3 month stats!

Legnth-23 inches-5th percentile
Weight- 12 lb 8 oz-26th percentile
Head Circ- 50th percentile

Jax's appointment went well.  His eating 6-10 ounces less per day has clearly not had any effect on his growth and she said she was surprised at how big he had gotten.  He is so much bigger but clearly such a little peanut!   He has been doing so much better the past three days with his reflux so we aren't changing anything but we still do have the appointment at AI Dupont in January.  It looks like we are chalking up the temporary slide to his bronchitis and the meds he was on for it.   She said he is on track with everything and that he is doing well so we will take it!

Christmas!

As you can see we had a wonderful Christmas!  Our basement closet and Jax's closet looks like a Fisher Price stockroom.  He has so much stuff, I can't wait until we can play with it all in a few months.  My little guy is doing well, him and his dad are headed to the doctor's today for a weight check since his reflux has been acting up again and he is eating 6-10 less ounces a day.   UGH, we have an appointment at AI Dupont to see a GI specialist but it is not until January 25.   He has seemed better the past two days, not screaming with bottles, happier but still not eating a whole lot.  I am having Chris ask the pedi today if we can either flavor his med or try the solutabs which I have read people have a lot of success with.  I think the prevacid works but when he got bronchitis and had to go on an antibiotic it all just seemed to go to hell so hopefully this doing better trend will continue and my little man will be beefing up again in no time.

The only bummer about the holiday was that we had the stomach bug going around daycare on Christmas Eve and we apparently gave it to my family:(  My dad was hit the worst out of all of us and my mom is really not feeling well today.  I knew we should have stayed home but with it being his first Christmas and the snow storm coming the next day we all wanted to be together.  Well, we learned our lesson!  My mom and dad were supposed to watch Jax Monday and Tuesday since daycare was closed and that clearly did not happen so I took the day off and Jax and I hit the outlets with the money we got from his Mom-mom since she didn't know what to get him.  I did very well in resisting all 3-6 month temptation since he has enough but we went a little wild on 6-9/6-12 sizes.  Who can resist when the long sleeved shirts are $5 at gymboree and osk kosh?When I laid everything out when I got home I realized I probably got a few too many long sleeved shirts, I might take some back and grab some more pants.  In the end he has 8 long sleeved t shirts, 3 long sleeved onsies, 3 pairs of shorts, and 5 pairs of pants for under  $100 and we got $25 in gymbucks to use next month.   I also did buy myself a few things, I am finally back into a 6 in pants and found some awesome fitting pants at Ann Taylor.  Curvy Trouser.  Hello, that's me!  Sign me up.  I found two pairs pretty quickly and am now kicking myself for not looking for more but Jax was getting fussy and I wanted to get home.   I actually got a compliment today on how nice my pants looked which is always a confidence booster.  I tried on the jeans in the same style and like usual they looked ridiculous.  I don't know what it is with me and jeans.

We are rolling!

Last night Jax was doing some tummy time with Chris and I and the little man rolled over.  Chris and I were both shocked and I said that was totally a fluke.  I go and grab the video camera since Chris was convinced it wasn't a fluke and we flipped him back over.  He did it again and we stopped after that since he was giving us the look of "if you don't put that video camera away I am going to crap on your bed."  He was so pumped he decided to stay up an extra hour to celebrate his efforts.

Blogger fonts

So this is pretty funny. This morning I posted about not being able to add new fonts to the html code when I read in an article that blogger recently added new fonts. Why was it not showing up, I am not sure. I actually started a new blog and it showed up in there and switched back and walla there are all of the new fonts. Fun times.

Navigating Family Time

I was pretty much ready to call off Christmas yesterday until the ladies on the bump smacked some sense into me.  Long story short is every year for the past 9 years we spend Christmas Eve with my in laws and then Christmas day with my family.  Well just a few days ago she says she made different plans for Christmas Eve and now she wants Christmas Day since its not fair we always go to my parent's house.  Keep in mind that when I saw her last weekend she told me she wasn't in the Christmas spirit this year, wasn't putting up a tree, and wasn't getting Jax anything.  What we wanted to do for our first Christmas with our son of course never entered her mind.  Chris of course says nothing and then its up to my parents to change their plans around which my mom said was fine but then I come to find out later everyone was mad.  So in the end I called my MIL and told her she was invited at 8 am Christmas morning for breakfast food and present opening since she cancelled on us for Christmas Eve.   She said fine and didn't call Chris to complain about it so I am guessing she is fine with it.  I am hoping we will be out the door by noon at the latest, we will miss going to the movies with my parents like we do every year but I am hoping that is all we will miss.  Soon I am going to tell her that her day is Christmas Eve, Santa is just the three of us and then we will go to my mom's in the afternoon starting next year.  She actually had the audacity to ask my husband if they could start being present when we do the Santa thing.  Who asks that?  Ugh.  Once we have a house of our own further north we will be hosting Christmas dinner and both families will be invited so hopefully that will eliminate most of the issues.

The next thing that I have to figure out is Easter and Thanksgiving.  In 9 years I don't ever recall being invited to her house for either holiday.  Chris says its because she assumes since we always go to my parents that is why she doesn't even bother asking.  Well if you don't ask how are we supposed to know you want us over.  Either way, in addition to her request for Christmas day she also wants the other holidays so I have to see if every other works for my parents or do one in the morning, one in the afternoon at each.  If they didn't live an hour and a half away from each other it would all be a bit easier.

Christmas Pics

I realize I am biased but could my kid get any cuter?

Huh, my blog is fixed!

I am not even sure why I checked this blog yesterday but I did and low and behold it is fixed! Interesting. I will be transferring the highlights from my blogspot blog over here and we will continue here. I figure I started the journey here, I mind as well continue it here:)

2 months!

Sorry I have been so awful updating my blog! I knew I had to go back to work so any free time I had the last thing I wanted to do was spend time on the computer instead of with Jax.

Here his 2 month basics…
Weight-10 lbs 12 oz- 17th percentile
Height- 22 inches- 2nd percentile
Head Circ- 33rd percentile

Head- ah getting a little flat on the right side thanks to the rock n play. I always read people had issues with that but it was a Catch 22 with the reflux. She said its slight right now so we are doing our best to keep him on his tummy or off his head at all times when we are at home from work, positioning him at night, and he is laying on nest noggins when he is in his swing or bouncer at home. She said and I have read that since he is still so young it may even out, but if not at his 4 month appointment we will be talking helmet if it gets worse. I just can’t wait until he can sit in a bumbo!
Acid Reflux- it blows. We are starting our third medication tonight and we will see how that works. Everything was going well but he seems to have grown out of his Axid dose and his stomach can’t tolerate the higher dose so this week has been a total mess at night. Hysterical crying while trying to feed him which turns into him just flat out refusing bottles. So hopefully this med will work like the Axid used to and he will be chugging down bottles again in no time. Luckily he is only in hysterics while trying to eat so other than that he is still a super happy baby.
Laryngomalacia-we were sent to AI Dupont last week to find out if Jax’s wheezing is soley from the reflux or layngomalacia has something to do with it also. Laryngomalacia is common in infancy and just means that the tissue covering the voice box is immature and can flap forward. Poor Jax had to have a scope put up his nose and down his throat to see if there was any flapping…and there was but it was minimal. The ENT said he thinks the problem is mostly reflux and we don’t have to go back again which is nice unless he hits a year and still breathes like a nutso. A side note to this is I am so effing sick of people asking me what is wrong with him when his reflux is bothering him and his breathing is off. My MIL constantly thinks he has pneumonia and the whole thing just pisses me off.

So other than that he is doing awesome! He has been smiling for quite a while now, the first smile I caught on camera was on Halloween. This kid smiles at everything. He smiles at basically any noise Chris makes, the Christmas lights I hung in the living room just so he could watch them, the dogs, seeing me int he morning and when I pick him up from daycare. He is so happy for being a refluxer which I thank my lucky stars on a daily basis that he never turned colicky.

I went back to work this week and have had myself in a tizzy for weeks about it. If you have been reading my blog you know I had some issues in regards to my whole short term/long term/return to work situation. I originally was told I would get my job back. Fine, I didn’t like it but whatever. Then I was told that it wasn’t guranteed the state would hire me back at all. What, hold the brakes…you are telling me I got pregnant and sick and that I am done with the state. Hello budget cuts. My return to work date comes and nothing so I apply for unemployment oh and wouldn’t you know the very next week they found me a job…A job back where I used to work and transfered from because I hated it so much. I came home in tears from this place at least once a week. It was awful so when I found out this was where I had to go I was a mess. The only good thing was that I hated all of the daycare centers we visited in Kent County and I LOVE the Goddard School up by where I work.

Well I started this week and it is going great. I cried pretty much all weekend and Monday morning on the way but it was fine. I just can’t say enough about his daycare, they.are.awesome. I stopped by twice during the day and they have no problem with it. Each time he has been all smiles. Seeing him smile at his teachers made me feel so good about the choice we made. They let me bring in a rock n’ play for him since he isn’t in a crib yet because of his reflux and he sleeps like a rock in it.

Work isn’t as bad as I anticipated. Most of my co-workers are new and I liked the ones who aren’t. The supervisor is apparently not very good at all but I figure if I just do my work and lay low until I find something else then so be it. I really think knowing Jax is safe and happy makes being here so much easier. I am actually updating my blog and I read some which are nice perks! I, of course, would rather be home with him but as that isn’t possible I might as well make the best out of the situation. We will see how high my stress level re-skyrockets once I actually start seeing clients again and processing cases. I have been looking for something but so far nada. I keep telling myself in this economy I should just be happy to have something.

So that’s it! I am sure I will be updating much more frequently now that I am back at work. You can check out his pics at his shuttefly share site.

Pumpkin Picking!

Wow, my baby is 18 days old. How in the world did that happen? He is doing great, gaining weight and getting longer each day. An inch in two weeks, how crazy is that? He is still as skinny as a pole, hopefully he will start filling out instead of growing upward sometime soon:) The only issue we are dealing with is silent reflux. From Chris and I both having GERD I knew something wasn’t right when it looked like he was choking back his formula and getting wheezy after meals. The doctor agreed with my diagnosis and we started him on new formula. We tried that for three days and since we didn’t see enough of an improvement we started Zantac today. As of today(knock on wood) the reflux does not seem to bother him, he is still a very calm boy. He has been sleeping in the rock and play sleeper from day 1 so I am sure that has helped tremendously also. I am hoping we caught this all in time so that the medicine will at least neutralize his stomach acid so he won’t end up with a burning esophagus and a colicky baby.

You will all get a laugh out of this…I always liked the name Jack but Chris really wanted to do Jackson. With Jackson you have the name choices of Jack, Jax, or Jackson plus the in utero nickname I gave him, Jack-Jack. Now I can’t decide what the hell I want to call him so I am constantly trying out different variations. Today I stuck with Jax most of the day which I like but I just don’t feel like it is a good infant name. I wonder if our parents had the same issues as my name is Katherine and DH’s is Christopher. I know I started off as Katie but as I got older I switched it to Kate. Identity crisis anyone?

Here are some pics of us pumpkin picking when Jack was just 10 days old…

The morning of the big day in pictures!

Apparently I was feeling done with my pregnancy!

Our last picture as a couple!

Chris and Adam

The best day of my life

I am sorry for the way this is written, it is mostly a copy and paste from the bump!

Our first day was interesting/scary as hell. The c-section prep itself wasn’t too bad. We got to the hospital around 7:40 and my c-section was supposed to start 2 hours later. After they got me undressed and all tucked into bed we were informed that an emergency section was going in before me so we were going to be bumped a few hours. We were prepared for this but holy hell when you are all ready to go and then are told you have to wait it can be a bit much and lucky for us DH’s best friend showed up and kept us entertained until it was time to go in.

The first spinal site they tried was sending pain down my legs so they had to pull it out and try again but once they got the medicine in I was fine. Then came the section itself, DH and I felt like we were sitting there forever when my doctor starts saying “come on out baby, he’s stuck”. Oh fantastic…I kept relatively calm because I figured well they have to get him out somehow. We kept waiting for a scream and we didn’t get one. Jack was out but he wasn’t breathing. DH kept me so calm, thank god he didn’t faint. We were watching the clock above the infant warmer waiting for a yelp. I don’t think I have ever been so scared in my entire life. After everything we had been through how was my little man not breathing. I know surviving IF doesn’t give you a free pass for anything but hell it was about time I got one. I was told later that it was about a minute into it that he started breathing on his own and started wailing. DH and I were both in relieved hysterics at this point they showed me him for a second and then whisked him away to the NICU with DH and I was stitched up. I didn’t even get to give him a kiss.

At this point I have no idea what’s going on in recovery and I knew I was going to be there a while since my temperature was a bit on the low side. At this point both my and DH’s best friend were with me in recovery keeping me calm and dealing with the phone calls/texts and DH was with Jack. If Ash(who is now doing clinicals at the hospital, yay:) and Adam weren’t there I am positive I would have had a mental meltdown not knowing what was going on in the NICU. DH came and told me that they kept insisting that he was at least two weeks earlier then we thought and that his lungs weren’t mature(once I got in there I set the nurse straight telling her we were IF patients so I know for sure how far along I was since I had been having ultrasounds from day 1. She sort of just huffed and walked away). He was never placed on oxygen, they were just monitoring him since once he started breathing it was so labored. Since I have been home DH showed me a video of him trying to breathe and it just broke my heart. You could see his little diaphragm erratically moving in and out while he was gasping to breathe. I could also see how purple/bluish he was at the time. I was told I had to go up to my room and that they were going to monitor him some more. At this point they weren’t sure if it was just extra fluid in his lungs from me having the c section, if his lungs were still immature for some reason, or if we were dealing with some other issue. Jack started doing much better and he finally came up around four hours after the c section and we finally got to hold him. It was the best feeling ever! Those few hours he was in there just makes my heart break even more for all of the NICU families who have extended stays and I know how incredibly lucky we are that he was only in for a few hours. I have no idea how my own parents dealt with me being in the NICU for five weeks.

After that our stay was pretty uneventful. It turned out that Chris could have stayed with me in the hospital but by that time we had no one to watch the pugs so he had to go home every night. Another interesting thing was that there was no nursery for the babies to go to at night because they are trying to promote breastfeeding…which I am not doing but hey whatever. Having him myself the first night was a challenge since I still couldn’t get out of bed and was pretty drugged up. I had to page the nurses to bring him to me and to change him, some were great helping me and this one bitch asked me what my issue was. Um…I just had major abdominal surgery and I can’t get up. The next day our little guy was coughing a bit so he had his first chest x-ray of to see what was going on in there. They brought the machine right into the room which I thought was pretty cool. Th x-ray came back all clear so that was a relief. Our ped, whom we love, came in each morning to check on him and besides some jaundice he was doing great and we were released on Monday morning. Two final words on the hospital I delivered at…one was the food was pretty good and the second is that the hospital security sucks. They put these electronic bracelets on Jack and I and if we went near the elevator the alarm would sound so it all sounded great but his bracelet was so loose it kept falling off. Or you could have cut it off easily. The funny thing is though that I went to three different hospitals throughout my pregnancy for the hyperemesis and none of them seemed secure. It all clearly worked out, it is just an interesting observation. Oh, and after I threw up on the operating table and once more in my room later I have not been sick since.

The ride home was great, Jack loves his car seat and falls asleep the second he is moving. Now we have been worried about how Peanut would react to Jack and the second he saw him he started kissing him. It was so cute! Buca on the other hand pretty much wants nothing to do with him…the exact opposite of what we thought would happen. Jack is an angel, we are so in love. He is easy to soothe, Chris is like a little baby whisperer. For instance as we speak he is passed out in a swing that doesn’t swing. He could care less. Yep, we got a lemon! We might run to BRU today to return it if I am feeling up to it. My poor little guy does have some diaper rash though so we switched diapers and are only using a wet cloth on his hiney. I also put all of my Johnson and Johnson’s products in a bin for a friend of mine and bought all unscented Aveeno products. Whether he got my skin or Chris’ he is basically screwed so I figure we might as well start now with all unscented products.

My recovery is going well. My staples came out on Friday and the doc says everything is looking great. I haven’t needed pain medication in a few days which is nice since the percocet makes me feel like I am buzzed. I have to wait one more week until I can drive and I have off eight weeks total from work….so that will end up being eight months off of work! How crazy is that, I am not going to remember a thing when I go back but that does give me a ton of time to try and find a new job. Fingers crossed in that arena. Mentally I am doing just fantastic. I have a history of depression and anxiety plus add the infertility and hellish pregnancy to the mix and I seriously thought I was doomed but nothing…nada….not even a hint of the baby blues. The only time I tear up is when I think of him in the NICU or about how incredibly lucky I am to have this beautiful son who just lights up my life. DH says he has never seen me so happy. The people at his work had him in knots over this first week, about how insanely bitchy I would be, how little sleep he would get. One person actually told him she decided against having more children after how awful the newborn phase was. We had a nice laugh over that yesterday. The two or three times I have felt myself getting ready to go over the deep end I have asked him to just stop talking for a while. LOL, it worked though! All the worry during my pregnancy for nothing. Jack is perfectly healthy and we are having a blast with him. I received a ton of flowers and gifts at the hospital but the best thing was a card Chris got me once we came home. It was apparently sweetest day this week and it had two pugs kissing on the front of it. Inside it said “Thank you for never giving up and giving me a beautiful family.” See, now I am tearing up again. I am off to try and catch a few more hours of sleep. I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!!!

Our first family photo!

Last appointment with high risk doctor

Our last mfm appointment was today, I was actually sad leaving the office since I really trust them over my OB. If you remember my last growth u/s was brought into question by my OB who thought Jack’s femur was too short, his head to big, and that we might be looking at some serious issues. We were reassured by the mfm that all was fine, but of course we didn’t breathe easy for the month.

My little man had a growth spurt! He gained 2 pounds in the last month which is perfect. His femur is back up in the 20 percent range which it had always been up until last month. I know they said not to worry about this, but hell we worry about everything. The whole head circumference issue boggles my mind as the information we were given today showed he has been in the 50th percentile all along, so what my OB was even looking at saying it was 95th percentile we will never know. He is back up on his weight estimation to the track he was on before last month’s appointment and all is “sickeningly well” according to the doc! It’s crazy to think that if I had been a “normal” pregnant woman who didn’t get growth ultrasounds that all of the worry from the last month would have never happened.

37 weeks and the bird sanctuary!

I was actually feeling good enough to go to the bird sanctuary with Chris and the pugs!

OMG Where are we???

35-36 week update!

How far along?36 weeks 3 days
Total weight gain/loss: not sure, I am definitely up though!
Maternity clothes? Most of my clothes are now maternity, although I still fit into most of my pre-pregnancy shirts and some of my “knock around” shorts.
Stretch marks? none
Sleep: Not great lately, if I wake up nauseous I am finding it harder and harder to fall back asleep.
Best moment this week: Going crabbing with Chris last Saturday!
Movement: YES! He is very active early in the morning and again before I go to sleep.
Food cravings: Still no cravings, but I have been able to eat more and more without getting sick:)
Gender: BOY
Labor Signs:none
What I miss: Not having acid reflux.
What I am looking forward to: Having this baby!

Crabbing

This day may have been the most fun I had the entire pregnancy.  Chris and I went crabbing with Adam by our house in Delaware.  I tried my best to be helpful but will have to admit I spent most of my time lounging in the chair or laying on the beach near by.  

We are a little fried!

Yay for my baby shower!

Growth u/s update!

I saw my mfm today and we had a growth u/s. He is measuring 33 weeks 5 days and is weighing in at 4 lbs 7 ounces(a month ago he was 3lbs 5 ounces). This all seems very average but he dropped on his weight curve from 40% to 26%. Ugh, I automatically start blaming myself because of the hyperemsis which isn’t helpful to anyone! She said she is not worried, at this stage there is still huge room for error in the measurements and that they will check it again in a month.

The second issue I brought up with her is a pain that I have been having for over two weeks in my upper abdomen. I asked my doctor about it last week and he said “oh, you are running out of room.” What sort of answer is that? I asked my mfm and she said right away gallbladder once she saw where the pain was. She thought it was weird I was still throwing up and said there is almost always some other explanation this far along. They are going to fax my OB orders on what she wants done and then we are going to go from there to see if it is my gallbladder and if its a stone, sludge, or if it is just irritated. Not that anything can be done this far along but it will still be nice to know what the pain is from exactly. I was told it is pretty common in pregnant women and as tactful as possible she said it was interesting my OB didn’t think to at least run some labs.

My body loves being pregnant...

….or not. I now have pain in my upper right abdominal quadrant. Tender to the touch at times pain. Pain so intense after eating sometimes that I just don’t want to eat anymore. They think its because I am already running out of room and Jack is pushing on my stomach. It has been getting progressively worse for the past week but the OB totally blew me off yesterday. I called again today and they said well maybe its GERD but I am already on Nexium and taking Tums like a champ and its not helping so I am not buying it. I keep reading things about Gallbladder issues and that area but again they said just keep taking the Nexium and we don’t know what else to tell you. So what, am I just supposed to be in pain and not eat for the next 6 and a half weeks? FUCK. Not that I love eating now but at least the puking isn’t painful. This mother hurts, like tears in my eyes at lunch hurts. What did I eat you wonder…not even a half of a grilled chicken sandwich so its not like I pigged out on fatty food and then had the issue. I wake up in the middle of the night in pain. It’s just too much sometimes.

My fucking teeth are bothering me again and are probably going to fall out of my fucking head after I give birth. My esophagus is going to be shot to shit if it isn’t already and now I am in so much pain I don’t want to eat anything. My OB said he will see me again next Tuesday if the high risk doctor can’t give me more suggestions to try next Monday. I am so done! Sorry about all of the “fucks” I couldn’t contain myself.

31 weeks!

How far along? 31 weeks 5 days
Total weight gain/loss: +4 pounds. Finally, a weight gain!
Maternity clothes? Most of my clothes are now maternity, although I still fit into most of my pre-pregnancy shirts and some of my “knock around” shorts.
Stretch marks? none
Sleep: Not great lately, if I wake up nauseous I am finding it harder and harder to fall back asleep.
Best moment this week: Pregnancy massage!
Movement: YES! He is very active early in the morning and again before I go to sleep.
Food cravings: Still no cravings:(
Gender: BOY
Labor Signs:none
What I miss: Being able to eat three meals a day without throwing up.
What I am looking forward to: Having this baby!

BPP pass and new mfm love!

My appointment with my new mfm was on Tuesday and I can’t even begin to tell you how much I loved the whole practice. The u/s tech was wonderful, he is still measuring right on schedule AND we saw his practice breathing as soon as he got on the screen. I know they said it was still early last week and not to worry but it was still a relief seeing it. She did the whole BPP which I passed in addition to the growth u/s. My child has a huge noggin(although so do both DH and I) and weighs 3.5 lbs which is just fantastic considering how sick I continue to be.

We were then brought into a consultation room which had nice couches, a cafe table and relaxing music. The doctor comes in and the first thing he said was that he likes to think of his patients as his kids and wants everyone to feel like they are sitting around a kitchen table. He then says that LO and I are “disgustingly healthy” even with the hyperemesis and that he will see us back in a month but to call if I have any questions or concerns. He does not think that I need weekly BPPs/NSTs at all and has no issue seeing me the rest of the pregnancy instead of my now old high risk doctor(who amusingly enough he actually knows and said he can never get that man to crack a smile). He then hugged me and my mom on the way out and reminded me to call if I had any concerns. I would highly recommend this practice to anyone in South Jersey.

I feel 100% better about how Jack is doing now and I got some adorable pictures! I will upload them when I go back home this weekend.

BPP Fail!

My mfm suggested last week that I start getting weekly BPPs as it is hard to tell how my hyperemesis is affecting our LO. The standard procedure would be to do a NST first and if I fail that go to the BPP but since his practice is not large enough to do the testing themselves they just have your OB write orders to go right to the BPP at an outpatient center.

We get to the outpatient center and a student comes in to do the BPP which was beyondt frightening. She had the screen turned away from us so we had no idea what was going on and then after 20 minutes she bolted from the room saying she needed to get someone else to do it. A tech came in and couldn’t find the practice breathing after five minutes so we failed and had to go up to l&d because that is the only place in my frigging county that will do a NST.

While in l&d a doctor from our practice comes in and says she can’t figure out why the mfm even wanted me to do this testing in the first place since LO has been measuring perfectly on track. Then she goes over my chart to make sure she isn’t missing anything and confers with my doctor and he agrees with her but with all of the medical liability issues anymore they can’t recommend I don’t get them since the mfm thought it would be a good idea. So long story short I pass the NST with flying colors but I was warned that since I am still so early chances are that I will fail the BPP at least a few more times and end up right back in l&d once a week. LO did practice breathe but it was not for a full 30 seconds, which we found out later is common for 28/29 weeks. This is annoying on multiple levels because a)no one really knows why I am even there and I am freaking out for no real reason andd b)I am paying an ER visit for every trip to l&d which will start to add up if I am there once a week until 32 weeks which is generally when you would worry if you aren’t seeing practice breathing consistently.

I am getting a second opinion at a new mfm in NJ next Wednesday! I already love the new practice, they told me over the phone that it was ridiculous to be doing these tests so early and expecting a perfect outcome each time. They were also appalled my mfm told me he hated hyperemesis clients so I have a good feeling about this.

27 weeks!

How far along? 27 weeks 5 days
Total weight gain/loss: -2 pounds
Maternity clothes? I am in all maternity clothes besides swimsuit bottoms!
Stretch marks? none
Sleep: Not great lately, I am not sure if its the heat in general or that I am not getting enough exercise because its too hot to walk .
Best moment this week: Finding out I passed the 3 hour test and that my moles were all benign.
Movement: YES! He is very active early in the morning and again before I go to sleep.
Food cravings: No cravings.
Gender: BOY
Labor Signs:none
What I miss: Being able to eat three meals a day without throwing up.
What I am looking forward to: Having this baby!

22 weeks!

So let’s face it, I pretty much suck at updating anymore so I am sorry about that. A lot of changes have happened in the past few weeks so I will fill you in on what is going on. Week 20 did not go so smoothly for me, I was as sick as a dog, I saw the asshole doctor(my last post which I realize now I sugar coated big time), and we decided the best thing for me was to stay at my parents during the week so I wouldn’t be home alone all day. Your mind can go to some really not pretty places when you spend all day alone dwelling on how sick you are. My OB did refer me to see a new shrink who could get me in on the 23rd of this month….gee thanks buddy. It’s hard being up here and away from Chris four days a week but on the other hand I am in a much better place mentally so we are just going to have to tough it out until our little guy gets here since the hyperemesis has not let up at all. Can you get over that? This was my day…eat breakfast…stand up to get a muffin…puke…lay down for a few hours….eat lunch….stand up to go outside and read…puke. Who in the hell can’t move around without puking? Oh yeah that would be me. I am so over it, but clearly it is not over me yet. In the weight department I am holding steady at 136 so I did gain a few with the picc line i which is good, even though I haven’t gained any in the past few weeks. That’s where we are at, 23 weeks tomorrow!

Half baked! 05/21/2010

How far along? 20 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -11 pounds
Maternity clothes? Pants, shorts, and some shirts
Stretch marks? none
Sleep: Much better since getting the picc line out
Best moment this week: 20 week u/s
Movement: yep! Nothing consistent though
Food cravings: food…gross
Gender: BOY
Labor Signs:none
What I miss: not being nauseous
What I am looking forward to: Having this baby!

Let's add a full body rash into the mix!

I am sorry I have been MIA for a while, since nothing has changed I don’t know what to write about:) We forgot to take a picture this week but I will remember to get back on track with that next week. Our anatomy scan is tomorrow so we are both excited/nervous to see how our little guy is doing. As long as I am feeling so-so afterwards we may hit up target to start looking at what we want to put on our registry.

Since I have nothing to do all day I have been reading a ton of baby books, sleep books, and baby bargains. Let me just tell you how much I loved the last one. I could totally see myself as putting a ton of crapola on my registry that I would never use just because it’s the cool new thing like a wipe warmer. Where to register is also something I can’t fully decide…the closest BRU is 40 minutes away where Target is only 20 minutes away. I am not wild about having to mail back any BRU.com returns since at least for my wedding a lot of presents were sent to us directly though the website. That would be one massive pain in the ass but the choices at Target seem limited so I just can’t make up my mind!

Hyperemesis is still kicking my ass. I have still been getting sick more often now that my picc line is out which sucks. Chris and I did manage to go to the movies last night to see Robin Hood which was a real treat but at the same time I was so nauseous from the drive and sick when I got home that I ended up just going to bed because I felt so bad. I am getting dangerously close to the 20 week mark where this will either go away or last until delivery. We both know that chances are I am going to be like this the whole time. I saw a new doctor at my practice this week that was surprised I wasn’t working. I looked at him and said, “I can’t drive without getting sick, I can’t do more than light housework for a few minutes without getting sick, I have only gained one pound this whole pregnancy, working would only make me even sicker than I already am and I would prefer to stay out of the hospital.” Needless to say I won’t be seeing him again unless I absolutely have to for the rest of this pregnancy. Oh, and the reason for my visit…an unexplained whole body rash. Nice, as if puking wasn’t fun enough I get to add in this ridiculously itchy rash. Thankfully its been about a week but it seems to be going down.

18 weeks!

Still no new news here:( My PICC line had to be pulled over the weekend due to infection. I am now PICC line free but have noticed that I have been getting sick more often without it. We are going to give it a few days before deciding if I want to get a new one put in.

We are having a boy!

I saw my OB today and he sent me to the hospital for a quick scan since I have been cramping a lot lately.  Most likely it was from dehydration but we wanted to make sure everything was ok.  It was and we found out two weeks early what we are having!!!