sleep

is fucking awesome!

i have my 6 week appointment today. hard to believe it's been that long already & equally as hard to believe that my alert 12 pounder (guessing based on the oh so accurate get on the scale with & without baby method) is only going to be 6 weeks tomorrow!

38 week update

so- i had my appointment today. no real big changes- still only about 1 cm dilated. i am 40-50% effaced now though & the baby is hanging out at around 0 station. so there's been some progress. my mom is still convinced i am going into labor tomorrow & having the baby by saturday. me- not so much. i think she might be here as early as next weekend (39 weeks) but i doubt she'll be any earlier than that.

i will have to update with a pic soon- right now i am just too tired & it's time for bed. at 9:14 pm...

update: no labor today. i did have a bunch of cramping & at least 4 contractions that were actually painful (well- uncomfortable & i could feel them) but no consistency & of course the stopped as soon as i stood up.

but here is my crappy pic of 37w5d. taken while still in pj's cuz that's how i roll these days...

seriously- this thing is huge! (but i secretly love how tiny my butt looks in comparison!)

12 weeks ( a few days late)

so i am now 12 weeks... holy shit! i wonder if i will always be this amazed to hit another week? does it ever get old? i could stare at the little widget baby for hours now- all the creepy alien look is gone!

saturday night was wonderful, it was so great to see my friend! she was a ref for the bout & she was told right before it started that she was going to be a jam ref (basically keeping count of how many points one of the teams gets) she was so nervous, but she did great. there was an extremely obnoxious fan in the crowd right next to us who kept screaming & yelling about every play & every call that he thought didn't go his wife's teams way. there was a five year old sitting right next to him & he was just shouting & cursing the entire time. typical obnoxious sports fan. i only got upset when he started bitching out the refs (especially my friend since she was the jam ref for the other team at that point) he was about one outburst from getting kicked out. and the ironic part is that his wife's team had a significant lead from very early on. they won the bout by over 15 points.

anyway- it was great to see my friend & get to hear a congrats in person from her. i hopefully get to give her a congrats in 2 weeks since she will have her first ever bout coming up! the only sticking point is it's on a sunday & 2 hours away. so hopefully the hub can go with me so he can either drive back or at least keep me company while i drive back!

i started setting up a baby website. i'm doing it more for the grandparents & any friends that i don't particularly want to read this blog, but who still want to keep tabs on the pregnancy. i'm not sure how i feel about it yet- it's still in progress. it needs more work before i feel it's ready to share. i'm not thrilled with the site, but i wasn't crazy about any of the other really baby centric ones. even though i liked the content they had, the layout really bugged me since there's nothing really gender neutral that i liked! i know- design snob!

here's the good stuff- 12 week belly shot. the hub finally remembered the camera- see even though i am much closer to 13 weeks- here's 12w5d...

1 down

i had my first ob appointment today. no ultrasound- i need to schedule it with my primary doc's affiliated hospital because of my oh so great insurance. i also need to go to the devil (aka questmotherfuckers) to get my ob panel of bloodwork done. they weighed me (i think i am actually down about 10 pounds from the last time i was weighed i think it was february- so that's good) the number still surprised the nurse- she asked where i put it. thanks- i think... i always weigh more than i look like i do- i am pretty sure i have a very dense build. i am not really overweight- sure i have a little bit of flab & squishiness, but i am short & curvy. i don't lose weight very easily though since my diet & activity level are already pretty good (yes- could always be better!) i am a little nervous about gaining too much during pregnancy, but i have good self control for the excessive eating & bad splurges & just need to keep getting the fresh fruit & veggies & whole grains i already eat.
they also did the standard first visit stuff. blood pressure totally normal, family history, personal history. we chatted about the kidney & the fertility clinic. the nurse was a little surprised when i said that we had only done one treatment (believe me- she's not alone!)
the doc gave me a complete once over- she is very sweet & i like her a lot. lots of good info- although i knew most of it already. she did mention that she doesn't really see why i would have any increased risk fr an ectopic since my surgery was all laprascopic & really not near the abdomen. but she agreed with the better safe than sorry mindset! we both think that the clinic is being very cautious & i do have my script for the u/s. she recommended i schedule it for around 7 weeks so i could see a heartbeat. she did mention i might see one sometime next week, but if not i would have to go back. i feel pretty confident about the ectopic possibility so i am going to try to make the u/s appointment for sometime either the end of next week or the beginning of the next. i do want to see spring roll (& make sure there's not a combo platter in there!) but i will feel a lot more comfortable being able to see a heartbeat.
my next appointment with the ob is at 11 weeks. they normally do 4 weeks between appointments, but since i got in about 3 weeks earlier than they normally see patients i get to wait a little longer. it's only 2 weeks after my first scheduled appointment, so it's not too bad. plus i get to peek in soon so that will keep me going just fine!