6 weeks and counting...

We had our first doctor's appointment yesterday. It was so awesome to be able to finally go to this appointment. I felt like it took forever for the date to get here! It was a very long (over 2 hours) and informative appointment. We got to talk to my doctor and get all of our questions answered, ran several blood tests, went over family history, insurance information, got a goodie bag of fun stuff, and most importantly- got to have a sonogram!!!! The baby is healthy and growing. It has a steady heartbeat of 118 bpm. The images below are from the appointment- it is very small still, the size of a sweet pea. :)

We did also find out that we are 6 weeks and 2 days (today). Originally they thought it was closer to 8 weeks, but the ultrasound confirmed 6 weeks and 2 days!!! Which means, we are due on April 23, 2013. So, mark your calendars!!

I think I have really enjoyed "knowing" that I'm pregnant because I have gained 2 pounds in the two weeks! My beginning weight (or as of about 4 weeks pregnant) was 130 lbs. As of 6 weeks, I am 132 lbs and 30" around my belly. (around my belly button) We are going to keep up with Brent's weight gain also, but we haven't measured him yet!

Our next appointment is around the 10 week mark on September 27th at 4:30pm. We will make sure to post more updates before then! See you soon....

Welcome !

Welcome to our blog! You must know by now the reason we have a blog… we are going to be parents!  Or as Brent has started calling me his “Baby Mama” so I guess that makes him my “Baby Daddy”…

I have never written a blog before but really like the idea of having a “central point” for updates!

As of Monday of this week I am 8 weeks pregnant. It still doesn’t feel real but I like saying this! We have known for about a week and half… it all started on Wednesday, August 15^th. I decided the day before that I would take a pregnancy test if I was still “late”. So when I woke up I took the test before getting in the shower and figured I would just look at the result once I got out of the shower. I was in the shower thinking about “what if” (a game that Brent hates to play with me) and then just told myself “Vanessa, you have done this before and it was negative so just quit playing this game, get out of the shower and go to work”. So, I got out of the shower, put my contacts in and looked over at a pregnancy test that had a faint positive sign on it. I stopped and stared at it for probably 5 minutes thinking, “Oh my gosh- it has always just been negative, what does this mean?”.  I figured I would call the Health Clinic at work but they were closed for the week due to classes starting back up the next week so I called my doctor’s office. They told me to come in the office and they would do a test. I had to wait until around 2pm when they got back from lunch and I could slip out of the office to take the test. I don’t think I did any work that day!

Well after confirming at the doctor’s office and setting up our first real appointment, I had to go back to work! I was thinking the whole time how I was going to tell Brent. I had a meeting after work so I wasn’t going to get home until around 7pm or so. I picked up dinner on the way home and luckily, Brent was in the shower when I arrived. I had decided how I was going to tell him! I ran inside and threw dinner on the table and was trying to hurry before he got out of the shower. I bought a card, sippy cup and got one of Brent’s old ninja turtles kids plates out of the cabinet and set up a 3^rd seat at the table. I was so nervous about Brent coming out of the room- it seemed like he was taking so much time to come out. So, I walked in the bathroom and said hi to him and was standing there talking to him. He noticed something was going on because when I helped him pick up something off the floor he asked me “have you been drinking?”. LOL, I said no and tried to calm down some then.

He walked out of the room and walked right past the table into the kitchen, and nothing! He didn’t even notice. Then, he came back out and saw the table. I was standing in the hallway looking at him and he slowly walked up to the table, saw the cup and plate and said, “what is this?”. He saw the card laying there and picked it up as I was holding back tears, opened it and read the first sentence…..”You’re going to be a great father…..” and looked at me in shock and said “For real?” and I said “yes, for real”.  This makes me tear up just typing it because it was so sweet. Then we ate dinner and he looked like a deer in headlights the whole time! Which to be honest, it still is so new it feels weird.

So we then had a quick discussion of when to tell family. Our first appointment wasn’t until the 29^th so we wanted to wait until after that, but we were heading to Florida the next day for our Niece’s 2^nd birthday party. We knew that this would be the only chance that side of the family would be together in a while. So we made a quick decision to drive to my parent’s house that night to tell them (there was no way we could wait the whole weekend and not tell them) and then we would tell the others during our visit. We had to wait till the weekend was over to tell my sisters by Skype when we got home. We had to stress to everyone that we were waiting until our doctor’s appointment to tell anyone else. It is so hard keeping this a secret-  We are going to tell the grandparents and maybe some close friends this week or next. (But, if you are reading this, then you know ) :)

We have been really wanting to tell other people about this.. it is very hard keeping this a secret. We had to return something to Ace Hardware over the weekend and when we went to checkout, the lady at the counter made a comment about us looking so young and Brent said, “I’m going to be 30 in a month” and the lady looked like she was going to hit the floor. Then she asked if we were brother and sister, and I said no “husband and wife” and she said “oh okay”. Then Brent rubbed my stomach and said, “and we have a little one on the way” and her face lit up! So I guess it isn’t a complete secret, the cashier at Ace Hardware knows also! (Which by the way, she was so nice Brent asked her to move to work at the one close to our house). HA!

I will plan to post the information from our appointment later with the updates on my weight, measurements and a photo! :)