12 Week Update

Another video. Just remember to pause the music.

11 Week Update via Video

I didn't get a chance to take a picture this week and I happened to make a video blog for youtube so I will post that instead. Just remember to scroll down to the bottom and pause the blog music.

10 Weeks Pregnant.

This week has not been good. I have been so nauseous and have had so many headaches. There are very few things that I can eat that don't turn my stomach and even those few things are starting to not sound good because I eat them so often. I spent the majority of Sunday and Monday in bed while Nathan took care of the boys. I am so exhausted. This pregnancy has been kicking my butt. I am not one to go by the way that you are feeling determining the gender of the baby because my pregnancies with Joel and Colin were both different, but this one has been SO different that I am starting to wonder if it is a girl. That is my prediction at his point.

I took Joel to the doctor on Thursday to have him looked at to see if the mono is gone. My doctor said he looks healthy and back to normal, so that is good. However, while I was there he told me that my blood-work came back showing that I have hyperthyroidism. I am going to be going to see a specialist about it and will probably have to have blood work done quite frequently and monthly ultrasounds to make sure the baby is doing well. It has about a 1% risk of causing birth defects so they just want to make sure everything is looking good. Just add this to all the things that don't go as normal in my pregnancies. There always has to be something off.

Saturday Update: 9 weeks

I swear my belly looks smaller this week. Strange how that happens since I take my photo the same day every week at the same time.

This week I have been feeling a little woozier. It seems to come in the mornings and night especially and I haven't been able to take my prenatals for the past few days because they have been making me really nauseous. I have been exhausted too but I am not sure if that is because the boys are getting up several times every night or if it is because I am pregnant. I am going to attribute it to both.

So I bought the boys Christmas jammies a couple days ago. They were a wicked deal and I didn't even have to go to the store. I think with shipping and everything they ended up costing me $30 dollars for both. This is what they look like.


Last night I went out with a bunch of ladies from my weekly mom's group for dinner and then I got to sleep in because Nathan took the boys to his parents house for the night. It was glorious to be able to sleep all the way until morning and get up when I so chose. I definitely appreciated it.

Guess thats about it for the week. Thought it would be fun to take a poll to see what everyone thinks baby is at this point. Just leave your choice in your post.

8 Week Update

I was officially 8 weeks on Thursday. Not too much is new. My pants are getting tighter all the time and I may have to go buy a bella band soon so that I can atleast leave my pants undone. Otherwise for the most part I am feeling pretty good. I still have to make sure I eat asap when I wake up in the morning, but thats about as bad as it gets.

My sister Tara had her ultrasound on Thursday and they found out they are expecting their first son! They have 2 girls already so I am excited that they will get to find out what it is like to have a sweet baby boy. It really didn't matter to me what sex they had. I am just happy to hear that he is healthy.

So we are officially done with the birthday parties for Colin. We had one last Saturday at Nathan's parents and then one yesterday. It was fun! We went trick or treating with all the kids and it was a good time. Next year they all need bigger buckets though because it really doesn't take long to fill up those little pumpkin buckets. Here are some pictures from yesterday.

Picture of Baby Bean

Here is a picture of our beautiful baby, well I think so, at 7 weeks 1 day. This was taken this afternoon at my emergency ultrasound, more about that in a minute. Baby bean is measuring 3 days behind what I thought I should be, so my new due date is June 11, 2009, which also happens to be Nathan and my 4th wedding anniversary. The heart-rate is 131 bpm. As far as can be seen at this point, baby is healthy and well and I am ecstatic!

Now about my emergency ultrasound. The story basically starts on Wednesday night at about 8:00pm. We had just come in for the night after working outside on our fence. The boys were in bed and I went to the washroom, a place I frequent a lot these days. When I went to wipe there was about a teaspoon of pinkish blood on the toilet paper and I FREAKED OUT! Okay maybe not right away but it scared me. I have never bled before with pregnancy, so after a stressful evening of talking to the nurse and friends and family, I resigned myself to wait until morning and call my doctor to request said ultrasound. In the morning there was a little brown blood but that was about it so that eased my mind a bit. I got in to see my doctor at 4:15pm on Thursday afternoon and he did an internal exam to check for bleeding and to make sure my cervix was still closed. No bleeding and cervix closed.. Good sign! He said he wanted to book said ultrasound and here we are... Ultrasound.. new due date.. healthy baby.. a lot less stressed out mommy!!!

It never seems to fail though. Nathan and I seem to have atleast one problem during our pregnancies. With Joel it was a false positive on the triple screen with a high risk for down syndrome which resulted in an amniocentesis at 18 weeks. With Colin he had Choroid Plexis Cysts in his 18 week ultrasound which creates a high risk for Trisomy 18. And this time bleeding and an early ultrasound. I know I am very lucky that I have 2 beautiful healthy children and one on the way so I am not complaining. I have been very blessed, I just wish there didn't always have to be stress involved in getting to that point.

In other news, we set up the boys new room. Temporarily it is Joel's new room, while Colin learns to sleep in a bed. Then in about April Colin will move into the bottom bunk and we will set up the nursery for the new baby. Anyways, I am really happy with the way it all turned out. Here are the results.


I still have a bit more work to do. I want to find a bit more art work and some curtains but that is the main bits.

Colin Singing

Here is a video of Colin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.. To watch it just scroll down to the bottom and pause the blog music first.