Our next doctors appointment was in November . Everything went good the babies heartbeat was strong and the baby was growing as it should have for being 12 weeks along (3 months). The doctor told me that they would do an Ultrasound around the 20 week mark (5 Months). Christopher and I were so excited to be able to see the little addition to our family. It seemed that this would be the final thing that really made the whole baby thing "real" I guess you could say. Not that it was real before but this was the last thing that just made it really "real".
We went in for our December appointment. At this point I was 17 weeks along (4 Months and 1 Week). The doctor did his usual listening for the heartbeat and measuring my stomach to make sure the baby was growing properly. At this point the doctor got this sort of odd look on his face. Ya that is not what I was wanting to see as so far everything was going so well. He looked at me and asked when I got my first positive pregnancy test? I told him September 28th, 2008, I also told him that I had been really sick for the last month just after I had been to my yearly Obgyn appointment. He asked what Dr. Jo Cluney had said at that appointment. I told him that she said that I wasn't pregnant and that was just the results from the urine test. The doctor looked at me and said either Dr. Jo Cluney was wrong and I was further a long than they thought or I was going to have one big baby. He then mentioned that it was possible that there was more than one baby in there. I Was shocked to say the least. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to have identical twin girls and dress them up in the same outfit but in different colors. I thought it would be fun to watch everyone try to tell them apart. The doctor said that an ultrasound was the only way to tell which possibility it was going to be. I was nervous but excited to set up the Ultrasound appointment. The first day that they had open was December 31st, 2008 (New Years Eve) I would have to go through the entire holiday week (Since my appointment was before Christmas) before I would know what was going on.
Christmas was great and the wait for the Ultrasound was not as bad as I thought. We went to the doctors office and sat in the waiting room. Christopher and I were so excited and nervous all at the same time. We went into the room and the lady explained what was going to happen. They were going to check for all these different things that can show if the baby has a certain defect or shows signs of something worse. That was all quite scary to think about, but it was good that they have these ways to detect all the different things that can go wrong before the baby is born so they know how to treat the baby when in comes out or before it comes out. Christopher looked at the lady that was going to do the ultrasound and before she could even ask he said we don't want to know the sex of the baby so don't ask. Don't say he or she or give any indication of what sex the baby is. There are to few surprises left in this world that we want to have this one. The lady said that now a days it is rare that people don't want to know the sex of their baby. It really didn't bother me not to know what the sex of the baby is and it was going to be fun telling people we did not know and see how they reacted.
The lady started the ultrasound and we were both looking at the screen. She first confirmed that there was only one baby in there. I was happy and kinda sad at the same time. I had gotten use to the idea of twins, but I do not think that Christopher had. She started showing us the different things that they look at. They look for Clef pallet, how long the humerus bone is and other things. Everything thing checked out great there was no signs of any defects or anything else. Then at the end she said ok so it looks like your about 25 weeks right? I was like no I am only 17 weeks. She said well by the size of the baby and what I can see you are 25 weeks. I was like ahhh ok..... are you sure....? She told me that she would estimate my due date to be April 15th, 2009. Wow almost 2 months from my origonal date. Both Christopher and I were shocked and couldn't understand how we had been told that we wernt pregnant in August but we really were.
The doctor said that we should come up and visit with him after the ultrasound so that we could look over what they had seen. We went up and told Dr. Mark Curtis what the ultrasound lady had said about the new due date and what not. He measured my stomach and said that it sounds about right because I was 25 inches which I guess means you grow 1 inch each month. The doctor said that urine tests can be wrong and its not really the best test they do. He said that a blood test would probably have been better, but at the time it was more like if we wernt we were not going to be to disappointed so we did not press the matter of another type of test. So now we are looking at a due date of April 15th, 2009 and we can not wait. We are so excited for our new little addition and are so excited to see if it is a little Rebecca or a little Christopher. For now we are going to ring in the new year 2009 which is looking to be a very good year for us and our new family.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Good News
The next doctors appointment was in October and everything was going great. We were able to hear the babies heartbeat for the first time and that was the coolest thing ever. I remember looking over at Christopher and smiling I asked him if he could hear it? and I don't think he could stop smiling for the rest of that day. In my head I was thinking "Holy Cow, there really is someone inside me." I just could not believe it. It seemed to get more real with every visit not that it was not real before but it was getting more real if you know what I mean.
We had decided that we were not going to tell anyone about the pregnancy until Thanksgiving since by that time I would be 3 months along. I had heard a lot of stories from other women who have had kids that if your going to miscarry it will usually happen before the 3 month mark. So I was going to wait until that time frame was over so there was a less likely chance that we were going to tell everyone and then have to go back and tell everyone that we lost the baby. That would just have been to difficult for me. My mother had 2 miscarriages before she had my older sister so I assumed that it had to be somewhere in my DNA that a miscarriage was a possibility. I was so nervous to tell people about the pregnancy that I thought it best to wait. I did however talk to my older sister Courtney who was living in Washington. (Sorry Mom) She had my nephew Lance just over 2 years ago and I had questions that I knew she could answer. Christopher also talked to his friend Clayton (Sorry again Mom) and had him help give me a blessing for a smooth and healthy pregnancy. It was a wonderful blessing and I will never forget it. I thank Clayton so much for being so willing to help us with it.
We had decided that we just couldn't wait until Thanksgiving to tell people about the pregnancy. My mom had even asked me a couple of times if I was pregnant because every time she saw me I had mentioned that I had been really sick lately. It was really had to lie to my everyone and say no...... and then in the back of my head say yes....
We went over to Christopher's parents house and gave his mom a cute little fabric covered board that was white and hand baby hands and feet all over it in pastel colors. It also had pastel colored ribbons tacked to the board so that you could put pictures under the ribbons. We had cut out a bunch of pictures of babies from a magazine and put them on the board like a collage. Christopher handed it to his mom and said "Here is something for you to put pictures of your grand kidS on." (Since she already had one grandchild he thought she would catch on) It took a few minutes and Christopher saying the statement again before the light turned on. I do not remember if it was his sister Ashlee or his Mom that got it first but it was really awesome when they did. We told them that we were not going to find out if they baby was a boy or a girl in which his mom said it was going to drive her nuts to not know, but she was ok with it. She did tell us that if we had a girl that she was going to go broke because there are so many cute little girl clothes and stuff out there. Well it was now out there and we were on our way over to my parents house to let them in on the surprise.
We got to my parents house and went inside once I managed to get my family (the ones that were there) in the living room I gave my parents a build a bear box. Inside was a sandy brown puppy dressed in a cute little lavender shirt with a dark purple sash and bow around the waist and cute dark purple leggings with lace around the bottom. There were 2 cute lavender bows around the ears. I wondered if my mom would realize it was suppose to be me. (Since my favorite color is purple) Attached to the puppies arm with another lavender bow was a smaller version of the same puppy dog. I had made a recording that they put inside the puppy that said "Were having a Baby" so when I gave it to my mom she was like "What is this for?" and I told her to push the puppies tummy. At first I do not think that she got it because she was like "Wait, What? Hu?" but then it hit her and she was so excited she called my little sister Suzanne who was living in Idaho and ask her if she wanted to be an aunt which was interesting since she already was an aunt to my nephew Lance. She gave me the phone and let me tell my sister the good news. It was all so exciting. It was all out there now well at least out to our families.
We had decided that we were not going to tell anyone about the pregnancy until Thanksgiving since by that time I would be 3 months along. I had heard a lot of stories from other women who have had kids that if your going to miscarry it will usually happen before the 3 month mark. So I was going to wait until that time frame was over so there was a less likely chance that we were going to tell everyone and then have to go back and tell everyone that we lost the baby. That would just have been to difficult for me. My mother had 2 miscarriages before she had my older sister so I assumed that it had to be somewhere in my DNA that a miscarriage was a possibility. I was so nervous to tell people about the pregnancy that I thought it best to wait. I did however talk to my older sister Courtney who was living in Washington. (Sorry Mom) She had my nephew Lance just over 2 years ago and I had questions that I knew she could answer. Christopher also talked to his friend Clayton (Sorry again Mom) and had him help give me a blessing for a smooth and healthy pregnancy. It was a wonderful blessing and I will never forget it. I thank Clayton so much for being so willing to help us with it.
We had decided that we just couldn't wait until Thanksgiving to tell people about the pregnancy. My mom had even asked me a couple of times if I was pregnant because every time she saw me I had mentioned that I had been really sick lately. It was really had to lie to my everyone and say no...... and then in the back of my head say yes....
We went over to Christopher's parents house and gave his mom a cute little fabric covered board that was white and hand baby hands and feet all over it in pastel colors. It also had pastel colored ribbons tacked to the board so that you could put pictures under the ribbons. We had cut out a bunch of pictures of babies from a magazine and put them on the board like a collage. Christopher handed it to his mom and said "Here is something for you to put pictures of your grand kidS on." (Since she already had one grandchild he thought she would catch on) It took a few minutes and Christopher saying the statement again before the light turned on. I do not remember if it was his sister Ashlee or his Mom that got it first but it was really awesome when they did. We told them that we were not going to find out if they baby was a boy or a girl in which his mom said it was going to drive her nuts to not know, but she was ok with it. She did tell us that if we had a girl that she was going to go broke because there are so many cute little girl clothes and stuff out there. Well it was now out there and we were on our way over to my parents house to let them in on the surprise.
We got to my parents house and went inside once I managed to get my family (the ones that were there) in the living room I gave my parents a build a bear box. Inside was a sandy brown puppy dressed in a cute little lavender shirt with a dark purple sash and bow around the waist and cute dark purple leggings with lace around the bottom. There were 2 cute lavender bows around the ears. I wondered if my mom would realize it was suppose to be me. (Since my favorite color is purple) Attached to the puppies arm with another lavender bow was a smaller version of the same puppy dog. I had made a recording that they put inside the puppy that said "Were having a Baby" so when I gave it to my mom she was like "What is this for?" and I told her to push the puppies tummy. At first I do not think that she got it because she was like "Wait, What? Hu?" but then it hit her and she was so excited she called my little sister Suzanne who was living in Idaho and ask her if she wanted to be an aunt which was interesting since she already was an aunt to my nephew Lance. She gave me the phone and let me tell my sister the good news. It was all so exciting. It was all out there now well at least out to our families.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Pregnant
September 28th 2008.... I had been really sick since August 28th 2008 and my husband Christopher said why don't you take a pregnancy test? I was like ah no thanks. I had taken so many in the past and they had been negative so many times that at this point I was kind of depressed and did not want another test to tell me that we were not pregnant. Christopher kept getting on my case saying that he knew that we were pregnant, but I was not as sure.
After much coaxing from Christopher we went and got 2 Clear Blue Easy Digital read out pregnancy tests. I wanted to get the digital ones because the ones where they just have lines and colors can sometimes be misread. When we got home I took one of the tests and I did not want to look at it. We were sitting there for a few minutes and then Christopher looked at me and said "I Told You So!!" I was like what? hu? what is that suppose to mean? and then I looked over and saw the little digital read out that read Pregnant. I could not believe what I was seeing. I was sure that I had taken the test wrong or that it was defective.
We both were so excited and could not wait to get things going. I called the doctors office and they set up a phone question thing with a nurse. Which was just so fun. Answering questions like if you have a boy do you want him circumcised? and how much schooling we had? and many other questions Not sure what they all had to do with being pregnant but that's what they asked so I answered them all.
I'm not sure if Christopher knows this or not but I actually took the other pregnancy test that we had about 4 days later. They say for best results to take the test in the morning. I decided just to make sure the other test was correct I would take in the evening when they say it is less likely to get a positive answer unless you really are pregnant. Once I finished that test it there was no doubting that I was truly pregnant. I was happy after the first test but after the second one I was really really happy.
We set up our first doctors appointment for a few weeks later and got a potential due date of June 8th 2009. I was excited a June baby was going to be nice. I would not have to go through the summer being pregnant and I did not know of to many people with June birthdays so it was going to be awesome. The first doctors appointment came and went. The doctor verified that I was pregnant and he checked me out and said that everything looked good. I guess that once I had the doctors appointment it really hit me. I was going to be a mommy and Christopher was going to be a daddy from this point on it was going to be the best 9 months of our lives.
After much coaxing from Christopher we went and got 2 Clear Blue Easy Digital read out pregnancy tests. I wanted to get the digital ones because the ones where they just have lines and colors can sometimes be misread. When we got home I took one of the tests and I did not want to look at it. We were sitting there for a few minutes and then Christopher looked at me and said "I Told You So!!" I was like what? hu? what is that suppose to mean? and then I looked over and saw the little digital read out that read Pregnant. I could not believe what I was seeing. I was sure that I had taken the test wrong or that it was defective.
We both were so excited and could not wait to get things going. I called the doctors office and they set up a phone question thing with a nurse. Which was just so fun. Answering questions like if you have a boy do you want him circumcised? and how much schooling we had? and many other questions Not sure what they all had to do with being pregnant but that's what they asked so I answered them all.
I'm not sure if Christopher knows this or not but I actually took the other pregnancy test that we had about 4 days later. They say for best results to take the test in the morning. I decided just to make sure the other test was correct I would take in the evening when they say it is less likely to get a positive answer unless you really are pregnant. Once I finished that test it there was no doubting that I was truly pregnant. I was happy after the first test but after the second one I was really really happy.
We set up our first doctors appointment for a few weeks later and got a potential due date of June 8th 2009. I was excited a June baby was going to be nice. I would not have to go through the summer being pregnant and I did not know of to many people with June birthdays so it was going to be awesome. The first doctors appointment came and went. The doctor verified that I was pregnant and he checked me out and said that everything looked good. I guess that once I had the doctors appointment it really hit me. I was going to be a mommy and Christopher was going to be a daddy from this point on it was going to be the best 9 months of our lives.
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