New Ultrasound pictures!

I am now over 13 weeks yay!! I don't have an appoinment with the Ob until May, but I've been having a lot of fun with the ultrasound machine at work. Everybody at work wants to see our little monkey on the screen so I've done an ultrasound almost everyweek and it's so fun. He/she is so active now. Last week the baby was doing backflips and jumping up and down as if my uterus was a trampoline...too funny. The best was when the baby decided to do some "air humping" for Iwan. He thought that was the most hilarious thing. That's our kid alright hahaha! Well, I did an ultrasound last night because my friend Hayley wanted to see the monkey and he/she was sucking it's thumb the whole time. Plus we saw that the monkey has the longest legs and arms...totally takes after daddy. It's hard to get good pictures on the work ultrasound machine especially when the little one moves so much but I got a couple just to show how much that kid has grown in the last few weeks...amazing.

As for me, if it wasn't for the ultrasounds and the doppler, I wouldn't feel pregnant. I feel really good. No more fatigue, no nausea. Only thing is that my fibromyalgia has really been acting up the last few days. Last night I actually had to leave work early because I was in so much pain, I just couldn't take it anymore. Unfortunately, the only medication that works for me when I'm like that is Lyrica and I can't take while pregnant. So, I just have to grin and bear it. Oh well, it's all worth it.

So have fun looking at the pictures. I labeled them so they would be easier to understand. The head looks distorted, but it's normal. It's just the way the ultrasound machine's printer prints the pictures. It looks totally normal on the regular screen

First Appointment

Went to my first OB appointment today. The last one was with the nurse practitioner and she was just taking my history. This morning's appoinment was an actual pelvic check with my Ob. Everything is going along great. He said that I was perfect...of course, I said that I knew that hahaha. Anyhow, that's really the only update I have for you. Of course I have been listening to the little monkey every couple of days and the heartbeat is perfect and he/she moves around a lot. So, all in all everything is going great!

Labeled Picture

Figured I would label the picture so you could understand the ultrasound picture a little better.
To see the picture a little bigger so you can actually read my labels, all you have to do is click on it!

Growing, growing, growing!

Our little peanut is growing perfectly! We are 9 weeks and 3 days today
You can hardly tell what the heck it looks like on this ultrasound picture, but the baby is upside down. The big ol' head is on the bottom. It's crazy how much bigger it already is in just 3 weeks. You can see a little hand sticking out on the right hand side. Anyway, the heart was just beating away like crazy and the little monkey was moving around and even waved at mom and dad today! Soooooo excited! There is still just one baby in there. He/she was turning around to face us and moved around and started waving and kicking. It was the coolest thing ever. I wish I could do an ultrasound every week to see how he/she is growing, but now we don't have one again until we are about 18 weeks. Everything is moving along just fine. I feel great. My only complaint is that I have major insomnia but the nausea isn't that bad at all, I rarely ever throw up (only when I ignore the nausea and don't eat something), I do get fatigued once in a while, but I think that is mostly because I can't sleep half the time. So far so good, can't really complain about this pregnancy at all. So that's really all our news for now.

The most beautiful sight in the world!

We went for our ultrasound this morning and saw...ONE beautiful, strong little heartbeat!!!!! We are measuring 6wks 2 days and my due date is officially October 24th. It really is the size of an orange seed, but we saw that little heartbeat just going away. This little monkey is very well implanted, my ovaries look great. I can't tell you how excited we are. Mike saw the heartbeat right away and was excited. So to everyone who thought I was having twins (or more) sorry...I'm totally glad that it's just one at a time. My hcg is high but that's a good thing, means it's a strong pregnancy. I will attempt to post the picture from the ultrasound. Can't see much more than a big gestational sac and a little bean in between the little cursors, but I love it!

Woo freakin Hoo!

I had my second hcg level drawn this morning. I was so afraid that it would be lower and that I would have a miscarriage but far from it. My level last week was 389 and this week it's 4528!!! From what i've read, your hcg level is supposed to double every couple of days and I'm way over that so I'm happy.

This next week is gonna drive me nuts. I really wish I could find out now how many I've got in there grrrrrrr

Ultrasound

Talked to Dr. Synn's office today. I go for another hcg level on wednesday (not today like I thought) and then on March 4th, we have our first ultrasound!! So excited. I cannot wait to see our little sea monkey!

The nausea is still very much there. Comes in waves and it doesn't really matter what time of day it is. Going to the race track last weekend was not a good idea. The fatigue really hit me on thursday night and all the smells at the track did not help the nausea at all. I think i might have to stop going to races until the nausea is gone. I hate doing that because I really enjoy going to the races, but it's really not that much fun when you feel like you want to puke the whole time.