Breech?

A week before his due date, I went in for my weekly visit.  Dr. M did an internal and says " He's still head down".  Then she starts to measure my belly and feels a hard bump on the left side of my stomach.  She says, "What's this? His head?" , "He might be breech and we'll have to schedule a C-section"
That is one thing that I did not want, unless necessary.


We did a quick ultrasound to confirm what this body part was and turned out it was his foot.  He was still head down.

I was relieved that he didn't flip around the week before he was due and we didn't need a c-section.

20 weeks and on ..

So, I can't complain about my pregnancy.  I was blessed to have it go so well.  I only had nausea for the first 8 weeks or so and then it got better.  Sure, the sleeping got worse and I was up 50 times to use the bathroom at night, lol but no other issues. 

We went in for our 20 weeks ultrasound to make sure the baby was doing well and to find out the sex. That was such an exciting day and I couldn't wait to see my little one again! 
Dr. G started the ultrasound and had a hard time finding out the sex of the baby.  AJ kept closing his legs every time he would want to look.  Finally, he was able to get a peek and said he was about 80% sure it was a BOY!  I was secretly hoping for a girl, but was over joyed that we were having a little boy and that he was healthy.

As soon as we left the office we started to tell all our family and friends.  We were all so happy.

The rest of my pregnancy flew by quickly and we began to prepare for his birth.
We took a baby birth class, put the nursery together and had a baby shower at the end of August.

 

8 weeks

Ultrasound at 8 weeks? Did I hear the receptionist correctly?  WooHoo.. After being part of thebump.com, many wrote their offices would not do ultrasounds that early and/or had to wait until 20 weeks.  I was so excited and couldn't wait until my visit.



Test confirmed pregnancy and after questions were answered, we were taken to the ultrasound room.  My office did a trans-vaginal ultrasound since I was so early in the pregnancy.  Was it uncomfortable? Yes Did I care ? No Once I saw that tiny little baby on the screen and heard it's heartbeat, nothing else mattered.  It was quite overwhelming and I was speechless.

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I loved my doctor and everyone at the practice.  I was looking for a doctor a few months before I was pregnant.  And once again I turned to thebump.com , my local board to get a recommendation.  I'm so glad that I found these doctors.  http://dupagemedicalgroup.com/   There were 3 doctors in the group, 2 females, 1 male and they were all great.  I felt very comfortable with all three of them and I was very happy that they wanted you to meet all doctors.

The next ultrasound would be at 20 weeks and we would find out the sex of our little one.

 

02.01.09

02.01.09--- To some this date may be significant because it was Superbowl Sunday to me it's significant because it was the day I found out that I was pregnant with AJ.


We decided to get pregnant sometime around December, so I was quite surprised that it happened so fast.
I kind of knew before I even took the test, because my period was never late. Sometimes early, but never late. I bought the $1 test at the dollar tree a few days before.

I woke up that morning and walked down to the bathroom with said test in hand.  So I follow the directions and wait.. and wait.. and one line appears ( the test line) and then the second line appeared.  "OMG I"M PREGNANT"  So many emotions ran through me at that point.  I was shaking with excitement and fear.  Yes, this baby was planned, yes I was happy, but was I really prepared to be a mom to another human being?

I walked back upstairs in to the bedroom and woke my husband to tell him that I was pregnant.  It was still early that morning, but I just couldn't keep this to myself.  Sure, I could have done something "cute" to surprise him and tell him that way, but I just couldn't wait.  M was excited and had the biggest smile on his face that morning.

Of course I was still in such a daze and couldn't believe it, so before work on Monday I stopped at Target and got the digital pregnancy test.  I just wanted to be sure that it was true.  The box contained 3 tests and I took one test each day ha ha and each test came back "PREGNANT" .

So, now what? Do we start sharing the news with everyone or wait.  I knew my parents would be ecstatic, yet I was scared to tell them.  M's parents were another story and I knew that we would wait a while before we told them.  We decided we would either wait until after the first appointment or the end of my first trimester.

A few days later, I called the OB-GYN and made my first appointment.  I would be 8 weeks pregnant at that visit and we would get to see our little one for the first time.

5 1/2 months later.........

  AJ was born in October and here I am just starting this blog.  I don't know how other mom's do it, but I just didn't have the strength nor the time to do anything. I'm going to have to start digging through my memory bank about all the happenings in the last couple of months and start from the beginning.