25 weeks

Well, the doc appt went well....no diabetes goin on here!

I had another appt. today about my blood pressure. They gave me a monitor and I check it every day and some nurse is supposed to call me every Tuesday at 5 to get all my readings until I pop the baby out.  Fantastic.  

The baby should weigh almost a pound and a half now.  She has hair (well, I don't know for sure BUT if she does it would  have pigment to it now....so who knows)...hopefully she is putting some fat on her.  Apparently her nostrils have started to open and she's starting to prepare for breathing....and this stimulates her teeny lungs so that's good.  In the next couple days her brain activit will begin for her visual and auditory systems.

I have started to waddle. 

24 weeks belly

My belly button is stretched completely flat.  A little girl at school (maybe 3rd or 4th grade) came up to me today and asked, "Is there a baby in your belly?" and I looked down at her and sweetly said, "No, honey... I am just really fat."  She just said "Oh...okay" and then I told her the truth because I felt bad. 

Wednesday puts me at 24 weeks preg.  I will write after my doc appt tomorrow. :)

23 weeks

OKAY J.P. here is the update!!

So I am almost 6 months pregnant.  I hit my third trimester mid June and so that is exciting!  The baby is moving around a lot...I feel like a whale but I know I'll get twice as big, so I should enjoy where I'm at.  Each week that passes feels like a milestone because soon the baby will start to have a survival rate in case she is born early.  It is a 10-40% that she would live if born this week (which obviously I don't want to happen and don't think it will....but on this site that I am a member of, women are starting to go into labor or their water breaks and they go on bedrest.   In case u want to see that survival rate thing, there's one of the things I saw... http://www.meriter.com/living/preemie/survivalnew/survival.htm   I think it's CRAZY that medicine is so advanced that people can have babies at only 6 months and there's a chance they can live.  

I have been waking up hungry again (like the first trimester...needing snacks in the middle of the night).  

Apparently her lungs are starting to develop more which is def. good.

She is (according to the site) still almost a foot and weighs a little over a pound...like if you hold a mango it says (for weight).

I have my gestational diabetes test on Wednesday...which would REALLY suck if I get it...SO i am going to make sure to go eat all my candy now in case they say I can't have it anymore then it's not in my house.  Off to eat a pack of cherry sour straws!

Over and out.

22 weeks

5 and a half months down!

The baby is apparently 11 inches long now (according to my babycenter site...but who knows) and is getting close to a pound.  I ca def feel her moving and kicking and still like it.  I bought a bunch of cute girl clothes and surprisingly Julian was cool with them (me getting them and the fact that they weren't superman outfits or other boy stuff)...

The Swine flu hit my schools area and I never was freaked out about it. I WAS hoping that we'd get shut down though...the school down the street did and then today, there's a kid that might have it! But the district/county have decided that schools can remain open.  Damn it.  Oh well, summer is in 26 school days anyway.

One thing I didn't know happened during preg. is itchy upper body due to expansion...it is SO annoying.  Lotion helps a little bit...

My cousin's baby boy is due in a week or 2...it will be interesting to see them do the test run for us. (it will prob just freak me out).

Newest craving- vanilla frozen yogurt with m and ms blended in...like a mcflurry. It will be my 3rd straight day of eating it today.  I can't wait.

3d 21 weeks...

kinda freaky but still cool.  The next one she will be fatter and less alien like.

21 weeks

Well, i can definitely feel the baby moving a lot now.  Julian has even felt her from the outside.  It is always really exciting.

I got a 2 for 1 practically at a 3d ultrasound place....so I did my first one and will do my second one after 28 weeks (when she gets fatter).  I will ask Julian to scan the pics for me so I can upload them.  They are a little freaky but still cute because she's my baby!  She was hiding behind the placenta for most of the time so it was hard to get shots, but it was amazing ot see how much bigger she looks in just over a week.  She was sleepy this time too....last time she was bouncing all over, but this time she just chilled out and kicked me.  The trick for ultrasounds is Orange Juice.  Having it with you makes it so that the baby perks up within a minute or so....she started to move a bit after that.  She looks just like a baby but is very skinny....the ext 3d ultrasound she will be chubbier which will be so cute!

She's about 10.5 inches long now and about 3/4 of a pound.  She's as long as a long carrot.

I am getting bigger and bigger....I will post a new belly shot soon.

ok....so the first one shows her female parts.  Shannon asked how you can tell it's  girl...you look for the three white lines between the legs.  Many people get confused because the top of the picture is my placenta or uterus or something, not part of the baby....below it look for the "i'm a girl" thing written....and across from that is her you know what.  Then her legs are on the outsides...the next three are her profile shots. She is laughing or something in the second pic. I think she looks like a little cartoon character in that one... Anyway, there you go!