11 Weeks!

Today marks the begining of my 11th week of pregnancy. The baby is approximately the size of a lime. I had a Dr's appointment this morning and everything went well. I got to see Baby Baker on an ultrasound while checking for a heartbeat. I had my blood drawn for all pre-natal tests and the results should be back within the week.

Next week we go back for the NT ultrasound which tests for chromosonal abnormalities. I plan to take Julia to this so she can see the baby on the big screen.

Found baby's heartbeat on home doppler!

I am 10 weeks & 5 days pregnant today! I found the baby's heartbeat this morning on a home fetal heartbeat doppler that I bought this week. The range was between 145 and 155 beats per minute! An old wives tale says that anything above 140 is a girl... I think this is pretty close to go either way!

I don't think Julia quite understood what I was having her listen to. She was more amused at hearing her own heartbeat :)

Today we are celebrating our 10 week mark! At the end of this week our little one will graduate from an embryo into a fetus. Baby baker is now about the size of a cherry tomato.

I am still feeling good other than major mood swings at night. I call them my Chuck Norris syndrome because when they occur I seriously feel like I could kick some a**. My food aversions come and go. Peppermint seems to help anytime I feel nausea after eating something that I didn't want to. The only vegetable that sounds appetizing at the moment is an artichoke. I am bummed that they are not in season.

Steve has been very patient with everything so far and Julia is still as excited as ever. I ordered a home fetal doppler monitor today. This is so I can have Julia listen to the baby's heartbeat when we can find it.

I am looking forward to appointment next week. Maybe I will get a sneak peak of the baby, but I bet I will have to wait until the 18th for my NT ultrasound. A girl can try...

8 weeks!

Today we are celebrating our 8 week mark. Each week is a big milestone this early on.

According to thebump.com, the baby is about the size of a raspberry. Julia enjoys the food comparisons and loves to tell people how big the baby in mommy's tummy is.

She loves to ask questions and knows that it will be a long time and many holidays before she will get to meet her new sibling.

It's a baby!!!!

We went back for our follow up ultrasound today and saw the baby!
Baby baker has a heartbeat of 158 beats per minute. We are so excited!!

Due date is now March 30th!

We told Julia and she was very excited.

Scary Day - 6 wks 5 days

Today we went in for our "confirmatoin appointment" with Dr. Wrennick.
She did an ultrasound but found only an empty placenta sac. She told me that my dates could be off but she didn't see a yolk so to come back in a week for a follow up ultra sound to see if we could find a baby. I had a bad feeling due to some dreams that I had all week about no baby. Now we wait until next Friday. This is going to be a long week!

Big Fat Positive!

On Sunday, July 19th I took a pregnanct test and saw a faint line. I remember with Julia that faint meant positive so I woke up Steve and said "I think it worked this month!" Then I jumped out of bed, drove to Walgreens and purchased 4 more tests. Two were name brand and two were digital beacuse I needed to see the word PREGNANT spelled out for me.

This was the first day of our new family jouney.