1st look results

we got our results back from the 1st look. i freaked myself out at first b/c i knew the results were supposed to be in the 1,000's to be good and the first thing i read was chances of down's 1 in 759 and chance of trisomy 18/13 1 in 2,151. but then i reread it and that was based upon our age and history alone. yes we have a shitty history so it gave us a not so great number. on the next page our results with our age, history, and 1st look was less than 1 in 10,000 for both. yeeehaw! we already agreed to the quad screen which is just another blood test in a few weeks to back up these results, but i dont really think its needed now. oh well. we knew they would be just fine, but its still good to hear.

still waiting on summer.....

maternity clothes

my sister in law and friend gave me some cute maternity clothes that made me excited this past week. and today i bought 2 maternity shirts when i was shopping with my mom. its great b/c they are already tight fitting on me and they grow with you the whole pregnancy. target has such cute stuff! oh and i got a bella band so i can get rid of the hair tie that really isnt working well anymore.

i took my 13 week photo today. no real change in my body in the mornings. but after 1 meal i seem to explode. its extreme bloating i guess. so excited to be here. and i will be even more excited when i cross the finish line in less than 6 months!

baby steps

tmi: today is the first day of my pregnancy i didnt have to wear a diaper! i started weaning myself off progesterone starting last week. i wasnt nervous to go from 3 pills a day to 2 pills a day b/c most people are on 2 a day. my dr just put me on a lot. but i was/am nervous about going from 2 pills a day to 1 a day. so i havent taken any progesterone today. yikes! i will tonight and every night for about another week then stop all together. i know you can stop cold turkey but it can cause cramping and ive heard even a little bleeding and i dont need any scares. but it is a milestone right? and ill be ready for summer in a swimsuit with no worries! wow i still cant believe we have made it this far. sometimes i think 'in 6 months we will be at a hospital bringing baby h into this world' and its still not completely real. even though for 2 1/2 years we have tried for this, its still not reality. maybe when bullet starts kicking things will be even more real.

and a side note: the week of my birthday will be complete craziness!!!!! july 4th we get back from jamaica, the 5th we find out bullet's gender and its my bday (hopefully we have time to celebrate!), the 6th kimmy girl and i go to the muny to see little mermaid, the 7th is my sis's bday and we have our rescheduled card game that night, the 8th is my friends wedding celebration in chicago, and the 9th we have to make it back early in the day to go to tyson's friend's wedding and he has to work that night. i havent told him our schedule has filled up every single night that week. he will NOT be a happy camper!

work has been SUPER crazy and i am not enjoying staying late! summer break please come sooo fast and go reeeally slow!!

Happy Mother's Day to Me!

Of course I am the mommy to 4 little angel babies, but I am also the mommy to a hopefully healthy little baby due around November 20th! We spilled the beans to our family and friends this weekend and I guess I will have to at work this week too. We couldn't be more excited, but continue praying each second that things continue to go smoothly.

So do you remember my 'negative' post on Thursday March 10? Maybe it was hormones, but it was not a good week and I was ready to take a pregnancy test so I could stop my progesterone that month and get my period on its way! So the next morn I took a pregnancy test and MUCH to my surprise it was a very dark positive. We kind of ignored it and didn't call the dr for a few days. I kept getting darker positives and so we called the dr and of course I got in trouble for not calling immediately. We were just taking things slow and not trying to get our hopes up. So we got bloodwork to check my hcg and at 13 days past ovulation my level was 300!! which is very high in general but much higher than previous pregnancy levels (which were always in the normal range). The following week at 20 days past ovulation my levels were 7576!! They highlighted the 7 week range and I was only in my 4th week. I was worried something was wrong with this high of numbers b/c it was off of any chart you can find. Even off a multiple pregnancy chart.

So we waited til we were 6 weeks and 3 days pregnant and had our first ultrasound. The baby measured at 6 weeks 5 days and had a heartrate of 133. Wow! Things are looking fantastic but still wanna be cautious. Next ultrasound at 7 weeks 6 days. Baby measured at 8 weeks 2 days and a heartrate of 178. Even better! and I am always okay with baby measuring ahead rather than behind. And you could see little leg and arm buds and a little movement. So this day we were released from our specialist. Although when they release you they give you a piece of paper that you have to send back at the end of your pregnancy. "What was the outcome of your pregnancy? Circle one: miscarriage, stillborn, live birth" I really wanted to burn that paper. Or maybe just go ahead and circle live birth and send it in already :) positive thoughts, right?

So we had our first appointment with our new ob at 9 weeks 1 day. (Yes I got weekly u/s initially. Lots of appointments!) Lots of questions, got to see baby again on a little portable u/s, bloodwork, and pee in a cup. Then I had 2 weeks without an appointment. Yikes! So this past friday at 11 weeks 3 days I had my NT scan which is where you talk with a genetic counselor and talk about chances of having a baby with another trisomy disorder, get bloodwork, and an u/s to measure the fold in the baby's neck. The scan looked great! Except baby was doing headstands and all curled up that they couldn't get a great measurement so we gotta watch baby for over an hour. The only bad part was I had to have a full bladder and someone pushing on your for that long gets uncomfortable! We will have to wait to get our combined results next week in the mail but I'm sure all will be great!

So please keep us in your prayers through this great journey. Here are a few pictures of bullet (thats what Tyson named him). And yes I will say him/her a lot b/c I don't like saying 'it' but we do not know the sex.

Hi, Everyone!

This one looks like he is sucking his thumb!

hahahahaha

so tyce and his cousins and buddies stayed out a little too late the night before easter. he had told me of a little drama but nothing you would think would make it to tmz. oh this is just hilarious. read the comments. i know lillian is pissed, but she must be reeeeally serious. yikes!

matt vs. lillian

haha ps i just saw cody smiths comment. fyi that is who matt pushed.

tracy chapman

listening to bridges and thinking of days in my dads old car with him and my sis while i was hanging out the sunroof. oh the good ole days. billy joel's 'we didnt start the fire' will be coming up next. then maybe some wilson phillips.

thinking of you

to a special friend: i am thinking of you and your fam this weekend. my heart truly is breaking for you guys. praying for peace and comfort for you all. love to little j.p. xoxoxo