May 2012

We are starting our 15th week of pregnancy, so far, so good.  On May 17 we had a screening for Down Syndrome; due to my age my Dr. sent me to a specialist before doing any screenings in her office.  We saw a lot on that ultrasound.  The monitor at the hospital where I had the screening was huge and we could really see in detail our baby.  I really just wanted to see the heartbeat, once we saw the heartbeat we were able to see the spine, and the brain,  IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!!  After seeing the spine, the brain, and the entire baby I thought to myself: it is no wonder I am so tired all the time.  During the ultrasound the baby would not move, the Dr. kept having me move my stomach around to try to get the baby to move, but the baby had no part of it, and did not move one bit.  The Dr. said that just looking at the ultrasound everything looked fine, but that he also wanted to do a blood test that would test the DNA of the baby through my blood.  The Dr. said that this was a new test that was just approved last October, he told us that the test is almost 100% accurate.  We are still waiting on the results, we should get them this week. 

In other baby news, I am not as tired as I have been, I have more energy, and don't feel the need to take a nap everyday, I start to get tired around 4pm, but that is almost the end of my day.  As far a morning sickness, I really have not had any.  I did get sick one day last week, it came and went in less than 5 minutes.  I was expecting the worst, but it was over almost before it started.  The "girls" are still giving me a lot of pain, hopefully that will pass soon.  I have to say that as awful as it is to throw up, I was strangely excited and a little bit happy about it, throwing up for no reason other than being pregnant is such a great feeling, one I thought I would never experience. 

I do seem to be having some strange cravings, Mark and I crack up about that, and joke that the baby has Mark's taste buds.  I was shopping a few weeks ago and needed to pick up a dessert for Mothers Day.  I assumed I would pick up a brownie mix, or some chocolate ice cream,  as I was looking at the ice cream, and thinking about brownies, I have to tell you it was kind of making me feel sick; but what sounded so good to me was an apple pie! Wait, What?, I don't like apple pie, I like brownies with chocolate ice cream, the thought of eating all that chocolate just made me sick to my stomach.  When I got home from the store Mark asked what we were having for dessert, I said apple pie, Mark replied "What"?  I know, I don't even like apple pie.  I have to say that it tasted so delicious.  I also seem to like applesauce, and yogurt, two foods I really have not liked in the past, but Mark loves.  The other food that I find delicious, that I did not like at all before pregnancy are Doritos, I DON'T LIKE THEM, that is a food that Mark likes, not me, and now that I am pregnant I seem to love them.  Mark loves to tease me that the baby likes all the same stuff he likes. 

I do want to mention a dream that I had.  I don't really think I should go into much detail, but I am sure I saw our baby.  I only hope that the baby in the dream looks like the baby we will be having in Nov.  I can't imagine having another baby when I am 41-42.  If you look at Mark's blog though, that looks less likely of happening.

The next big event we are waiting for is to find out the gender of our baby.  I think we will have to wait until my July appt.  For now we continue to call the baby Isaac/Abigail.  I can't wait to find out what we are having and start buying some clothes.  Just as a note, Mark and I both think we are having a boy.