Okay I apologize for the lack of posts over the past 3 months. I feel like someone has hit fast forward as we prep for baby G, juggle the start-up of my new practice, travel far and wide and constantly try to figure out how all of it fits into the big plan called life. Enough excuses!
Updates!:
1. IT'S A BOY
2. I am getting HUGE... well everyone tells me I'm not huge but for me... I'M HUGE!
3. Our house has been in a constant state of upheaval trying to get our home office moved from the guest room to transform it into a nursery/guest room.
4. I was so fortunate to be invited on the Ellen show and came home with some seriously nice baby gear.
5. Little G has been kicking the you know what out of my poor ribs.
6. I really really really can't wait for him to arrive.
Okay that about sums it up... I'm going to update this sorry blog with some pics of the bump asap!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
My clothes don't fit!
It's official... I cannot button my pants anymore. Last Friday out of no where it just popped out without warning or notification. I can't suck it in and I can't (and don't really want to) hide it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen this is the moment we've all been waiting for. After over 4 months of no morning sickness and nothing indicating that I'm pregnant other than being quite fatigued and a lack of "that time of the month", I finally feel pregnant! For those of you who know me you would immediately be able to recognize it... for the general public, they might be pondering a 50/50 of either "that girl needs to go to the gym" or "there's a bun in that oven". I've also started feeling those "flutters" I was told about... though it's still kind of hard to wrap my head around the fact that it's a human being inside me creating that feeling.
Baby is now the size of the palm of a hand and weighing in at ~5 oz. Next Wednesday we go in for the check-up of all check-ups to find out if it's a boy or a girl! We can't wait to find out!
Last night Paul took a pic of me and forgot to upload it to the computer. I'll post it up asap so you can check out my little growing belly.
Baby is now the size of the palm of a hand and weighing in at ~5 oz. Next Wednesday we go in for the check-up of all check-ups to find out if it's a boy or a girl! We can't wait to find out!
Last night Paul took a pic of me and forgot to upload it to the computer. I'll post it up asap so you can check out my little growing belly.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Week 14 Picture
Sorry this is a bit out of order... but this is me at week 14. Still no baby bump. I'm currently at week 16 and think I'm a little more "bumpish" than I was 2 weeks ago. I'll have Paul take a pic of me soon and hopefully get back on track with keeping things more chronological.
Four Month Appointment... Week 16
Today I went in for another OB check up. Baby G and I are doing great! I got to listen to its heartbeat and Dr. Grady could hear baby moving around. He said I should start feeling "flutters" between now and week 18...but he said I could easily mistake it for gas. I think things are going to get crazy when I will be able to actually feel baby moving... and really know it.
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about whether we are going to find out the gender. The answer is yes and we should find out at next months appointment. Conveniently we only have to wait 3 weeks. I've been going in once every 4 weeks for my appointments but, since Dr. Grady is going on vaca during week 4, we get to find out a week earlier...lucky us! So as of right now we should know March 24th.
It's hard to believe in a month I will be halfway through my pregnancy. So far it's been painless and uneventful (and I couldn't be more thankful for that). I think I'm just starting to get a baby bump now, though I can still fit into all my clothes. However, I am catching myself wanting to unbutton my pants while sitting and know in the near future I will need to invest in some maternity wear. For now I am still enjoying being "skinny".
A special shout out to Kate Rabie... she introduced me to this lifesaving book, Baby Bargains. It's basically a comprehensive guide to baby gear and what you "actually" need for baby vs what the baby industry tells you. It has non-biased reviews on products and great tips for saving money! Though we haven't taken the leap yet, I now know when I step foot into Baby's R Us for the first time I will not be completely overwhelmed. This is a must have book for any parent-to-be!
Will post pics soon of the bump and rewind time a bit and finally post the videos of us telling our parents the good news back at Christmas.
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about whether we are going to find out the gender. The answer is yes and we should find out at next months appointment. Conveniently we only have to wait 3 weeks. I've been going in once every 4 weeks for my appointments but, since Dr. Grady is going on vaca during week 4, we get to find out a week earlier...lucky us! So as of right now we should know March 24th.
It's hard to believe in a month I will be halfway through my pregnancy. So far it's been painless and uneventful (and I couldn't be more thankful for that). I think I'm just starting to get a baby bump now, though I can still fit into all my clothes. However, I am catching myself wanting to unbutton my pants while sitting and know in the near future I will need to invest in some maternity wear. For now I am still enjoying being "skinny".
A special shout out to Kate Rabie... she introduced me to this lifesaving book, Baby Bargains. It's basically a comprehensive guide to baby gear and what you "actually" need for baby vs what the baby industry tells you. It has non-biased reviews on products and great tips for saving money! Though we haven't taken the leap yet, I now know when I step foot into Baby's R Us for the first time I will not be completely overwhelmed. This is a must have book for any parent-to-be!
Will post pics soon of the bump and rewind time a bit and finally post the videos of us telling our parents the good news back at Christmas.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
3 Month Appointment
Last Friday I went in for my 3 month appointment for a check up on Baby Gardner. Our OB did another ultrasound and measurement and we are right on track! Since our last meeting Baby G has made some serious progress. Fingers and toes are now present and it's limbs are not so stubby anymore. It even rolled away from us so I got to see it's beautiful spine. Being a soon-to-be Chiropractor mom, I was quite proud.
According to the book "What To Expect When You're Expecting", Baby G is about this size of a small peach and my uterus is about the size of a grapefruit (I love their use of food as an analogy). I'm just about to enter trimester numero dos and I've heard that it's the honeymoon out of all three trimesters. Thankfully my first trimester was a piece of cake, no morning sickness and no problems, so if my second is supposedly better than the first than bring it on!
In other news Paul and I moved to a new casa. Our previous residence had four flights of stairs, narrow hallways and was not baby proof, which posed a problem with regards to toting child and gear around in. So we lucked out and found a bigger, nicer, newer place just down the road and now call it home. We officially moved in approximately a week and a half ago and still have lots of organizing and decorating to do, but it's nice to be able to stretch out a little and have one single flight of stairs instead of four.
I'm still not showing yet and will post pics as soon as I do!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Week 11
Just thought I'd post a pic of me as I'm entering my 11th week. Not quite showing yet but I've been feeling a little "bloated" lately and can't quite suck in my gut as well.Paul's moving along a little faster than I am.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Baby Gardners First Cameo
Today I had my first pregnancy appointment!
Paul was able to come with and what an awesome thing to do together. Since I am in my 9th week of pregnancy we were able to do an ultrasound, as pictured below, and get an official due date.
I really don't have words for the way it feels the first time you see your baby. Even though it doesn't resemble much except a peanut with tadpole extremities, it was quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen. Dr. Grady, our OB, did an excellent job of describing what we were seeing and letting Paul and me just enjoy that moment together. We were able to see and hear it's little heart pumping a million miles per hour and even see the blood flowing through its tiny umbilical cord. A couple times it moved it's arms and legs, which totally blew my mind.
Even though I knew I was pregnant, after this moment I knew I was for real pregnant. Now that I've seen this little alive and moving alien-like creature it gives me a whole new perspective and source of anticipation for what's to come.
In the picture you can see the baby at the bottom in the dark circle. It's head is the big right blob, its back is towards the bottom of the picture and you can see it's little arms and lets sticking out of the top of the second smaller blob (it's body). With a head like that, our baby is bound to be the next Einstein.
My due date is August 20th and the baby is a whopping 1 inch long!
Paul was able to come with and what an awesome thing to do together. Since I am in my 9th week of pregnancy we were able to do an ultrasound, as pictured below, and get an official due date.
I really don't have words for the way it feels the first time you see your baby. Even though it doesn't resemble much except a peanut with tadpole extremities, it was quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen. Dr. Grady, our OB, did an excellent job of describing what we were seeing and letting Paul and me just enjoy that moment together. We were able to see and hear it's little heart pumping a million miles per hour and even see the blood flowing through its tiny umbilical cord. A couple times it moved it's arms and legs, which totally blew my mind.
Even though I knew I was pregnant, after this moment I knew I was for real pregnant. Now that I've seen this little alive and moving alien-like creature it gives me a whole new perspective and source of anticipation for what's to come.
In the picture you can see the baby at the bottom in the dark circle. It's head is the big right blob, its back is towards the bottom of the picture and you can see it's little arms and lets sticking out of the top of the second smaller blob (it's body). With a head like that, our baby is bound to be the next Einstein.
My due date is August 20th and the baby is a whopping 1 inch long!
A New Year, A New Life
Happy New Year!
This year we spent Christmas and New Years with Paul's family in Virginia Beach. It's was very nice to visit the east coast and spend our first holiday season married with Paul's family.
Speaking of family, before we left for VA we broke the news of baby Gardner via Skype to my parents. To get the best reaction, we emailed the picture of my positive pregnancy test to them and let them figure it out. Needless to say they were shocked, but once the initial blow wore off were incredibly excited and supportive. Our conversation concluded with them pondering what they wanted baby G to call them. I think I can safely say they are looking forward to being grandparents.
Thankfully we were able to tell at least one set of our parents in person since "conveniently" we got pregnant right before Christmas. The night we arrived in Virginia Beach we told Paul's parents and sister. The twist is that Paul's parents best friends, the Phillip's, are about to become grandparents in late spring as well, so we thought it would be fun to tie that in to the surprise since both couples have been through just about every major life event together since college. We gave them this book, Grandloving, and wrote the following on a card:
"The Phillips are moving on to to the next stage in their lives, and we didn't want you to feel left out..."
Their reaction was priceless, as was Paul's sister's, Christine's, immediate comment, "are you joking? please tell me you're not joking". We were also able to tell Paul's grandparents the following morning who will be first time great-grandparents. It was a great time of celebration with his family. Everyone of course was extremely excited and as the holiday progressed it got even more fun with Paul's mom, Carole, breaking out some of Paul and Christine's baby clothes, old family films, and sharing stories of their pregnancies.
As we expected since telling our parents we are getting more and more excited about Baby G's coming. Thankfully, as Carole said, the baby doesn't come right away and we still have ~8 months to prepare ourselves. The next big step is breaking the news to the rest of the world.
This year we spent Christmas and New Years with Paul's family in Virginia Beach. It's was very nice to visit the east coast and spend our first holiday season married with Paul's family.
Speaking of family, before we left for VA we broke the news of baby Gardner via Skype to my parents. To get the best reaction, we emailed the picture of my positive pregnancy test to them and let them figure it out. Needless to say they were shocked, but once the initial blow wore off were incredibly excited and supportive. Our conversation concluded with them pondering what they wanted baby G to call them. I think I can safely say they are looking forward to being grandparents.
Thankfully we were able to tell at least one set of our parents in person since "conveniently" we got pregnant right before Christmas. The night we arrived in Virginia Beach we told Paul's parents and sister. The twist is that Paul's parents best friends, the Phillip's, are about to become grandparents in late spring as well, so we thought it would be fun to tie that in to the surprise since both couples have been through just about every major life event together since college. We gave them this book, Grandloving, and wrote the following on a card:
"The Phillips are moving on to to the next stage in their lives, and we didn't want you to feel left out..."
Their reaction was priceless, as was Paul's sister's, Christine's, immediate comment, "are you joking? please tell me you're not joking". We were also able to tell Paul's grandparents the following morning who will be first time great-grandparents. It was a great time of celebration with his family. Everyone of course was extremely excited and as the holiday progressed it got even more fun with Paul's mom, Carole, breaking out some of Paul and Christine's baby clothes, old family films, and sharing stories of their pregnancies.
As we expected since telling our parents we are getting more and more excited about Baby G's coming. Thankfully, as Carole said, the baby doesn't come right away and we still have ~8 months to prepare ourselves. The next big step is breaking the news to the rest of the world.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Sympathy Pains
Nausea, backaches, exhaustion, food cravings, frequent urination, headaches...my husband is a mess.
Supposedly, these are all symptoms of the condition many pregnant women come to know and fear called morning sickness. According to "the book" (referring to the text called "What To Expect When You're Expecting", which apparently is considered America's Pregnancy Bible) 75% of pregnant women join this "queasy club" within the first 4-6 weeks of pregnancy and it can last up to your 14th-16th weeks.
I am on the cusp of my 6th week, waiting for my body to unwillingly dive into this unknown world of hovering over toilets, fatigue and flatulence. However, it seems that Paul, not I, is experiencing these crazy side effects of pregnancy. I guess we quite literally have "become one flesh", and I don't mind him taking this burden (considering what I'm going to have to go through in 8.5 months).
On a different note, here is a delicious drink recipe that I tried last night from a book called Preggatinis (courtesy of one of my favorite people in the world, Kate). It's a perfect warm drink for this season sure to make your house smell like Christmas. Don't worry, it's alcohol-free!
Supposedly, these are all symptoms of the condition many pregnant women come to know and fear called morning sickness. According to "the book" (referring to the text called "What To Expect When You're Expecting", which apparently is considered America's Pregnancy Bible) 75% of pregnant women join this "queasy club" within the first 4-6 weeks of pregnancy and it can last up to your 14th-16th weeks.
I am on the cusp of my 6th week, waiting for my body to unwillingly dive into this unknown world of hovering over toilets, fatigue and flatulence. However, it seems that Paul, not I, is experiencing these crazy side effects of pregnancy. I guess we quite literally have "become one flesh", and I don't mind him taking this burden (considering what I'm going to have to go through in 8.5 months).
On a different note, here is a delicious drink recipe that I tried last night from a book called Preggatinis (courtesy of one of my favorite people in the world, Kate). It's a perfect warm drink for this season sure to make your house smell like Christmas. Don't worry, it's alcohol-free!
Christmas Mulled Wine
1 bottle Fre Merlot alcohol-removed wine
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cinnamon sticks*
3 whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon honey
Pour wine into a double boiler over medium heat. Add all other ingredients, and stir until honey has dissolved. Reduce heat, cover, and gently simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve in a bar mug.
*If desired, buy additional cinnamon sticks and garnish each cup with one.
Friday, December 18, 2009
We're Pregnant? What?
I'm describing this moment with complete honesty. We weren't planning on having a baby... no... we were on the 5 year plan. This little "bundle of joy" was not on our radar. I was even thinking just the week before that I was so happy with the way life was going, and after seeing screaming babies and parents complaining about their parenting woes at church, that kids were the last thing on our agenda. Oh how wrong I was.
Here's one of my favorite quotes, and one that fits this moment perfectly:
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"
Since Christmas is just a week away and we are heading to Paul's side of the family in Virgina, we thought it would be quite the Christmas present to surprise our families with the news in person (my parents via Skype). It has been complete torture not telling them because not only are they going to be unbelievably excited for us (which we need right now!) but they are such strong support in our lives, we need a lifeline and some advice!
I do want to iterate that Paul and I are so blessed to have this little miracle join us. Each day we are getting more and more excited about having a little look-a-like tag-a-long. And thankfully REI settled Paul's fears of our adventures ending with this amazing baby backpack.
More posts to come as we begin to unveil our secret to the world and our first doctors appointment with the little bugger.
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