Looks like bug might be a....

BOY!
Well it looks like Daniel might be right! Which would be awesome, only a few more days till we should be finding out! Wednesday morning I have a WIC appointment to enroll and then right after that I have my appointment and ultrasound with my midwife. So exciting!!!!


Anyways, I know a lot of people think that the Intelligender test is a waste of time and money since it only have a 50/50 chance of being right but I don't care. I had fun doing it and watching it change colors, and Daniel was stoked to have it back up what he has been saying since the beginning. So yay there's my fun tide-me-over for the weekend.

14 weeks!

14 weeks or 3 1/2 months! 1 weeks til our next appointment and possibly finding out bugs gender!

-This week your baby is making facial movements such as frowning and squinting (but their eyelids are still fused shut over their fragile-fully developed eyes).
-At 14 weeks your baby is about the size of a orange. Approximately 3.4 inches and weights about 1.5 ounces.
-Your baby’s neck is much more obvious now (when seen on an ultrasound) and rather than his/her little head resting on their chest, there’s a neck separating the two. -His/her chin is becoming more predominant and those little ears (which up until now, were positioned quite low on their face) have moved into their proper place on the side of the head.

I think that bug likes to move up to the top of my uterus when I sleep. Every morning when I wake up there is a much more obvious bump and the area is very firm, but later during the day as I begin to move around that ends up moving lower and the bump when I lay down is less obvious.

Cheesey Potato and Sausage Chowder

Ingredients:
4-5 medium Potatoes shredded
1-2 C shredded Cheddar Cheese
One 8 count Sausage link pack
4-5 C Milk
Approx 1 Tbs ground Black Pepper
1 tsp Thyme
(**more or less for your preference with all ingredients)

Directions:
1. Shred the potatoes and put into a medium/large cooking pot.
2. Shred 2 cups cheddar cheese and add to the pot with the potatoes (more or less can be added depending on how cheesey you would like your chowder).
3. Add 4-5 cups of milk to the pot with the cheese and potatoes and turn on the heat. Allow the boil string periodically then reduce to a simmer and put a lid on top.
4. While you begin to boil the chowder in a skillet break apart your sausage links as you would ground beef and brown them.
5. Dump the sausage and dripping along with the black pepper and thyme into the chowder and mix together.
6. Allow your chowder to simmer and cook the potatoes for 45 minutes to a hour string constantly to prevent scorching or the potatoes from sticking to the bottom.

*If you would like your chowder thinner add more milk 1/2 a cup at a time. If you would like it thicker add a little bit of flour and make sure you stir it well so you don't have clumps, but sicne potatoes release a natural starch your chowder should be pretty thick.

Paint Colors!

Since baby bug is going to be rooming with Daniel and I, I needed to find a paint color that would work in our room for the baby and whatever bedding I end up choosing and that Daniel would be happy with, which meant nothing to bright. Meaning no baby blues or pinks, no greens or yellows you know most of those colors people tend to turn to when painting/decorating a nursery. So we went to Home Depot and looked at their paint section and I found two different colors that we both liked. An almost royal blue for if bug is a boy and a deep purple for if bug is a girl. (The lights from taking the pictures changed want color the samples actually look like, they're both a tad darker than they appear to be).

Snack time

Daniel and I went shopping yesterday for some fruits and other healthy snack type things that I can munch on in between actual meals. I cleaned some off this morning and put them in bowls on my night stand next to the bed/couch.




I also bought a belly band yesterday. My size 0 pants don't really want to zip or button any longer but maternity pants are still huge on me so the band was a good choice.

Hello & Welcome!

We hit 13 weeks today which means we're now entering the 2nd trimester!!!

I've definitely anxiously and eagerly been awaiting hitting this milestone! I can't believe how much growth has happened in just the last 13(ish) weeks. Bug had gone from being the size of a poppy seed to now being the size of a medium cocktail shrimp or a lemon! And in just a couple weeks at our next appointment we might be able to take a guess as to if bug is a boy or girl. I'm going to ask my tech or MW (who ever is doing the scan) to just take a guess for us and then I plan to use that Intellagender test and see if it's results back up their guess. Just for fun though, we'll confirm the gender a few weeks later at our big long scan.


-Your baby is approximately 3.5-4 inches is size and weighs maybe 1.6 ounces
-Your babies brain has grown at an incredible rate and their head now accounts for close to 1/3 of their whole body.
-Unique individual fingerprints are now formed on each of their little fingers.
-Oh and if you having a little girl by now her ovaries are developed and all the eggs she will ever have are "developed" in her ovaries, but outwardly both genders sex organs still look to be the same.


Grow baby grow!!

Spent my birthday in the ER

Well pretty much right after posting yesterday's blog entry I went to the restroom and notices a very small very light amount of spotting. Well of course I freaked out and started crying, I called (after trying a couple different numbers first) the advice nurse line and waited for nearly a hour to speak to somebody. When I finally did I told her what was going on how far along I am and answered the questions that they have to ask. She told me that the spotting could have been from any number of things and to just take it easy, watch to see if the spotting increased, drink plenty of water, pelvic rest, etc and to call my Dr Monday morning to get in sometime that week with them unless it increased (then I should have just gone to the ER). Which was all stuff I had planned on doing anyways. So I hang up and maybe five minutes later I get a call back the nurse said, "I just pulled up your chart/history and we need you to just come into the ER and get checked out". Ugh great just what I wanted to do on my birthday. So Daniel got home from birthday shopping for me and I told him that they told me go in.

We got there and checked in at 2:45 then sat in the waiting room till 4 something to be called back into triage just for me to take down my vitals. After that they immediately took me to get my blood drawn and then we waited some more. After waiting what seemed like several more hours but was maybe only 40 minutes they called me back for an ultrasound. But they would not allow Daniel to come back with me which just made me mad and I wanted to yell obscene things at this nurse in German (I should note that she was pretty much only speaking Spanish to/around me so the thought made me giggle cause she wouldn't have understood). Anyways they took me back and the tech asked what was going on and somehow managed to understand what I was saying though my sniffles and heavy breathing.

She had me lay down turned the screen away as she put the wand on my belly and a moment later tuned it back towards me to show me a very active baby! It was so awesome to see him/her moving, dancing, and jumping all over the place but I really wish that Daniel had been in there with me to see it. Because the baby was moving so much it was difficult to get a clear picture and on top of that the print just printed weird so the super cute profile that the tech and I had been looking at on the screen turned into a weird "freaky chin" shape when printed but it was still so cool to see how much growth had happened in just a few weeks. Oh and I was finally told a heart rate-167 bpm. Nice and healthy.

After that we waited a few more hours to see a Dr and be released. We finally got a "room" at 7:40 and checked out fast but I was still an hour late for my own birthday dinner. Oh well my friends were understanding. So tomorrow I have to call my midwife and make a follow appointment for sometime this week...maybe we'll get another ultrasound and Daniel will be able to see him/her dancing all over.
My birthday didn't go as planned and I would have rather avoided the ER all together it was good to see our baby was very healthy.