10 1/2 Weeks Pregnant

Head to the Left with 2 hands and the body

Top of the head and an arm/hand

Yesterday I went for my weekly visit to Dr. Galle's office. The baby looked great and is growing so much!! We're up to a whole 3.86 cm now!! The heartbeat was 178 bpm. My ovaries are slowly reducing in size and I was taken off another medicine!! Dr. Galle said I could call and schedule an appointment with Dr. Putman so we did that and will make our first official visit with him on December 7th.

We go back for one last visit to Dr. Galle's office at the end of the this month. This always makes me sad because they are soooo amazing and caring at their office. It also means not getting weekly peaks and hearing the heartbeat of our growing little miracle every week. That's OK though, it means that both baby and Mommy are doing good enough to be released into regular care!! Mommy is still feeling nauseous from time to time, it seems to mostly happen at night. She's still really tired too, but being back to work full time and in session really didn't make the transition super easy!! She just keeps reminding herself that next week is a short week since Thanksgiving is coming!!!! And if I have to be sick so that we can have a healthy baby than that's exactly what this Mommy will do!!!!

A Freezing Finale

All good things must come to an end, and yesterday the Bullet's football season came to an end. We lost to Maroa-Forsyth 13-6. The boys battled hard, and truly left their hearts on the field. They have so much to be proud of, making to the Quarter-Finals is something WHS hasn't done in 20 years!!!

The weather was brutal!!! The wind was blowing about 25 mph and boy was it chilly!!! Alex's little eyes were watering before we even made it to the field. He wasn't a very happy camper at all. He ended up hunkering down underneath a blanket while laying on my chest and snoozed for pretty much the first half. Grandma came and visited at half time and took him to get some popcorn which entertained him for the 3rd quarter, but he was hunkered down again for the 4th quarter. He was such a little trooper. I could hear him under the covers yelling GO GO GO!!! The little man loves football!!! We're awful thankful that this was the only bad weather we endured this season!!! Now all our football attention goes to the Chicago Bears!!!!

(No pictures today! It was just to cold and yucky!!)

Alex Shares some Special News!!

Alex went to daycare today to share some very special news with everyone. . . . Just like his shirt says. . . . This Little Dude is Going to be a BIG BROTHER!!!!! The ladies at daycare were so happy for us and Alex too!! They know the last few weeks have been pretty rough on Mom, so they were glad that all the suffering will bring a very happy end result!!! Alex doesn't really understand what's going on yet, but there's still plenty of time before the little one arrives!

After telling everyone the news we headed to Panera to eat lunch with Nana. Then she came over to help do some cleaning and laundry. Thanks so much for all your help Nana!! You're the Best!!!

So now that the news is blogger official, you can click on 'The Journey Continues' label at the bottom of this post and see all the posts regarding our newest family member!!

Pep Rally!!

The school had a Pep Rally on Thursday prior to the Maroa-Forsyth game. Alex and Seth had a good time playing and cheering for the Bullets while the team finished up practice before the Pep Rally.

9 1/2 Weeks Pregnant!

If you look at this one upside down you can kind

of see the baby's face and a little hand on the chin.

Today we headed back to see Dr. Galle. Daddy was able to sneak out of parent/teacher conferences for a little while. I know he was thrilled to have any excuse not to be at school, but getting to see our little one again was a perfect excuse!

Baby looked great again today. The heartbeat was 175 beats per minute and is measuring right on schedule. I managed to have lost 5 lbs since Monday. I think it's primarily because the swelling in my ovaries has reduced significantly and other parts are moving better than they have in the last few weeks (if you get my drift!) So, Mommy had Daddy stop at Dairy Queen on the way home for a Butterfinger blizzard, just a small one! It was delicious!!! We head back next Thursday morning for another check up. Dr. Galle took me off another one of my meds today and says next week we may stop another one!! So excited to not feel like a little old lady with my pill box full of pills!!!

On a different note. . . today is Veteran's Day. What a blessing to have so many people that are willing to give their time and some times their life to protect our country and all the people in it. Thank you to all who have served and particularly the families who sacrifice so much when their loved ones are away serving!! God Bless the Veterans and the USA!!!!

9 Weeks Pregnant!!

This morning I called the Dr.'s Office and they told me to go ahead and come in to just ease my mind. Dr. McCrae spent tons of time showing us our perfectly forming little angel!!! I've never been so relieved in all my life to see that little heart beating!!!! We were able to see little arms, fingers, legs, and toes!!!! It was truly amazing!! The little one showed off a few tricks for us and crossed it's little legs and even gave us a little wave and measured at about 2.44 cm. God is truly so good!!

It's been a really rough road for Mommy, but I keep telling myself I will feel like crap and do whatever I have to if that means we can have a healthy and happy little baby!!! The other good news is that my ovaries are finally starting to reduce in size. Dr. McCrae couldn't really tell if the bleeding had been from a ruptured cyst or just the placenta burrowing into the uterus. I'm on bed rest all this week, but go back on Thursday for my regularly scheduled appointment with Dr. Galle.

A Little Scare!!

Last night amongst all the playoff excitement and celebration, I could tell I had pushed myself entirely to hard that day. I had been on my feet all during the game and held Alex (which I'm not supposed to be doing), and then come home to host a rather large party.

It was almost midnight and nearly everyone had left. I was going to get ready for bed and went into the bathroom and realized I was bleeding pretty heavily. Adam and I called the Dr and by time they had called back about 10-15 minutes later the bleeding had significantly slowed down. After talking with Dr. McCrae she had determined that more than likely one of the cysts on my ovary had ruptured. She told me I needed to resume bed rest and call if anything changed.

I've layed around all day today, but think I'm going to call the Dr. in the morning to see if I can come in just to make sure everything is OK. I'm sure I'm being nervous nelly, but I just want to be sure that our little one is doing OK, and I think Daddy agrees too!!