98 Days!

Oh my god! Less than a 100 days until my due date. Time is flying by so fast.

Next week I start my third trimester. I was printing out some calendars at work yesterday and just happened to glance at May 31st and realized that I might have a baby by then. I knew it would go faster than I expected but this is almost too fast.

So a quick update as to where I am. I am 26 weeks along. I feel Baby L. everyday which I love and is also slightly alien like too. Our house is beginning to have signs of baby everywhere. There is a crib in the nursery and diapers and tiny clothes in her closet. We also now have a stroller, play pen, and an infant car seat. For some reason the car seat makes it feel the most real.

The nursery is coming along nicely. We fixed up and repainted a book shelf that we already had and found a great dresser on craigslist that has also now been painted. My friend Naja is coming over tomorrow and hopefully after that there will be curtains up too. I have my first shower in 3 weeks which will also be my last solo trip for who knows how many years. My wonderful family is throwing the shindig in the bay area for me. Then things will really speed up, I have a feeling April and May are just going to fly by!

Team Pink!

Team Pink! 20 weeks 4 days

This is a phrase that is used on a chat board I follow to declare whether you are having a boy, a girl or are waiting for a surprise. Team blue for boy and green for surprise. So we are expecting a little girl.

I am thrilled. I always hoped for a little girl, I have a trunk of saved dolls in the hope that I would have someone who would play with them someday. It's funny though I was pretty sure that we were having a boy and became attached to a potential son. Well hopefully we will have one of each!

I am officially half way through my pregnancy and I have to say it is flying by so far. I have had a relatively easy time so far (knock on wood), no major morning sickness and what mostly kicked my butt in the first trimester was the exhaustion. I am now well into my second trimester, what the Dr.'s consider the honeymoon phase of pregnancy. Boy are they right, my energy is back and I am still small enough that I can function mostly normally and still sleep comfortably. Early on I was referred to a specialist because there was a high possibility that I had a hypo thyroid but after many pokes in the arm. They feel pretty certain that it was just a reaction to pregnancy. So except for some follow up lab work I am back to being a completely healthy and normal pregnancy.

I have learned to love the word "normal" during this. The sweetest phrase you can hear at a milestone appointment is everything looks normal and right on track. At 12 weeks we had something called an NT Scan where they look for chromosomal abnormalities. Our results were wonderful, 1 in 8000 chance of Downs and 1 in 10,000 of several other fatal ones. They were wonderful words to hear. We had our anatomy scan last week, which is when we found out the gender, but is actually to measure growth of brain, nervous system and all the other internal organs. Once again everything looks great and "normal"! I think the second half of this pregnancy is going to go even faster than the first. All the fun stuff gets to happen now, showers will be had, names will be picked (although we are going to be keeping it to ourselves for now) and the nursery will be set up.

I will try and be better about updating more regularly too, so that I can remember later what I was feeling and thinking along this amazing journey.