My advice...

If I could give one bit advice to anyone who is, or plans to become, pregnant...eat your fiber. Eat it by the truckload if you can.

Constipation blows big time.

This is my second major bout with it this pregnancy and it is worse than the first time. I feel terrible. My belly aches and I have an overwhelming sense of "fullness" in my abdomen. It's also making me extra-nauseous since the food I eat has nowhere to go. The most I have managed to expel are those little rabbit pellets and that just doesn't give much relief. I've taken stool softeners (which just make me crampy) and the next thing on my list is a laxative. I'll have to take it tonight since I don't have anywhere to go tomorrow and I'll never be far from my bathroom.

Oh joy.

Starting the nursery!

The fun is really starting to get rolling now...decorating the nursery. I've had so many nursery ideas swirling around in my head for 2.5 years now but it still feels like new to look at all the cute themes out there. And I have to say that I LOVE knowing what gender our baby is. It's just so much easier to go with a theme geared towards a gender-specific idea.

So here is what we picked out for E.J.'s nursery, it's called Bubbles...


Ed doesn't like the character-themed stuff and we're both into sailing and the ocean so this one is just perfect. I'd love to do the walls with the little bubbles, so stay tuned till next month to see if we pull it off :)

Our parents are great

Recently, my Mom told us that she and my Dad will buy us our crib and changer for the nursery!! And then this morning my MIL calls to say that she'd like to buy us our glider and ottoman. How wonderful is that!?!? We are so lucky to have such generous parents!

Work has officially begun on E.J's nursery. This weekend Ed took down the border in the room that will be our baby's room! The next step is to clear out all the furniture (which is a ton of stuff). We've picked out the bedding, so I think I'll buy the border that goes with it so we can match the paint to it and get started with the painting in a week or two.

I can't believe my home will actually have a nursery in it!!!!!!!

I've waited so long for this and I want to savor every minute of it.

To make a short story long...

Here is my full account of my BIG ultrasound yesterday (here you go Tracy!)...

Ed and I got to the fetal imaging place about 30 minutes before my appt and I was a ball of nerves. I really thought I was going to pass out. After 15 minutes we were called back...here we go!!!!

There were two u/s techs there; the regular Alba and the trainee Ruth. Ruth took her good old time, which I loved. She spent a lot of time looking at the heart and I was in awe watching it beat away. She then went to the head and we looked at every angle, even up our little Nugget's nose. Ed could barely make out what was on the screen so I tried to tell him everything that was up there but I kept getting side-tracked and would go silent and just watch in awe, "there is my little baby" kept running through my mind. I was in love. She looked at the parts of the brain, the eye orbits, nose, chin, jawline, palette, etc. Everything.

Then she moved down and checked out each arm and all the little fingers...we counted 10 :) She then got to the abdomen and asked if we wanted to know the gender. I almost blurted out "YES, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE!!" but simply said "yes please". Well, she seemed to take HOURS to get to the "money shot". In the meantime she went over the diaphragm, liver, kidneys, bladder, stomach, etc. That was such a tease! Why ask if we want to know the gender and then move on to the bladder?!?!?!

She then skipped over the entire genital section and went for the feet. Once again, we counted 10 little piggies. She went up the legs...and the ankle bone's connected to the shin bone...and the shin bone's connected to the knee bone...and the knee bone's connected to the thigh bone...and the thigh bone's connected to the ---WAIT! I think I see something!!! Then, she moved to Nugget's backside. What a cute little tush!!

And then there it was in a freeze frame. A penis. We have a little boy! It took a while for Ed to register what he was looking at, but teared up as soon he realized he was going to have a son. It was such a wonderful moment for us. We've waited so long for this and I'm thrilled to be able to give him the boy he so badly wanted. And his name will carry on.

That was pretty much the end of it. I guess Ruth was saving the best for last. The dr. came in and verified the gender and sent us on our way. I went right to Target and bought loads of cute blue onesies. Ed is still on cloud nine, and is telling anyone who will stand still long enough to listen to him.

Next up...registering and starting our nursery!!

It's a .......

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BOY!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe we're having a baby boy!!! So much for my mother's intuition, but the Chinese gender chart was right.

Everything was perfect at the u/s and I'll post those details later. I just wanted to drop a quick line to add us to TEAM BLUE!!!

Poll Results

So, 31 of you think we're having a GIRL and 16 think we're having a BOY. Wow, that's a big swing to Team Pink. Just out of curiosity, why did you vote the way you did?

Only two more days until we find out who is right!!!

Katie and Patty...I know you voted opposite each other so I hope there is something good at stake for the winner :)

20 weeks!!

Ode to Bon Jovi...

Whooah, we're half way there
Livin on a prayer
Take my hand and well make it - I swear
Livin on a prayer

I CANNOT believe I have made it to 20 weeks...only 20 more to go!! My ticker says that my m/s has subsided. Well, that's just wrong. I still feel queasy quite a bit and gag over my toothbrush every day. I'm not throwing up as much, but still about 2 times a week.

Here is this week's belly pic. I'm getting quite large and my belly is fully in front of my boobs now. That's a huge feat as my "girls" seem to be getting bigger by the day also. LOL.


My Big U/S is on Thursday so I send me all the good vibes you can spare. I hope we have a healthy little Nugget in there. And I'd love to find out if it's a boy or girl. I want to start buying pink or blue stuff :)

And September 1, 2007 was my very first EDD from IUI #2 that was back in Dec. 2006. That seems like a lifetime ago...