Well this past weekend was a good, fun, and relaxing one. On Friday evening we went to our pastor's house for dinner and to discuss our inquiry into church membership. I guess we are the first one's to want to join since the new method of 'acceptance' if you will. I guess previously they just welcomed in whoever wanted to join, but that has caused problems....understandably. So now they really try to get to know people better and gave us a church constitution and statement of faith to read over and we discussed our stories and stuff. It was a good time and now we just want to join all the more. Saturday we went to the church and volunteered to help out with a new program they are doing called Angel Food. People can buy bulk food through the church for a low price basically. SO we helped distribute the food and then went back to our friend's house to eat lunch and hang out with them. We had a good time to got to play with their little baby too. :) good practice :)
Sunday we went to church and then Joel went to his smoke shop and hung out with the guys while i went back home and cleaned house some...FINALLY! Then we got groceries and came back home to chillax!! LOL
No new baby things to inform of....it seems like i never have updates...but we do get to find out what he/she is in less than a month so that's really exciting!!!!! yay!!! I'm really hoping to feel baby move soon as skinnier women tend to feel the baby move earlier sometimes and it can happen anywhere from 14 to 20 weeks....hopefully i feel it soon!!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Weekend Update....
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Baby Bump Alert!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Hello Again!
So this morning started out terribly....i woke up to Lilly scratching at our bedroom door....which is really odd seeing as how she sleeps inside of a locked up kennel. So i wake up at 5:20 to find that her butt had exploded inside the kennel, as did her stomach, and she had unlatched the bars and gotten out. Soooooo i spent the morning cleaning up poop, washing everything, cleaning the carpet up, bathing her. Aaaaand i had to leave for work by 7:00 and be ready for work myself. So needless to say, we had fun.
As for me and baby...all is still well and i am just looking forward to maybe being able to feel him/her moving soon. eep!
Joel is still doing well and enjoying his job, though i wish the other woman would retire soon so he could switch to daytime shift...grr.
Well i'm at work now and don't have much else new to post about so i guess i'll leave it at that and hope that my day continues to improve. Can't get much worse than waking up to dog poop all over your house and the dog right?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
ER today
Well today didn't start out very well. I woke up around 5:40 and went to the bathroom only to find a pretty good amount of bleeding. Luckily, Joel walked in the door at that moment, and we went to the ER down the road. We got right in becausr that hospital is so small and never busy. The doctor checked me and said i was still closed up and seemed ok, and they also located baby's heartbeat. My main concern now is that they said it was around 120, when on Monday's Dr. visit they said it was around 150. So now i'm home, waiting for my doctor to call me back to see if she wants to see me today as well, or not. I really hope she does want to see me because i'd really like to have an u/s done to maybe determine where the bleeding came from, since that is abnormal at 13 weeks.
It's the scariest thing to not know what is happening to your baby. On the good side though, when they were trying to find the heartbeat, they kept having to move around because the little bugger moved away from the doppler every 15 seconds or so. This is definitely Joel's baby...difficult as ever. Well it's almsot 9am so my doc should be in soon...here's hoping...
Monday, July 14, 2008
Baby bump appt
So i had my 12 week appointment today and all went wonderfully perfect! I actually had no real weight gain yet. I weighed 115 to begin with, then dropped to 113 when i was really dehydrated, but they considered that as mostly just water weight. Now today i was back to 115. So all is well with momma.....As for baby....Joel and I both got to hear it's little heartbeat again....150-160 bpm...just right. All seems to be going well according to the doc. I will have to get an RH shot because i have A- blood and Joel is O+. I guess Joel never knew about the whole RH shot thing so he was asking all kinds of questions about it. Basically, if i don't get the shot, and the baby gets a + RH factor from Joel, there is a big chance that any future children that we have, my body would see as a foreign object, and they would attack it. Since we don't want that...i'll take the shot. :)
This past weekend we had a great time relaxing and partying. On Friday, i got off at 1:00 so we went to the YMCA pool and swam and sat our for a bit. Then we had dinner at a burger restaurant that was awesome, and the meal was free for 4 people because it was a pre-grand opening trial thingy. After that though i felt really sick and went to bed by 6pm and slept until 7am the next day. :( Saturday we went to a pool party and got to swim and relax in the sun again, which was very nice. Sunday was church, japanese hibachi grill for lunch, and then back home to clean up, do laundry, and relax. Overall we had a great weekend and i'm so so so relieved that it was able to end with a good baby bump check up. It's absolutely an amazing thing to hear your unborn child's little heartbeat. It's hard for the pregnancy to feel real because i don't have a huge belly yet, we aren't really buying baby things yet, i feel no kicks yet, it's just hard for it to be real. Hearing that little sound on the doppler though today just makes all of the mornings hugging the toilet, and all of the exhaustion and nausea so worth it. But i still wouldn't mind some of that bad stuff going away...FYI baby!!!
So now we only have 6-8 more weeks until the BIG Ultrasound!! Hopefully it will only be 6 more weeks because we are both just DYING to know what the gender is!
On the plus side we did finally agree on a boy name so now we have both of them picked out. A boy is be Alexander William Cummings, and a girl will be Laurel Mackenzie Cummings. :) So nice to see those names written out. HURRAY for babies!
Monday, July 7, 2008
close enough!!
aaaand we're not making that picture any bigger because i look like crap....but you get the idea. not much...but it's there. Baby is now the size of a lime and my uterus is the size of a grapefruit. YAY!!!Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Almost there....
Well i'm nearer and nearer to the 2nd trimester every day! hurray! I really hope that the exhaustion and nausea goes away after that...hoping and praying...and so is Joel. He's starting to get really tired of it as it seems that he has the worst timing ever. Every time he walks in the door...i have just started throwing up or every weekend i have terrible spells...it's just no fun. He wants his normal wife back and i'd like to give her to him.
Well we started taking our 'watch me grow' pics but i'm not so sure i should post them since i'm just in like a sports bra and a skirt. The next ones will be more 'appropriate' LOL.
Joel and I are both looking forward to a long holiday weekend...he and i are both off for the weekend as of 1:00 on Thursday so that will be nice. Friday is our Pastor's party at his place, Saturday is the party at our place...and Sunday is date day where we are going out for the day together to do some shopping and eating out.
Well i'm gonna go and lay on the couch like the bump on a log that i am now so i'll write again soon!
