Crazy Baby, Crazy!

 

ok, so we had our 18 week ultrasound yesterday and ...drum roll please....IT'S A GIRL!!!!!  Now, I've never been big on the color pink, so this is going to take some getting used to!  In fact, I've never had pink in my house until we moved here and that's cause I can't pull up carpet until I have something to replace it with.  I think I'm still in shock about it!  It's weird thinking we're going to have a little girl!  Although, little girls do have much cuter clothes than little boys!  And I'll actually be able to use the dress that my mom gave me that was made for me when I was a baby.  Of course, because I"m not into pink, lace and frills, I'm going to have the world's most girly girl around!!! 

So we went and had our first ultrasound done today.  Everything looks good. Measuring right on track.  Heartbeat was at 160.  And there's only ONE!!!  Everyone kept telling me I was having twins!  Got to see him moving around!!  Since seeing the baby on the ultrasound, I'm actually thinking boy.  Johnny still says girl, along with everyone else, but I think boy. 

So with Ethan, I was sick as a dog.  I was sick before I even found out!    It was all day, every day.  The only thing to help was Seabands.  But I didn't find out about them until the end of the first trimester and that's when I stopped getting sick!!!  So I when I found out this time, I went a head and got the Seabands.  I was expecting to get sick very shortly, especially because I found out so soon.  With Ethan I was sick at 5 weeks.  So when 5.5 weeks came around this time, I was alittle worried as to why I wasn't sick!  I actually took another test at 6 weeks, just to be sure!  Well, the test line came back darker than the control line!  I almost felt better when I was sick with Ethan because then I knew things were okay.  So yesterday morning, when I was rushing around and didn't get a chance to eat right away, the nausea started. And this morning when I got out of bed, I wanted to crawl back into it! I know I need to eat to make myself fell better, but the thought of food really does turn my stomach this morning.  So it has begun. Alittle later than last time is all.  On a side note, I'm getting so bloated that I already look like I'm 3 months! But I haven't gained any weight!  May seems so far away!!!!! 

I've already had a few dreams, which I didn't have with Ethan either.  The first one was a week ago and I dreamed it was a boy, he had Ethan's chubby cheeks, but other than that, looked like Johnny.  We had his name picked out, and he was 8lbs 1 oz.  But then 2 nights ago, I dreamed that I had an ultrasound and there was no denying that it was a girl! With Ethan, I just knew. I remember someone asking me when I was about 9 weeks along and I said, without a doubt in my mind, that it was a boy. 

I'm very happy that Johnny gets to be a part of this one. He was deployed when I was PG with Ethan, so he really didn't see the progress except for the pics I sent him over email.  He only spent a month with me during the first trimester, so he saw some of the sickness, but not too much of the mood swings or homones at work!!!  He told me last night, 'This hasn't been too bad."  And I just thought to myself...it's just beginning!!!  Not just that, but I'm excited that he'll be able to feel the baby move for the first time, he'll be able to see the baby move later, he'll be able to go to my ultrasound with me to find out the sex, he'll be here for the 2nd trimester, the honeymoon phase, when I'm feeling great, ready to do anything!  He missed all that before. When he left, I was sicker than sick, when he got back, I was enormous and needing help to get off the couch!  My swelling had started and I was waddling!  He'll be able to experience the fun part of pregnancy and maybe he'll realize why so many women do it over and over again!

Ok, off to find something to eat!

Well, Diane had her baby. Born Sept 4 very early in the morning!  I was given all the details, but didn't have a chance to write them down.  A bouncing little boy, which of course has made Daddy Vito very proud!  We're so happy for them!!!

Ok, just got the details again. 6lbs 13oz, 20.5 in long. Completely natural...wow!