8 Weeks Today

Yeah we are at 2 months. Go Baby!!! The baby will go from 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch and is about the size of a pinto bean. Eyelid folds are forming on the face and nerve cells in the retina are beginning to develop. The tip of the nose is present and ears are forming inside and out. Elbows are present and the arms and legs extend forward. The digital rays, which become fingers are notched, Toe rays are present on the feet.

I got a few general questions that are in my journal I will be answering every week.
How big am I? I haven't had any weight gain I've at this point lost 2 lbs. I am noticing my clothes are a lot tighter. I can't wear my favorite pair of jeans unless I undo them. I seen a neat way to extend my clothes to make them last longer. I take a hair tie and loop it through the button hole and pull it over and stretch it over the button. I haven't been able to wear anything that is the least bit snug. Then I will also wear a tank top to cover my open jeans and smooth out any bumps then my regular shirt on top of that. Very comfortable.

How am I feeling? Excited...scared... We have our first ultrasound in 2 weeks. There is always the chance something could be wrong. That's probably any parents fear. I just want to see the heart beat and hear that the baby is okay.

How is Derrick feeling? He has the normal new dad fears, that after the baby is born that he isn't gonna matter or that I won't have time for him.

Things I want to ask my Dr.? Nothing so far.

things to do this week? I have this nesting urge to purge everything. Just throw away and get rid of everything we don't need. It's driving me crazy cause all I see is cabinets and closets that need to be redone and I can't do it all in one day. Funny thing is, if I did get it all done I don't think it would matter I would just move onto some thing else.

Special thoughts and feelings about this week? I amazed that in such a short time the baby has totally changed and grown so much. 2 months ago "firecracker" was the size of a poppy seed and now is about 3/4 of an inch long. And I happy because baby actually resembles a human now! LOL. I can't wait for the weeks to come.

Helpful hints for Prego's: There are 3 books I recommend I mentioned the first. Your pregnancy week by week before. the second is the Dad's version of that. Your Pregnancy for the Father to be. I will let you know more about this as he reads it.
Also from the Your Pregnancy Series ...Pregnancy Journal week by week. I have bought the last 2 from amazon.com the were about 5 to 6 dollars a piece new. There are also some other great books in this series like, Over 35 and Pregnant, Pregnancy for women of color, your baby's first year, your guide to twins, quick guide to labor and delivery, and after your pregnancy. I have LOVED!!!!! Your pregnancy week by week. It is one of the best pregnancy books I have seen and I've seen tons.


All my prays and baby dust to my fav TTCer. Soon I pray. *!*!*!*BaBy DuSt*!*!*!*

Test results on HcG bloodwork.

I had previously said that I asked my Dr. to do a HcG level on me at our first Dr.'s appt. at 6 weeks 3 days. This test can give a good indication of mutiples or a single baby. My test showed that there is just one baby in there.

7 WEEKS TODAY

7 Weeks Today. The baby goes through an incredible growth spurt this week. By the end of this week the baby will be 1/2 inch long. The leg and arm buds now appear as short fins. They have divided into what will be the hand and arm-shoulder segments. The hand and foot have a digital plate where the fingers and toes will develop. The heart has divided into the left and right chambers. The bronchi is present, that is the air passages in the lungs. The cerebral hemispheres, which make up the brain, are also growing. Eyes and nostrils are developing. Intestines are developing, and the appendix is present. The pancreas, which produces insulin, is also present. All this is happening just this week and in a baby 1/2 an inch long. That's amazing. This is the handy work of God.

To my favorite TTCer...I pray you focus on God right now. I pray His hands heals what is going on in your body and your heart. I pray he gives you the comfort you need right now for your unanswered prayers. I pray He blesses you soon. Until then He gives you a peace that passes all understanding. I send you ALL my baby dust.
*!*!*!BaBy DuSt!*!*!*


Baby's are a miracle this is true but try to focus on the miracles happening right in front of you!

6 weeks 3 days

We had our first Dr's appointment today. It was fairly simple. They did a pregnancy test. Which means I'm officially pregnant. I was also sent for blood work. Ouch! Really it wasn't that bad. They gave me a goodie bag with all kinds of magazines and coupons. That was cool. And my Dr. gives out a copy of What to Expect When Your Expecting. I glanced threw it and it's okay. I have also been reading Your Pregnancy week by week by Curtis, M.D.,M.P.H. and Schuler, M.S.. I LOVE this book. Both have a lots of stuff in it that could go wrong, I read it with a grain of salt. I know it is important to know these things but a pregnant chick has enough on her mind with out adding to it. So read it so you know but don't freak out over it.
I love the pictures in this book and unlike the other one it does show the pictures week by week. I like this cause it really helps my daughter and hubby understand. I also enjoy knowing next week my baby will be the size of a small coffee bean. That's so cute! It also has Dad Tips in it like, clean and vacuum the living room for no reason, and my favorite "Make it a habit to pull out your favorite pregnancy book and read together about what is happening each week in your pregnancy.

I was on clomid for ovulation... so I asked my Dr. to run a HcG test on me also. This is a pregnancy blood test but it can also let you know a few weeks before your ultrasound if you are having twins. It is calculated by how many days since your last period and what the level is. It will be double to triple the reading for multiples compared to the single child reading. You have to do your research on this to know what to look for.

6 WEEKS TODAY

WOW! This is just crazy. My baby has been growing inside me for 4 weeks. I know some people get confused by this. So I'm going to explain real quick the difference in the Gestational age (menstrual age) and Ovulatory age (Fertilization age) or as I call it the baby age.

Gestational age (menstrual age) - Begins from the first day of your last period, which is actually about 2 weeks before you conceive. This is the age most doctors use to discuss your pregnancy. The average length of pregnancy is 40 weeks.

Ovulatory age (fertilization age/baby age) Begins the day you conceive. the average length of pregnancy is 38 weeks or 266 days.

Doctors use Gestational age because it is easier to detect the first day of your last period. Rather than trying to pin point when sperm meets egg.

So this week the baby is starting to look like a being... not a human being...more like something our of a science magazine. Sorry baby!! It's true. I love you anyway.

Baby's heart has started beating and can be seen on an ultrasound, and brain is starting to form. The eyes are also starting to form, and limb buds appear.

I hope our baby has it's Daddy's beautiful blue eyes!

5 weeks and 5 days....wow

I know this probably sounds crazy but I'm not sure if I'm in disbelief or amazement that I'm pregnant. My body is definitely telling something is changing. With PCOS you crave breads and sweets, and the last couple of weeks I can't touch them. I'll be thinking I'm hungry and go to eat bread or a snack cake like I'm so use to to kill the craving and it makes me sick. I've really wanted chicken and green beans. Especially green beans, I want to the store and bought a case of then and plan on cooking them all, probably this week. LOL It's like everything I'm use to wanting to eat I can't. But my brain is not reprogrammed itself to let me think otherwise. I try to eat protein, peanut butter, cheese, chicken, and tuna through out the day to help with my energy level. I come home and eat dinner and about an hour later I'm ready for bed. I'm also have crazy little dreams. Mostly about people finding out I'm pregnant but in really weird ways.

To the TTCer, you know who you are, I send you all my baby dust!
**********Baby Dust ********** Don't lose hope, God knows what He's doing.

LOVE NEVER FAILS

Well I started my day out thinking why haven't I started, I took my last Prometruim on Thursday so I should have started on Friday or Saturday. So I had to go potty and decided I would go ahead and take a pregnancy test to get any what if's out of my head. I did my thing in the little cup and looked for a pregnancy test (side note: any woman TTC will have 2 things for sure in her cabnet...Ovulation test and pregnancy test) Well I couldn't find not one pregnancy test. I remembered a friend telling me that I could use a ovulation test as a pregnancy test, so I decided I would give this a try, in the first minute it said negative, so I was think well then I will start today. I was checking myself out in the mirror and didn't really think anything of it. I looked down and a second line had appeared. I said, "Holy Cow!" still in shock and a little disbelief of this whole test, I grabbed my laptop and hit google search as fast as I could to check this out. After checking 3 websites that said that you can use a LH/Ovulation test to detect pregnancy, I was starting to freak a little. Trying not to wake anyone in the house up I got dressed and floored it to Walgreens. I got there and of course their tests are locked up, so I get some help and they have lost the key, I'm thinking "is this God's way of telling me not to get my hopes up or is Satan trying to put a damper on my day." So a couple of people later, finally they get a key that works, and I get 2 boxes of the digital test $23. I hurry home and take one of each kind of test. I covered them up so I couldn't see the results. I went into our bedroom, taking the tests with me, where my hubby was fast asleep and I started flipping on every light I could find. He kinda looked like a vampire seeing light for the first time...Sorry hun! I explained to him about the LH test and I was laying in bed with him I was like ok lets look, no wait, ok , no you look and tell me what it says. So he looked at it and asked me "How accurate are these things?", I said, "I think like 99.9% why?" He flipped it around and said "You're Pregnant!" Ahhh the best words any ttcer could hear. I'm Pregnant. We laughed and cried and laughed and cried...it was the best. We go to the Dr on the 19th of July to "confirm" the pregnancy and to set up our first ultrasound. Yeah!!

To all of you ladies who are TTCers know that my heart cries with you. Please do not ever take me as being a bragging person, I'm not. I just can't hold this blessing in.

Telling Liz

I just could have cried when we told Liz (our daughter) about the baby. Like my previous post said I had already figured out how I was going to tell her. We had known for about 2 hours and I told Derrick we have to tell Liz.
I had a gift bag that I put the doll in. I tucked the head down so she couldn't see it. Lori, the lady who made the doll, also made a small blanket for it. So I laid that on top.
I woke Liz up and told her we had a present for her. Still half asleep she pulls the blanket out and says, "That's Cute," Then looks at me like, Can I go back to sleep now. I said, "There's something else..." she looked kinda puzzled into the bag and pulls out the doll and places it on her lap and looks at me. I said, "What is it?" she said, "A Baby." She still didn't get it so I smiled and widened my eyes at her and said,"Uh hun!" and she looked at me and mouth in a screaming manner ARE YOU PREGNANT! and I said "Uh Hun!!!" and she screamed and jumped on top of me. So cute. I will never forget that look on her face.

Thank You Lori for making the dolls!!!!

July 1st, 2010

I just finished my last dose this month of Prometrium last night and decided to take a pregnancy test this morning. BFN.