Our son's enormous penis!! Hi! This is Nerdstar, and I'm finally stepping in to make my first entry in this blog! Why did it take so long for me to finally post something? Well, it's just that the GF's writing is so much more eloquent and has more emotions than I do, so I've basically just stepped back and let her blog. So far, my pregnancy has been really smooth, no morning sickness, but just some more tiredness and now the ankle and feet swelling at the end of the day. My weight gain has been slow and steady, and I'm thankful for that! As the baby grows in size, I am sure that in a while I will look even more and more huge, like a beached whale in the summer sun, just like the way that I should! :-) We cannot wait to see our little boy and play with him, have him befriend our pets, and make up all these stories with him! Will update more as this adventure is coming along!
Wow. We finally had the ultrasound today. We're at week 21 day 3, and the baby is developmentally at week 21 day 3! It weighs 1 pound.
All along we've had no clue or inkling if it was a boy or girl. But, night before last, in the middle of the night I finally decided I thought it was a boy. And it is!!
As the day has progressed I've found I'm actually a little relieved. The thought of all that pink just didn't make me happy.
The ultrasound was really cool. It took about 45 minutes and checked every part of his anatomy. We got to see his brain and it's measurements. We got a long look at his beating heart. We saw his arms and legs and feet and hands, his kidneys, she measured his stomach (like a belt around his waist). He was all comfy down in the bottom of Nerdstar's belly and for a long time had his arms crossed with his hands in front of his face. We needed him to move a little to get a better look at his spine, and he finally did, right at the end. That's good because otherwise we would have had to go back in two weeks. He even peed during the middle of it, she knew because as she was trying to look at his stomach and bladder - the bladder got a lot smaller :-)
Did I mention how cool it all was?? They didn't put the whole long thing on cd, so we have a couple of good printed pics. We'll try to get them scanned in and uploaded this weekend.
Nerdstar's sister has said for a while now she hopes it's a boy. My parents already have a grandson, so they were really hoping for a girl. When I told Mom this afternoon she just said, "well, put it back and get the right one." Heh.
The one symptom Nerdstar has had this whole time is just being more tired than usual, so we've perfected being lazy. I told her that next month we have to start getting in gear. We've got to buy a few things for the guest room so we can move the bed in the baby's room now into there, then I'm going to paint the baby's room and get it some furniture. None of it is really major, I think we both just have a hard time picking furniture and stuff. Thankfully, we do tend to have similar taste.
At least now my worrying will mostly be limited to car wrecks.
We made it to week 20 this week. Pinhead is kinda wiggly, but still mostly a day baby. Nerdstar still hasn't gained any weight, although she has a little baby bump.
Next Friday is the ultrasound. We really can't wait for that. We're ready to know if it's a boy or a girl - and neither of us has the slightest inkling which it is.
Other than that it's still a boring pregnancy - knock wood!
I thinks it's awesome and strange and amazing that there's a little tiny person in Nerdstar's belly!! Feeling Pinhead move is just so cool.
The biggest news is that yesterday and today we've really been able to feel Pinhead moving around! It's so cool!! Nerdstar's only gained a pound and a half so far, and so I think that lets Pinhead be closer to the outside so we can feel the little movements! Now we're just afraid we're bugging it too much by rubbing the belly and trying to see just where it's at.
The next ob/gyn apt. is early Thursday morning. It should be another short and simple one, just checking the heartbeat again and making sure the blood tests results were all ok. We assume they would have already let us know if anything was wrong, but you never know with doctor's offices.
Due to the insurance company Nerdstar's with, the ultrasound has to be done at a radiology office and not the doc's office, so we'll schedule that Thursday - hopefully for a few days later. Then we'll know everything is in all the right places and if it's a boy or girl. I think we're both at about 55/45 preferring a girl.
We talk about names, and will get a little more serious about that once we know if it's a boy or girl. We talked tonight that once you realize you don't really have family names you like, or any literary names, it's kinda hard.
So far boys names are a little easier. We like Noah Ben - Ben was her grandfather's American name. We've also gotten to where we like Maxx Lee. We saw a real dude named Sgt. Max Fightmaster and thought it was the coolest name - right up there with Moxie Crimefighter. So, we started thinking Maxx would be cool - in case he looks more tough than Noah. And Lee is the middle name of everyone in my family except me.
For girls, it doesn't seem to be as easy. For years I've liked Sunshine Joy. But even I realize that's kinda cheesy. So I've been trying to figure out what goes with Joy, with Joy as either the first or middle name. Lily Joy is pretty, but also kinda delicate. Then we joked that with the girl we might have to wait and see the girl before we can pick a name. I said, "What if she comes out and we look at her and say Oh, Shit, It's a Bertha?" (See, there's a reason it's called 2 Bad Moms!)
Once the next apt. and the ultrasound is done I'll be pretty much done worrying until we get to labor and delivery time! I'm still so extremely thankful Nerdstar's had the easiest pregnancy ever so far.
We had the second appointment with the ob/gyn this morning. It was short and boring. We got to hear Pinhead's heartbeat and they took some blood. I was pretty sure it would be this way. It's a few more weeks until we can find out the sex of the baby, so I figured there wasn't much to check this time.
Things are still going really well for Nerdstar. She might have gained a pound or two. She's got a tiny little belly. We just take life easy these days and she tries to eat really well. We still talk to Pinhead every night!
We decided to be silly at get a heartbeat monitor for Pinhead. I told Nerdstar if I could have a webcam in there and watch Pinhead all the time I totally would!
Now that I'm not a nervous wreck anymore, (I worry but not even a fraction as much) I find that I'm already much more content with life. It's a very odd feeling for me. I can only imagine how much better it will all feel/be a few months from now.
Today starts week 11 of Nerdstar's pregnancy. Today was also our first appointment with the ob/gyn office. It's a pretty big practice, six or seven ob's and an NP. I think the plan is to meet a different ob at each appointment so we can meet them all and see which we prefer, but also because you never know which one will be on call when the actual delivery happens. They seemed nice enough this morning.
The doc did another internal ultrasound. Pinhead had its head at an angle that made it hard to determine just how big it is, but the arms and legs are growing in the right places and the heartbeat was at a good rate. (143 I think.) We got a print out of the ultrasound, but not a cd copy. Oh well.
So far Nerdstar hasn't had any of the usual symptoms - no morning sickness or anything. I'm really glad it's been easy for her so far.
One thing that's kinda funny is telling people I'm going to have a baby - but I'm not pregnant. Mostly people at work are the ones I've told. I only see them a few days a month, and most of them knew about Nerdstar and I, but a couple I showed the ultrasound to today didn't. Heh.
Nerdstar isn't close enough to her coworkers to let them know the news until she starts showing. And she certainly isn't out to them. (Not that they'd care, she just isn't as social as I am.) So I joke with her how at least a few will think she's just another loose woman who became a single mom! Heh.
I'm finally starting to worry a lot less. There really isn't a way to express how much I worried the first month. It was terrible.
We're still talking to Pinhead every night. Nerdstar still does food updates. It's still a very well fed baby!
Now it's really just a matter of Pinhead growing. Nothing exciting will happen until week 21 or so when we'll get to learn the gender. That and the first kick are what I'm waiting for!!
Every night since we found out Pinhead existed, we've put our hands on Nerdstar's belly one at a time and talked to Pinhead. Every night I say Hi, how glad we are it exists, and mostly to hang in there and not fall out and to keep growing! Nerdstar tends to do a food report every night - you know, what they ate each day and what items were new. I'm not sure there's any other baby that's been fed so many different things so early in it's existence.
The two things I'm looking forward to the most before the actual delivery is when the baby starts to kick and when we find out the gender. I think we're both at the point we don't care if it's a boy or girl. We've spent years joking around about having a "princess" daughter because neither of us has the first clue about how to do hair or anything else.
I know at 8 1/2 weeks we're not out of the woods of danger, but we're getting closer and I'm trying to worry less.
