Archive for September, 2007

okie dokie, so paul and i had decided that we do NOT want to have the baby on base. our sweet friend sarah (mother to baby lil) told me that she would no longer be my friend if i did, given the horrific experience she went through. so i did some research and got in touch with people at this women’s special care clinic that takes our insurance. i went today and it was AH-MAZING!!!! the clinic is run by all women who are all on a first-name basis…. really comfortable and casual. i must say, it was strange being in a waiting room entirely filled with pregnant women. anyway, i met with the nurse practitioner today, who is just great and full of excitement. i get to choose which of the two wonderfully brilliant and nice female drs i want to deliver the baby, AND i get to choose the hospital that i deliver at. the dr. comes to me!!!! so, the nurse practitioner got all my background info, etc, and then did the ultrasound. apparently paul and i have a little show-off in the making b/c the baby was pretty still at first and i saw the heart beat, then it was as if the wee-one knew he/she was on camera and so he/she decided to start swimming around and putting on a show. i was cracking up. needless to say, so far so good in terms of how everything looks. i wasn’t exactly clear on how far along i was, so i spoke with the np about that and she did a measurement of the baby. as of today, i am officially 8 weeks and 2 days. i will meet with the np once a month until i am 4 months. THEN, get this….. the women’s special care clinic pays to send all first time mothers to the high-risk pregnancy clinic in jacksonville to have all these tests run to check all the baby’s organs, make sure everything is a-ok, and do a 3D ultrasound. how great is that?!?!?! i was so impressed with this facility. it was such an answered prayer after paul and i have been somewhat stressing about drs on base and dealing with all of that.

sooooooooooooooo that’s how today went and how the baby is doing. we’ll be sure to keep you posted. our next dr. visit is actually on our anniversary, so that will certainly be a day we will look forward to. as for now, paul and i are going to celebrate our little show-off by going to our favorite mexican joint for dinner.

bye for now!!!

here i am in atlanta for the weekend and loving every minute of it. i came home to shop with mom. while i don’t have a “bump” yet, i have a little pouch that makes my clothes uncomfortable. soooooo, i got some reccommendations from my cousin, kim, and went shopping crazy. i’m absolutely in love with these pants i got from target that have a drawstring waist. we got some tunic type tops too. needless to say, i’m ready for the next few weeks until i really start to show and cross over to the dark side (maternity clothes).
uncle b is home for the weekend too from athens, which is great!!! his hugs are the greatest and i think he likes hugging, knowing that there are two of us that he is hugging now. he’ll be a great uncle.
mom and da took me to pottery barn for kids today just to play around and get excited. mom was caught by the store clerk pushing around a child’s baby stroller with a baby inside. she’s kinda crazy-excited right now. da had fun playing with the toys and he tried to figure out this toy that was a bubble maker…. da thought it was a top and kept trying to spin it. needless to say, it wouldn’t spin. ha!
as for the baby….. this week the baby’s hormones began to develop, and though we don’t know (or can’t see) if it’s a boy or a girl yet, the hormones to determine the sex are there. the baby is now 14 milimeters and next week it will be roughly the size of a rasberry and weigh as much as a paper clip. teeny!!!!
paul and i have been pretty worn out this week, which is another reason why i am loving being in atlanta so much. work has been crazy for both paul and i…. i think we need a vacation. (funny how i just got back to teaching after summer vacation).
anyway, being able to see my parents and my brother this weekend gets me really excited and it’s awesome to be a part of their joy in this news. i kinda don’t want to go back to jax…. ha!
hope everyone is having a good weekend!!!

the baby dreams are getting more and more strange. for starters, paul had his first baby dream this week. he woke himself up because he was laughing, and then he wanted to wake me up to tell me about it, but didn’t (good thing). apparently in paul’s dream, the baby was a boy and when paul picked him up all the baby did was fart and poop everywhere. paul said it was constant and just wouldn’t stop. hahahaha! i guess that was when he started to laugh and the dream ended b/c his laughter woke him up. cute, right?

my dreams have been really bizarre. the latest ones are birthing dreams. i had one last week of me, ready to give birth, doctors in the room, people yelling at me to push, but when i did, nothing happened. the baby wouldn’t move and it was as though my unborn little peanut was laughing at my efforts, telling me “hey, that’s cool, i’m just going to chill out here for a while.” not so cool.

the one i had last night was the most graphic so far (and i’ll spare you all the details, don’t worry). it was another birthing dream, but i wasn’t ready to give birth yet, just in the beginning processes of doctors telling me “ok nicole, it’s going to be a long night, so try to get some rest when you can.” for some reason, mom was in the hospital bed next to me as though she was a patient too (for what, i do not know). but instead of being in a hospital, we were in a banquet hall with hospital beds everywhere and absolutely no privacy (my nightmare come true of having this baby on base). in my dream, i realize that i’m not supposed to be there b/c i’m not far enough along in my pregnancy to give birth yet and would have a very premature baby. then i panic. i get out of my bed and start walking down this corridor to find someone and tell them that i’m not supposed to be here yet. of course, no one is to be found. then all of a sudden the labor pains begin and my water breaks. a nurse shows up, hands me a tray (it looks like one of those paper plates with the sections all cut out in it, like where to put the meat and the potatoes, etc). the nurse tells me that everything that “drops out of me” needs to be caught on this tray and given back to her for tests. WHAT?!?!?!?! totally bizarre. so i go back to my banquet hall, tell my mother (who is still lying in the bed next to me) and she looks at me and says “well, sounds like the nurse knows what she’s talking about.” and that was it. that was my dream. over and done with. completely crazy.

i’d be really interested to know if others have weird baby dreams during this time. all of my dreams (whether they have been pregnancy-related or not) have been so vivid and “real” since i’ve been pregnant. it’s really crazy to think of what my brain is going through when i’m asleep.

anyway, enough for now…. enjoy your day everyone!!!