Lane's birthday pics

Here are some more pics of my little man

One year

Wow, i forgot I had this blog.

Lane was a year old on Saturday. He is so stinking cute. He is such a great little baby boy.

He isn't doing much of anything. He crawls but doesn't attempt to walk. He says momma, dadda and guck. Everything is guck. He is a fantastic eater and is just now starting to sleep through the night.

Sophia is great. She has her pre-school graduation in a week. She has gone through all her kindergarten testing already and is playing softball.

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30 weeks

So I go for my 30 week appointment tomorrow. I meet with Dr. Gemmel for the first time. She is the last one I need to meet. I obviously liked Dr. P. and Dr. Clark and I met Dr. Jacobson and loved her. I have heard good things about Gemmel so as long as I like her, I will be good for whoever decides to deliver Lane.

The nursery is done. Everything is ready for Lane except for mommy. Even Chad is ready for me to deliver. I am just nervous this time. I am not ready for my life to change again. I like the way it is going. I am happy with Sophia. We are such buddies. I just don't want to turn her world upside down. I know she will adjust. I just worry about her. I also worry about having enough love for 2 kids. I love Sophia so much that i can't even imagine loving someone else that much. I know, I am crazy.

My hormones are in full rage now. I am a wreck. I cry all the time.

Never did like being pregnant.

25 weeks

It has been so long since I blogged. Told you I hated doing it.

Wow, lets see. This month, I had a nice scare. I went to the doctor for a routine appointment and Desney, the PA told me that my sonogram showed an echogenic cardiac focus. She said that it was a mark in his heart that no way effected his heart but could be a soft marker for downs syndrome. Needless to say, that was all I need to hear to break down. She wanted me to go to Magee to have a better sonogram. I called Chad hysterical. He calmed me down. We looked it up when we got home and it didn't seem like a huge deal. I was still a wreck. This was a Tuesday. I managed to get to Magee on Thursday. The first thing the sonogram lady told me was that this is controversial as to whether or not it is a marker for downs. After she did all the testing, she said everything looked good and that there are no other markers for downs. So I feel better. Not a good week for me there.

Other than that, everything is good. I went to the Dr. last Monday for some cramping and it turns out I have a bladder infection. They put me on abx and I think I am better now.

Sophia got sick last Tuesday. Wednesday she spiked a fever of 103. I called the doc.. Chad was off on Thursday and took her in. Turns out, she had pnemonia. Thank God they didn't put her in the hospital but man was she sick. I stayed home with her Friday and both Friday and Saturday she was really sick. She is better now and will finish her abx on Sunday.

My dad had another heart attack and is back in the hospital.. He is doing ok but is in ICU at Highlands. What more can I say about him. This is a constant battle.

To end this babble, I am 25 weeks pregnant and I feel really good. Total weight gain has only been 7 lbs so can't complain. I go back to Magee on Saturday for a transvaginal ultrasound to check the length of my cervix to see if I am high risk for PTL.

Merry Christmas

I just realized I didn't finish my last blog about the sonogram. Oh well, I really don't like to blog

Christmas was yesterday. It was nice. Unfortunately, my dad is back in the hospital. He had another stroke sometime last week. They put him in Jeannette Hospital on Saturday and just recently moved him to a nursing facility in Mt. Pleasant Hospital. He looks pretty bad and is quite confused but you know that man. I am sure he will bounce back from this as he does all his illnesses. You can't quite keep that old bird down.

Christmas Eve we went to my in-laws and got way too many presents as usual. Christmas Day we spent at home for the morning and went to my mom's in the afternoon, the hospital in the evening and over to Mike and Nicole's at night. When Sophia woke up yesterday, I heard her yell, "PRESENTS" and came running into our room. She ran downstairs and was so excited. All we heard was "mommy, he left me presents in red wrapping paper with snowmen!!!". She tore them open and then made a comment how he didn't leave a mess with his boots when he came down the chimney. When we looked at the cookies that were gone, I said "wow, he ate them all" and she said "yeah, fat men gotta eat momma". I about died!!

It's a BOY

Wow, what an experience my sonogram was!!!

Sophia came with us. We went to Medical Imaging Associates in Greensburg. It is a fabulous facility. Our tech's name was Karen and i couldn't have had a better tech. Much better than the nasty woman at the hospital that did Sophias.

She told us that she will do the anatamy at the very end. However, my little guy had his leg's spread from the time she put the thing on my belly. She got a total turtle shot. She is completely sure he is a boy. I choked up. I had tears running down my face as she was scanning the rest. I was so nervous. I don't remember being that nervous with Sophia.

All looks great!! She just

Light Switch

I seriously feel like someone just flipped a switch because I feel 100% better today.
Actually, I started feeling better last evening. I went home, was hungry.. Chad ran out and got Chinese food. I sat with Sophia on the floor playing high ho cherry o with our fireplace on. It was rainy out and I felt cozy. For the first time in weeks, I had no anxiety.

I actually ate all my food and still felt good.

I slept all night long without a disturbance.

I feel great today. Woke up feeling great... Ate lunch... baby is moving like crazy today and I feel back to my old self again.

I really think my thyroid was out of whack and leveled out just like it did with Sophia.

I really hope this lasts because I can handle pregnancy like this!!

My 4 1/2 month routine appointment

I went to see Dr. Jacobson yesterday. I have to say, I didn't want to meet her because I love Dr. Clark and Dr. Philapkosky so much but I ended up REALLY liking her. She was super cool.

She told me all my tests came back normal. I didn't know what she was talking about. Apparently it was my pap and that other swab they did for some kindof bacteria that can cause pre-term labor. That was all fine.

I explained to her about my anxiety. I told her how horrible it is in the evening. I am agitated so easily and I cannot relax. I am having heart palpatations that are really severe. She told me she could put me on Zoloft. I told her I did not want to go on an antidepressent. I asked her if it could be my thyroid and she said probably not since I just had it checked a month ago.

She checked for the hearbeat and had a hard time finding it. She asked me if I am feeling movements and I told her not nearly like I did with Sophia. She said it seems the baby implanted further back this time. That's probably why the movements aren't as clear. She finally found the heartbeat and he/she kicked me while she was listening. We heard it but I didn't feel it.

I asked her if it was ok that I was losing weight. She looked at my chart and said "hmmm" She definately wants to check my thyroid now. With my weight loss, anxiety and heart palpatations she is thinking I may possibly be hyperthyroid again. She ordered the bloodwork and I am going today.

I really had a rough evening. I am just so horribly anxious at night. Thank God for Ambien or I doubt I would ever sleep.

I swear, the minute i push this baby out, while they are stitching me up, I want Chad to go get snipped :)

Week 17

Here I am, week 17. I feel miserable.

I can't sleep. I have anxiety. I hate being pregnant and I am just going to whine about it.

To boot, my darling little angel has turned into a demon child. She doesn't listen to me. At all.

When I was pregnant with Sophia, I got so annoyed by people saying "just wait until the baby comes". Now I get irritated because people say "just wait until you have 2 running around". Why can't people just shut the hell up?

I did something nice for someone recently. I thought it was nice. Chad thought it was nice, yet when I did it, I got no thank you... NONE, whatever. I didn't do it for gratitude but a simple thank you would have been nice. Nothing.

Sophie's Birthday

Well my baby girl's birthday came and went. It's so crazy since it is around our hectic holiday.

I had to work on Wednesday which was her official birthday. Chad was home with her so I was happy about that. We didn't do much on Wednesday. Thursday was Thanksgiving and we went to my in-laws to eat dinner and then went to my moms to eat again. My brother was on good behavior and is not drinking (for now). Friday, my mother and I battled the mall for Black Friday. We always to do so good and get so lucky. We didn't hit any lines at any register (although it seemed that we always started the lines). We got a cart (which we always end up getting a stray one out of no where) and we didn't have to wait more than 20 minutes to eat lunch. I got a TON of shopping done.

Saturday was Sophia's b-day party. I was so busy all day getting everything ready. I was completely exhausted. She had a good time so it was worth it. Sunday, we skipped church and stayed home. We put up Christmas decorations. I was very crampy and tired yesterday so spent alot of time laying down. Sophie has been acting up a lot lately and I don't know if it's her age or if she is acting out because I have not been feeling well lately. Either way, it's making me nuts.

As far as baby #2, I am officially 16 weeks prego. Not really feeling much movements yet. My belly has grown slightly and i am barely filling out my maternity clothes. I look like a slob. My hair is falling out again and I am zitty. The baby is very low and makes me uncomfortable. I seem to be going wide with this one. Maybe it's a boy. We will know on December 17th. I can't wait to find out

Our first parent/teacher conference

I seriously hate blogging. I typed a huge thing and of course, it zapped. WTF???

Here is the short of it. We met with Ms. Karen last evening. She said Sophia is doing wonderful. She is a very "bright little girl". She was super impressed by her letters, shapes, colors and words. She said she does very well. She is a bit backwards socially but they are working on it. She is very shy. I told her you should see her at home... she is far from shy. I was shy too when I was little so she gets it honestly.

As far as the pregnancy goes, I am feeling good. Pregnancy wise, great. I have another freaking sinus infection and my head is killing me. I have been taking alot of tylenol which I don't want to do but have no other choice. If I don't take it, I can't function. When I do take it, it dulls the pain enough to work. I have a dr. appointment with Fetchero on Thursday so hopefully they will give me something. I talked to Clark's office and they said most antibiotics are safe. We will see

My Appointment at Magee

Since I had pre-term labor with Sophie, Dr. Clark wanted me to go see a specialist at the Maternal-Fetal Medicine High Risk Pregnancy Group in Pittsburgh. I took the day off yesterday and Chad went with me. We dropped Sophie at school, went to breaksfast and headed down for my 11:00 appointment. That place is amazing. There are so many specialists in that department. The doctor couldn't of been nicer. We explained that my level of stress when I was pregnant with Sophia was so high. He asked us a million questions and when all was said and done, he said he didn't want to do anything about it. He feels since I had pre-term contractions but didn't deliver pre-term that my body will know exactly what to do with this one. Wherein, most people who actually dialate and deliver early, their chance eis 30% of it happening again, with me, my chance is 5%.

I was pretty happy with that. He also said that in 24 weeks, he wants me to have another internal ultrasound to check the length of my cervix. If the problem is actually with my cervix (because of the conization I had done 10 years ago), then we will have to discuss some medication options. Probably the same meds I was on with Sophie (procardia). If my cervix seems fine, he feels I should carry to term with no problem.

On another note. I had my second appointment on Wednesday with Dr. P. We opted out of the downs testing. I didn't gain any weight this month. She gave me my slip to schedule my ultrasound for after December 13th... YEAH

Belly

Ok, so here is my belly at 11 weeks. Much bigger than it was with Sophia at 11 weeks. I guess that's just how it goes. Nothing really to report. I had my first real craving yesterday. Happened around 8:00 p.m. and I just had to have BBQ chips. Of course Chad wouldn't run out for me so I drug my little Sophie out and we went to Open Pantry. I ate pretty much the whole bag of the biggest bag I could buy.

All I want to do is eat. We just ordered pizza at work today. For 3 of us, I insisted we get an extra large. I can't wait til that sucker gets here.

Trick or Treat

Sophia went Trick or Treating for the first time ever. I am such a bad mother. Where we live, there is no trick or treating. The houses are too far away. Marsha convinced me to take her into Mt. Pleasant so we drove, parked and walked all over Mt. Pleasant. Sophia was pretty crabby. The little princess isn't use to working for her candy. She got annoyed because the girls were walking too fast and she couldn't keep up because she was trying to eat the candy as she got it. It was funny. She was exhausted by the end and Sarah ended up carrying her on her back on the way back to the car.

My pregnancy is going well. I was a little hormonal yesterday and poor Chad had to listen to me cry about how I feel he doesn't find me attractive anymore. I was nuts and it's done. My belly grows every day. It starts out relatively flat in the morning and as the day goes on gets bigger.

I am officially 11 weeks.

My First Dr. Appointment

I figure it would be really good for me to blog about my appointments so that can keep track of everything so it may be boring to read but good for me.

Anyway, I met with Dr. Clark today 10/17/08 at 1:00 p.m. in North Huntingdon. Let me first start by saying, I adore this man. He is such a wonderful doctor. I wish I could see him for every appointment but instead, I have to meet with all 4 of them. I obviously know Dr. P. because she delivered Sophie but the other 2, I have never met and have no desire to.

Anyway, he said my due date is officially May 16th. He said it is absolute because they did a sonogram so they will never change it. There is definately only 1 baby in there. He didn't do a pap or an exam. He didn't do the pap because my insurance won't pick it up until next month and no need for an exam since I had one at 5 weeks with Dr. P. for the bleeding.

He went over my history and informed me that because I had pre-term labor with Sophie, i have a 30% chance of having it with this baby. Not exactly something I wanted to hear. I have to go to McGee hospital in Pgh soon to talk with some docs there. Apparently, they need to evaluate me and there is a possibility that I will need progesterone injections 1x per week. He told me I am considered "high risk" so i need to take it easy. Easier said than done with an active 4 year old at home.

Anyway, that's that. Everything went well. They ordered a shitload of blood work. I need to get that done before my next appointment. I will hear the heartbeat next time!!

Til later

Week #9

Here I am at the beginning of week 9 and I feel great. I really can't complain. With the exception of having a crazy sense of smell, everything is fine. There is something in the kitchen here at work that really stinks. It has been making me nuts all day. It smells dead. It is very possible that it is simply just the stagnet air mixed with this stupid island breeze airfreshner in there but YUCK. Everyone thinks I am nuts because no one else can smell it. Ahh, the joy of pregnancy. I remember when I was very early with Sophia, Chad cleaned the floor with bleach and I about ripped his head off. It smelled so bad I wanted to kill him. Another time, he wore cologne to go to Walmart and I flipped. Ahhh, hormones.

Sophia has rolled straight into terrible 4s!!! She is making me nuts. She fights me on everything. Her clothes, her hair, her shoes... ahhhhhhhhhh. I thought this all started later in life. She is in a phase right now where she refuses to wear underwear. No, I am not kidding. She only wears about 3 pairs of her 5 million pairs of pants. They can't be too tight, too short, too long, too baggy. She has a complete meltdown over it. If her hair is even slightly in her eyes, she freaks. She is neurotic like her father.

I have my first dr. appointment with Dr. Clark on Friday. I am excited. I love him.

Life is getting better

Sophia was actually excited about going to school this morning!!! I almost fell over. I am so over the top thrilled with this. She loves her teachers and she told me she has 2 friends. One has long hair and another has hair like hers!! LOL. She doesn't know their names. When we walked in this morning, she ran over to this little girl and said "mommy, this is my friend". The teacher told mer her name is Celia. I am happy.

It's funny. Sophia loves school but never wants to talk about it. The only time she ever tells me anything about school is when we are in the car on our way there. I guess that is our new special time. it's nice.

The pregnancy is going well. I am a little over 7 weeks. My back no longer hurts but now my neck hurts. It's like the pain travelled up. I am thinking I am not sleeping right. Who knows

Til later

Week 7

Anyone who knows me, knows I completely dislike being pregnant. I more than dislike it. If i could have someone else carry my baby for 9 months, I would be content. Sounds terrible, i know. I am just being honest. Some people love it. NOPE. Never....

I am trying to enjoy it because it is my last but I am just not!!! Not at all. Last week, I spent worrying because I was bleeding. This week, I cannot even stand up. My back hurts so bad. I can't, for the life of me figure it out. I am not carrying extra weight yet. I have been reading that your hormones can cause back pain. WTF, it is absolutely horrible. I look completely crippled.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH. On a good note, my sonogram came back "normal" and my hcg levels are 46,273 which is great.

Stress

Ok, so this baby is starting to give me trouble earlier than Sophia. It must be a boy

Tuesday, was having some more bleeding. I figured I better give them a call. I did and they scheduled me to come into the office. I saw Dr. Philapkosky on Wednesday. She immediately told me bleeding for 2 weeks was definately not normal. She said it could either be an ectopic pregnancy or it is possible that my body formed antibodies due to being A- when I delivered Sophia. She said regardless, I need another dose of rhogam. She scheduled me for an emergency sonogram and some bloodwork. I got the sonogram. Everything, according to the tech, looked fine. There was a heartbeat although they couldn't judge how fast. I got to see the little bean and even got his/her first picture.

I am still waiting for a phone call about the labs. Keeping my fingers crossed.

On another note, Sophia did great in pre-school today. She walked in like a champ. She wanted to cry but held off.