Bladder Bed

We went to our check-up today!! The baby's heartbeat can now be heard, it's quite amazing actually. Only problem is my doctor had some difficulty finding our little one this morning. She is moving the stick around and just couldn't find it. We talked about last week when I went in (for the leaking, which turned out to be my bladder). She noted that last week they found the heartbeat with no problem. Despite the difficulty I remained calm because I am learning a bit about my little one's personality. It likes to be difficult and is one for the dramatics, lol!!.

The Dr. moved the wand a little lower and then a little lower and there it was, the heartbeat! Right on top of my bladder!! My baby has been quite comfortable there for a week now. After talking to my mom last week there is a chance this is a permanent home. When she was pregnant with me I camped out on her bladder the entire time.

So I have decided there must be something really comfortable about my bladder. Perhaps because I am always drinking water it is squishy and it likes it. I wish I could just ask our little one what is so enjoyable about it but it will be it's little secret. John finds it quite hilarious when I sneeze or move and I go, "Oh crap, I will be right back." He offered to buy me Depends. My response was a glare and a bunch in the arm.

That is how our little one is doing. It has made my bladder a bed for itself. So the check up went well. The baby is fine. I too am alright for the most part. I need to eat more protein and my next appointment they will be checking my glucose. It's a bit early to be doing it but because of family history and some slight concerns now we are going to look into it.

Before I end this blog you are probably all wondering when and if we will be finding out the sex. Yes, yes we will. We are all about supporting gender identity and roles in society. So on November 6th we will find out!!!! In just a few weeks our little one will no longer be it or baby. It will have a name (yes we already have names). So be on the lookout for that update.

Anyway for now John & Aimee + Baby are doing quite well!!

15 weeks going on 16!

Joys of Pregnancy!

I will probably have lots of joys that I will share along the way. Some will be genuine others will be sarcastic. Hopefully my tone never comes across as resentful or annoyed because in all honesty I am super happy that I am going to have a baby, but sometimes the journey there isn't so pleasant.

An amazing joy is knowing that each day the baby is doing something new! And for me it is amazing how just overnight my belly expands.

Speaking of an expanding belly; with that comes the joy of stretchmarks. Not all people experience this but I knew before I was even pregnant I would get stretchmarks. Last night my first one appeared. It was the strangest feeling actually. I got this crazy crazy itch! I will note that I didn't scratch instead I went to find the lotion and as I stood up all the sudden there was this feeling of release. I looked down and there it was, one sole stretchmark. At first it bummed me out and then I was like hey this is just another joy of pregnancy. And while it seems a bit unflattering and depressing the overall picture makes it better.

One joy that I was not expecting was the hair. Everyday I am plucking one or two dark noticeable hairs from my chin line! But that isn't anything. You should see my stomach. My stomach is almost as hairy as John's (no offense babe, but we know, lol). And it really did come on all of the sudden. One day I said out loud to John, "You know this is weird, my stomach sure does have a lot of hair on it." His response, "Yeah I know I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to hurt your feelings but it is definitely hairy." Maybe this is too much information for you but I just thought I would share with you. Hormones can cause crazy things to happen to your body and each woman is different. Nobody once told me that my stomach could turn into a grassy knoll, so I am choosing to make it known now to anybody that might become pregnant.

So there it is just a couple pregnancy joys that I wanted to share. While calling them joys might seem odd please trust me that anything that happens to one's body during pregnancy is amazing because you are carrying life!!! How cool is that?!

Surprise! It's a kitten!

Yea for my first bizarro prego dream. I have heard many stories of weird pregnancy dreams. I have always laughed and find them to be cute. A few people lately have asked me personally if I have any weird dreams. The answer has been no, until now. Let me say this first; there is nothing cute or funny about my dream. It was just weird, bizarre, and . . . yeah. Just plain bizarre. So it was a few nights ago that I had this dream.

I am in labor. It's time for me and John to go to the hospital. I vaguely remember not really wanting to but I can't remember why. And I remember feeling like it was too early to be having the baby but John and the doctors were not worried. So I am in the delivery room and after a few pushes I am done. I ask what it is and no one would answer and I didn't hear any crying. Then they hand it to me. Well it really wasn't an it. It was a kitten. I gave birth to a kitten, one, just one kitten. Oddly enough it looked my cat at home. Now it wasn't small like a kitten when they are first born but it wasn't a full grown cat either. The next thing I remember very vividly is I was nursing. I was nursing the kitten!!! As I was nursing the kitten I turned to John and said, "Well take back all the gifts and tell everyone it is no big deal because we didn't have a baby we had a kitten."


So there it is, the dream isn't cute, but it is definitely bizarre. I even remember waking up a bit confused because it felt so real. Even the sensation of actually nursing a kitten felt real. Ugh. I hope these dreams get better!

Lists

I find I am living my life through to do lists. And sadly I have lots of unfinished to do lists. Therefore I feel like I am not living my life. My life is nothing but unfinished to do lists. I am looking forward to when I am done with school. A huge chunk of my to do time will be freed up to be exchanged for baby time. And I am looking forward to it.

If you all didn't know April will be a month of transition for me. The baby will come and I will finish school all in the same month!! This also means I will not be working because I will be on maternity leave. This at first was overwhelming but now I am at peace and realizing that April, May, and June will be wonderful months for me.

But until that time comes I am surviving on to do lists. The to do lists I make over the next six months are going to need to be completed.

So here is where I leave you to go and make my lists.