7 years,wow!

So in a few minutes, it will be midnight and that will make it March 1st,2010. That marks 7 years since Jesse and I were married, where does the time go? It's just amazing what has happened since then, and how things have changed! We don't plan on exchanging gifts this year due to the uncertainty we have with Jesse's job right now. His company has announced that due to recent changes in the law ( a law was passed limiting what loans can be done, how many per year,etc) that they are forced to close down branches and start laying employees off. Luckily they're starting off with a voluntary layoff program with a decent severance package....but if not enough people take it it will be on an involuntary basis (with 1/2 the severance package) I don't *think* Jesse will be layed off~ quite a few people are considering taking the deal at his branch.....but you never know. So we're being very cautious right now with money!!

Anyway onto other things.....I am 19 weeks pregnant (and 1 day since it's past midnight,lol!!) and am feeling it! Haha. I'm doing much better with feeling nauseated (it's not as often or severe anymore! Yay!) but headaches are a big almost daily issue these days, as well as backache, round ligament pain,etc haha so I traded up to the next level of pregnancy complaints =) I get the next ultrasound on March 4th and if baby cooperates we'll know the gender, OMG I've been dying to know!!!!!

Since I last blogged (forever ago, I know) I've had a few OBGYN appointments and another ultrasound as well! (baby was big so they moved my due date up a bit,lol it's now 7/24/2010!) Baby is doing well, and I was given the go-ahead to have a VBAC!!!!! (vaginal birth after cesarean) great news,huh? Baby's heartbeat is still in the 160's~ I'm hoping the old wife's tales are true for once! (yeah, right,lol)  I took some belly pics awhile back as well....so I'll shut up with my ramblings and post US and belly pics for your amusement ;)



Belly pics taken at 17 weeks pregnant! (taken at night, in PJ's~no make-up, so yeah I look icky,lol)

ultrasound photos from 1/3/2010

Bad blogger~No cookie!

Wow, I've meant to stop by and update so many times, really I have! This update will be long so I can catch you up. I have been so sick since I last posted. It seems I have 24/7 sickness instead of "moring sickness" as well as some pretty heavy fatigue lol. This pregnancy has been such a change from my pregnancy with Kaiden! With him I had no morning sickness until apox. 10 weeks or so along, then it hit like a ton of bricks! but after I um...how to put this politely~"got sick" I'd leave the bathroom and be pretty normal until it struck again (By the way it was off and on through the whole rest of the pregnancy! even during delivery I was getting sick!) this time around I have the terrible nausea but I don't actually well, get sick. I just feel like I'm going to all day and night! much worse this go-round. But it's okay~ If I get a healthy baby out of it, it's a deal! So that's kept me couch bound these last few weeks =) So has the fact that I am on doctor's orders to take it as easy as I can. Since I last blogged I had some eventful news.  I'll start with that here....

My pregnancy started off with twins, but at the beginning of December I lost one of them. I went for my first prenatal appointment Dec 3rd,2009 and that was scary. I had some bleeding for a few days prior and when they did an ultrasound they couldn't find the heartbeat of the baby but said it could just be too early or the bad quality of the machine, so they sent me to the main hospital to get an ultrasound with a full sized machine. long story short they found out the bleeding's cause but did find the heartbeat of the other baby afterall! I was six weeks exactly that day. I cried when I saw that flicker of the heart! The crazy thing is Kaiden had been telling me for 3 months that when I got "pregnick" I would have two babies, a boy and a girl. A bit after I found out I was indeed pregnant I had a sneaking suspicion it was twins due to the way I felt and a gut feeling(plus I grew large fast! remember those photos below? at only what 4-4.5 weeks?I was huge! that's why.) I find it odd that Kaiden had said that so many times. Anway here's the photos of the ultrasound I got that day~


This is a photo of the baby! Yeah not much to see at this point,lol.

This is a photo of the baby and a view of it's heartbeat! (the waves are the heart beating)

I saw the OBGYN on the 7th as well and got to hear the baby's heartbeat on doppler for the first time!! she said it was "in the 160's" so about 165BPMs or so! I need that reassurance that all is well, so it was great to hear that. That's why I ordered a little doppler machine of my own! it should arrive either tomorrow or Moday I expect. I can't wait! I can even email the heartbeat~ maybe I can post it here! I'll leave off here since this is already so long and start a new post =) (Update: the doppler sucked...so I sent it back for a refund. I ended up able to hear the HB only once, and the LCD display was wrong...I want to know how many BPMs without counting,thank you,lol.)