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GIRL!!!

I'm not going to lie, I was pretty shocked.  I just knew from day one that we were going to have a boy.  I was so confident that we were having a boy that I even told people that if I found out that I was going to have a girl, I would be shocked.  And here we are... Shocked. 

The shock is starting to wear off and I'm replacing it with excitement.  Finding out the sex also made this whole pregnancy thing so much more "real".  It's not just a concept now, it's my reality.  I am going to be a MOTHER with a DAUGHTER.  It's surreal.  And amazing.  And a dream come true.  I am feeling truly blessed.

Here are a few of Baby G Heddy's (aka Baby Girl Heddy) statistics at 19 weeks:

• She weighs 9 ounces
• She is in the 44th percentile for size
• I can feel her kick, but her foot is only ¼ of an inch
• She is about the length of a summer squash
• She probably can hear external sounds and conversation by this time, or will very soon. My voice is the most pronounced. She can hear me talk, hum, and sing.
• I have now reached my 5th month of pregnancy
• Her due date is April 27, 2010



Me at 19 weeks
November 29, 2010

 

What are we having?

As of today, I am now 17 weeks and 3 days pregnant.  We still don't know the gender of the baby and I spend a LOT of time wondering if I'm carrying a little boy or a little girl.  I decided to look on the "webernet" (Josh's name for the internet) to see what types of wives tales are out there and quizzes I could take to see what they say I'm going to have.  Here are a few of the results:

My mother's intuition (since day one) says that I'm having a BOY. 
Based on the Childbirth.org quiz, I am having a GIRL.
Based on the Parents.com quiz, it could go EITHER WAY.
Based on the Chinese Gender Chart I am having a BOY.
Justmommies.com thinks I have a 58% chance of a GIRL.
Babyzone.com CAN'T TELL.

Well, that's clear as mud...

P.S.  We find out on November 29th...

Mmmmm....foooood. Delicious, delicious food.

As of today, I am now 15 weeks and 3 days pregnant and I'm finally getting over my morning sickness.  We all know that pregnant women have a heightened sense of smell, but did you also know that eventually you also have a stronger/better sense of taste?  It's true and now I have a new "problem".  It's called food.  Delicious, delicious food. 

I have always had a healthy appetite and there's not a whole lot of food that I don't enjoy, but just recently food is just so... how do you say?  YUMMY!!!

I don't crave anything in particular and I don't snack (at least not yet), but put a meal in front of me, and I'll tell you - more than once probably - that it's the most delicious _____ I've ever eaten! 

Take today for instance.  At lunch my friend and I went to The Original Pancake House.  I had a BLT with scrambled eggs and hash browns.  Before I got pregnant, I didn't love bacon; however, now it's just too good to pass up!  As I munched away, I commented about how good it was.  Then, I tasted the hash browns.  They were, in a word, awesome!  Crunchy on the outside, soft and mushy on the inside.  And they were cubed (which I didn't like before today) instead of shredded.  SO GOOD!

After lunch I was at a friend's desk and we were talking about getting food at sporting events.  I said, "what makes a sporting event hot dog so good?!"  My friend and I agreed that it's all because of the bun, which I described as "beautifully amazing".  My friend said, "do you realize that out of all the things on earth that are "beautifully amazing", to you, it's a hot dog bun?!"

Yep.  I'm pregnant all right. 

14 Weeks

Here I am at 14 weeks, 3 days on October 28, 2010.  At this stage, Baby Heddy is the size of a lemon. 

During 14 weeks pregnant Baby Heddy is starting to grow very quickly. Baby's length starts to match  baby's weight and baby's head starts to appear much more proportional during pregnancy at 14 weeks and beyond. By pregnancy week 14 baby's ears moving to their final resting place at the side of the head while the eyes move closer together on the front of baby's face.  

By pregnancy week 14 baby's neck starts to get longer too and a chin starts forming. Baby is working hard during pregnancy at 14 weeks to develop reflexes by kicking and swimming about. By 14 weeks pregnant baby should be receiving all the nutrition she needs from the placenta. That means anything I eat, drink or smoke will cross the placenta and enter my baby!

At this point, I'm still having a tiny bit of morning sickness.  The smells in the shower are overwhelming and I usually gag and throw up and then the same again when I brush my teeth.  After that though I feel good the rest of the day.  Thank goodness!  I still get tired, but I don't nap when I get home from work (at least not every day) and I can stay up until 9pm or later now!  Big improvements! 

This is so exciting for me and I love that I'm showing now.  At first I was pretty self-conscious, but now I rock the belly when I can.  It's beginning to feel more real.  Also, Josh thinks the belly is so cute! 

Belly Laughs

Here are the first pictures of mah belly!  The first one was taken at 13 weeks 4 days on October 22, 2010.  The Rangers beat the Yankees to win the ALCS and are going to their first World Series!  As you can see, Josh is showing now too. 

These pictures were taken the next day at our new house at 11302 Dinsdale Dr.

YAHOOOOOOOO!!!!



She said, “You’re pregnant”.

I was in utter SHOCK! I sit in a cube at work and luckily all of the brokers were out of the office that day. I stood up and was like, "Are you serious? Are you sure?" And all of the admins that sit near me thought something was wrong because I guess I was loud.  The woman, Toni, that sits next to me shoved me in an office and shut the door behind us. The offices here are glass, so all of the other admins were standing outside of the door looking at me because they thought something was wrong.

Melinda, said she was serious, that I was pregnant and I immediately started to cry. I told the woman that was in the office with me, Toni, that I was pregnant and she started crying and hugging me and then all of the other admins opened the door to see what was going on. I was crying and laughing at the same time. Everyone around here knew what we had been going through and they were all hugging me. It was so chaotic looking back…


I couldn’t sit still after that, so I left work for the day. Josh was traveling that day, but was coming home that night. And just that morning I had called him, very angry (turns out it was pregnancy hormones) that he couldn’t go to my doctor’s appointment with me because he was out of town. I even hung up on him. Turns out, I'm a mean pregnant lady! 


Anyway, I left work and went to Baby Gap and bought a tiny little onsie that had 2 dogs on it that said, “I love Daddy”. I folded it up so that all you could see was the picture on it and went home to take a nap. When Josh got home from his trip, I was still sleeping and he came up and lay down next to me. We talked about his trip and then I said to him that I was sorry for hanging up on him and that I got him a little present to say I’m sorry. I handed him the little folded up onsie and he said, “Oh how cute! It’s Scooter and Bailey and they love Daddy!” Then he unfolded it and saw that it was a onsie. He said, “What? What is this?” Then he looked at me and very casually said, “Are you pregnant?” I nodded and he jumped off the bed and yelled, “Are you serious? Are you kidding? Are you serious?” And I just kept nodding. I told him, “That’s exactly what I said to Melinda!” He was SO excited!

So, here we are, almost 14 weeks pregnant.  AND… yesterday my belly popped out, so now I’m showing. No going back now! I need to start taking pictures every week of the big belly. If I’m this big already, how HUGE am I going to get?! Oy vey!

What's next... indeed.

I know that it has been a very long time since the last time I wrote an honest entry on this thing.  That's because after our IVF procedure was unsuccessful, we decided to take a break from all things fertility and baby-making related, and for me that meant this blog too.

Two weeks in to our little break, I finally began to feel like myself again.  It was very eye-opening to realize how stressed I truly was even though I was fairly good at convincing myself that I wasn't. 

During this time, I allowed myself to concentrate on the house that we're building, Josh's new job, and selling our current condo - things I felt like I had control over or could do something about.  I began to relax and enjoy life again. 

Eventually the weeks passed and I realized that I had not started my period.  I checked my calendar and it had been 5 weeks (which wasn't unusual) and then 6... I took a pregnant test, but it was negative.  The days passed and still mother nature hadn't called, so I took two more tests, both of which were negative as well. 

I waited a few more days, knowing that I wasn't pregnant, but eager to get my cycle started so we could try IVF again.  At this same time, I was also having some sharp pains in my ovaries that I began to worry about so I finally called Dr. Chantilis and scheduled an appointment for the next day.  At that point, it had been 7 weeks since my last period. 

When I explained the pain in my ovaries over the phone to my nurse, Melinda, she said it sounded like my ovaries were enlarged and that perhaps I had cysts in my ovaries which can prevent you from having a period.  She said they would do a sonogram to see what was going on and some blood work and then would give me a perscription to make me start my period.

When I went in, everything looked fine on my sonogram - uterus had a full lining, ovaries were not enlarged and there were no cysts in them; however, I did have a fibroid outside of my uterus, but it had been there all along and wasn't problematic.  After the sono, they took some blood and said they would call me in the afternoon with a perscription.

I went back to work and as promised, Melinda called me around 2:30pm.  I casually answered the phone with a "what's up?".  Wednesday, August 25th:  that was the moment that has changed my life...