1.
Revamping Madsen Additions
2.
Change in future directions
3.
Summer of the monkeys… I mean family J
4.
Disney mania!
Thus you have the table of contents. If I was cool I would
hyperlink each section so it would take you directly to that text but that might
be a bit too nerdy even for me.
REVAMPING MADSEN ADDITIONS
As you all recall, last year around the end of July I wrote
a post entitled Madsen Additions. I’m sure half the world who read that thought
I was announcing that I was pregnant. Believe me, at the time I really was wishing
that was my announcement. Instead, it was the announcement that we had acquired
the cutest puppy in the world, who has completely overrun our lives. Oh Chester…
dumb dog sleeps pretty much in every position so long as it’s right on top of
us but he sure is adorable.
Attention should would
be nice <sigh> There we go!
be nice <sigh> There we go!
And then I’m sure most of you recall my January post. I
think that was a post of pure desperation and frustration. Around Christmas, some
friends of my in-laws had made a comment while at dinner (meant to be taken in
jest) about how they had grandkids because their kids loved them, thus followed
by a not so subtle look in Drew and my direction. I was not a happy camper the
rest of the evening mostly because I was not very secure will all of these seeming infertility issues. It seemed to be a taboo subject that you don’t bring up and
yet you still have to deal with others’ jokes at your expense. Somewhat similar to a LDS single person who has been in the dating field for a while. People like to make jokes that it's that person's fault or that they're doing something wrong. As you can tell I'm somewhat sensitive about this as these are sensitive subjects. And thus I wrote
the entry, I didn’t know who knew what was going on and who cared and whether
anyone would really give a hoot but none-the-less I wrote it to just get it off
my chest.
Things progressed, I went to millions of doctors (not
literally but good grief it sure felt like it). By the time April hit and I’d
been averaging about 1 appointment per week – cardiology, endocrinology, OB,
Fertility, High Risk, etc.. – I had absolutely no problems wearing a hospital gown because meh, it's just another doctor.
On May 30, I got the freakiest news I had ever received in my entire life (this comparison including being diagnosed with diabetes): I'm pregnant.
Dear heavens you'd think after a year and a half of planning for and thinking about getting pregnant I'd be less freaked out than I was. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am super thrilled. This is totally what we'd been hoping for and planning for for so long but I'm not going to lie, as I was driving home to tell Drew the news I kept thinking "Undo! Undo! Ctrl-Z! I'm not ready for this commitment!" Oh silly me.
So yeah, I"m pregnant. Go figure. I really am excited and I think my fear and apprehension that I've been having is more about me realizing how big of a commitment this is that we've gotten ourselves into and that this is a huge deal and that a lot is going to change and that I'm never going to sleep again. I'm not even kidding with that last thing. I haven't slept through an entire night since finding out I was pregnant because I have to get up every 3 hours and pee. Not cool, bladder, not cool.
On May 30, I got the freakiest news I had ever received in my entire life (this comparison including being diagnosed with diabetes): I'm pregnant.
Dear heavens you'd think after a year and a half of planning for and thinking about getting pregnant I'd be less freaked out than I was. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am super thrilled. This is totally what we'd been hoping for and planning for for so long but I'm not going to lie, as I was driving home to tell Drew the news I kept thinking "Undo! Undo! Ctrl-Z! I'm not ready for this commitment!" Oh silly me.
So yeah, I"m pregnant. Go figure. I really am excited and I think my fear and apprehension that I've been having is more about me realizing how big of a commitment this is that we've gotten ourselves into and that this is a huge deal and that a lot is going to change and that I'm never going to sleep again. I'm not even kidding with that last thing. I haven't slept through an entire night since finding out I was pregnant because I have to get up every 3 hours and pee. Not cool, bladder, not cool.
We had our first ultrasound in June when I was 8 weeks along. I was seriously paranoid that I was going to get in there and they'd be like "you're not actually pregnant.." I hardly ever felt nauseous, I'd never thrown up, I felt pretty much no different than pre-pregnancy and any symptoms I was having (slight nausea in the mornings and feeling exhausted around 2 pm) I convinced myself were all in my head. No such thing. They showed us our little cashew (that's what the baby looked like at that point) and let us listen to the heart-beat. Holy. Hannah. That was crazy to hear!!
I see about 3 doctors now with my pregnancy but it's kind of cool that way because it means more ultrasounds and chances to see the baby :) At week 13 we went and saw the perinatologist (the high risk ob) and got to see the baby and hear it's heartbeat again. It was so much higher resolution than the previous ultrasound and the baby was flipping and moving all over the place. The craziest thing was that the baby actually looked like a baby.
It's so crazy to see the baby progress and get more developed. Then, on August 20, the day before our 3rd anniversary, we were able to have the gender check. Insert drum roll here. :)
It's a boy!
Drew I think is ecstatic and I have to say that I am super excited too. Beforehand I kept telling myself I was going to be happy either way and I kept thinking of all of the fun girly outfits I could buy if we had a girl. When they told us it's a boy I had to breathe a huge sigh of relief because I don't know a thing about girls (despite the fact that I am one...) After the appointment we went to Target and kind of went crazy with buying some baby outfits. They were so flippin' cute though!
We had our 20 week appointment a little while ago and according to the OB things are looking great. It's still a boy and the baby is right where he should be in size. It was so awesome to see him again and watching him move around is still super crazy to me. Oh! And I'm finally showing now! See:
Oh, so the official due date is February 6 but the paranatologist said that she doesn't like to have diabetics go beyond 39 weeks because at that point is poses more of a threat to the mother and doesn't benefit the baby that much. So we're kind of planning for the end of January. I'm 22 weeks along right now and it's crazy to think that. The past two weeks I've been able to feel the baby kick and it is so .. different. This morning, I felt some kicks and when i placed my hand on my stomach I actually felt the movement with my hand. CRAZY!!
Anywho, this is a huge post so i think I'm going to break right here and pick up another day for the other items.
E
It's so crazy to see the baby progress and get more developed. Then, on August 20, the day before our 3rd anniversary, we were able to have the gender check. Insert drum roll here. :)
It's a boy!
Drew I think is ecstatic and I have to say that I am super excited too. Beforehand I kept telling myself I was going to be happy either way and I kept thinking of all of the fun girly outfits I could buy if we had a girl. When they told us it's a boy I had to breathe a huge sigh of relief because I don't know a thing about girls (despite the fact that I am one...) After the appointment we went to Target and kind of went crazy with buying some baby outfits. They were so flippin' cute though!
We had our 20 week appointment a little while ago and according to the OB things are looking great. It's still a boy and the baby is right where he should be in size. It was so awesome to see him again and watching him move around is still super crazy to me. Oh! And I'm finally showing now! See:
Oh, so the official due date is February 6 but the paranatologist said that she doesn't like to have diabetics go beyond 39 weeks because at that point is poses more of a threat to the mother and doesn't benefit the baby that much. So we're kind of planning for the end of January. I'm 22 weeks along right now and it's crazy to think that. The past two weeks I've been able to feel the baby kick and it is so .. different. This morning, I felt some kicks and when i placed my hand on my stomach I actually felt the movement with my hand. CRAZY!!
Anywho, this is a huge post so i think I'm going to break right here and pick up another day for the other items.
E
