New Doctor's Office

I think we finally have a hit for an OB office! Yay! It's about freakin' time. We went to our appointment today. The first 5 minutes we were there we knew this was going to be the place we would finish out the pregnancy! Thank god. We had an ultra sound today, that went well. We asked the ultra sound tech if she could tell us what we are having yet...it's lookin' like a girl! HOLY SHIT! A GIRL!! The next ultra sound will tell us more next time (not quite sure when that will be yet.) She pointed out three lines on the screen and said they look like the beginning of a labia. She's been an ultra sound tech for 15 years, so I'm pretty sure she's right. Although ya never know. So we are going with a girl for now. I would be shocked if at the next one they say it's a boy! During the ultra sound we saw her moving around like crazy! At one point she was kicking at the ultra sound thing, we saw her little foot come at the screen 2 or 3 times. At this point I'm not really feeling much going on in there, except for when I'm laying flat on my back. Then it kind of freaks me out and I roll over and pretend it's gas! I was telling Chuck that seeing her flipping around in there all over the place and kicking at me and everything it kind of makes me okay with not feeling her all that much at this point! She's an active little thing!

The nurse was great too. She came in and talked to us and actually gave us a little bag with goodies in it! I got another book to read and some brochures on classes the hospital offers. She went over different foods to eat, foods to make me not feel so icky, and foods I should not eat. She even gave me a nice list of meds I can take if I get another cold! I'm telling you, the other office SUCKED! I think we had about 4 people say congratulations to us! It's was nice.

Oh geez...I almost forgot! My due date has now been moved to May 31! Which puts me at 18 weeks preggo tomorrow! I love it when I skip a week! Although that means it still super sucks that I'm all nauseous and can't eat certain things! I'm hoping it will eventually go away! Otherwise this is one helluva diet!

I go back in two weeks to do the diabetes test. I drink the icky looking orange stuff before I leave then they will take blood. Yucko. If all is good then I don't have to do that again until 28 weeks or something! Yay!

Okay I've got to go to bed now!!

Merry Christmas...

to everyone! It's hard to believe it's Christmas Eve. Chuck is working until 6:30 this evening, so he'll be home around 7 or so. It's just him and I until about 4:30 tomorrow afternoon when we pick the kids up! Then we are off to Chuck's Moms house to celebrate with his family. The kids are spending the night at our tomorrow night because Santa will be dropping off a gift or two for them here as well (as if they are going to need more gifts). We will celebrate with my side in January at an indoor water park! Yay! No sunscreen for swimming!

Cameron is actually taking about 7 or so steps now before he realizes what he's doing and sits down. Julia is as funny as ever. She will be 3 on the 30th and Cameron will be 1 on the 9th of January! Hopefully he will be walking soon! It's getting more uncomfortable for me to carry him these days!

I'm doing well. Still annoyed with the whole eating thing. We went to the Olive Garden yesterday and I actually ate some cheese ravioli which was awesome! I actually crave the salad and bread sticks there too. I think I'm going to have to break down and get some maternity clothes soon. I was hoping to avoid that until I could get away with Capri's or those gaucho pant things. We'll see how much longer I can carry off the sweats thing! I've given up on trying to stay comfortable in my jeans. Finally. I've noticed some pressure on my tummy when I try and bend over (say I'm sitting on the chair and drop something). It's odd, it makes me remember I have a baby in there!

Friday is our appointment with the new Doctors office. yay! I'll post something after then! Until then have a Merry Christmas! Most of my Christmas cards went out today or will on Wednesday!

16 weeks!

I'm at 16 weeks! Double yay! My next Doctor's appointment is on the 28th, actually a week from today. It's the first visit with the Doctor's office. It's only uphill from what we've seen!

I'm actually feeling much better these days. I've noticed a lot more energy going on. Which is awesome that I don't get home from work and go right to bed. It's actually kind of nice seeing my husband again!

Eating is a whole different story. Still no french fries, chicken or hamburgers. It would be so convenient to drive through McDonald's on my way out of Chicago for the ride home, but oh no! Not with this baby. I've actually craved salads lately. Mostly from Portillo's and Michaels. Sometimes I can sneak some chicken in there on the salad. Salami with cheese on a bagel has been my favorite lunch at work for about two weeks. It's odd. I reach a certain point and I wonder if I can actually chew the bite I've just taken. At this point I'm kind of annoyed that I can't just sit down and eat. I've got to think about it and figure out if the thought of the food is going to make me hurl or if it actually sounds good. At least I'm not puking all the time! It would be nice to sit down at a restaurant and order what I want to eat, not what won't make me hurl!

I'm also sleeping for longer periods of time, which rocks. I only get up about once a night for a trip to the bathroom, which also rocks. I have it in my head that since I'm a chubby girl, that it's going to be a while before I'm showing, which is true so far. I've noticed in the last week I can't lay on my tummy any more, it's uncomfortable. Hmm. Wonder why! I've also noticed a little hardening in my lower belly. Duh me! This whole thing is kinda cool yet totally freaky at the same time!

That's about it here! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Almost 14 weeks!

Yay for 14 weeks! It's been a while since I've updated on here! Yowsa. Quite a bit has happened. I went in for a check up on Nov. 24th and everything looked really good. Yay! I had to have one of those skin tests where they check it in 48 hours? I'm totally forgetting what it's called right now, but y'all know what I mean. Well, I call the Doctor's office to ask a question about the meds I had to take when I hit the 2nd trimester and they are all in a panic because they've been calling my home number instead of cell and couldn't get a hold of me to come in by 4:30 that day! My appointment was for 7! The chick that scheduled me at 7 to have the thing checked shouldn't have because there wasn't a Doctor in there. After they wanted me to be there by 4:30 and it finally sunk in that I don't get out of work until 5:30 and that I'm DOWNTOWN, they then wanted me to go to Schaumburg. I laughed and said are you kidding? You think I'm going to make it out there by 7 when I barely make it to the office in Buffalo Grove by 7? Then they were telling me I'd have to have the test redone. That didn't sit well with me. I asked the lady (which was the 3rd one they had put me on phone with, by the way), so since YOU guys screwed up and scheduled me for a time you shouldn't have, then MY insurance will end being billed TWICE for YOUR screw up? I told her they were crazy. After I told her I'd need the appropriate forms to get my records since I'll be transferring to a new practice after this, she said she'd stay and read the result on my arm. (Keep in mind, the whole thing took less than 5 minutes) She said she'd stay at the office and catch up on work. I told her not to do me any favors at this point. I ended up going there, but that was it. I had decided right then that I was done. Ever since then I've been strangely calm! Okay until I think about the fact I'm having a kid!

So then last Wednesday I was driving to work...okay not actually driving, sitting in traffic moving about 2 feet per minute and next thing I know the moron behind isn't paying attention and smacks into me. Not even smacks, bumps. It was enough to scare the shyt out of me. There was no damage done to either of our cars and the cop basically laughed at me for calling 911. The guy that bumped me also yelled at me because, "was going to be late for a class," so he was annoyed I called the cops. I glared at him and said that I'm 3 months pregnant and that I called to cover my ass. He got a little freaked out and asked if I was okay, and told me his wife was 5 months pregnant. I looked at him and said, "If your wife got rear-ended in traffic wouldn't you want her to call the cops?" He shut up. I seriously was fine, it scared me more than anything. The cop finally showed and pretty much made me feel silly for calling until I told HIM I was 3 months pregnant and covering my ass. Then he understood. No tickets were given out, just a medal for the idiot behind me's stupidity.

I called the Doctor the next day and of course the woman on the phone was yelling at me to come in RIGHT NOW. I told her I can't. She got all pissy and started mumbling some shit about insurances and everything. I told her it wouldn't be going through insurances. Then she got pissy again and said didn't you call the police? I said yes I did and the officer told me not to bother since there was no damage done to either car. She spouted off about how my tummy hit the steering wheel. I laughed and said no it didn't, I was sitting there and he was maybe going 8 mph! There was no tummy bumping the wheel. DUH, if there were I'd have been in the ER not that frickin' office! I finally asked her, "Okay so tell me this? If I am actually having a miscarriage is there anything you guys can do to stop it from happening?" She got all quiet, "No, there isn't." I said, "Well if that's what's going to happen, it's going to happen, it's out of our hands at that point." Then she gave the phone back to the receptionist to schedule my appointment. I HAD to go to this practice for this because I've found some numbers to call for a new Doctor but of course I haven't called! I called today! Like I told Chuck, any office has got to better than this one! My big thing is where they deliver. We live in an area where they deliver in crazy places that wouldn't make sense for us to even TRY and get to.

And that is why I haven't been on here in a while! Hopefully everything will go nicely from here on!

11 weeks and 1 day

***Yesterday we picked up the kids after the appointment. Went to lunch then home to wrap a present for a birthday party. It took us 2 1/2 lovely hours to get downtown to the party (The kids were awesome in the car, thank god.) We dropped them off later than normal and actually went out to watch a band play! Damn! We went out! I was wiped after being up at 7 that morning and not getting my nap! LOL. This is my reason for being so delayed in getting this post up here!***


Obviously I'm not quite at the 12 week mark (as of yesterday)! Damn it. I'm hoping my energy level and nausea will magically go away at the 12 week mark. Ha ha ha ha.

The appointment went well, otherwise. The Doctor tried to listen to the heart beat but it was too soon. She said not to freak out if we didn't hear it because you can usually hear it at 12 weeks and we aren't quite there. Then we went into ultra sound and she was able to check the heart beat that way. She said the baby looked good! I had one of those stupid moments (they are occurring more and more these days). We are watching the ultra sound on the TV and I bust out with, "is it moving?" She laughed and said, "Yeah, it is." I looked at Chuck and said, "Holy crap we are really having a baby!" They both started laughing at me for some reason. Go figure. They took some blood and I get to go to lab tomorrow after work have my TB shot looked at on my arm, then we are back in 5 weeks! Which looking ahead to the calendar we will be in there December 21st or 22nd. Cheese and crackers!

I've noticed I'm not eating as much as before. Chicken is kinda hard to eat sometimes. Chicken goes down best when I eat it right away while it's kinda hot. Odd. Brown sugar oatmeal and waffles are ranking at the top of the list. A lot of milk and a lot of water has been consumed lately too. Otherwise I cannot make a decision (unless I see a commercial or something) for dinner lately. I'm hungry but never have a taste for anything. That's super annoying. Oatmeal has been the strongest taste I've had, and I think that one will last longer than a week unlike the others!

That's about it for here. Until next time!

Quick Update

Okay, so I go to the Doctor this morning for what is hopefully my 12 week check up. I think it's my 11 because the last doctor switched my due date up, and I think she forgot to account for that when she told me to make the next appointment in 4 weeks, it should have been 5. Whatever. We will see.

I'm talking to the Doctor about the constipation business. Holy crap. I've never been constipated. Yowsa, is all I can say.

We are picking up the kids after the appointment. It's at 10 am. Lord knows if they will be running on time or not. At least there's no ultra sound to back us up this time around. Hopefully we'll be outta there in good time. I warned their Mom that there's a chance with this Doctors office that we can run late, but hopefully we'll be able to pick them up early since we will be half way to their house! We have a birthday party this afternoon, so hopefully I'll get back on here to give an update about the appointment!

Crazy Night

So last night I go to do my thing before bed and I'm spotting. Some choice words came to mind. Then a little panic set in too. I did what 'the book' (the book being, "What to Expect When You are Expecting") said to do and called the Doctor's office this morning. I figured it was somewhat normal to have that happen, according to The Book anyway. Next thing I know I dragging Piper out to the suburbs picking Chuck up at home and heading to the Doctor's office. We had another ultra sound and it actually looks a little more like a baby! We could see the "arm stubs & leg stubs", which that description of course had us cracking up. It still looks alien with that giant head, but it is part Wilson after all! (I know it's mostly head at this point.) It's heart beat was at 158 beats per minute. I'm still thinking it's a boy because that seems low. Who knows. I can't wait to find out what it will be! The chick I saw said that I'm 9 weeks along and according to the last Doctor I saw I would be 10 weeks along. The chick told me to get a calendar and count the weeks to June 7 to figure it out. Ahh such a nice practice I'm seeing.

That is the latest. I'm still doing well...knock on wood. Just super tired. Crabby. Oh boy do I have my crabby moments. I've learned to get off the phone with Chuck when I feel my 'tude changing, because he is the easiest one to take it out on. Except for when he acts like he had nothing to do with situation!! LOL, just kidding (kind of).

Now it's time for a little dinner and I'm off to bed. I think I'm stealing the down comforter from my husband tonight because the temperature is changing!

Update

This is a late night for me! Woo hoo! I am off work tomorrow, so I know I get to sleep in! Yay! Sleep, wonderful sleep. I was telling Chuck that I think 'Charmma' is getting me ready for it's arrival by having me get up every 2 or 3 hours to pee. What's up with that? Enough already. I'm well aware that it's just going to get worse too!

We are getting the kid tomorrow when Chuck gets off work. We will have them over night. It's always interesting sleeping through the night with Cameron. Chuck also has to get up earlier than normal to go to work Saturday morning. Looks like the night wakes will be up to me! We are going out Saturday night (won't I be a barrel of laughs as I'm sleeping at the table! LOL) which is why he is working in the morning. The munchkins and I will get along fine. At least I'll have plenty of time for my nap when I take them home! Ha ha ha! Hopefully Chuck can squeeze one in before we leave! We haven't been out in a while, so it will be nice.

That's really it for now. No really big complaints. As long as I eat when I'm hungry and don't wait too long, I'm good to go. Knock on wood. I'm so paranoid I'm going to get sick at some point. I keep counting down the first trimester. Yes, yes I know. You can be sick at any point during your pregnancy. I'm pretending there is no way it will happen to me! If being tired and hungry every few hours is what I have to deal, with? No problem!

woo hoo!

So far so good! No more sick feeling! At least when I woke up the other night in the middle of the night, that hasn't happened again. Phew. I was worried about that being my morning sickness! I'm a little over 8 weeks into this and feeling pretty good all thing's considered! As long as I eat when I'm hungry and when I take my prenatal I eat a meal right after, I'm good to go!!

It's freezing here. So far I haven't gotten the sweats yet! Yay!

hurling/puking

*WARNING* This post may share more than most people want to know about me! Read at your own risk!


So last night I fall asleep on the sofa watching a movie. Chuck said it was a surprisingly good movie. Okay, then, as soon as I hit the sofa, I was out. I got up because I forgot to take my prenatal, took it with some toast. I think I've mentioned on here my issues taking the prenatal without eating a meal right after? So I go to bed, and at 1:20 I wake up with this awful diarhea pains (too much info, but oh well). I wake up going "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" (because I'm funny even in the middle of the night) as I'm making my way to the bathroom. Well after about 20 mintues of that I feel like I'm going to hurl. Oh man. All I'm thinking of are my friends who told me they were fine until their 8th week. Hello 8th week. Of course I had to go whine to Chuck that I felt like puking. Which being the wonderful hubby he is hung out with me on the bathroom floor. (He was sleeping by the way, he was putzing around on his computer...maybe writing some music, I'm not sure). He was awesome. At one point I was back in bed and he asked if he go do anything, I had him clean the toilet! I know. I know. But if I open my eyes and see anything other than puke, I'm puking again. I sat on the bathroom floor with a blanket for the longest time wondering if I should just make myself puke or what? I never did. I kinda brushed my teeth and was able to fall into bed and didn't wake up until morning. Phew. I hope to god that isn't 'morning sickness'. I am wondering if it isn't something I ate yesterday. I'm screwed if morning sickness comes with the shits that are so painful. Ugh.

So far today I've munched on some corn chex. That was at 10 something. I called Lori to go out to lunch but it was earlier than she figured, and she had just eaten some cereal. So I took a good two hour plus nap and called her, I'm starving now. I have no taste for anything though, which sucks. All I know is I'm hungry and I'm going to take it easy on this tummy of mine!

New Due Date

We had another appointment today. The heartbeat was up to 146. We also got another due date! June 7th! I'm confused if there is one you should believe more than the other? I dunno. I think maybe it's a shot in the dark, this being the first kid and all.

We had a different Doctor again. This woman was nice. Papa De La Cruz was her name. I think it's funny. She was way cool, though. Especially after waiting for 1 1/2 hours to have the ultra sound, THEN waiting another 20 minutes or so to see the Doctor. Annoying. All they would have needed to tell me and my hormones is that they had a couple of emergency ultra sounds and I would have calmed down. We were supposed to pick up the kids at noon and obviously were about an hour or so late. Oops. She was cool though. Thankfully.

Time to get the kids fed and back to their Moms!

Confusion

Okay so, this thing is kickin' my ass. That 'little' cold I got at the beginning of the week? Yeah, now I can't smell or taste anything. I'm totally confused on what I can and cannot take to help ease this cold. I've started my list of questions for the Doctor on Friday. Hopefully a good Doctor, not Doctor Jackass. I'm nervous about that appointment too. I have a feeling I'll be nervous for them all or at least until the first trimester is done.

So Chuck came to bed around 1 am this morning. He plugged his cell phone in, and it doesn't just beep, he does this 5 second little ditty. Yup. It was long enough to wake my butt up and keep it up. I think I got more sleep than I realized, but damn has my ass been draggin' today. Thank god he was sleeping because I was cursing him in my mind!

I'm going to go finish a show on my DVR, maybe, or I may just go lay in bed and catch up on shows from On Demand!

Ugh

Tired, I'm so very very tired.

And what's with the being hungry every three hours? Is it getting me ready for when it finally arrives? Jeesh. Seriously. I'm not a snacker during the day at all, but every 3 or so hours, I'm freakin' hungry! Good grief! It's not like I don't have enough stored up here for the thing to survive on! LOL. I've also figured out to eat something when I first get hungry otherwise I end up with that icky feeling.

I woke up with a cold this morning too. They say you can take Claritin. I'm scared to take the 24 hour one, since I maybe got two hours of sleep last night. I don't need anything else keeping me tossing and turning. I know most of it was this cold. Helpful suggestions? Please?!

Looking Good

Everything is looking good! We went to another appointment this morning and had another ultra sound. We saw the yolk sac and this little fluttering which (thank god) was the heart beat! Yay! The Doctor (a different one than Dr. Jackass) said that the heart beat was at 115. They usually like to see it at around 120, so we are going back on Friday at 10:30 for yet another ultra sound! She said it's nothing to be concerned over because those 5 extra beats could have been because the ultra sound tech didn't hold it there long enough.

All I can say is...phew! These last two weeks have been brutal, actually last week. Since seeing Dr. Jackass. It was way cool seeing that little flutter though, way cool. We also go our due date! June 14th! I looked at the Doc and said, "I guess that means we really are having a baby!" She started laughing and said, "Yeah, there's no turning back now." She also said how it's still the first trimeseter and you never know. Which everyone knows, but I'm totally psyched now. I even broke open the "What to Expect When You Are Expecting Book"! I've been a little superstitious until now. Doctor Jackass made me that way!

All else is good excpet for all the crying. Good grief, the crying!

I had my first experience yesterday with not feeling so good. I was eating some good ol' Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and lunch. I got hafl way through my bowl and all of a sudden couldn't eat any more. I kept saying to myself, "this isn't good, I can't eat this." I put it on the table. I actually had a hard time taking it to the kitchen with the smell. Right now, any kind of noodle thing makes me feel icky! I can handle that though! Hopefully it won't get much worse!

After the First Appointment

The first appointment was Saturday. It was awful. The Doctor was a complete and total asshole. I basically left thinking that I am going to miscarry. Nice, huh? I know they have to cover their asses and all that jazz, but come the eff on? For real? He was one of those Doctor's that didn't take the time to actually ask me how it was going or anything of the like. My whole point for being there so damn early was the vaginal infection. I ended up having to get blood drawn and I'm supposed to do that last night, Wed night and Fri night. Wait, let me back up. The ultra sound. The lady doing it said, "Here is your gestational sac." I said, "Is there anything in it?" She said I don't answer questions, you need to talk to the Doctor. Since this is my first pregnancy and all, I'm freaking out. We had the ultra before seeing the Doc so this is going really well at this point. I basically covered ther Doctor, he's an asshole. Very impatient. It was obvious that we were the lst ones of the day. So then I go to have my labs done. I HATE needles. Fucking hate them. It goes back to when I was a kid and the lab person stuck a needle in my arm and dug it around for five minutes trying to catch the freakin' vein. I had a bruise up my arm for a week. I'm telling the lady about my past experiences with needles and I asked her if she can't find the vein to please take out the needle and try somewhere else. The snotface, looked at me and said, "You better get used to it." FUCKING unbelieveable. By the time Chuck and I left, I was in tears, sobbing. THe Doctor seriously made me think I was not going to carry this kid.



Fast forward to last night. We go to the 7 pm appointment. The lady at the desk hands me a cup to pee in. "No one told me I'd have to pee in a cup again. I peed before we left." She apologized, I said don't worry about it. Then she tells me I hav a co-pay. The little chicky-poo from Saturday was sitting behind her. I said according to her, we don't have any more co-pay's. They chit-chat, the chicky poo gets kinda snotty with her. I go on to tell her (in a very annoyed and I'm almost in tears I'm so effing pissed) that after the last visit, which was our first, that I am ready to change practice's. Turns out this lady is the clinical manager or something. She pulls me into a room and I tell her everything. She was way cool, Even if she was full of shit and just trying to calm me down, so did it. I tell her about the doctor. It also comes about that if I do have a vaginal infection then the Doc can't treat it until the 2nd trimester. If the jackass had said that Saturday when I was bringing it up I would have shut up about the whole thing. I also told her about the lab lady. She gave me her card and said to call her to make appointments and everything. I told her how leaving the office on Saturday I felt like that there was no way I going to carry this thing at all, that I figured I'd have a miscarriage in the next week or so. She got all panicked. Okay, that's all better. On to the appointment with the Doctor.

Doctor Jackass finally came in the room. Turns out I have 3 (count them 3) infections going on down there. Two I can't pronounce and the other is a UTI. Anyone who knows me knows my smart ass grin people get when I know I'm right. Well, Doctor Jackass got it times ten. Then he goes on to tell me that my numbers are in the 3200 range. Which means to say that he over freaking reacted, in being so damned negative. (It comes down to the fact that we have no idea when we concieved. When we gave him our best guess, he got all pessimistic (even after we kept saying, we really have no idea) So, now I don't have to have blood drawn every other day, I go back in Saturday the 13th for another ultra sound to see if the heart beat is going on. Oh yeah, on the 13th I'll be 6 weeks and 1 day knocked up. I guess you should see the heart beat at 6 weeks. After that point, if we see the heart beat, then I'll pass out this blog address to bore everyone to tears with my updates on being knocked up!!

First Appointment

Okay. So I finally called and made my first appointment. We actually got in for tomorrow. The reason I am getting in so early is because I think I have a lovely vaginal infection. I bought one of those home test thingies and according to that, it says I do. Of course since the appointment is tomorrow I'm sorta freakin' about the whole thing. For real? I have no desire to get nekkid for this Doctor. I think mostly because I don't know if it's male or female. I'd prefer female to begin with, then work in the male doc. My previous experience with male Doc's are that they aren't so gentle and don't understand what the hell it's like. It isn't going to be the one I want for my ob/gyn, but I'll get over it. The receptionist freaked me out by saying that if I do have a vag infection that is could harm the baby. Duh. Of course I want in earlier. Still nervous. I'm having an ultra sound too, which is odd from what I've heard. I dunno. We will see tomorrow.

Tomorrow is going to make it real too. Holy crap. We're pregnant.

I'll update tomorrow. Wish us all luck!

Holy Crap We're Pregnant.

Today is our First Anniversary.


My 'friend' is late (nothing out of the norm lately). As a joke we bought another pregnancy test. We got home from the store. I took it, putzed around for about 30 seconds looked down at the test and what did I see? A faint pink line, but a line nonetheless.

I believe the next words out of my mouth were, "HOLY SHIT CHUCK! COME IN HERE!"

I got an annoyed, "Whaaat?"

My response, "Come in here." He finally comes in the bathroom, thinking what in the hell does she want me in the bathroom for, not realizing I had just done the test.

I said, "Do you see that faint pink line?"

He says, "Yeah. (A few seconds passes) On my God you're pregnant."

At that point I think I started hyperventilating a little, and then started cracking up laughing.

Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.

Holy crap, I'm pregnant. There you have it, when I have more info on everything I'll be back to type more. (Oh yeah, I took another test a few hours later...yup still two pink lines!)

Eric Church..."Two Pink Lines" is playing right now (it's country, but fitting!)