Ordered the Nursery Furniture

So we finally ordered the nursery furniture, our stroller and bedding. This was such a process. There is a small Baby Boutique in town. We went there first and found a set we loved! But it was super expensive. And, when you have a husband who runs a company and is always looking at the bottom line and how to save money...well you know where this is going. He wasn't satisfied with the 10% discount they offered us. So we took the brochures on the furniture and went on our way. We called about 5 other local stores (NY, NJ and MA) to compare what their prices were on this set. Well, this boutique was the most reasonable. They had the lowest price on everything. After 3 visits total, Michael spoke with the owner and got him to agree on a 18% discount on everything we bought! Sweet! Although, this didn't come without a huge blowout. We got into a major fight about it. But it blew over. We got everything we wanted at a price we were comfortable with. And, our mom's agreed to buy the nursery furniture, my mom also bought the custom bedding. Mike and I bought the stroller, glider and ottoman. No we just have to wait about 10 weeks for everything to come in, be delivered and set up. Now to start painting! Well here are the pictures of the furniture, and the nursery we are literally copying. I found it online and fell in love with it. We custom ordered the bedding to almost match it exactly! And, the stroller of course. I have coveted the Bugaboo Chameleon since before we even started trying to have a baby.

Picture #1 is the Stroller (Obviously)
Picture #2 is the Furniture
Picture #3 is the Nursery we are basically copying with a few minor changes.

20 week Belly

Here it is. Against my better judgment I am posting this. But here goes nothing. Here it is in all it's glory!

Nothing much to report except 1. A darn stretch mark appeared this morning. I guess what they say is right. All the cocoa butter in the world won't help you with genetics. My mom got them, and I guess I will too. 2. I have a new lovely pregnancy symptom. My hands are falling asleep while I'm sleeping. I read it's pretty common. But, seriously? It's so annoying. I am hoping this is only temporary.

Sugar and Spice...

Sugar and Spice and everything nice. That's what little girls are made of.
It's a girl! We are beyond thrilled. We are so happy we decided to find out what we were having. It was so much fun to see her on the screen again. This was a very long ultrasound. Almost an hour long. So we got to see her for a long time. She was on the move! She kept moving, rolling. She was really cute. Everything went well with our anatomy scan. The doctor says everything looks normal. We are so excited! I think Mike fell in love with another girl today!

Update on me

Sorry I haven't blogged in a few weeks....so here it was has been going on with me. I am now 18 weeks!

I had my latest OB appointment last week. I got weighed in (My least favorite part)...I gained 9 lbs in 4 weeks! OMG! I was totally panicked. I had no idea how this was happening. I told her I was following the eating guidelines I was given at my first appointment. So she had me go through my menu. I didn't get past breakfast, and she put the breaks on.

I have been drinking whole Milk (3- servings of dairy like I was told)....I started to drink whole milk when we started IF treatment and Acupuncture. Well I never stopped. I thought I was doing a good thing. Yeah I must have missed the fine print on the info packet I was given. LOW FAT!!!! Ugh what an idiot. So fast forward a week and a half. I have totally cut out whole milk and switched back to skim milk and cut out OJ all together. And what do you know...I actually lost 2 lbs! So I have found the culprit of my expanding backside. Damn Whole Milk! The goals is the maintain the weight I gained in the last 4 weeks and not gain anymore. 1.5 weeks down and still doing well.

In other news. We did our NT testing a while back in the first trimester. When we got our results we were 1 / 2020 for Downs. DH was totally satisfied with the results. There is a second blood test called the Triple Screen we were offered. Mike thought it was silly and since our chances were 99.95 that everything was fine, we didn't need to do it. I talked to the OB and she said there is no harm in doing it...just do it. So I go against my better judgement and have it done. A week later they call me. The genetic counselor says "I'm surprised the risk went up since your first set of numbers from the NT scan were so low. It's still a negative result, but now its 1 / 234". I almost died. It took me a full day to relax and stop being a basket case. So our chances of everything being fine are now 99.5 %. The chance of the baby having Downs are less that a half percent. Looking back, I wish I would have listened to Mike and just passed up on the Triple Screen.

12/26 is the BIG ultrasound! We have our appointment scheduled. We are praying the baby cooperates and will let us peek. More updates on that next week! Hopefully we will have some good ultrasound pictures to post!

13 weeks!

Nothing much to report. But being a total AW...13 weeks! I can't believe we made it here. There were days I was so afraid we wouldn't get here. But here we are, finally in the 2nd trimester. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can finally breathe a bit.

It's so weird...for the past 4 weeks I have felt horrible. So tired and morning sickness (all day). My cousin told me I would wake up one day and suddenly it would be gone. And you know what? She was TOTALLY right! I woke up 2 days ago and it was like the switch had suddenly been turned off. Hardly and dry heaving, headaches seemed to subside and a felt a bit of energy. It's amazing! I am trying to sit back relax and enjoy the next three month bc I know months 7-9 are going to be horrendous again.

So for now we are just relaxing and FINALLY starting to enjoy this pregnancy!

Genetic Results In!

We had our genetic testing for Downs Syndrome and Trisomy 18. Our numbers for Down's were 1/2020 and for Trisomy 18 they were 1/99,000. They doctor said there is a 99.95% chance that the baby is perfectly fine. We have decided to do the second set of blood work just for peace of mind and since insurance pays for it. Why not right?

This was not a fun visit. Although we got to see the baby again (we are really spoiled) Mike was completely out of control. I told him we were getting genetic testing done. I told him what it was for, but he must not have been listening. When we sat down and the genetic counselor began talking about what there were going to test for, Mike lost it. He didn't flip out...but I could totally tell he was terribly uncomfortable and could not wrap his head around the "worst case scenario". She was really good at calming him down and talking things through with him. I just didn't know how to react.

This whole time I have been the one who has worried, but now he was totally feeling out of control. Welcome to my world! He is obviously much better now that we got such good numbers. But I think this was his wake up call and now feels a bit of the worry I have been feeling for the past 3 months.

3D Alien Baby!

So we went for our first trimester screening at the hospital today. The doctor quickly figured out we are still measuring 3 days behind and we were just a few days early to do the testing. But the doctor was so awesome and let us peek around for about 30 minutes and we got some great shots. We still have a really strong HB at 162...Girl maybe? So we have to go back in another 10 days to do the actual genetic testing. But for today we got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. Music to our ears. It was so awesome. So I just wanted to share my favorite picture from today. "Our little Alien Baby"