everyone was so happy for me - i thought that i couldn't have kids. my first doctor appointment was in late december - they gave me a packet of what to expect at my future doctor appointments and all kinds of pre-natal and baby information. they confirmed that i was definitely pregnant and gave us an estimated due date of august 14, 2011. we scheduled our first ultrasound visit for january 17th - that was the longest wait of my life!! i remember being so excited to get to hear my babies heartbeat, it was the sweetest sound i have ever heard. it was so fast and strong and i just immediately fell in love. i was offically 10 weeks and 1 day and the baby was right on schedule - august 14th was still the due date.
now, i am a planner so we were definitely going to be finding out the sex of this child. deep down we both wanted a girl - i've always dreamed of having a little girl and for the longest time i didnt think that was ever going to happen so as soon as i found out that i was for sure pregnant i instantly hoped it would be a girl, but really whatever the baby had turned out would have been just fine with me, just as long as it was healthy i didnt care. robbie already had two little boys, so a little girl would just make our life complete. our BIG ultrasound at my doctors office wasn't until the end of march. well miss impatient over here absolutely couldn't wait that long, heck i couldn't even wait until i was 16 weeks to find out at the fabulous Baby Belly Spa. i ordered an at home pee in a cup boy/girl result test. this test said that you could test anywhere from 10 to 16 weeks but the most accurate result would of course be closer to the sixteen week mark. so i split the difference, at week 13 i took the test, i just couldn't help it - it kept staring me in the face every time i walked into the bathroom, which was every 5 seconds to either throw up or pee, i pee'd ALL THE TIME. on february 2nd we got a girl result! i was beside myself!! my dreams were coming true i was going to get the girl i had always wanted...we always wanted. obviously this is just a little rinky-dink at home test that could totally be wrong so its not like we went out and bought all kinds of pink stuff...but i was pretty convinced that i was growing a little girl!
so back to this baby belly spa i mentioned - the greatest place for any pregnant person! i highly suggest if you are pregnant getting a membership to this place! you can get all kinds of ultrasounds, get a massage, mani or pedi's, facials, they offer all kinds of great services especially for the pregnant girl. robbie and i definitely wanted to have an ultrasound to confirm what our little at home test predicted...but my BIG ultrasound with dr. o'nan was still SEVERAL weeks away. i called up baby belly and they quickly made us an appointment for just three
our BIG ultrasound was our next doctor appointment with dr. o'nan on march 29th it again confirmed little pink dresses and hair bows were in our future...but it also picked up an irregular heart beat. SCARIEST. TIME. OF. MY. LIFE!! dr. o'nan didn't think that it was a big issue but she knew that i was worried and wouldn't just pass it off as "not a big issue" so she made us an appointment for that same day with a specialist to get it checked out more in depth. they too didn't think that it was anything to be alarmed about but they did want me to be seen weekly until the "irregularity" corrected its self and was no longer visible. we were scheduled to go back on april 5th and her heart was already back to normal! PRAISE JESUS!
the rest of my pregnancy was normal, i passed my glucose test, my blood pressure was always great, my weight gain was minimal and i didnt hardly swell at all. but...i wouldnt say that i had a great pregnancy though...girl made me sick pretty much the whole time! i literally threw up for the first 20 weeks and it wasn't just "morning sickness" it was all day sickness. after 20 weeks i didnt get sick as often but i was still nauseaous pretty much all the time. smells would send me running - i dont know how many times i had to leave the grocery store because of the odor...specifically the seafood! i also had horrible pain in my back and in my ribs and right under my right boob, i eventually dubbed that my "pre-eclampsia pain" -- i couldnt sit comfortably, i couldnt lay comfortably...it was miserable. poor robbie would massage me constantly and it didnt ever relieve my pain. i would have dizzy spells and feel like i was going to pass out - they never found out why that happened to me but it was pretty scary when it would, especially when i was driving. i hate to complain about how horrible my pregnancy was, because i was SO excited to finally be pregnant but shew! it was difficult, i coudlnt wait until 8.14.
august 14th still seemed like an eternity away but at the same time was just around the corner. we had so much to still get done and not so much time to do it. i began talking to dr. o'nan about the possibility of going early and what all my options were. i needed to get it all worked out so that i knew what i should tell my office about my maternity leave. i was fortunate enough to have enough time saved up where i could take off 11 weeks and be paid the whole time. i also was worried that i would go into labor on a night that robbie was at work and i'd be all by myself. i wanted a plan, i needed to know exactly when Aniston was going to make her debut! dr. o'nan told me that she was going to be on vacation the week before my due date and i freaked out! i didn't want someone else delivering Aniston, i've spent the last 9 months seeing HER and i wanted HER to be in the delivery room! lucky for us she was willing to induce me early so that she could be the one to deliver. i had my final office visit with dr. o'nan on thursday, august 4th and we were back in the hospital that night being induced!
i will do a separate post on my birth story. this is such a long post! that's what i get for not starting a blog as soon as i found out i was pregnant. obviously this isn't everything i went through, throughout my pregnancy but it is the gist. thinking back on all of this kinda makes me wish that i was still pregnant...but i'm definitely not ready for that again anytime soon.
