Well, it's officially official!!

We are joining TEAM BLUE! We had our 20 week Ultrasound yesterday (Level II) and its undenyable! You are a boy! We are so happy, Mommy knew since day 1 and while everyone else said girl, I knew it all along! :)

Everything looks great, you are measuring perfectly against your due date of May 4th, 2010! At 20 weeks, I have gained 2 lbs since pre-pregnancy which is good!

Daddy is excited, so are your Grandparents and Nana, your Aunties and your Uncles! I really hope the next 20 weeks fly, I cant wait to nibble your little feets!

18 week development

Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a bell pepper) and he weighs almost 7 ounces. He's busy flexing his arms and legs — movements that you'll start noticing more and more in the weeks ahead. His blood vessels are visible through his thin skin, and his ears are now in their final position, although they're still standing out from his head a bit. A protective covering of myelin is beginning to form around his nerves, a process that will continue for a year after he's born. If you're having a girl, her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If you're having a boy, his genitals are noticeable now, but he may hide them from you during an ultrasound.

Your baby is as big as a bell pepper and weighs almost 7 ounces. 

(Length: 5 1/2 inches, head to bottom)

18 weeks 1 days and I am a terrible Mama!

I cannot believe that I haven't posted since October 8th, I guess it was a hectic fall.  We are already (almost) at the halfway mark, where has the time gone?!

I am going to try to catch up on the last 7 weeks in one post.

Lets see, at 12 weeks, we had our NT or Ultrascreen which looks for markers for defects/downs etc and everything was 100% normal, you were a perfect little peanut with a HR of 164.  We also got to see you via sonogram, the first time since our 7 week appointment and it was amazing how you had changed from blob to baby.

With all the hysteria over the swine flu, I got the H1N1 vaccine, along with the regular flu vaccine and so far so good, no side effects from either!!

At about 12-15 weeks, I really started to show (hard to see with loose clothes) but I could see the difference and Daddy could too!

At 16 weeks, we saw the doctor again, you were looking perfect yet again.  HR of 147!  At this appointment, we scheduled our Level II or anatomy scan which will be on 12/16 ... two weeks from today.  At this appointment, we will have a detailed sonogram of all your bits and pieces.  We cant wait to see you again, we cant wait to find out if you are a Jack or a Grace...

OH YES, names!  We decided on Grace Elisabeth if you are pink and Jack Joseph if you areblue!  (I am still trying to convince Daddy to name you Grace Johanna or Grace Amelie if you are a girl!!)

At 16 weeks, I began to feel the earliest, tiny little flutters and now at 18 weeks, I can feel movement everyday.  You have even been kind enough to gift me with a few solid (still little) kicks both yesterday and today.  I guess its time to prepare for movement all day everyday (yay!!!)

KATE is having a Logan :)  We found out about 2 weeks ago and your due date was moved up to 5/4/10 so now you two are due less than a week apart, 6 days to be exact.  You can thank us later for planning so well, having you so close in age ha!

At 18 weeks, I haven't gained any weight (yet) which I am happy about, you are growing and developing perfectly and that's all that really matters (but lets try to keep it to 12 lbs huh?  please and thanks!)

Sophie is getting big, 11 weeks now, more precious with every passing day!

OK, picture recap!! 

From your Ultrascreen at about 12 weeks

First belly shot at 12 weeks (in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency)

16 weeks before bed!

Princess Sophia!!

Newborn shoot at 13 days!  How adorably perfect is your cousin?!

10 WEEKS!

We are just about 10 weeks pregnant and things are going well!  Mommy just starting taking medication via injections for clotting issues which run in the family.  Nothing serious we hope, just a preventative measure to ensure no clotting in the placenta, umbilical cord or in you and me!

Our NT or Ultrascreen is scheduled for 10/21 and we will be just about 12 weeks at that point.  This test (blood work and a detailed ultrasound) will detect any abnormalities.  We are hopeful and confident that all will go perfectly well!   The weeks are starting to fly by now!  Still no real baby belly, lots of bloat and perhaps, the beginning of something starting to brew :)

Here is what you look like at 10 weeks!  In the next few weeks, you will go through a growth spurt!  We can't wait until we can feel you kicks in a few months!

8w2d today!

Here is what you look like at 8w2d give or take! Things are good. Mama is starting to notice that her pants are feeling a little tight in the waist! Tomorrow we will meet with the Periontologist (high risk OB) to talk about clotting issues which run in the family. I hope all is well but I fully expect to learn that we will need Lovenox injections like Auntie Val did for Sophia.

New Sophia pics (cause she is just soooo darn cute!)

Sophia Marianne in all her glory!!

We got your estimated due date!

Mommy and Daddy saw the doctor yesterday and it looks like you are due on Friday, May 7, 2010! We cannot wait to meet you. At the doctor yesterday, you were measuring 7w5d and we saw your perfect little heart beating away at 154bpm or beats per minute. We immediately fell in love with you. Mommy had a ton of blood drawn to run some tests and she even got a flu shot. I am going back on Tuesday to get the results of the bloodwork and to schedule our next appointment!

Everything is looking good and we couldn't be happier :)

7w 4d

This week, your growth will really begin!  Now you are about the size of a blueberry!  Still no real morning sickness, only the occasional nausea.  Other than that and some fatigue, mommy is feeling well!  Your first OB visit will be next week, 9/23 at 8w3d.  We will get our first glimpse of you, via ultrasound!  We can't wait!

Sophia is here!

Your baby cousin, Sophia, entered the world yesterday (9/16/09) at 9:05am weighing 7.6 lbs and measuring 20 inches long.  She is a perfect little peanut and her mommy is doing well!  I can't wait for the days that you two can play together and grow up together, only 7.5 months apart in age.  Welcome Baby Sophia!  You are so loved!  A big congratulations to Anthony, Valerie and big brother Joseph!

6 weeks!

And still no morning sickness!  Our first appointment is scheduled for September 23rd and if all goes well, we will tell the family!  Mommy is feeling good, tired but good!  Keep growing little peanut!  We can't wait to see you in a few weeks.

Sesame seed baby!

Just about 4w5d and this is what you look like! Pretty amazing to think about all the growth and development that happens in just 40 weeks!

So, you are already the beginning of YOU!

Today, I tested, after not feeling too well, and, we are pregnant!

We cannot be more excited and shocked and overjoyed and scared and well, every emotion under the sun.

This is how it happened (finding out we are pregnant, not the play by play on how we made you).

I had to go to work today in CT and wasn't feeling very well, tired, backache, hot flashes etc.  I did what I have to do and on the way home I figured "what the heck... might as well buy a test."  So I went to the dollar store and bought 2.  I came home and raced past Minnie who was whining to go out and I peed on the stick :).  I waited a few minutes and to my amazement, a VERY faint line, but "a line is a line and any line is positive."  So, I called Auntie Val and she assured me that I should go out and buy another test.  So, I did.

I went to the CVS down the road and of course, the Pharmacist on duty just happens to be one of Daddy's friends.  Of course, the tests are kept behind the counter - couldn't risk him knowing I was testing (or thinking I am pregnant and spreading rumors) so I bolted out of there, back in the car and went to Walgreens.  

I got to Walgreens, got the tests and come out (realized I parked like a total idiot, right in the middle of two spots, crooked.)  I got home, raced up the stairs (past a whining Minnie, again) and tested.  Immediate positive.  We are pregnant.  We cannot wait to meet you.

I guess this is where the journey really begins!  We are about 4w3d and I estimate that you will be due on May 2, 2010 but we will have to wait another few weeks to see the doctor and they will confirm.

Wow, what a day :)  A happy day.  The beginning of the rest of our forever, a new chapter.  Lots and lots of sticky dust for you, little peanut!

The waiting game

Only time will tell now. I expect that I won't post again for the next week or so. We should know if our first month of TTC was successful on or around 8/27!

Wish us luck and think "babydust"!

Our first positive ...

No, we aren't pregnant ... yet! I decided to try OPK's this month. They are little tests that predict ovulation by detecting a surge in LH hormone (through urine) which tells your body to release an egg aka ovulate. We got a positive this AM! Let the fun begin.

Just for fun, I google'd a possible EDD this morning. If we were to get pregnant this month, you would be due sometime around May 7, 2010! Only time will tell.

Obviously, someone has baby on the brain.

So, while sitting at work and snacking on some grapes, I looked down to see that I had three grapes remaining. My first thought was "shit, out of grapes" and then I saw a little grape family! Only me, only my silly, silly mind! Ha.

Our little secret, for the time being...

So today is August 11, 2009 and we are officially "trying" for you, whoever you are, whoever you will grow to be, when you are you (if that makes sense). I am keeping this blog so that you can one day look back and see how loved and anticipated you were from the very beginning, from day 1 from before there even was a "you."

Let the journey begin and come what may, we hope it is smooth sailing.