Week #33- Baby pineapple!

Only 49 days to go. That's crazy!!!!




This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

Week #31

Your pregnancy: 31 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

This week, your baby measures over 16 inches long. He weighs about 3.3 pounds (try carrying four navel oranges) and is heading into a growth spurt. He can turn his head from side to side, and his arms, legs, and body are beginning to plump out as needed fat accumulates underneath his skin. He's probably moving a lot, too, so you may have trouble sleeping because your baby's kicks and somersaults keep you up. Take comfort: All this moving is a sign that your baby is active and healthy.

Week #30: Baby cabbage

Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and she weighs almost 3 pounds (like a head of cabbage). A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds her, but that volume will decrease as she gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. Her eyesight continues to develop, though it's not very keen; even after she's born, she'll keep her eyes closed for a good part of the day. When she does open them, she'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means she can only make out objects a few inches from her face. (Normal adult vision is 20/20.) 


Holy crap! A head of cabbage?! That's huge! She definitely feels that big, though. She's almost to my rib cage, and can reach to my sides and kick me hard enough to tickle, which is a strange feeling. This is one active little girl! i hope she will be a little less kicky and a little mor snuggly when she comes out!

Week #26-Baby cucumber

It's been a really long time since i've posted on here! Sorry. Here's some info about our Miss Cadence.


The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. He's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he's born and takes that first gulp of air. And he's continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel.

Week #20: Baby banana

You're at the halfway mark — congratulations! Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (The way your baby is measured changes now.) He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (although some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).



i just ate a banana. What does that mean?

Week #19: Baby Heirloom Tomato

Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces, and measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the size of a large heirloom tomato. The hair on her scalp is sprouting. This is a crucial time for sensory development: Your baby's brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that she may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, taking to her, or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you

Week #18: Baby Bell Pepper

Your pregnancy: 18 weeks

How your baby's growing:

Head to bottom, your baby is approximately 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a bell pepper) and she weighs almost 7 ounces. She's busy flexing her arms and legs — movements that you'll likely start noticing more and more. Her blood vessels are visible through her thin skin and her ears are now in position and stand out from her head. Myelin (a protective covering) is beginning to form around her nerves, a process that will continue for a year after she's born. If you're having a girl, her uterus and Fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If your baby is a boy, his genitals are noticeable, though he may hide them from you during an ultrasound.

Week #15: Baby Apple

Gwyneth Paltrow must like this week:)

Your growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). She's busy moving amniotic fluid through her nose and upper respiratory tract, which helps the primitive air sacs in her lungs begin to develop. Her legs are growing longer than her arms now, and she can move all of her joints and limbs. Although her eyelids are still fused shut, she can sense light. If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, for instance, she's likely to move away from the beam.

Week #14: Baby Lemon

Welcome to the second trimester! This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb. Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces.

Week #12: Baby Lime

i was just telling Kris yesterday that this babe is the size of a lime, and his eyes just kind of popped out of his head! i think he wasn't quite sure the sizes of the last two weeks (kumqwat, fig) but he definitely knows how big a lime is. It was cute. He rubbed my belly and said "Hi Lime!"

Your pregnancy: 12 weeks


How your baby's growing:
The most dramatic development this week: Reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.

Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over two inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

Week #11: Baby Fig

Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden. She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.

Week #9

Yay for week 9! Now this baby is grape-sized: a particular favorite embryonic size of mine! Betcha didn't know there are different embryonic sizes i prefer, huh?

i am feeling gross most of the time, but have only thrown up once. If i eat just one bite more than i feel hungry for, i will regret it for the next 3 hours, and then will be ravenously hungry again. My goal is to eat many small meals throughout the day, except actually follow through with it, unlike the last time i had that goal. i was never nauseated with David: another sign this is a girl, right?!

i went for an ultrasound yesterday, and my subchorianic hemorrhaging is gone! So when i went to see the doctor today, he was glad to hear it.

By the way, about my doctor. Remember how he seemed weird and out of it and not very sensitive in his language ("Let's have an ultrasound late next week to make sure the baby is still alive")? i talked to my U/S tech yesterday about it, and she said that was bizarre behavior for him, and she said he was having a really rough day the day i saw him, with scheduling errors and two bad procedures or something. But today, when i went and saw him, he still seemed pretty out of it and looked at my chart, said "Well, the baby's still alive, so we can move on from here." Um, doctor? Please don't use the words baby and alive in the same sentence while walking out the door again. It's bad form.

Anyway, at this point, i'm beginning to weigh some of my options. i'm only 9 weeks along, so i'm by no means married to this doctor. Truthfully, i stayed at this clinic 1/2 hour away because i loved my old nurse. She's not even this doctor's nurse, though, so i don't get to see her. My doctor just, well i don't get him. And i have a pretty good clinic and hospital less than a mile from me. Not as good as Southdale, but it would be nice to only drive 5 minutes to appointments.
i'm seeing my Dr. again on March 19. If he doesn't seem right to me again, i think i might just start going to the clinic here. Anyway, here's this week!

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How your baby's growing:

Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

ultrasound results

So i went to the ultrasound today. i was really scared, and drinking 32 oz. of water in an hour really made me have to pee! But anyway, i went and saw my beautiful ultrasound technician, Tanya. We looked at baby Blueberry and her/his heartbeat was very strong and the baby looked fine.

My uterus had a weird pocket of blood, called a Subchorionic Hemorrhage, but my ultrasound tech and doctor said it's small enough that it's not a huge deal.

Oh, on the topic, i finally met my doctor today! He's very old. Plus, i think he came right to my appointment from a delivery, because i had to wait for him to arrive, and he seemed out of it. But guys, he's really old. The 30-something nurse i had at his clinic said that both her younger and older brothers were delivered by him! Anyway, i think he was distracted from the delivery he had come from, or was having a bad day, because he seemed kind of rushed and his bedside manner left a bit to be desired. He is very kind, but he seemed to forget with what gravity he should say things. Like when i asked him when i should get an ultrasound again, he said "Oh, i'll have you get one at the end of next week, just to make sure the baby's still alive." Very reassuring. Then he kind of finished up our appointment to go see his schedule for the week following the next ultrasound, and he kept popping his head in the door, asking weird questions, the weirdest one being:

Him: "How many children do you have? Two?"
Us: "Just one other one."
Him: "OK". (disappeared.) Kris and i spent quite a while wondering why he asked that, and could never figure out an answer.

The nurses i've talked to said they all love him, and he is usually very thorough, almost TOO thorough and caring about his patients, so i'm thinking he just had an off day.

Then the nurse came in and gave me a Rhogam shot, just in case. i wonder how much all of this will end up costing me. i just finished paying off the clinic for being pregnant with David, and we had no complications with him. Darned 80/20 insurance! Of course, the most important thing is the baby's and my safety. But sometimes i wish Kris worked at a place where we'd pay more monthly, or have a higher deductible, and have full coverage.

It's been a very long day. i'm going to bed. Thanks for caring, everyone! It was good news, in general. Good strong heartbeat and nothing too scary to worry about. i'm glad today is OVER!

Tiny worry

i started spotting again today. i called the on call doctor, and he said there was a good chance the spotting was simply related to intercourse, but as this was the second time of bleeding in a week, i should get an ultrasound. So i'll call the clinic tomorrow morning and schedule an ultrasound, which will hopefully be soon. i love the U/S tech, too. Her name is Tanya, and she'll be really excited that we're having a baby again. We like to joke and say she was David's first photographer:)

Anyway, it's not worry-worthy, but it's pray-worthy, so please pray if you find yourself with a minute and the inspiration.

Also, one of my best friends is in the hospital right now. She's 25 weeks pregnant, with placenta previa, having some spotting and lots of contractions, and her baby's heart rate has been dropping with the contractions. It's really scary. It's her third time in the hospital in the last month, but this is the first time they've ever used the words "possible pre-term labor." Please keep her, and her little tiny baby boy, Caedmon in your prayers, too. i'll hopefully know what's going on with her soon.

Baby blueberry

How your baby's growing:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.

Crazy new realizations

All of these things are going through my head about how life will be different once there are two kids. And all these new things keep coming up and i have no idea how i'll deal with them.

• Having an infant and a toddler in a cart and trying to grocery shop at the same time.
• Going to church and carrying in a diaper bag, an infant carrier, and a toddler at the same time.
• Having an infant screaming possibly all night for various reasons and trying to keep a toddler who already is a light sleeper sleeping through the racket.
• Trying to be physically active with David with a tiny baby, or even while very pregnant

Things i'm excited about learning to do:

• Learning how to hold them both in my lap at the same time
• Teaching them to love each other and to share
• Make up games and have family inside jokes
• Eventually, hear them make music together. i get the chills just thinking about it!
  

Yesterday's scary day

Yesterday wasn't a great day. At about 10 AM, David and i were at Target, and i felt a little bit like i had urinated myself. We went home and yes, i had kind of gushed blood. So of course, i started freaking out. My appointment was at 1 PM, and the nurse on call said i should wait till the appointment, especially since i stopped bleeding after the one initial time. So i went to the appointment and the nurse and i had our normal first prenatal visit. She said she thought i'd be fine since i had stopped bleeding, but she ordered a lot of blood tests and so if anything is wrong, i will hear from them soon. Since she figured the tests would be completed yesterday still, the fact i haven't heard anything is very good. i was shaky the rest of the day though!

When we got home, we put David down for a nap and then Kris and i also fell asleep, to wake up about 2 hours later. Our whole family was exhausted from the stress of David's birthday parties last weekend and the worry about the baby. We had a nice little evening at home, and then went to bed early and slept very well last night, too. i think we all needed the rest. Anyway, little baby should be fine, though the nurse said that i should stop going to Curves or doing super athletic activities for a while, until we've had an ultrasound.


Anyway, i'm glad yesterday is over!

Later today....

i've got my first prenatal appointment today. Hopefully i will get my official due date. i've gone online and gotten a few different due dates based on my last period, but since none of them agree, i will be looking forward to the one from the nurse. i'm not going to get to see the doctor today, because they like to wait till you're farther along to bother with you. i found with David, though, that the doctor doesn't matter as much as the nurse you see, anyway. Hopefully i get my regular nurse from David, because i'm going back to the same clinic because i loved her!

We announced the pregnancy last night at David's party. Everyone was so excited!!! And my mother-in-law, (who already knew) brought me a gift of this sweet little pink beanie baby "in hopes" that it's a girl. If it turns out to be a boy, i'll probably have to delete a lot of what i write in this blog so it doesn't scar him for life! But when everyone saw David's shirt, there was a good 5 seconds of silence, and then a "Really?!" and then congratulating. It was very nice and enough celebration to satisfy even me.

If it does turn out to be a girl, i have lots of people who are willing to loan me girl clothes.

Here's something i really like about motherhood. It is such an equalizer. You can talk to any woman with a child when you've got yours with you. You make friends in elevators, stores, anywhere. The mom can be wearing much more expensive clothes than you do, look completely different, be a different race, and it doesn't matter. The phrase "How old is yours?" is sure to bring out a good conversation and an empathetic ear. Moms also know that it sucks to have to buy clothes and toys and baby gear, so it's like we all have a free rental system. i had maternity clothes out to my friend Cassie until she had her baby. David is sleeping in his cousins' crib and is changed on their changing table. My friend Sarah's baby Macy is using David's swing. About half of David's whole wardrobe was given to us by people who are done having babies. It's this world of giving and generosity and sincere support that i didn't know existed until having David. You always see moms together, but when you become a parent, it's easy to understand why. Being a mother has brought me back to being close with friends i'd grown apart from, because we suddenly have this giant thing in common. It's a not-so-secret secret society:)

Anyway, i'll let you know what happens at the nurse prenatal appointment.

Baby Lentil

Your pregnancy: 6 weeks

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How your baby's growing: This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.

See what's going on in your uterus this week.

Note: Every baby develops a little differently — even in the womb. Our information is designed to give you a general idea of your baby's development.

How your life's changing: You may find yourself developing a bit of a split personality — feeling moody one day and joyful the next. Unsettling as this is (especially if you pride yourself on being in control), what you're going through is normal. Ricocheting emotions are caused partly by fluctuating hormones. But hormones aside, your life is about to change in a big way — and who wouldn't feel emotional about that?

(side note: those ricocheting emotions are definitely becoming a major part of my life! It's like this article was written about me!)

What's goin' on now

i told my parents about the baby last week. i suck at keeping secrets. They are pretty happy, though i suspect they are wary about the timing with our financial situation as, well, dire as it is. My boss is a big encouragement to me. He's got a good quote for just about every situation in life, and his offering for this pregnancy was "If you wait to leave until all the lights are green, you'll never get out of the house." Most would say that it would have been a better idea to wait until we had more money, but really, you never have enough money to have a child. Here is where we wait on God to provide for our needs (and are sure to thank Him when He does.)

With David, i started calling him Grape, because he was the size of a grape when i found out about him. This one is Sesame. You will notice the size difference between the two: i was looking for this baby much sooner than i was with David:)

A lot of our family knows about the baby, and most of my friends. i've told my brother and my parents, and then later Kris and i told his parents, who were very surprised/impressed about this one being conceived on purpose. (My mom, by the way, is excited that this is her first legitimately conceived grandchild:) Anyway, my MIL accidentally spilled the beans to my 4-year-old niece, who promptly called my SIL (her mom) and told her. So now they know, leaving one aunt and uncle on my parent's side and two grandmas, two great-aunts, and one BIL on Kris' side to find out.

We've come up with a really cute way of telling everyone in the family about the baby. David's family birthday party is this upcoming Sunday, and we'll have appetizers/talking, presents, then food and finally cake. David will eat his cake, necessarily getting his outer sweater all dirty. We will pull off his sweater, revealing his t-shirt that says "I'm going to be a big brother!" which i received from cafepress.com a couple days ago. That way, he will have his whole birthday with the attention on him, then as the party is over but everyone is still there, he will be the one to break the news. Pretty cool, huh? i'm excited.

So far, this baby has been pretty easy on me. No morning sickness, no breast tenderness, but i have been extremely tired, and get ravenously hungry in a moment's notice. i can deal with this, as usually a handful of Goldfish will keep me going until i can get something more filling. But sometimes i eat handfuls of Goldfish and then feel gross. i've really got to be more deliberate about choosing meals and having food on hand that is healthy.

i haven't quit caffeine. Is this horrible? i don't drink much caffeine daily, but i really do enjoy my Diet Coke Lime. i've been trying to drink more water to balance this out. Also, coffee with French vanilla creamer...yum. If i go through all the trouble of making coffee for Kris, shouldn't i benefit from the exertion? Yes, there are caffeine free and decaf offerings. But let's face it. Kris wouldn't stand for decaf, so i'd have to make multiple pots a day. So caffeine is a vice i'm allowing myself without too much guilt. This pregnancy is all about letting go of the guilt, while making conscious efforts to better myself with realistic expectations. i learned a lot during the last pregnancy, and i plan to do the same with this one. Also, a glass of wine every so often? Not the end of the world. In fact, if it makes me feel like a grownup and not just a baby factory, it will probably do good.

There is a lot of difference, this being my second pregnancy. First of all, i'm not poring over pregnancy books and websites for hours a day, wondering about prenatal vitamins or how i'll know if the baby is kicking. Let's face it: i've got two birthday parties to plan and two boys to look after. This pregnancy doesn't feel novel the way the other did, but it does feel good. i'm really glad we've started working on another baby, and David will have a little sibling to teach to crawl. i'm glad Kris and i are so united in this. This is a giant step he and i have made completely together, and it's brought us closer. It is such a joy, truly, knowing that we will be a family of four. It is also so scary, because we will be a family of four. Like a real grown-up couple with kids and a townhouse. Oh, and wait for it, we just got a minivan. We are officially 40 years old. But this is totally where i've always wanted to be. i'm married to a fantastic guy, we've got out 1.3 kids, live in our own place, and i play piano at church. Really, i'm so excited to see where we will go from here.

My Sesame, week 5

from Babycenter.com

Your pregnancy: 5 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

Deep in your uterus your embryo is growing at a furious pace. At this point, he's about the size of a sesame seed, and he looks more like a tiny tadpole than a human. He's now made up of three layers — the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm — which will later form all of his organs and tissues.

The neural tube — from which your baby's brain, spinal cord, nerves, and backbone will sprout — is starting to develop in the top layer, called the ectoderm. This layer will also give rise to his skin, hair, nails, mammary and sweat glands, and tooth enamel.

His heart and circulatory system begin to form in the middle layer, or mesoderm. (This week, in fact, his tiny heart begins to divide into chambers and beat and pump blood.) The mesoderm will also form your baby's muscles, cartilage, bone, and subcutaneous (under skin) tissue.

The third layer, or endoderm, will house his lungs, intestines, and rudimentary urinary system, as well as his thyroid, liver, and pancreas. In the meantime, the primitive placenta and umbilical cord, which deliver nourishment and oxygen to your baby, are already on the job.

It's a baby!

Hi everyone! Many of you won't read this until a few weeks from now, but i wanted to begin chronicling this wonderful story now.

A few weeks ago, kind of beginning of January, Kris and i decided it would be fun and good to try to have another baby. There are several reasons:

• We want our kids close together. David is turning a year old in 2 weeks, and we wanted them close enough in age where they can entertain each other. My brother and i were 7 years apart, so we never got to be friends until he went to college. Plus, once i have two, i won't be the only source of entertainment for David.
• We wanted to have it before we move to Colorado, which would be kind of late August of 2009. It is much harder to move cross-country either pregnant or with a tiny baby. The new baby will be about 8 months old at that time.
• David is such a great baby, we feel it is our duty to humanity to continue to reproduce.
• i must have a girl! This will probably come to bite me someday, but i will have children until i have a girl.
  

So anyway, those were our reasons. i had discontinued taking meds for my hypothyroidism kind of June of 2007, and was starting to have lots of really negative symptoms, so in December i started taking meds again, and am now feeling much better. i have lots more energy and less mood swings than i was having. i had also been gaining weight at kind of an alarming rate, despite diet and exercise, and now i haven't been gaining since i started the pills again. i haven't lost anything yet, but it should kickstart my metabolism so i will lose it or have some turn into muscle, depending on if i'm allowed to work out the same way pregnant.

The doctor wanted my thyroid to be normal before i tried having a baby again, so now that i feel much better, we started trying. i had my last period on Jan. 6, and took ovulation tests and ovulated at about Jan 19th or so. So Kris and i went to work at making a baby, and even though i really shouldn't have taken a test until at least tomorrow, i got really impatient at about 4:30 this morning and took a test. And it was positive! i didn't wake Kris up, though. i just watched a movie until i could fall asleep again, and waited for Kris to go to the bathroom in the morning, with the test there waiting for him. He was pretty happy, though he didn't feel very good and was a bit groggy....i should have shown it to him later in the day, rather than first thing in the morning. But anyway, we're pregnant! And it was on purpose this time, which is always a plus:)

i haven't felt any symptoms yet. i never had morning sickness or anything with David, just an aversion to poultry and later on, my hips hurt and my ankles were swollen. i really lucked out with him. Hopefully it stays this way with New Baby. It still feels kind of surreal. We had just started trying, and Boom! i was pregnant. My stomach feels fluttery and happy.

We won't be telling a lot of people yet, just my closest and/or pregnant friends. We won't tell parents till we have a doctor's appointment. i'm a little nervous about how that will go. i'm afraid they will say we're irresponsible, since we're so broke. People keep telling me, though, that if you wait until you have enough money to have a baby, you'll never have a baby. But Kris will be getting a call from Allina about the jobs he applied for his week, and if he doesn't get them, he's planning on working fast food or landscaping, both of which he has spent years doing in the past. He basically needs a day job where he can be done at about 3 so he can go to work at Outback at night. He's a really hard worker.

We've had baby names ever since we'd been dating about 2 years. We've already got David Kristopher, (David was Kris' best friend since kindergarten who is no longer with us) and Kristopher is obviously for Dada. If this baby is a girl, her name will be Cadence Rae. Cadence is a name i've always loved, and Rae is my middle name, and also my dad's first name is Ray, so it's kind of after him. If this baby is a boy, he will be Jeremy Kurt. Jeremy is the name of a miscarried baby my parents had between my brother and i, and Kurt is David's paternal grandfather's name.

So that is my first post. i was not very good at chronicling the events of David's life in utero, or even post-utero, but i'm determined that this baby will be well-documented.

Welcome Baby J or C!