Hello!
So, supposedly I will have a new "abdominal organ," and the associated bump, anytime now but so far baby looks more like pudge than preggo. They say it can take a little while longer with your first one, so I should enjoy having a "waist" while I can. I did break down and get a pair of maternity yoga pants that are the BEST THINGS EVER! I can fold the top of them down "yoga style" now, and then pull it up to hold the baby bump when it finally makes it's appearance. They are the most comfortable things I will ever be able to wear to work. :)
Earlier this week I think we may have had confirmed movement: it did feel a little bit like popcorn popping in there, or a really, really sturdy butterfly, and Sean was able to feel it from the outside. I have my next doctor's appointment next week, and should have another sonogram a few weeks after that, so I guess we'll continue to see.
This week I was pretty disappointed with my newsletters; baby is the length of a tube of mascara, roughly, and about the size of an avocado. These are good references, I guess, but no where near as cute as some of the other ones they've come up with. However, today I found a link to the "man's guide to baby sizes" and munchkin is now the size of a small studfinder. :) Next week, hockey puck!
http://www.hisboyscanswim.com/dads-pregnancy-guide
Friday, September 25, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Back from the Babymoon
Hello!
We are back from Florida and being responsible (mostly) people again, hence the paint in my hair, again, as we continue to work on the nursery/office rooms. Watching other people's rugrats in Disney World was....interesting, but now that we are home our pets are making sure we get some parenting practice: Benson has a tummy ache, again, and the cat's favorite place to cuddle is right between me and Sean, regardless of where we are sitting and/or what we are doing. She's so cute. :)
Florida was tiring but much fun, and much food! We were able to get the Disney dining plan for free because of a promotion they were doing so we each got 2 meals and a snack for free each day. We thought it was a great deal when we bought the tickets, but now we know that the dining plan is AWESOME when you can get it for free. :) The first "sitdown" meal we had would have cost $80 (the rest were around $50-$70) and each of the "quick meals" we got were around $20 to $30. I don't know how much the dining plan would have been if we'd had to pay for it, but not only was all of the food really good, it was a lot more convenient than getting a car and going to Wally's like we did last year, especially since Sean seems to like warm food. The rides I could go on were fine, the rides that Sean got to go on were probably even better because he didn't have to worry about strong-arming me onto them, but munckin always seems to be hungry, so we really enjoyed the food. I won't compare the lasagna mom makes to the one I got at the Italy restaurant in Epcot, but I will say Mom's lasagna normally isn't served by an Italian waiter that neither Sean nor I totally understood. :)
The other plus about the dining plan was supposed to be the extra $$ for shopping, but I was very good this year; almost everything we got was actually presents for other people for various holidays. I found the best shirt for Samantha; my mom is going to love it. :) One thing we did get for us (thank you Mindy!) was a nice big Chinese fan with a dolphin painted on it that we will hang (high) on the wall in the dining room. We also got baby stuff; a Tigger onesie and a Tigger rattle. Apparently Tigger and Pluto are the best for "neutral" colors (even Pooh was pink!), and we like Tigger better than Pluto. The nursery and everything is still fishy; they just didn't have little Nemo onesies and rattles.
We have relatively little baby news, which is probably good, because it means an uneventful trip. This week the little one's ears and eyes are supposed to be migrating to the appropriate areas and the munchkin is about as long as a KitKat "finger" which leads me to ask...why must all of my pregnancy newsletters compare the mini Whaley to food? :)
We are back from Florida and being responsible (mostly) people again, hence the paint in my hair, again, as we continue to work on the nursery/office rooms. Watching other people's rugrats in Disney World was....interesting, but now that we are home our pets are making sure we get some parenting practice: Benson has a tummy ache, again, and the cat's favorite place to cuddle is right between me and Sean, regardless of where we are sitting and/or what we are doing. She's so cute. :)
Florida was tiring but much fun, and much food! We were able to get the Disney dining plan for free because of a promotion they were doing so we each got 2 meals and a snack for free each day. We thought it was a great deal when we bought the tickets, but now we know that the dining plan is AWESOME when you can get it for free. :) The first "sitdown" meal we had would have cost $80 (the rest were around $50-$70) and each of the "quick meals" we got were around $20 to $30. I don't know how much the dining plan would have been if we'd had to pay for it, but not only was all of the food really good, it was a lot more convenient than getting a car and going to Wally's like we did last year, especially since Sean seems to like warm food. The rides I could go on were fine, the rides that Sean got to go on were probably even better because he didn't have to worry about strong-arming me onto them, but munckin always seems to be hungry, so we really enjoyed the food. I won't compare the lasagna mom makes to the one I got at the Italy restaurant in Epcot, but I will say Mom's lasagna normally isn't served by an Italian waiter that neither Sean nor I totally understood. :)
The other plus about the dining plan was supposed to be the extra $$ for shopping, but I was very good this year; almost everything we got was actually presents for other people for various holidays. I found the best shirt for Samantha; my mom is going to love it. :) One thing we did get for us (thank you Mindy!) was a nice big Chinese fan with a dolphin painted on it that we will hang (high) on the wall in the dining room. We also got baby stuff; a Tigger onesie and a Tigger rattle. Apparently Tigger and Pluto are the best for "neutral" colors (even Pooh was pink!), and we like Tigger better than Pluto. The nursery and everything is still fishy; they just didn't have little Nemo onesies and rattles.
We have relatively little baby news, which is probably good, because it means an uneventful trip. This week the little one's ears and eyes are supposed to be migrating to the appropriate areas and the munchkin is about as long as a KitKat "finger" which leads me to ask...why must all of my pregnancy newsletters compare the mini Whaley to food? :)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Sonogram and Week 12, again...
Hola!
The good news...I got my first sonogram! The lady actually told me I had drunk too much water, and then we found out I'm still sort of tilted, and she kept hitting my stomach with the ultrasound thing to try to get the baby to wake up and flip over. I told her that if the baby took after Dad she'd have to keep trying. :) However, after much manuevering, we got pictures! It was actually really cool; I could see the heart beating on the screen (161 bpm) and the brain inside the baby's head (it's got some room left). And legs and arms and stuff. They did their nuchal measure thingies, and our odds of Downs and Trimosy dropped significantly. We also have a nasal bone! I have another doctor's appointment tomorrow to try to decipher some of the other results. No word on what type of baby for a few more weeks though.
Here are the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JenniferWhaley935/1stSonogram?authkey=Gv1sRgCP6Ev8vW9ZrwzQE&feat=directlink
In the "medium" news department, they set my due date back to 3/13, rather than 3/8, so I'm not as close to the second trimester as I originally thought. Week 13, (aka baby Nutter Butter) starts this Saturday while we are on a plane. Technically this fudges the "do everything in the second trimester" rule a little bit, although not too bad considering we planned the trip pre-Junior (or Juniorette.) It seems to be doing just fine in there though, so no big worries in that department.
More tomorrow...
The good news...I got my first sonogram! The lady actually told me I had drunk too much water, and then we found out I'm still sort of tilted, and she kept hitting my stomach with the ultrasound thing to try to get the baby to wake up and flip over. I told her that if the baby took after Dad she'd have to keep trying. :) However, after much manuevering, we got pictures! It was actually really cool; I could see the heart beating on the screen (161 bpm) and the brain inside the baby's head (it's got some room left). And legs and arms and stuff. They did their nuchal measure thingies, and our odds of Downs and Trimosy dropped significantly. We also have a nasal bone! I have another doctor's appointment tomorrow to try to decipher some of the other results. No word on what type of baby for a few more weeks though.
Here are the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JenniferWhaley935/1stSonogram?authkey=Gv1sRgCP6Ev8vW9ZrwzQE&feat=directlink
In the "medium" news department, they set my due date back to 3/13, rather than 3/8, so I'm not as close to the second trimester as I originally thought. Week 13, (aka baby Nutter Butter) starts this Saturday while we are on a plane. Technically this fudges the "do everything in the second trimester" rule a little bit, although not too bad considering we planned the trip pre-Junior (or Juniorette.) It seems to be doing just fine in there though, so no big worries in that department.
More tomorrow...
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