trois.

3 months!! we have completed just about 1/3 of the pregnancy. what?? where did time go!? oh thats right, napping! (i love love LOVE napping!!) and eating (the baby has a thing for watermelons lately)! according to one of the many wonderful apps on my iphone, we have an estimated 196 days to go (less then 200 days!!?? eeeeeh!!!).  we are just getting so excited. 

 

a lot of people have been asking when we will find out the sex of the baby. our next ultrasound is set for november. we should be able to find out then (new countdown!).

thank you to all the kind "get well" wishes last week. i am doing a lot better. the cough is the only thing that i can't get rid of but besides that, i am finally starting to feel normal again. til next time...

sicky poo.

if you have been reading any of my posts from this past week on facebook, it has been nothing but talks about a nasty cough, sleepless nights, and a mean little colds bug that has taken vacation in my immune system.  no one likes to be sick. its horrible. as a kid, being sick meant not having to go to school, soup being fed to us, and a perfect spot on the couch to catch up on cartoons. as an adult, you have to take care of it all by yourself. 

this nasty bug has been in my system for about a week now. usually, when i get sick, its a long 3-4 day process of getting sick, resting, sleeping, lots of meds and then back to the work grind. but not this time around. we all know that is very important to stay healthy when one is pregnant. there's the prenatal vitamins, the daily recommended of fruits and veggies, the exercise, the do's and dont's, the old wive's tales. because of your body doing so much to maintain an healthy environment for a growing baby, your immune system would not be very strong.  this i didn't know (we learn something new everyday!).  so what do we do when we get sick and are pregnant?! basically ride it out.  sure, we can take tylenol and some robitussin to help aid the cough, but that's basically it. we have to let nature take its course. this doesn't go so well for me since i am the person who takes whatever they can to help kill the bug lingering in my body.  i am so ready for this nasty cough to disappear and for me to be feeling 100% myself again. 

i do want to say i am truly blessed to have Evan. he has been taking good care of me all this week!! He has been working a lot and i know my coughing at night isn't really his ideal way of sleeping peacefully. He is such a good husband:) 

ready for my closeup!

no one likes it when they catch a cold. its so miserable, especially when the coughing fits interrupt your sleep. that's exactly what happened to me this past weekend. i somehow caught some bug that has been floating around and let's just say, it got the best of me. i would cough with so much force that i truly believed that i would cough up a lung sooner or later! (don't worry, it never happened). then yesterday, i told evan that i was craving watermelon so he ran to the store and picked up sliced watermelon and a thermometer for me. i took my temperature and it read 100F. NO GOOD!! i was slightly panicky. Evan reassured me that i just needed to get lots of rest and drink lots of fluids and i will be okay. He was right. By mid day, my temperature had lowered significantly and i wasn't as sluggish. But the coughing fits continued through the night. i felt so bad for Evan having to deal with my monstrous coughs in the middle of the night.

But today was going to be a new day! Today was our ultrasound appointment and our first chance to hear the baby's heartbeat. The doctor didn't like the sound of my cough but told me not to worry. With my immune system down since all its focus was to the baby, I was bound to catch a cold. And then it was time to hear the heartbeat. It was literally like music to our ears.  It was so fast and so alive!! We were beyond thrilled. Then it was our turn for the ultrasound. I was a bit nervous. In movies, its always in a bright lit room, a quick flip of a switch and the baby is on the screen. But this was real life and this was our baby. The room was very intimate, and it was dimmed so your concentration would be on the monitor that was positioned for both me and Evan to comfortably look at. A quick squeeze of the gel (it was cold!) and a few pushes on my tummy was all it took when slowly, this image of a small life appeared on the screen. It was surreal. There's our baby.  The nurse pushed on my tummy a few times to get it to move but it looked like it was so comfortable, it wasn't shifting. Then i coughed. All of sudden, the monitor was full of movement, little arms moving, the baby shifting (the baby doesn't like it when i cough!). I even joked that the baby was getting some quick shut eye because I kept it up all night with my coughing. The nurse kindly gave us two profile pictures of the baby. Our baby.  i couldn't stop starring at it. meet baby barry:

With the excitement of today's appointments came the dreadful part of drawing 4 huge vials of blood!! Yes, 4. So you could say that I am pretty exhausted and ready for a good ol' fashion 3 hour nap. 

Evan and I would like to say thank you for all the kind words everyone has shared with us as share the experience of our growing family. We are blessed with so many amazing people in our lives.  We love you all!!! 

double digits!!

we have reached into the double digits of our pregnancy! week 10 baby. still a long winter ahead of us but its one week closer to celebrating a new birthday in our growing family. some fun facts we have learned this week is that the baby is starting to take more of a human shape now! bones and cartilage are forming and small indentations on the legs are developing into knees and ankles. baby's arms are complete with elbows and can already flex.  the human body is something i have always been marveled with but with the progression of this new life in me, i can't help but be more interested in all the amazing things the human body can be capable of.  i have yet to be visited by the "morning sickness monster". i have been pretty lucky.  i can't wait for the burst of energy when we enter our 2nd trimester. trust me, i am counting down...2 more weeks! 

there's so much to look forward to this month; birthdays, bridal showers, vegas, friends from florida, the list goes on and on!!! i love september!!! 

i am going to leave you with a story i read that was shared on facebook. it really left an imprint on my heart. i hope it gives you courage.

 This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!