update 4/28/09

Okay so along with all the excitement of yesterday, I got a call from my Dr and she has scheduled my c-section for October 21 2009. I have mixed feelings about it. It would be nice to know exactly when the baby will be here and all, but I really do not want to deal with the recovery. It sucks! The recovery includes: a huge incision in your lower abdomen. It hurts, it's sore. You can't cough without feeling like your guts are going to fall out. And one of the side effects of the anesthesia is the need to cough! You can hardly walk to the bathroom, 20 steps away. You can't stand up straight for at least 2 weeks. That means taking care of a newborn is impossible to do alone, let alone chasing a 2 year old (who will be almost 3). You have horrible gas pains due to your intestines being pulled out of your stomach and set aside, while they find and cut open your uterus. Then they put them back where they "think" they go. While you body finds it's way back to normal you can't even breathe because the pain is so bad. Not to mention the 3 days you have to stay in the hospital, compared to the 1 after a vaginal birth. It ends up being like 4 days because you have to wait to get discharged the last day. (we left at almost 3pm that day)
So, I am hoping to get my way, and give a vaginal birth a go. I will not know until a lot later in my pregnancy. But I am hoping and praying this works out. Ugh!
If any of you that have given vaginal birth have any advice or gruesome details to share with me. Please do. I would like to know the worst of both experiances so I can feel better one way or another :o) Even if you have a story about a friend :o)

We have movement people!!

Okay so yesterday was my 4th month mark, also the start of my 2nd trimester. How exciting! The 2nd trimester is usually the most relaxing of the 3. Well I was laying in bed relaxing for a minute watching Baby Mama. LOL I started to feel a little movement, but I assumed it was way to early to feel anything...right? So I put my hand on my belly, I was looking a little like Al Bundy from Married with Children. I felt it again! I thought I could only feel it internally. SO I asked Rick to stick his hand down my pants (LOL, he was like "sure") on the spot I was feeling movement. I didn't say anything when I felt it move so he wouldn;t tell me he felt it just to make me feel better. But as soon as I felt it he said "just now" and I smiled really big! It was awesome! I could not beleive we could feel it already! He felt it one more time and then baby went to sleep. How awesome was that!!! We are so excited!

update

Okay so it has been awhile since I updated. I have been feeling really sick lately and just don't ever feel like getting on the computer.
But anyway....last week I had my genetic screening test/ultrasound. Everything was great. The baby was being stubborn and would not turn over so she could get a good pic. I have a pic of the back of the baby's head. LOL I may upload it eventually. But all my tests were normal and the baby's heart rate was 166! Old wives tales state that means its a girl. We will see.

So today I went for my 12 week checkup, even though I am 13 weeks :o) Everything looked good. She went over all my blood work and stuff. Then we got on the VBAC subject. If you don;t know that is a vaginal birth after c-section. I already knew she was more nay than yay on this. After we talked for a little while we decided to play it by ear and see how this baby grows. She is going to sceduale the c-section but if the baby ends up smaller than 9 lbs we will go ahead and try a vaginal birth. But if I have another 9+ pound baby, I agreeed to have a c-section.

So that's where I am. I will try yo keep updated better now. I switched my prenatal viatamins and feel a little better. :o)