YAY for dopplers at home!!

SO!! We received our doppler in the mail on Tuesday and what an amazing sound!!! This little gummy bear's heartbeat chimes in at about 160 beats per minute. If we believed in wive's tales we would be pretty convinced it was a girl... But Daddy is still holding strong on his hopes that our first will be a boy. We shall see. :)

Daddy will be out of town on February 4-11 which falls right where our BIG ultrasound appointment would be. I will try and get in on February 3rd, hopefully, right before he leaves. We will be one day shy of 20 weeks (according to Dr's EDD) and if this little one cooperates, we should be able to find out PINK or BLUE. At that appointment, the Dr. will also schedule us an appointment with radiology where they will do a much more in depth ultrasound and check the spinal cord, facial development, etc. So we kind of have 2 chances at finding out the gender.

Well this momma needs to head out and get some last minute Christmas gifts. I will update soon!!

Cool Picture

Well not much to report on this Friday evening. I have been a good mommy and have been waking up and eating breakfast every morning. Although I still have no desire to eat eggs, I am good with meat and potatoes. :)

A friend emailed me this picture and I thought it was very cool. Let me know what you think!

Can you see the baby??

Ok I am off to bed!

OB Appointment

SO.. I am not extremely happy to report this, but out due date has been changed... We are now officially expecting this little gummy bear on June 23rd.. David and I are going to embrace the date and just hope we get lucky and meet him or her a little sooner. We will be delivering at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. This is really cool since it is so close to our house. :) We did get to see the baby, first ultrasound, YAY!!!

Here you see a cool profile of the face and the little arms and legs are visible:Here you can almost, sort of, kind of, see a nosey and mouth... :)

It was all so very exciting! Our next appointment is January 3rd for some bloodwork. THEN the first week of February we should find out if we are going pink or blue! :)

My aunt Kelly and Uncle Jim did find out with certainty they are having their 3rd boy. She is due June 8th and had some extensive testing done where they were able to verify the gender of the baby. I am so jealous, but then not as I am not a fan of needles and prodding... Everyone says I will get over it by the end of this pregnancy, but I am not really thinking I will.. We shall see!!

13 Weeks Tomorrow

WOW!! I did not realize how much time had passed since I last posted on here. I need to make it a habit to post at least once a week. :)

Over the past couple days I really feel like my belly has grown... Not sure if it is all in my head, but it is like a little ball sitting there in the front center. Hopefully this will be an indication of how I will carry the little one, out front instead of wide... That would be nice.

Tomorrow is our first appointment with Dr. Park, and we are having an ultrasound. Daddy is coming along and Grandma will be joining us as well. I did find out they may be doing an internal ultrasound and not just a topical one since it is much more accurate in rendering measurements. After talking to some other moms I have found that this should not be too bad, and that the images you get to see are much more clear. Regardless of how the Dr. decides to handle the ultrasound, we are very excited!

I have actually had about 10-12 good days where I have been feeling pretty good and not using my magic sea bands!! YAY!!! I do have to admit that I have not felt so great today, but I am probably tired. I had Wednesday and Thursday off last week, but Friday was a long day. I opened 6-2 then had to head back over to work for Hospitality night for a few hours. Luckily, we did not leave all that late, but it was definitely past the normal bed time I have had these past couple months. I have then opened all weekend as well.. today was not very busy which is bad for business, but was a nice break, especially for us on a Sunday.

Christmas is coming!! I am so proud of myself, I have purchased something for everyone to open AND they are all wrapped!! They are not ribboned or bowed, since my pets will destroy that part of it, but wrapped they are!!!

OK I am going to attempt to get a nap in. We have had some really bad Santa Ana winds over this past week and I have had a very hard time sleeping at night. It sure does not help that I am a tummy sleeper and this little peach (the size of the baby this week!) is not allowing me to be comfortable that way any more. This will be a long 7 months on my side!!!!