amaze-balls! The Mr. now wants to retire there. I can't say I blame him, but I still feel like NOLA is where we belong! However our picnic at Rutherford Hill in the Olive Grove with a cheese and antipasto platter may have slightly changed my mind!
We got to see the Giants (baseball) play and then the Saints beat the 49ers! Bless you Boys!
Nothing much on the baby front. Still have the smallest belly in the world, however I am 15 weeks today and know that in the next few weeks I will be popping out. I am still hungry all the time. And the Tapeworm moves around from time to time.
Got some Dr. apts Oct 1 and 6 to see more about this.
Oh oh oh...we got our Crib! So Pretty...now we just need new flooring in the baby's room. And while we were shopping at H & M in San Fran, I just had to buy this little volure baby pants and shirt for the Tapeworm. Its gray folks...not gender specific.

Ok off to finish up the jobby job and then home to eat some leftovers and finish washing clothes and packing...on the road again to BR this weekend for our Nephews wedding!

Well Hello Belly and Flutters

As mentioned in an earlier post I have great abs. Well if there is anything about my body that is great its always been my abs. I don't even have to work on them and they look great. Its the one part of my body I have always been proud of, until this weekend! Upon putting on my cutest most adorable pink Polo dress I realized that I now have a baby gut AKA round belly, baby bump, belly! Oh my gosh. How cute is this? It definaltly is something to rest my hands on and show off!

Flutters...what is a flutter? A flutter is what some women describe as butterflies in the belly, I on the other hand say it feels more like what popcorn must feel like inside when it pops open. For the last week I have felt this weird sensation down where I am poking out! I thought this can not be, I cannot be feeling my tiny little Tapeworm just yet? But sure enough this is what it is. My little TW inside doing the little acrobats and tossing and turning and kicking me. It is so surreal when it happens. Its still not consistant and you can't feel it on the outside, but when it happens its like a shock. I have to just sit there and see if it will happen again. This is soo cool.

Two more days and we will be headed to California for a nice vacation and visit to one of my oldest and dearest friends. Hopefully I can take some naps on the crazy itenirary the Mr has us scheduled for on this trip! Boy I tell you this baby is going to go to more things before its born than after!

You need to eat more

But I already eat all the time. This is what transpired between me and the Dr. this week.
Dr. "all your testing is great. Completly normal ranges, however you are not gaining any weight"
Me: "but I eat all the time"
Dr. " you've barley gained a lb in three months"
Me: "but really I eat all the time"
Dr. "add protien to your juice"
Me: "but I eat all the time"

So it goes. I do eat all the time. All day long. And when I have to eat I have to eat, there is no waiting. But come on 1 lb in 3 months. If I was on a diet I couldn't even do that! Its got to be the great metabolisim this little tapeworm is giving me. Yet another reason I think I am having a tapeworm and not a baby!
And it looks like everything is right on schedule. Moving right along. We got to hear the heartbeat, sounds great. Got lab and NT scan results, all normal. Blood work is looking great. Sugar levels still great.

There are days when I can't believe how much it took just to make this baby, but I am so glad we did it. I am more happy than I could possibly be about becoming a mother and having a wonderful child. I'd do it all again for these moments.

We are going to Cali next week, see a best friend and her darling little one...oh and her hubby too. Also time for a football game and just seeing the sites. I plan on having a food crawl while there and just eat my way around town. Maybe that will add some weight to my body.

I have started to pooch a bit in the ab section. And if you know me, you know that I have GREAT ABS. Always have. Its the only thing good looking on this body of mine. But sadly they are gone now and instead of seeing lines on my belly I see a tummy!

Ok back to work. I am a slave to the mortgage world.

The Secret Life of the Pregnant Crazy Lady

For the past few days I have been plagued with serious migranie headaches. Ugh stupid Tylonol doesn't do ANYTHING! So today I have tried the take the tylonol with a can of coke. But then loe and behold I find a new Excedrine called Tension Headache. No asprin in it. Just Anacetamephin and caffine. I need this to work. I cannot be down with headaches for the next few weeks. So I will call the Dr. office tomorrow and make sure I can take this and hope is helps! Cause as everyone who knows me knows, I love Excedrin!

Ok and so Friday we got to see the little Tapeworm and the heartbeat. Everything looks great. THe NT scan shows baby is looking normal. The fluid they are checking for looks normal, no signs of any problems. And the brain looks great. They also made a guess of what the sex of the baby is....but its just a guess at this part...so far its looking like its a GIRL! Pretty exciting! We of course won't know more until next month. And I should be feeling movment in the next few weeks. I am so looking forward to that. Tapeworm is looking great, I am feeling good. We ordered the crib yesterday and my Mom got the baby bedding that we wanted.

Lastly yes I am neroutic. I worry about everything. But I take it in stride and try not to let it get to me. When I worry I just think it through, take it in and try to move on. However I still read up on everything and I keep thinking of all the good and bad that can happen. I keep hoping just for the good.

Oh one more thing. I want new clothes and shoes. And not because I am pregnant and getting slightly bigger. But because I want new pretty clothes and shoes. Its fall...I think its the thought of the old "going back to school" thing, getting new clothes and getting all pretty for the first day of school.