Baby Lithgow's Check Up

I know that this is a few days late, I'd originally posted this on the wrong day and it got me all confused! So sorry, and here it officially is!

On the 26th of September at 1:40pm, we finally got to meet our little baby again and s/he got a little bit of a check up, it was so incredible.

My mother and I went to the ultrasound appointment, as Michael was unable to make it (army life I guess?) so we went into the hospital, booked in and after 20 minutes of waiting around because hospital appointments mean nothing!... we went into a room for the ultrasound.

We weren't allowed to have videos or pictures of anything, which is a shame because I really wanted to film it for Michael but, rules are rules.

So, we met Baby Lithgow again...

We saw the heart beating, we even saw him/her move around a little bit (although it wasn't very much!) S/he measured in a 12 weeks and 2 days, which means that our new EDD is 8th April 2015.

Also, it may just be me, but it looks like baby is wearing a Jason mask...

Can you believe how much has changed in the space of 4 weeks? In the picture below, baby was 8 weeks and 1 day!

Sorry this post is late, and a bit all over the place but I'm just so excited to share this :) 

11 Weeks

How big is the baby?
Baby Lithgow is 1.5 inches long, and looking less like a tadpole and more like a mini human.

photo from www.lifeasaluce.blogspot.com

Food I'm Craving:
I've always liked marmite but now I want it more than ever, and fizzy drinks. Most of the time it changes, if someone mentions something like "salt & pepper chicken" or "apple pie" then it's stuck in my head until I can have it! 

Food Aversions:
Not many, sometimes I just don't fancy things rather than I can't eat them.

How I Feel:
Better, I've felt worse. At the beginning of the week, I was so tired that when I woke up in the morning I was more tired than when I went to bed. I cried about that (like I do about everything!)

Highlight of the Week:
Finding out that we may only have to wait 7/8 weeks to get our own place and thinking about moving things 200 miles away when we only have a car XD I've been without the husband full time since January, so I'd sure love to live with him full time again!

Crappy Bit of the Week:
My husband leaving. He is stationed 200 miles away, so it's really hard to get any decent conversation with him. Finding out that he will miss out on the 12 week scan and (the worst one yet) finding out that he may miss the birth of our baby, and even if he doesn't, he will miss out the last 2 months of the pregnancy (when I need him the most).

Movement?
Nope, it's much too early.

What I Miss:
I can't say alcohol or smoking because I wasn't a massive drinker or a smoker before becoming pregnant but I do miss the odd glass of wine with dinner. That's normal though right?

Concerns:
I've currently got a chicken pox like rash on my stomach, went to the doctors and got prescribed some cream but I can't seem to shift it. 
I'm also majorly concerned that I'll go into labour and there will be no one there, and I won't be able to get hold of anyone and I'm stuck in a flat... Talk about nightmare material! 

That's all from me this time, look out for my update on Friday (2 DAYS!! ) about baby's scan :D

We Met Baby Lithgow!

With a wedding coming up, when would be better to announce that we're expecting?

Now, everyone who has got a BFP from a pregnancy test knows that it isn't really real until you see your little baby, hear or see it's heart beat, finally have it confirmed by someone who see's pregnant women all of the time.

We did what every set of new parents want to do, and booked a private ultrasound to meet our little munchkin... For 2 days before we got married.

Now I know how it feels to look at a scan picture and think "1. Where the heck is the baby? & 2. Why are you so excited about a white scratchy picture?" Well, I don't just see a tiny baby with a head and arms and legs, I see a future, a soon to be newborn that'll one day call me mummy. I see potential and the scratchy white image, fills me with hope. I completely understand new parents and their excitement! 

We heard Baby Lithgow's heartbeat, it was 170 bpm (according to Old Wives Tales, that means it's a boy!), we also saw baby's heartbeat on the monitor, I saw my little munchkin's heart beating. S/he measured in at 8 weeks and 1 day, and was growing perfectly normally.

We have another scan on the 26th of September, when I will be 11 weeks and 2 days, so expect more scratchy white pictures of "baby".

To all parents who have seen their child, you understand the excitement. To all who are yet to meet a child, you'll one day understand the bond and excitement that immediately comes.

I'd love to hear about other parent's stories of their first scan & how it made you feel! 

*I'm planning to post updates weekly on me, bump and good ol' hubby, but expect hormonal rants, soppy posts and long posts that'll probably get deleted!* 

Big Fat Positive

Hello there everyone! 

As this is my first post, I gathered the best place to start would be the beginning.

Take your mind back a couple of months, all the way back to the 31st of July. What were you doing? Was it a memorable day? You see, for me it was a day I don't think I will be forgetting in a hurry, because this happened...

You see, that was the day that I found out I was pregnant! 

It seemed like forever until I was able to tell my husband, let alone anyone else. There was no way I would've been able to post this online!!

For those of you who would like to know the details *I'm warning you, TMI is a permanent feature here* then please read on. For those of you who are happy to leave it there, feel free to ignore this next section.

Anyway...

At the beginning of July (after my period was a few days late) and 2 months before the wedding, we decided that now would be a good time to officially be trying to conceive. We went about it reasonably casually, except I knew my cycles well and knew when would be the best time for us to, do business.

As my husband is in the army, we had to hope that he would be available at the right times and it just so happened that he was. 

So 8 days after ovulation, I couldn't wait anymore and I found a single very lonely cheap pregnancy test. Now, I and everyone else knows that is much too early to get a decent result from a pregnancy test but I couldn't stop myself from doing it... And this happened...

Can you see it? Well I'm almost sure I could. So I hoped and prayed and the next couple of days went by REALLY slowly.

So there it is... in pictures of lines and lines. The numerous BIG FAT POSITIVES that kept appearing in front of me!