More than half way

21 weeks 2 days...so far so good. I feel great. So far it is a textbook pregnancy. I had a Dr.s appointment this morning and all is good. Measuring good, cervix is "long and tight" and weight gain is 11 pounds. Just this week baby C has become a kicking fool! T was able to feel him kick on Friday - he was so happy! It is a really good feeling to be more than half way thru.

My new bestfriend is the U shaped pregnancy pillow that I sleep with. I LOVE to get into my "nest" at night. I was using a pillow between my legs, so when I turned over I had to move the pillow. The new pillow is wonderful!

I have totally finished cleaning out the nursery. There is actual baby stuff in there. I go in there and sit in the glider and just can't believe that we've made it this far! The crib is still in the box, we haven't felt adventurous enough to put it together. My mom bought us a bassinet. I opened the box with aspirations of putting it together. I saw that it had approximately 60 pieces, quickly put it back in the box and left it for T to do. He put it together Sunday morning.

Easter was nice. We had 5 couples (including us) There was a 5,4,3,2, &1 year old from 3 of the couples and the remaining 2 are pregnant. We had an egg hunt and a pot-luck dinner, it was fun. It was good to be able to enjoy being with our friends and their kids. Prior to concieving it had gotten to the point where we couldn't bare to be around them, we were becoming hermits.

Thursday we leave for a 10 day trip to Ohio. We are driving. It is usually an 18 hour drive when you are not with a pregnant woman who pees every 60 minutes. This could be an interesting trip. All 3 sets of our parents and my closest life long friends all live there. It is convienent on one hand and somewhat stressful on the other (trying to fit in a good visit with everyone). My friends are throwing me a shower on Sunday. A bit early, but this is probably our only trip out there this summer, so it was now or never. It will be interesting to see how much my family can fatten me up in a week!

Annoying things that people keep saying to me:
"Will you do IVF again?"
answer: Can you not see that I am still pregnant with #1? ....(we don't know if we would pursue this again,but why can't people just be happy for the one that we are pregnant with)

"It will probably be easy for you to get prengnant now that you've been pregnant"
answer: NO!!!... (Ok, it is possible that I could get pregnant without IVF, but VERY unlikely. I have a moderately high FSH 10.5, but more importantly I think that the last 4 eggs I had were used during this attempt. My resting follie count was around 7...time is not on my side. When people think that pregnancy is a cure for infertility it makes me want to scream!!!! )

Time is going fast these days. I haven't been able to say that in a very long time.

It's a......

The ultrasound today was great! All of the parts are exactly where they should be, all the measurements are good - actually measuring 7 days ahead (which the perinatologist said was perfectly fine).

Lesson learned today: Don't let your coworkers try to sex your baby when they don't know what they are looking at. For a week we have been thinking that we are having a girl, we have been calling the baby Iris - I hope that we haven't confused him...yes him - definitely a boy baby in there. We are thrilled!

Still here...skin tags and all

I'm still here, just haven't had much to write about. I guess the main thing that I've been up to is being pregnant. And since I can only say so much about that I've been quiet. I religously read everyone elses blogs, but haven't been very good with my own.

Today I am 18w3d.

I look quite pregnant and feel fine. I've developed a fair amount of odd pregnancy symptons. I have no cravings, no aversions, no odd dreams. Instead I get a bloody nose - last week I blead heavily for over an hour. We were thinking of going to the ER, but the very last place I wanted to be on a Sat night was the emergency room, so I took matters into my own hands and packed it by pushing gauze way up there with a q-tip. Not pleasent, but it did the trick. I have hair growing on my belly. I had a skin tag grow right next to my nipple - this was bothersome to me, so I was going to cut off with a scalple but couldn't find one at home - so I was going to cut it off at work the next day. I must have scared it because the next day it fell off . My normally very straight hair is turning curly. I think that I have fully developed the pregnant brain-I was scheduled off last Monday, but went to work...the irony is that I am the one who makes the schedule.

I had a quickie ultrasound at work so we could go on a "penis hunt". We hunted but did not find, so as far as we could tell she's a girl!!! However, I go for my ultrasound with the perinatologist on Thursday. We are not taking the girl news as official until someone who actually know what they are looking at does the ultrasound (at work these people look at hearts not babies).

I've gained 8 pounds since becoming pregnant. T says it looks like a lot more....REALLY!?!? he actually said that out loud? Then yesterday 2 woman from work asked how much I had gained and I told them and they said the same thing " are you sure, looks like more". The 8 pounds is not counting the bonus weight of 8 pounds put on during the 12 months of fertility treatment and the IVF cycle. But really, who says that? Today I was in Motherhood and got stuck in a tank top...thats right, stuck. I finally managed to get out of it without having to ask for assistance - which I did consider. So, maybe everyone has a point, maybe I am looking like a bus. I'm good with that, I'd rather be here and getting fat, than not here.

This is T's birthday week. I went out shopping today to get the 7 presents that I will need. 20 year old port, wallet, map, running socks, running shorts and shirt, and a journal.

I've started scrapbooking. I have 3 pages of the baby book done. I ran out of things to put in it. You can really sink a lot of $$ into this hobby, but I like it....cutting, pasting - I find it relaxing and cool to be able to be creative. As soon as we know the sex of the little monkey I will start knitting a blankie...