Life on progesterone!

Totally sucks!  For those of you who don't know progesterone is a drug that you naturally do produce the moment you ovulate and it helps the baby shall we say STICK!  It does many good things for the mother and baby.  I am on oral progesterone as well and will start more progesterone injections around 14 weeks gestation.  Well what sucks about it is....the side effects!!  Sleepyness, dizzy spells, hot flashes, ect.  It's just tons of fun on top of the pregnancy s/s that are already trying to take me out!  I will take everything with a smile because lord knows I appreciate just being pregnant and growing life inside me but I will be happy when I am holding a full term baby in my arms.  I made a promise to the baby I will try everything possible to keep her or him safe and I will do so.  I promise to be my baby's warrior!!  ROOOOAAARRR!!

Ouch baby!

So I started my lovenox injections for my wonderful little growing Bud.  OUCH they hurt they burn pretty bad at first but goes away pretty quickly after!  I have to take them once daily and then at 14 weeks I will add in the 17P injection once a week!  The lovenox is going to be 82 bucks a month which really sucks for us on top of the other medications we pay for but I keep saying its cheaper then NICU BILLS!!!  

 

Whole intelligender thing!

So John bought me a intelligender test which I in NO WAY believe whatsoever medically that you can tell the sex of the baby thru URINE but hey just for giggles I took it and I believe if that would be correct it would be a

GIRL!!  

I hope it's right!

The chinese birth chart says the same thing aswell and it was right with Dustin!

Hey there baby!

So I did have some concern this weekend kind of gross but I was spotting old blood again at least nothing compared to when I was pregnant with Dustin that was FULL on bleeding that I needed to be hospitalized for and that was bright red blood.  This was simple brown spotting which indicates "old" blood which is extremely common in the healthiest of pregnancies even.  So I remained calm and took it easy which I was in bed already with tummy issues anyways!  I made a appointment with my doctor's office this morning and got in right away it was a really good mood there and he showed me our pretty baby right away and BAM you could hear the heartbeat racing away and see baby moving around which seems to be alot!  Everytime I get a sono the baby is in a totally different location!  He did see where the blood was coming from outside the uterus a old bleed from implantation more then likely and not to worry about it cause baby is extremely healthy!  Put my mind at ease and I am down 14 pounds from the beginning of the pregnancy!  Crazy I know!  So of course I brought home a picture of my little budding baby!  You can't see the baby all that well in this shot it was moving its little nubs and legs earlier too cute! 

friday night....

So it's Friday night John and I had a great dinner I was a little scared because it was seafood and last time I had seafood I got sooooo sick!  We also went to babies'R'us to get some preggie pops which some of my friends have suggested for the morning sickness or in my case mainly night sickness.  I did have one tonight they weren't to bad.  I got a call back on my lovenox it was finally approved and they told me it would be 82 bucks a month!  Crazy but you know have to do what you have to do to get a healthy baby.  I am starting to freak out a bit about the money issue and trying to budget how we will buy things here and there each month.  I am always such a worry wart!  I like having a plan of attack on things especially buying of large amounts!  I look at my husband and I think of all the single people trying to make it through and they are just focused on getting sometime for the baby to sleep in and here I am worried about coordinating the nursery so everything matches perfectly.  I love him so much and am greatly thankful for him being such a great father, provider and husband <3  

Dustin had a great day today he had career day at school and dressed up as a nurse cause he did his career project on mommy.  He wanted to do his daddy but we didn't know how to exactly dress the part of a computer guy!  LOL Tomorrow we are going to head to grandma's church and get some pumpkins and take some pictures in the pumpkin patch to support grandma's and great grandma's church!  Wish us luck on the weather.

Please lord watch over my loved family and friends.....

6 weeks 3 days

Best sono ever!  John went to this appointment with me and I am glad he did!  We got to see the little heart beating away and hear it aswell.  Was a wonderful thing to see and hear that our little baby was doing so well.  His or her heartbeat was 116 beats per minute which is very good at that gestation!  Sono tech said everything looked good and I was even measuring a day ahead of schedule!  Got my prescription for the starting of lovenox which is a blood thinner that will help me keep my blood thinner because I have a MTHFR mutation that can make clotting a issue in pregnancy and may have caused me to have the severe HELLP syndrome that I had with Dustin in 2003 causing him to be born so premature.



5 weeks 5 days!

Our little one was happily growing it is amazing to see the changing of our little embryo happening so fast!

We were now the proud parents of a little blob instead of a speck!

I swear it looks like a girl what do you think??