Disappointing 1st OB appointment

Well, I was unimpressed with the new OB's office I picked.  They were very friendly, but made us wait a long time in the room.  I met a midwife who tried to find the baby's heartbeat on the doppler, but couldn't.  Then she asked me to wait 5 weeks to schedule an ultrasound!  Crazy!  You know my history and you have to understand that I am a worrier.  It's what I do, constantly!  Worry, worry, worry.  So should I worry for the next 5 weeks?  No my friend, I will not.  So, I scheduled an ultrasound for the 18th, and will get another one around 20 weeks if all goes well.  I'm hoping they can see the gender at the scan on the 18th, as I will be 16 weeks (but since I have been measuring 5 days ahead, the baby should be 16 weeks, 5 days or so). 
So now with nothing to occupy my time except work and home, I'm stressing.  I should have pushed for an earlier scan, or should have pushed to try longer with the doppler. 
We shall see what happens in 19 days. 

So last night DH and I went to the store to look for a couple of things.  As you know, I am obssesive about baby stuff so the first and only place I go to is the baby section.  I end up buying 3 things.  A piggy bank (yellow with pooh bear and a dragonfly), a nursing pillow, and a baby's 1st year calendar with stickers.  We got good deals on all of it and the more we buy now, the less we have to buy later! 

Something funny happened when we got home from the store.  I, of course, take everything out to look at it and start looking at the calendar.  I flip to the back to look at all the stickers and immediately get sad.  On the Visiting Grandparents sticker there is a dragonfly.  I start to cry and DH says that means that your Mom is here.  She loved dragonflies and winnie the pooh.  She even had a Pooh tattoo.  It just means so much that that particular sticker has a dragonfly.  None of the other ones did, just that one.  Prettty amazing, right? 

We also decided to change the nursery set to something gender neutral.  DH and I went to BabiesRus the other weekend to take a look at car seats and cribs.  He went to the back to sit in the recliners and gliders while I looked at the clothing and when I went to the back to get him to go home he said, I think I want to change the bedding.  We had originally picked sports for a boy and dragonflies for a girl.  Well they had this beautiful classic Winnie the Pooh bedding set that just looked gorgeous.  It was very gender neutral and had not only classic pooh, but dragonflies on it as well.  I fell in love with it.  We ended up buying the wall decals that night so we could see how it would look.  I think it is going to be wonderful!  Now, I will leave you with some pictures. 
This is the new bedding:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4013801&fromRegistryNumber=97733490&product_skn=211793

Also, the nursing pillow I picked up last night, very soft and cuddly:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Leachco-Cuddle-U-Nursing-Pillow-and-More-Bubbles/10972966

Hopefully, I can curb my spending and not pick anything else up this month!

12 weeks, 5 days....2nd trimester here we come!

Ok, so today I am 12 weeks, 6 days....but the baby measured 12 weeks, 5 days yesterday!  Growing perfectly and very content to relax and wallow in my belly!  The doctor even said we must have rocked the baby to sleep before our appointment.  She was as relaxed as you can get.  Heart was beating at a wonderful 161 bpm, and it took a little while to get her to wiggle around.  She was waving at us and sucking on her hand.  It was marvelous to watch!  I am so blessed to have an RE's office that cares so much, they let us just sit there and watch the baby for a little while.  It was an amazing experience.  On that note, yesterday was my last appointment at the RE's!  I officially graduated from their office yesterday.  Measuring ahead and baby is doing great.  I have my first OB appointment next Thursday, it is going to be strange to not get an ultrasound every week now!  Hopefully we get to hear the heartbeat next Thursday at least.  I will be a nervous wreck all the time!  Tomorrow I will officially be in my 2nd trimester, and it feels wonderful!  I will keep you updated on appointments and such, but am just going to enjoy being pregnant!  I am busy buying stuff and planning on the future.  We got the highchair this week, it was delivered yesterday.  I can't wait to set up the bassinett, I figure I'll get DH to do that around 20 weeks or so.  It is exciting to think in less than 200 days we'll have our baby!  I'm planning on end of January, not beginning of February now.

Little legs, pot belly and ankles crossed!

Profile, sucking on her hand

Waving hi to Mommy and Daddy!

11 weeks 5 days!

We are measuring ahead, 11 weeks 5 days.  That would make me 12 weeks tomorrow!  I am getting so excited.  We were able to see the baby moving around and dancing.  Baby kept looking right at the ultrasound like what the heck is that!  We also got a cute butt shot.  Baby mooned us!  We are feeling so blessed right now (as usual!).  The only complaint I have is that I am sore!  The right side of my body is sore!  I haven't done anything out of the ordinary, so I'm not sure what the problem is!  Oh well!  Some new pictures of our cutie patootie to enjoy!  My last RE appointment is next Wednesday...the I graduate to the regular OB!  Yay!  I'm excited!

9 weeks!

We have officially made it to 9 weeks, 2 days!  It is a wonderful thing.  The heart was beating at 170 bpm, and the doctors office said it would be fine to wait 2 weeks to come back in.  So, my next ultrasound is July 14.  They also asked me to think about whether we want to get the 1st trimester screening or not.  They would do the ultrasound and the bloodwork between 11 and 13 weeks.  The next time I go in I should be 11 weeks 2 days, so I may just get it done.  It won't matter what the results say, I will have our baby whether they find something or not.  There is a reason why we have been blessed with this baby, so any "issues" that come up, we will deal with!  We love our tiny little baby so much!