Wiggly Baby

I had an appointment with my new Midwife, Hillary, today, she's an amazing and extremely experienced Certified Nursing Midwife who started her own very successful Midwifery (did you know that's pronounced "midwhiffery"? Funny eh?) Center here in IL and recently sold it to her partners to start a new solo venture. She's extremely flexible with my work schedule and she's just generally fabulous- I'm so happy to be in her care. My previous OB was nice, but she actually went through my last appointment thinking that I was 4 weeks further along until I corrected her- not exactly the standard of service that I am looking for!

We listened to the baby, who is doing wonderfully, and heard him/her whooshing around in there, verifying my comment about it being a very wiggly baby! I have been feeling flutters for a couple of weeks now and recently I have started to feel itty bitty kicks- it feels like popcorn popping :)

The BEST news of the day is the scheduling of our gender determination ultrasound! Only FIFTEEN days left to get your vote in! May 6th we will find out for sure- we are so extremely excited!

Have a good night everyone!
A

Thank Goodness....

Little one, you're lucky to have Jordan as a Daddy- who would go to Taco Bell for us when all that will do for dinner is a bean burrito and chips and cheese? Who would come all the way upstairs just to get a pillow for Mommy when mommas too comfy to get out of bed for it? Who would rub Mommas shoulder when I've slept on it wrong yet again because I USED to only sleep on my belly? I'm not sure, but your Daddy sure does do a good job.


Your brothers are starting to get the hint as well, your Pug brother has started to lay on my belly and will lick you if I let him. I think he knows you're in there now ;) Bosco is still a bit of a baby and doesn't quite get it, but he'll get the idea sooner or later. I hear that Pugs are especially fond of babies, and are good protectors, so he'll take good care of you and make sure that Bosco doesn't lick your little face off. You can dress them up and dole out payback sooner or later, like Momma did with Julie the Pomeranian.

Have a good Wednesday everyone!

-Alecia

And so it begins...

I'm very lucky to have a wonderful childrens consignment shop right next door to my house. I went there today to check it out, promising myself that I wouldn't buy anything yet- HA!

The onesies were on sale for .50 cents each! I couldn't help myself :D

Of course we don't know the gender quite yet (almost there!) but it doesn't really matter to me anyway since I really prefer greens and yellows and earth tones anyway. I don't mind blue too much but I just don't like pink!

Oatie tried to steal the clothes as soon as I laid them out to photograph- I think he thinks they are puppy clothes and he is protesting :) Bosco just wanted to be in the picture like usual, so you can see him budging in there, hehe.

Happy weekend!

Flutters

Easter weekend was very nice, we went over to Rockford to spend Sunday with Jordans family and had a nice meal. Though with Sunday also came the inevitable sinus headaches that come with the change in weather. Usually I cope with these by taking large doses of Advil Sinus, buuuuut I can't exactly do that this year, so I used my Neti Pot and my icepacks. I ended up with such a huge headache that it woke me up in the middle of the night on Monday morning to go throw up- BUT there was a silver lining to this- apparently the baby does not like when I puke, and immediately after I laid back down everytime (I was puking at hourly intervals for several hours until I got the headache under control) I felt some distinctive flutters low in my abdomen, a bit like a goldfish swimming around. After the second time it happened, I knew it was the little one voicing his/her protest. Puking wasn't so bad after I realized this :)





I'm definately starting to show now, it's pretty obvious when I wear dresses, and I do most of the time now since it's nice out and they are like PJ's to me :) Here is a picture I took on Friday at the request of my good friend Charlaine in Phoenix- this would be at the beginning of week 15:

Talk to you later!

A