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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
I forgot to post after my last appt. It was last Thursday and I had another u/s. I also had my 1 hour glucose tolerance test. Well, the u/s showed that my placenta had moved up and was looking great. Amount of fluid was good too. We got a cute picture of Amelia’s arm and her little fist all balled up.
My Glucose level came back too high. The cutoff is 140 and mine was at 160. So I had to go for the 3 hour test. YUCK! Apparently I’m also slightly anemic so I have to take an iron supplement from now on.
The 3 hour test was on Tuesday. Not bad but it just started getting boring. I was slightly sick but that was because I was so hungry from not eating. The glucose drink didn’t make me sick or anything. I haven’t heard back yet and the doc said if I did okay, then I wouldn’t hear anything till my next appt which is 2 weeks from today. I’m crossing my fingers that I pass.
Oh yeah. Today we got an unexpected gift in the mail. I haven’t opened it yet as I’m waiting for my husband to get home so we can open it together…but I know it’s something off my registry cause it’s from Target.com. I am resisting temptation to go peek at my registry and see what’s been bought. I also have no idea who sent it. The message on the tag makes it a definite mystery.
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
I actually haven’t had too many dreams involving my pregnancy that I can recall. I remember one from this weekend though. I had a stethescope and was trying to hear Amelia’s heartbeat. I heard her heartbeat, then my husband pulled the stethescope away from my belly and I could still hear it.
Most of my dreams (that I can remember the next morning) seem to be regular dreams, with one change. I’m usually pregnant in the dream and it is mentioned in some way. But they don’t actually pertain to my pregnancy…they are about something else.
Of course the one I had last night could have something to do with my pregnancy even though it doesn’t seem to. I dreamt that my husband had rearranged the bedroom closet. Like redid the shelving to maximize the space and had organized the clothes that hung in there in a particular way. Another dream I remember is waking up on a work day early (like 5:30 or 6am) and seeing him outside with a chainsaw and his workhorses cutting some wood for a project. Could these dreams relate to my nesting phase…dreaming about my husband nesting? LOL!
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
I sure hope my husband comes through with his talk of helping out around the house more. I’m going to need it. I did a little vacuuming in the dining room and kitchen just now and my back is hurting like crazy. Won’t be vacuuming much from now till well after Amelia gets here. If my husband doesn’t help, my house is going to become a pig sty pretty quick! Even when my nesting phase kicks in, I still won’t be able to do as much as I want. 
Ugh!
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Today, I felt my first official true BH contractions. I’ve had several occassions where I feel areas of my stomach tighten up, but today it was different. My entire stomach tightened up and it was quite uncomfortable. Even my back was hurting. Wow! At first I didn’t quite know what was going on. Then it dawned on me and I was like, “OH! That’s what’s happening.”
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Sunday, while DH was out playing disc golf with the guys, I went and saw The Devil Wears Prada. It was a pretty good movie. I was expecting more from it, but overall, I enjoyed it.
When I went to get my ticket, the lady said I was the first person of the day to NOT get a ticket to Pirates. But I was about 20 minutes early, so by the time the movie started a few more straglers had come in, making it somewhere around 15-20 people watching the movie with me. I picked a good weekend, since the crowd was so thin due to Pirates being released.
My message board thread had our Virtual Baby Shower yesterday also. It was pretty cool. Everyone opened their gifts at a certain time, then posted a picture of what they received. I got a Snugli Carrier. I’m looking forward to using it to carry Amelia. It will definitely save my arm strength I’m sure.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
I haven’t eaten eggs in like a week, but this morning I woke up burping like crazy, and it tastes like scrambled eggs. YUCK!!
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
I was able to feel Amelia’s kicks from the outside for the first time last night. I wasn’t sure that was what I was feeling at first so I waited and sure enough, she did it again. It was so cool. Of course, when DH put his hand on my belly she didn’t do it again. I guess she is already trying to be daddy’s little girl and not kick him. But he did feel her moving (for the first time) and it was so cute because it was tickling his finger. I guess she was tickling back because he’s always “tickling her,” via my belly of course! it was just great that he finally got to feel her move.
Oh yeah, we also got the nursery mostly set up. It looks so adorable. Click the pic to view a larger version.
We still have to get the glider from my grandma and get a hamper and some organizers, but it’s mostly finished. Which I guess will be a good thing when I hit the 3rd trimester. 
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
We found out today we’re having a little girl. Her name is Amelia Suzanne and she’s adorable.
We are both so excited. I don’t have pics to post yet. Trying to get them scanned in. But I’ll post one as soon as it’s available.
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
I think I’m starting to feel the baby move. It’s very faint and hardly ever, but I do feel something. Like little muscle twitches or flutters in my belly. It’s weird, because they only last a second and if I’m not paying attention I’ll miss it. I felt it about a week ago, then again last night I felt it twice.
And last night I went to the bathroom and as I was walking back out I felt so much pressure on my bladder. So I put my hands on my belly and felt a hard little lump in my abdomen. I held my hands there while I walked to the other room to get Eric to feel. The little lump jiggled as I walked. He felt the baby too and kissed my belly. Then I walked back to the bedroom. By the time I walked back the baby had moved and there was no little lump anymore. It was really cool feeling.
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
I found this little cross-stitch project at Michael’s today. I hope to get started tonight and plan on doing all I can minus stats. Then I’m counting on mom to fill in the blanks after the baby comes when I won’t have time to finish it.
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
My appt went really well on Thursday. But my little munchkin wasn’t cooperating. I guess he/she wasn’t in the mood to be bothered. Baby was laying right in my middle, near my main artery that goes down my belly. So we could barely hear the heartbeat. It was very faint underneath my really loud one. Everytime the doc found it and we think we got a lock on it, the baby would move away!
I told my husband the baby was being stubborn just like daddy. But everything is going well. I’m measuring right on schedule for 15 weeks. Which is great.
My next appt is on June 1 and if baby cooperates, we’ll be able to find out the gender. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to see the baby again. And actually see a baby instead of a little blob. Between that and hopefully starting to feel the baby soon, maybe it will truly sink in that I’m really pregnant and will be having a baby in 6 months. The doc said we could bring a video tape and they will record the u/s session. That will be awesome. My parents and sister are coming up the next day and I’m looking forward to showing them the video, even if baby gets stubborn again and doesn’t let us know boy or girl. I haven’t seen my sister since Thanksgiving, obviously way before I got pregnant and I might not see her again before the baby arrives, so it will be great to see her again.
I keep talking to the baby telling him/her to behave on that day so that we can find out and start calling him/her by name. We have names picked out, but we’re keeping them to ourselves till we know the gender, then we’ll share with everyone what we’re having and what the baby’s name is.
So that’s the update on my appt. Less than 4 weeks and we get the BIG u/s. I just can’t wait, we’re both so excited.
UPDATE: Too many spam comments so I had to turn off comments for this post. Sorry.
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
I’ve begun my 2nd trimester. Yeah! It’s been a worrisome and somewhat stressful 13 weeks, praying that my little one stays put and continues to grow. Even now, it’s still somewhat hard to grasp. I don’t feel anything yet, I’m not as sick, my energy is very slowly coming back. Everyone keeps asking me how the baby is doing. Well, I can only guess that everything is fine. I haven’t heard the heartbeat since the ultrasound 6 weeks ago. I haven’t had any unusual pains, so I’m assuming that everything is fine. So far it seems to be going well. Which I’m ever grateful for. My next appt is in two weeks and we’ll finally start hearing the heartbeat with the doppler. And I’m hoping that we’ll be able schedule our u/s.
We’ve picked out names but are keeping them to ourselves until we find out the gender. Then we’ll tell everyone if it’s a boy or girl and tell them what his/her name is.
I do think that now that I’m in the 2nd trimester, things will start going a little quicker. It seems like it took me forever to get to this point. I added a picture of my belly to my flickr account. The link is in the sidebar. The picture was taken at 11 weeks. You can definitely tell I’m pregnant when I wear certain clothes, especially maternity shirts. Which, I need to get more of. Most of my regular shirts are getting to short to cover my belly enough and even my good ol t-shirts are getting snug around the belly. I don’t have enough pants to make it through the work week, so I need to get one or two more. And I need another one or two pairs of shorts. The ones I currently have are still a little big, but I got them anyway, since I knew I’d grow into them.
And I need to get a swimsuit of some sort to wear. I’m sure we’ll be spending plenty of weekends at DH’s cousin’s lakehouse, so I want to be able to go swimming. I’m thinking a bikini with a shirt over it. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to show my belly off, but a two-piece is much easier to deal with and probably less constricting.
Anyway. not much else going on. We haven’t made too much progress with the nursery. It’s still a mess and there’s a lot of junk still in there that we need to clean out.
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
In response to the comment made in the last post, We are decorating in Baby Looney Tunes. And as soon as we can, we’ll be finding out the sex. We decided as soon as I found out that we wanted to know. I think I will be 19 weeks when we find out, if the baby will cooperate.
We haven’t decided on names, and I suspect that we won’t officially decide ‘til we know what we’re having.
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