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Tuesday, 03 November 2009

  • 22 1/2 weeks

    ok so i am 22 1/2 weeks today and i just realized that i can still fit into all of my old pants. yeah i am wanting a belly so everyone knows i am pregnant but looks like it is going to wait till the very end and POP all of the sudden. everything has been going ok so far. my appitiate has increased in the last few weeks and i really want to eat everything and anything with the exception of chicken which i can still eat only fried (i know healthy right). i still have not gain any weight at all. i have lost 11lbs and have gained 2 of that back according to my scale. i am really ok with that b/c the dr said the baby was growing and looking fine when we had the sonogram. i am fat so i am assuming that the baby has sped up my matabolism which the dr said could happen. i am thinking that it would be great to only gain the 11lbs that i lost back that way its a lot easier to loose the baby weight and maybe a little more. i am planning on breast feeding for hopefully a year after the baby comes which will help as well.

    We are going to name the baby Brenden Jeremiah after dustins uncle who passed away last week from stomach cancer. Dustin took it really hard but Jerry was so happy to have the baby named after him. he called him mom and told her so i am glad we did it. we only gave the baby Jerrys middle name. Jerry was a Harold Jeremiah and he told us that we were not allowed to use Harold at all... HEHE. all the men in our family have crazy weird names (my dad is Gary Don Eugene, Dustins dad is Errol Royce but goes by Royce)

    anyways i am just really glad that its a boy the first time around althought i wanted to be able to dress the baby up really cute. it seems that there is not as many cute boy clothes like there are for girls. i have been checking craigs list to find some stuff but havent found just to much. i really want to wait until after a baby shower but thats not going to be until like Feb or so. we did find this cute rocker on craigs list. we are doing his room in airplanes so i thought it would be really cute sitting in there.

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    well i guess thats all for now. i cant believe that Sat i start my 6th month. that i just so amazing to me.

Thursday, 15 October 2009

  • IT's A BOY

    Yup we are having a little boy. we are going to name him Brenden Jeremiah. we are so excited (especially the hubby) i just cant wait to meet him now! we got a great money shot of his goods so we can for sure say we are having a boy!!! YAY!

    i also have gained 2 lbs since my last visit. which i guess is ok. i had lost a total of 11lbs but now i guess i am down to only loosing 9lbs but i am sure i will gain all of what i lost back plus some. my dr said not to worry about weigh at all b/c everyone is different and some people gain more and some people done gain as much. i am fat so that also is part of the loosing. i just look at it as less to loose after the baby comes :)

    other that that not much to update on. I did have to go to the drs last week b/c i almost passed out. come to find out i am not eating enough protein and i now have to eat some with every meal. maybe the baby is a vegitarian. LOL! just kidding its mainly chicken and i can eat it but only if its fried. i also can not eat taco seasoning which really sucks b/c i love homemade tacos and i also make a tater tot taco casserole which Dustin loves as well. I have been eating lots of peanut butter and low fat cheese sticks. i would like to only gain the 30-35lbs total for what most books tell you is all you need to gain. so i am trying to eat more "low fat" things. i dont so a lot of sugar except for my 1 coke a day that i drink (drink coke b/c it has less caffine that a cup of coffee) other than that i drink a glass of juice a day as well (usally OJ to keep my vit c up) then all water from there. i try to drink 4-5 bottles of water a day... i feel water logged and pee all the time which i know will just get worse with time.

    well i guess thats all for now.

     

Monday, 24 August 2009

  • The Pregnancy Journal

    Well all is going well so far. i have announced to all my co-workers that i am pregnant (well most of them anyways) and everything went great. my Boss when i got back from short term diability with my hand. Luckly my boss is so laid back he was so excited to have me back he didnt care but he is so laid back that i dont think he would have anyways. Everyone has been really supportive at work althought i work with mostly guys (there are around 10 - 15 women in our department of 100 - 110 people) All of the girls know i just have only told a few guys b/c i talk to them regularly... the others dont care.

    anyways i have started babysitting again. we are putting all the $ i make into a college fund for the baby. last year i made almost $5K so i think it will be a great thing to do for the baby. The people I work for gave me "the Pregnancy Journal"

    this book ROCKS! i recommend it to anyone who is pregant. It tells you every day what is going on with the baby. you put in your due date (or Conception date if you know it) and then you can read what day you are on and see what is going on in the womb with the baby. it is so neat and i am so excited to read it everyday. Per the book our Due Date is 1 day before the Doctors due date. We actually know our conception date due to running out of alternative birth control  It was funny b/c we joked that we would get pregnant the 1 time we didnt use anything and well... we did. I am on day 73 today and have 193 days to go... WOW! that sounds like a long time away.

    I just thought i would share my neat book with everyone!

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

  • BIG NEWS!

    well i have some big news!!!! I am pregnant . Almost to 12 weeks per cycle and at 12 weeks thru the sonogram. We are really excited and i have been wanting to share but waited b/c i had some fears. i was actually about  week pregnant when i had my surgery however we didn't know it at the time. the Drs say that it shouldn't matter b/c i just had local (not general), the baby wasn't attached to me yet and that the drugs i took were ok to take while pregnant. i was still really worried. what also made me worry is that i didn't have a sonogram on my first visit to the OB at 6 weeks i had to wait till this week to see the little baby. i am amazed that it actually look Human and not like a shrimp or something.

    Conceiving- June 13th

    We actually know the exact date we concieved on b/c well... it was sorta an oops! I stopped taking my Birth control back in March however we were using condoms b/c i wanted to wait to pass my 7 till we started to really try. The 7 was such a hard test that i didnt want to be pregnant while taking it b/c i have really bad test anxity and i didnt want to put my baby thru that. well we sorta ran out of condoms one day but we didnt think that we would get pregnant the 1 time we had sex not usuing anything. it took my mom 7 years to have me so i just expected it to take just a little longer than an average person but that was not the case. well looks like 1 time was all it took hehe

    Finding out

    the Saturday after my surgery i was supposed to start but i didnt. i just thought it was b/c of all the stress that i was going thru and stuff. i have never missed a period before however i have never had surgery before so i thought it could be that. the following Weds i went to take a test just to see and well it sorta broke on me... it would absorb pee- i know i am the only person who can break a pregnanct test. anyways that Saturday Dustin asked if i had started and i of course said no but i told him that i took a test but it didnt work. so i dug it out of the trash and looked at it and was like "um it looks like we might be pregnant" dustin was like "isnt it a yes or a no" well i told him that you arent supposed to read it after 10 minutes an so forth. anyways we went and got another one... i took 3 before i could actually believe that i was pregnant.

    first appointment

    my first appointment when well. we didnt really find anything out. they didnt listen the the heartbeat but i was only 6 weeks and they said it was har to hear. i did find out that i had a backwards facing uterus and had to do execrises to get it to flip back forward again. if it didnt come back forward it would have caused a lot of pain and the 2nd visit the dr would have forced it forward. i dont know how they would have done it but it doesnt sound good. Other than that everything went great.

    2nd appointment

    Everything went great again. we did all the normal stuff and my bp was good i lost 3.6lbs. the dr said that was fine b/c the baby looked great and it was just b/c i was eating better and walking. They said that the baby looked great. i had my first sonogram and it was amazing. i cant believe it looked like a little person and not just a shrimp or bean or something. Dustin was so excited. the Babys heartbeat was 175bpm which the dr said was good.

    So far so good

    so far everything has been great. i have not really felt bad or anything. i have not been overly tired and not throwing up to much. so its been great so far. Niko can tell something i up... he doesnt really leave my side. he is laying by me right now and he sleep either by me or ontop of me... yes ontop of me. he likes it when i sleep on my stomach so he can sleep on my back. he is crazy. its like he cant get close enough to me. anyways i keep telling him we are going to have a baby and he goes and barks at the door. its really funny but sad b/c he doesnt realize just how much his life is going to change. Marty doesnt seen to sense anything different. he is still him happy and aloof self.

    i have bought some stuff...

    this lion walker

    and this rockin piano

     

    i am really lucky and my mom has agree to watch the baby once i go back to work. i will have to go back to work b/c we dont make enough to stay at home but my mom is not charging us as much as a daycare. i am just really excited to have her watching the baby. Later on i am going to post some name and see what everyone likes best. we dont really have any names picked out except a boys name... we have like 30 girls names hehe. i just wanted to see what names people like. i dont know if we are going to announce the name before the birth or not we will just have to see. we are going to find out the sex b/c you cant buy anything in green or yellow its all pink or green. anyways thats all for now.

Monday, 20 July 2009

  • Series 7

    Well I took my Series 7 again today... and I PASSED. i made a 75. i am just so excited. i am so glad to have it over and done with. i felt like it took forever to take it (its a 7 hr test) but i went in and i knew more than i thought. it was great! anyways i have 1 other test before i am officially liscenced and i take that test next week. its a short test only like 45 minutes or so and then i am free of all test! well for 2 yrs you have to do a check up ever 2 yrs but its cool its like a mini version on the original. the best news is that my salary will almost double  that means that will make what dustin and i make together just by myself plus a little more with bonuses.

    in other news my babies are doing good- dustin, niko and marty. the boys have really been loving on my b/c i have been at home with them for 4 weeks. Niko wants to be in my lap all the time and doesnt want to be near dustin at all. poor dustin he gets really upset. anyways here is a cute pic over Niko i took while he was sleeping on the chair.

    niko

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  • Well were to begin. i havent updated this since i first signed up. so lets see. i work full time for TD Ameritrade in Ft Worth Texas. i do a lot of data entry and check to make sure all the numbers are correct in people accounts and i also make sure people do or dont get their bonus every quarter. other than that i am married to the most wonderful man, Dustin. and we have 2 dogs Martie and Niko who are our children for the moment.

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