Week 14, I'm so behind!!

Hello! I'm so behind on my blog and I apologize. I just got to a place in my pregnancy where I just felt like poo all of the time and there was no use blogging about it. I'm now starting to feel normal and have more energy and I feel like it's life changing! I still get a little sick in the mornings or in the middle of the night but other than that I'm doing great. I'm officially in my 2nd trimester, yay! It's a good feeling to be out of the "probabtionary" pregnancy period. I'm showing more and more now which is cute although I have lost 10 pounds total so far. My doctor put me back on the zofran and told me to use in moderation, which that works out great. We are progressing and moving right along. I just keep getting more excited, I can wait to see my baby.

So we had our 12 week exam 2 weeks ago and the doctor said he is 95% sure we are having a GIRL!! We are so excited and if she is in fact a girl we are naming her Kaitlyn McKenzie Estrada. We would be as excited if she ends up a he as well, I'm not picky, I just want a healthy baby, be it boy or girl! We will have another sonogram at either 18 or 20 weeks to confirm the sex. After that it's shopping time.

We are extremely blessed and I'm in awe of God and his works daily. We have been extremely blessed with a large refund, so much so that it will cover all of the babies furniture, bedding and then some. We wouldnt have to touch our savings. Also my husband and I have been wanting and SUV for a long time and with the baby on the way we know it's even more crucial. So this past Saturday we found a great deal on a Volvo XC90, silver (my favorite color), 7 passenger, leather interior, fully loaded and we purchased it. Now Jair has his Volvo and I have my Volvo SUV, it will fit our growing family perfectly! I feel so extremely blessed for everything.

Well I can't believe how time is flying! Next week I will be at week 15, pretty soon she'll be here! Meanwhile I'm just growing, literally and enjoying life.

I will try to keep on top of this blog, sorry I'm so far behind. Until next week!

Love ya,

Lori

Week 10!!

Hello Friends and family, I've made it to week 10, yay!! Not much has changed. According to babyzone.com my baby is about 1 and 1/4 inches long this week and weighs about 1.8 ounces. Here's a picture off their site so you can see what my baby looks like. The baby is just growing rapidly and it's cool that each week there's something different God focuses on for my baby's development. Week 10 marks a milestone for my baby. This first part of fetal development is all about organization. All of my baby's cells have been directed to their places—brain tissue is growing rapidly, muscles are forming, fingers and toes are becoming defined. He or she now looks less like an embryo (or an alien) and more like the baby in miniature form.

So how am I feeling? Well about the same. I'm now vomiting consistently every morning, sorry to be so blunt. During the day I start to feel a little more human again and then I go back down hill at night. I still haven't been able to eat much. I've lost about 7 pounds but I still have my baby bump so you can barely tell. I can tell with the way my clothes are fitting. I may have to stop wearing my maternity clothes right now because they are too big on me now, but they are still so comfy! Anyways, about this week I'm supposed to be exercising and eating a healthy diet. I looked at that and laughed, if I move too sudden I have to vomit, I cant imagine me exercising for that matter. And as for diet, I'm lucky to keep anything down, so what ever works is what it's going to be for right now. I'm really praying for the next two weeks to come fast so the 2nd trimester can start. I pray that I get relief and I can start working out, which I miss, and eating actual food, which I really miss!

Anyways, sorry I'm so late on this blog. I just haven't been feeling well and this is the first day this week that I felt I can blog and make sense. Quick story, when I was about 22 I believe, my husband and I were engaged, I worked with a lady who got pregnant. One day I went to her cube to give her a message and she jumped down my throat for disturbing her. I got so mad and stormed out of her cube, and I didn't talk to her for months. I thought that was the rudest thing EVER!! Now that I'm going through this I feel so bad for even getting upset with her. My gosh these hormones are strong and they are in control right now. I have found myself doing the same thing at work, I apologize afterwards, but I can't control it! It's just funny looking back now on that situation, I should've hugged her and said I was sorry LOL!!

Anyways, I will be blogging soon on week 11, that's coming up on Monday! God bless you all and thanks for your continued support and prayers.

Until next time!

9 Weeks!

Hello again! Well we are going on week 9 and nothing much has changed really. This week my baby is about the size of a quarter, which is really weird because by the looks of me you would think it's much bigger. I've been telling everyone that I'm showing already and everyone has been saying "there's no way it's too early" so here's a picture. I've had several people come up to me congratulating me of my pregnancy so it's not only obvious to me, it's now obvious to others. When I had my doctor's appointment last week I asked him why I was showing so early. He just said every woman is different and it could be multiple reasons. I think I've defied all the books by my belly. All the books I've been reading said that usually more petite women start showing early and for larger women it can take up to 5-6 months for them to show, well I proved them wrong cause Lord knows I'm so far from petite! I just gave in and I'm wearing maternity clothes now, and boy those are comfortable!!

Anyways, so how am I feeling? Well on my last blog my doctor prescribed me an anti-nausea medication called Zofran and that was making a huge difference. Problem is the Zofran ended causing other complications so my doctor took me off of it. So, I'm having to deal 1x1 with the nausea and that's been pretty tough. I had a really rough morning this morning but I feel a little more at ease right now, it comes and goes all through out the day. Also there's another issue, my doctor called me and said I tested positive for Group B Strep, he's putting me on medication now to try and kill the bacteria and of coarse he will be watching me through the pregnancy. I'm really rather freaked out about it, 1 out of 4 women are carriers of this bacteria and it can be passed on to my baby during birth. The good thing is it's treatable. I'm still not 100% educated on this subject so if any of you have any knowledge you can pass on I will be extremely appreciative!

Well the count down continues, 3 more weeks until my 1st trimester is over. I pray to God that I start feeling better and I will be able to eat more than saltines and soup, I would really like that! I appreciate all the prayers, thank you all very much!

Until next time!

8 Weeks!!

Hello!! Sorry I'm late again this week with the blog but I wanted to make sure I uploaded new sono pics. Yesterday was my first OBGYN appointment and I got to see my baby again! I'm so amazed and the coolest thing of all is I got to hear the heart beat! I wasn't expecting to be able to hear the heart beat this early but I did. It's an amazing sound and so far my baby is really healthy. He or she has grown about 5mm since last week, that's just amazing to me. According to all the baby websites and the books I'm reading, my baby is a little bigger than a dime.


Just look at the pictures from this week and last week, it's just amazing how they change in a week! You can actually see his or her head, the little nubs forming for arms and legs. You want to know something cool, the other image in the sono that looks like a little blob, no that's not another baby, it's the yolk sack. The yolk sack is what's used to nurture your baby until the placenta is fully developed. I have to tell you I saw that blob and thought it may be another baby, for a minute there I almost fainted!

We finally have a due date, it is drum roll please......September 17th! Yay, according to all the baby websites I knew it would be anywhere around the 14th - 20th so this was no surprise. It's just nice to have a good firm date so we can start planning. My next appointment is March 3rd. I will be seeing a specialist where he will be checking my baby for any genetic diseases, such as Downs Syndrome, etc. This will be exactly at 12 weeks and it will be my last week of my 1st trimester. I'm looking forward to that. No all day sickness anymore, at least that's what I pray.

Now how do I feel? Well the nausea is just relentless lately but thankfully yesterday my doctor gave me a prescription for a great drug called Zofran. This is a miracle worker. I took it last night and was able to sleep all night without getting up to vomit, sorry to be so graphic. Today I feel a little like myself again. I still have to be careful with what I eat but for the most part that nagging nauseous feeling is gone. I feel like I've been so productive at work today! I thank God for creating science!

Please continue to pray for this baby inside my belly to continue growing healthy each week. I appreciate your prayers and encouragement, I love you all.

Until next time!

Correction, I'm actually 7 weeks and 3 days!!!

Hello! Sorry I'm behind in blogging but I wanted to have my sono pics up before I blogged! To the left you see my beautiful baby the size of a craisen right now. Isn't he/she cute! My first sonogram went very well, I got to see the heart beat on the Doppler, the nurse said that we have an excellent and strong heart beat. You can see in the picture where they graphed his heart beat, 147 bpm! She said that was amazing and we have a healthy baby growing inside me right now. After seeing the baby she said I'm at 7 weeks and 3 days, I've been a week behind this entire time. Which totally explains why I started everything early, i.e. morning sickness, etc. Here I thought I was pregnant with twins, nope there's only one baby in there!

It was so cool seeing the heart beat for the first time. It looks like frequent flashes of light on the Doppler, it's wild. I really cant wait to hear the baby's heart beat or know the sex for that matter. This is the most exciting thing my husband and I have ever gone through.

So how am I feeling, well pretty much the same. The nagging nausea is still hanging on for most of the day. I've been eating a little more but don't over do it because that makes me even more sick. I have to force myself to eat in the mornings, I don't feel like eating anything but when I'm hungry I get even more nauseous. So I've learned to eat some carbs in the morning and little things throughout the day. I will be happy when the first trimester is over with and I can start eating again and having a little more energy. Speaking of energy, I have none! I'm so tired all the time, which is totally hard when you are a working woman. I've been doing the best I can, I pretty much work 8-5:00PM and don't over do it. Those of you who know me, I'm a overtime kind of gal, well not anymore. It's all good though, I wouldn't have it any other way!

So my fertility doctor finally released me to my OBGYN and I have my first appointment with him on the 3rd of February. By that time I will be right at 8 weeks. I'm not sure if he's going to give me another sonogram but we'll see. Every doctors different and since this is my first experience I have a lot to learn. I will keep you posted!

Well that's about it for this week, we are moving right along. Thanks for taking this journey with me everyone!!

Until next time!!!

5 Weeks!!

Hello Everyone!

Well now I'm 5 weeks along and to the left is a picture of what my baby looks like and a diagram of what your body does at 5 weeks. Who knew that a blog can be so educational LOL!

So how am I feeling? Well I can definitely tell that there's a baby growing inside of me. I haven't really been able to eat anything, I haven't been throwing up but I feel like I'm going to every time I eat. I'm still having some unpleasant issues that I will spare you from, but they are extremely unpleasant. Nothing sounds good to me right now as far as food goes. My husband took me to Chick-Fil-A for dinner on Saturday and when I ordered soup instead of my normal combo #1 value sized, he knew I wasn't right. I'm having a lot of headaches too, seems like I wake up with one and struggle for most of the day, it finally goes away. I usually would take Tylenol but with the way my stomach feels I haven't been. I'm still really bloated, I figured it's not going to get any better so I just need to give in, so I'm using a rubber band to close some of my slacks, or just doing the unbutton thing when I sit down, it is what it is. It's just a yucky feeling overall, but from what I hear that's completely normal. I'm just happy that I haven't been throwing up!

One more week until we have our sonogram, I'm extremely excited!! I cant wait to see my little shrimp on the Doppler, it's going to be an amazing sight! Its crazy how a week can seem so far away, it will be here before I know it I'm sure.

Well take care everyone, until I write again.

Week Four and Counting!

Hello! So I'm going on week #4 and I feel just great! No morning sickness so far, so it's all good. Sometimes I feel like taking another pregnancy test just to make sure I still am because I just feel that good. I have the usual symptoms, sore breast, tired all the time, other things I will spare you from, so that is a reminder that I have a bun in the oven.

So I started to call my baby Shrimp, because the stage that it's in right now literally looks like a shrimp, it's freaky really. It's just amazing to me that weekly it's something new.

I was so excited because Saturday I was supposed to start my period and I didn't, so that made me officially late! I know I'm weird but when you do fertility you find out two weeks after conception so you don't wait until your first missed period like normal women do. Up until I missed my period it was so surreal that I was pregnant, now I feel like I really am! It's just so exciting!

I cant wait until January 28th because I have my first sonogram! I will get to see the baby's heart beat and get some pictures, I will also know my due date! 2 more weeks to go for that, I can hardly wait!

Well anyways, better get back to work, let me tell you ever since I've found out it's been really hard to focus on work. I'm getting better though, I have 8 more months to go!

Until next time!