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colliemommie ([personal profile] colliemommie) wrote2008-07-04 09:46 am
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Happy week all around!

Tuesday I woke up feeling really good. Like normal human being, not sick crazy pregnant woman good. So, naturally, I panic. Last time I started feeling really good at the beginning of the second trimester it was because the baby died. So I call the doctor, call Bruce's mother (I'm still carless and can't even call Bruce at work) and then sit around waiting for my 245 appointment.

Anyway, super Nurse Practitioner Jennifer, who is a sweetie, comes in basically saying "no time for small talk, we need to look at this baby". Ultrasound shows what is recognizably a human baby with a great heartbeat! Then, apparently annoyed by the pressure from the ultrasound, baby starts jumping, kicking, and waving. We spent almost five minutes just watching it bounce around.

I'm very glad Bruce's mom got to see her grandbaby. She's been very anxious this time around...my miscarriage last winter brought back a lot of awful memories for her about her miscarriages and baby Josiah, who died of SIDS before Bruce was born. We bonded, and it was really nice. The best part is that I don't feel anxious any more. I actually feel like this is really going to happen. The baby's placenta is on-line and doing what it's supposed to do, which is what the issue seems to have been last time. Plus the fact that I don't feel horrible all the time. Still a bit nauseated off and on, and lightheaded, but it's not like the perma-flu feeling of the past two months.

Then Wednesday was our 3rd wedding anniverary and Bruce actually had the day off. So we went to Bravo for lunch, where we just happened to run into his mother, aunt, and Mumsie. Bruce hadn't even known his grandmother was alread moved up from Georgia. So it was a very nice time. Then we played in the Honeytree, which is a very fancy children's clothing store next to the restaurant. Bruce is so convinced the baby is a girl that he bought a little bathing suit for her. It's light blue with yellow polkadots, and a little ruffle around the bottom. Appliqued on the front is a big yellow ducky with a pink butterfly on its nose. There's also a little pink butterfly on the ruffle on the back. It's the cutest thing ever, and now the baby's almost sure to be a boy.   ;-)



After the ducky suit, Bruce wanted to go out to Chesapeake and take a look at the Babies'r'Us store. (Apparently I'm not the only one who now feels it's safe to get excited.) I was amazed at his capacity for stroller shopping. I ended up buying a protein bar and taking a nap in a rocking chair.

Just a nice few days in general. Yay!

[identity profile] countrycousin.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on a positive exam! Best wishes!

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Had a very long ultrasound yesterday and things look good...

[identity profile] countrycousin.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Just read that post! I like your Dad!

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Dad's great. I get my inappropriate sense of humor entirely from him. And my tendency to be easily amused.

I'm debating whether to tell him how popular he's become with the pregnant community... :-) It's probably not often you get a bevvy of hormonal women saying how great you are.
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[personal profile] filkferengi 2008-07-06 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun times!
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P. S.

[personal profile] filkferengi 2008-07-06 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!

Re: P. S.

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats!

Oh, I hope it's a girl now! That ducky suit is ADORABLE!

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't it? The bathing suit single-handedly convinced Bruce that he wants a little girl. Yay for the power of shopping!

[identity profile] jellybeener.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
That bathing suit is adorable!
I know how you feel about jinxing.
As my husband was going out this evening he said "Goodbye Ladies!" (he wants a little girl) I was like "Shhhhhh!"

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to have the best dressed female baby Predator in the sector!

[identity profile] jellybeener.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
People will be thrown off by the frills and that will certainly help with her hunting.
"What a cute little Preda...aghtttttghghghohmygod!"

[identity profile] colliemommie.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Well, remember Predators only attack people who are armed. Otherwise it's just not sporting.

Though since I won't be able to provide her with the wristband chameleon thingy, frills as camo might be the way to go.

If its mouth opens in four different directions, I'm not breastfeeding...

[identity profile] jellybeener.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
yes pumping may be the way to go in that case, lol.