Here is the progress

So the baby's head is too close to my cervix to be able to tell how far effaced or dilated. Has that happen to anyone else? My doctor really did not stress about it too much but she did say that if I get past my due date we might have to start talking about inducing. Next appointment is next tuesday so we will see.

Doctor

Oh yes, I forgot. I had my appointment on Wednesday. She did not check for progress this appointment because she is not mean and evil. But she will be checking on Tuesday for my next one. All is good in the hood.

Now for the weeklys....

Yesterday started my weekly appointments. The doc is pretty much say that anytime is a good time for labor. I know the three signs that she told me for labor. A) If I am in so much pain that I can't move or in other words Sharp Sharp pains for 30-45 sec every 5 mins within an hour. B) I pretty much pee my pant without having peed my pant aka water breaking and C) so much blood that my shoes would be filled with it. Those are the three signs and I would have to go straight to the birthing center.

After Saturday, the next shower, we are going to have the car seat in the car and the bag packed for the just in case. So we will see how and when it will happen. I am not dilated yet so we will see.

6 more weeks

I was going to post a photo for this event but I have been having computer issues this week. Stay Tuned

Latest Appointment

Today was another ultrasound, the baby is coming in at an estimated weight of 5 pounds. 5 POUNDS can you believe it. So we will see how big this baby is at birth. The heart rate was at 133 beats per minute. I had a posse with me today, nick, my mom, my sister and nick's mommy. The doctor was like whoa, lots of people but she said that she did not care so out of all the appointments thus far. This one was going to be fun at least. I have pictures. I will upload them tomorrow due to having to go to work like now.

8 more weeks

Pink ink=it is done

As of tomorrow, there will be about 8 weeks left before the little one arrive (hopefully she won't come earlier) and I have a super mess in her room right now. Granted, there is about 4-5 items that are going to be donated/garage sale in a few weeks. The bikes will be stored in someone's garage soon. But we have nothing that makes it a baby's room in that room. So here it is, the list that need to be done in the next 8 weeks.

Finish buying cloth diapers/Diaper Pail for Cloth diaper and everything else that we need for it
Prep Cloth diapers
Wash all baby clothes
Get a dresser (as in it will be moved in here soon)
Get a Crib (if that does not happen yet, we do have a pack-in-play (thanks janie and bob) now and the baby can sleep in our bed)
Get some baskets that Tori will not ruin
Hopefully get a comfy chair
nursing bras and tops
put together email/call list for after the birth
pack hospital bag

For the Cloth Diapers:
What We Needed
12 Cloth Diapers
Large Pail
1 Large Liner
1-2 Smaller Liners
4 Doubles
3 Pul Covers
Diaper Cream-Zinc Based, Organic, no Fish Oil
Spray Bottle
44-94 Cloth Wipes

What We Have

12 Indian Prefolds
Mini-Spayer
2 Snappies
2 Fleece Covers
Charlie’s Soap
2 doublers
1 Medium Liner
6 Cloth Wipes
1 Pul Cover (Blueberry is a great cover because it is an all-in-one cover)
(This will be edited and changed as the list get shorter and/or longer)

Left to still do:
Sign up for more pre-natal yoga or the pre-natal water class (really liked the water class) Taking the water class
One more shower for my side of the family (invites should be out soon)
Maternity Photos (need to find the money for that)
Doula (that as well) currently finding the money
Finish cleaning out the baby/second bedroom (will be need a big car to get some of that stuff out)
Hanging up the photos/posters
Write thank you cards from first shower
Get some actual work done (instead of being sick with a sinus infection)
Attend the breast-feeding class and the CPR class.

With all this scare with the swine flu (which both my high school and middle school are close, go batavia) I am so glad my sinus infection did not turn into the swine flu. Also, good thing I do not eat pork/ham. hehehe  edit: I was not scare that I will get the swine flu but I just did not want the sinus infection to get worse so people thought I had the swine flu.

Recent Appointment

Today was another Dr. Appointment. The heartbeat is at 139. My next appointment is in 3 weeks then every 2 weeks after that until the one weekers. The next appointment will be another ultrasound measuring the baby and seeing how big it will be at birth. If there is pictures then I will post.

First Born Children

So I have been thinking about this a lot lately, who will our child look more like, myself or the hubs? I have this theory that a majority of first born children look like their fathers. Z and G for example, If you met them at the wedding, then you know that G looks totally like her father and Z looks like his dad even though he was not there. Nick and David look insanely alike but I feel like they do not look like their father as much. I took a picture of the three of them awhile back and they have similarities but do not look like a carbon copy. if you scroll over to my father's facebook page, you will see him as a young child then look at the wedding pictures for my oldest brother, the taller one (Charles) and you will see that they look alike. My parents went on to have three more children that all look like my mother and I am a carbon copy of her.



As you can see from the picture above. I am the first born daughter for my parents which makes me wonder if that had anything to do with looking like her. Since Nick and myself look alike in someways but completely different in others, who is our child going to look like? Is our child going to have his eyes and my hair or his hair and my eyes? What will the combo be for our child? Before you answer, let me tell you that Nick did have blonder hair as a child so regardless our child will have blonder hair as a baby but when will it fade?

Diabetes Free

I had the three hour glucose screening yesterday and i am proud to say today that I am diabetes free. So I do not have to worry about it. Go Me :)

Glucose Screening

It is standard for 24-28 week pregnant women to get a glucose screening for diabetes. So my doctor gave me my paperwork last friday and told me to get it done sometime before my next appointment. I HATE 12 hour fasting so I got it done yesterday and screw up my entire eating/sleeping schedule. Well, my doc called this morning with bad news. I have failed my test. They were looking for a score under 140 and my results came it at 142. Just my luck right. I am always a borderline person. I am borderline anemic and have allergy systems but no actual allergies. So I have to be retested with a 3 hr glucose tolerance screening test sometime soon. It will determine that I either have gestational diabetes or my body just hates me. The paper work is being sent to me right now so we will see...

Side note, I am not going to be posting anymore pictures until I get a new computer due to not wanting it to crash on me. Pictures of the last few weeks will be coming next week.

Pregnancy Dreams Again

So here is the update on weird pregnancy dreams again. Friday night, I had two dreams that scared the crap out of me. The first dream, I had gone into early labor with severe cramps and threw up raw chicken. I woke up quite freaked out and scared so it took me a while to fall asleep. The second dream was about someone in Nick's family dying (mainly his mom's dad) and nick telling me that death was normal or something that we all have to go through.

Saturday morning, I woke up and got ready for training. I was about to take a shower when I heard someone coughing up something. I turned around to find Tori (our cat) threw up. So that was weird. Then today, I went to the Apple store to figure out what was wrong with my computer and why it was not wanting to be used for windows. The tech told me that my computer was dying. So as I went on with the rest of my day, I realize that it was the same themes from my dreams a few nights ago. So I wonder if I am dreaming about the future or it just happen the way it was suppose to happen.

Had a doctor's appointment on friday and everything is still fine and normal.

Oh yes, I did order a new computer tonight because I really did not want to wait to see how long it was going to take until the computer I am on right now is going to fail.

Almost been a week

since I last blog about the pregnancy and life and all that jazz. So the big updates would be that I finally got a job working for Primerica as a financial counselor. It will be part time at first to work its way up to full time at a later date when life of moving and baby slows down a bit. Also, we got a new bed. We are waiting for it right now. It is one of those memory form mattresses from Sealy. We got an insane deal on it for a Queen set. Hopefully, that will make my back stop hurting as much as it has been in the last few days. We are going to be starting to look for a new place starting this saturday so if you want to make any plans with us while we are out in the burbs let us know. :)

Valentine's Day Pictures

Pictures from My Corner Playroom Valentine's Day Party on February 13, 2009

Unemployment

Well, it has almost been two months since I have been unemployed. I had only three days of working until they laid me off on the 2nd. Thankfully, I have had some babysitting gigs to make time past but it has not been enough. So what have I been doing over the last two months? First, I enjoy the holidays which was nice. Then with the passing of Nick's grandma and myself getting laid off, I threw myself into job hunting. I had had so many rejection e-mails come my way. I failed a pretty simple test that would have made my life so much easier because the job would have been great. I have been interview for another position that would have recover all our money that we have lost over the last 8 months and would have set us up to be able to move in two years. But nothing came of that. I had a few phone interviews for nanny jobs that I most likely lost due to being pregnant. I went to a job fair on Tuesday to get some pretty okay leads and found out that my last pair of work pants really do not fit anymore.

So what to do when you are about 5 months pregnant, visibly showing and still have no way to pay for your stupid student loans? Who is going to hire you? In the meantime, I have signed up for Sittercity to get some part time work/random sitting?

So how I have filled my time with being out of work. I have learned how to make food in our 3 in 1 rice cooker/slow cooker. There is something really nice about having dinner done with my hubs gets home and he did not have to cook. thank you Rob and Mel for the rice cooker. I have been baking. I just made those chocolate peanut butter cookies that I have been obsessing about. Thank you Charles for the baking bowl. I love that thing. I have been taking yoga at random times. Not this week because I fell last Friday and hurt my knee pretty bad. But now I am functioning again so Monday Yoga here I come. I have been seeing movies, Bride Wars, He's just not that into you, and Confession of a Shopaholic. I have clean the apartment (not the bathroom yet). I have been looking for a job. I have played the sims. I have set up 3 registries. BuyBuyBaby, Land of Nod and Pottery Barn Kids. I have chilled out and relax most days. I have had e-mail talks with peeps. I am on facebook all day. So I have been busy but way bored at times as well. I really will not be using this blog for my personal life but I want to give you all an update on how I have been spending my time in my apartment with my stinker cat.

Baby Girl Meiborg

So It looks like there is about a 90% chance of our child being a girl. She was being super stubborn and did not want to show us. She was sitting beach so it was going to make the ultrasound tech unsure about the gender. But yes, she move around at the end of the appointment and the tech was able to make a educated guess that she was a girl. She said that there was nothing sticking out so she is a she. But yes, our child is totally our child. She was stubborn and shy. She did not want to move when the tech need to take certain measurements and pictures. We both had to move her around. I moved my body and the tech move the slide thingy. Then once the appointment was ended she decide to make herself known and stop being so shy. That is how the tech figure out she was a girl. So I have my monthly appointment this Friday and we will go over any findings. But also, the tech said, that she was looking very healthy and no signs of trouble. All good all around.

So now, I am going to making this blog live to all the friends and family today. I will be posting the ultrasound pictures after I get back from yoga and going to throw in the 20 week prego photo as well. So I am not forgetting but yoga starts in about an hour and I still have to get dress.

Big News

So today, we get to see the baby and find out if it is healthy or not. Oh yea, and we get to find out the sex hopefully. Baby, be good for mommy and daddy so we can tell grandma.

We had our 2nd childbirth prep class this past Sunday. It was really good. We watch a few more births. Kinda surreal watching a baby come out of a woman but you know it had been happening for thousands of years. Little freaked still. But hopefully, that will past as time goes by.

I don't know, I just cannot focus on anything today due to the ultrasound in a few hours. So hopefully, after 3pm or so, I will be revealing everything and the blog will be public for the family.

This is the place to go for updates on the pregnancy, baby, baby showers, videos, pictures and random shares I want to have with you all about the baby.

Recent Appointment

On January 16th, We found out that the baby's heartbeat was 151 beats per minute and I have schedule the mid-trimester ultrasound for February 10.