Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
22 weeks - Friday, June 19, 2015
So, 22 weeks! I had a doctors appointment yesterday and they let me know that the due date is October 20, 2015. The app I was using- Ovia, told me that it was October 22nd. So who the heck knows! Haha I'm sure it wont make a big difference either way. From what I hear, people rarely give birth ON their due date.. especially for their first prenancies. So ya! She said that he's in the 90% for size, so we're going to have a big boy so far! Not that I'm surprised, but I guess I was hoping for a small to average sized baby just for my bodies sake. At least we have a healthy baby.. that's what really matters! I've noticed a new craving.. root beer floats. I haven't been a huge soda person ever really, but I would drink soda on occasion. When we were trying to conceive, I stopped drinking caffinated soda. I noticed pretty quickly how much I don't drink soda anymore.. so I decided to try to stop completely. I was doing good till about a week ago. It wasn't even because I "caved" but because I didn't realize what I was drinking had soda in it. How can I not realize? Haha it was a drink at my sisters daughter, Preslee's birthday party.. it had sprite or 7up in it.. so that's that. So, new goal- drink sparingly. So I might just have to cave in to my root beer float craving at next opportunity, but otherwise, I'll pass. ;)
According to Ovia, the baby is about the size of cob of corn.. on average. So maybe a little bigger in our case.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Monday, June 8, 2015
Public - Monday, June 8, 2015
Well, we have announced the gender to Facebook so that means it's no longer a secret! Here are the gender reveal pictures that my sister took for us.
We announced the gender to my family just before we did the facebook reveal. We used a pinata that I got from someone on facebook and filled it with the color representing the gender. Back tracking to the gender reveal appointment..You can visit her photography page here.
I scheduled the ultrasound the same day as my OB appointment so that I didn't have to get separate days off work. Can I just say that I am so relieved that we know the gender now so that we can officially start planning? You can only plan so much without knowing the gender. Especially as a first time mom. We are having a BOY!! We are so excited. People always try to guess what the gender is.. and with that being a 50/50 possibility, your odds of guessing the right gender are pretty good! So I hadn't recieved any crazy hints for one gender or the other..up until the NIGHT BEFORE the ultrasound. Haha I had a dream about the baby in general and it was a boy in my dream. Call it mothers intuition.. call it luck.. but it happened. I grew up with 4 older brothers, so having a boy first is fairly ideal. I am familiar with the situation and so is Adam. Especially since he has NO sisters. He probably wouldn't know what to do with a girl. Haha! Totally kidding, but everything happens for a reason.. I believe that. We have had names that we've kept track of for quite a while. I've always kept a a list of names in my phone so that if I hear a name that I like (boy or girl), I record it so I don't forget. So we had some of each, but I definitely had more girl names that I like. Another thing that makes it difficult is with our last name being Brown, we have to avoid certain names that will get the kid made fun of. For example.. Canon Brown.. Sounds like a massive poop, right? Haha some names just aren't going to work, but it's ok. We haven't settled on just one name yet, but we have a few that we both like. Nothing that we're crazy about yet, but some that we could settle on. We aren't sharing any names until the baby is HERE. Here's my reasoning..
1. I don't want the name to get taken.
2. I don't want people making fun of it.
3. I don't want the name to get worn out before the baby is even here!
4. We probably won't know the exact name we have chosen till the babe is here anyways.
So as frustrating as it may be, you're going to have to wait another 4 months..ish. Suck it up. ;)
How have I been feeling? People ask me this all the time. I've been super lucky to have an easy pregnancy so far! My family has a history of easy pregnancies, so it's definitely been a blessing. I want to enjoy this experience as much as possible and I think that could very well be the reasoning why I've been blessed with good health so far. He knows me so well. Some things that I've witnessed recently is a lot of mothers that I know posting things on Facebook about how motherhood is hard and more trying than they had thought. Good timing right? Haha but no, I really hope this babe is easy and makes me want to have more children. Growing up, I HATED kids. I had ZERO patience.. so it took me a long time to even think about when I would have kids. I knew I wanted kids, but it was nowhere near happening in my mind. I always thought I would wait a good 5 years after I got married. But after living with my sister and her family, it's made me like kids so much more! They are so well behaved and help me invision how things might be for me when I am a mother. Plus, everyone knows that when the kids are their own, it's so different. You get to discipline how you want to discipline, and the most obvious reason- you love them in such a different and deep way. So I know that things will be so great, but you can't help but wonder.
One thing that I've realized is that I FINALLY have a craving that I can tell apart from just randomness. I am ALWAYS craving Chipotle. Haha so random. I have always liked chipotle, but not necessarily my favorite or first choice. Luckily, there's one pretty close to my work so I get to go a lot.
I scheduled the ultrasound the same day as my OB appointment so that I didn't have to get separate days off work. Can I just say that I am so relieved that we know the gender now so that we can officially start planning? You can only plan so much without knowing the gender. Especially as a first time mom. We are having a BOY!! We are so excited. People always try to guess what the gender is.. and with that being a 50/50 possibility, your odds of guessing the right gender are pretty good! So I hadn't recieved any crazy hints for one gender or the other..up until the NIGHT BEFORE the ultrasound. Haha I had a dream about the baby in general and it was a boy in my dream. Call it mothers intuition.. call it luck.. but it happened. I grew up with 4 older brothers, so having a boy first is fairly ideal. I am familiar with the situation and so is Adam. Especially since he has NO sisters. He probably wouldn't know what to do with a girl. Haha! Totally kidding, but everything happens for a reason.. I believe that. We have had names that we've kept track of for quite a while. I've always kept a a list of names in my phone so that if I hear a name that I like (boy or girl), I record it so I don't forget. So we had some of each, but I definitely had more girl names that I like. Another thing that makes it difficult is with our last name being Brown, we have to avoid certain names that will get the kid made fun of. For example.. Canon Brown.. Sounds like a massive poop, right? Haha some names just aren't going to work, but it's ok. We haven't settled on just one name yet, but we have a few that we both like. Nothing that we're crazy about yet, but some that we could settle on. We aren't sharing any names until the baby is HERE. Here's my reasoning..
1. I don't want the name to get taken.
2. I don't want people making fun of it.
3. I don't want the name to get worn out before the baby is even here!
4. We probably won't know the exact name we have chosen till the babe is here anyways.
So as frustrating as it may be, you're going to have to wait another 4 months..ish. Suck it up. ;)
How have I been feeling? People ask me this all the time. I've been super lucky to have an easy pregnancy so far! My family has a history of easy pregnancies, so it's definitely been a blessing. I want to enjoy this experience as much as possible and I think that could very well be the reasoning why I've been blessed with good health so far. He knows me so well. Some things that I've witnessed recently is a lot of mothers that I know posting things on Facebook about how motherhood is hard and more trying than they had thought. Good timing right? Haha but no, I really hope this babe is easy and makes me want to have more children. Growing up, I HATED kids. I had ZERO patience.. so it took me a long time to even think about when I would have kids. I knew I wanted kids, but it was nowhere near happening in my mind. I always thought I would wait a good 5 years after I got married. But after living with my sister and her family, it's made me like kids so much more! They are so well behaved and help me invision how things might be for me when I am a mother. Plus, everyone knows that when the kids are their own, it's so different. You get to discipline how you want to discipline, and the most obvious reason- you love them in such a different and deep way. So I know that things will be so great, but you can't help but wonder.
One thing that I've realized is that I FINALLY have a craving that I can tell apart from just randomness. I am ALWAYS craving Chipotle. Haha so random. I have always liked chipotle, but not necessarily my favorite or first choice. Luckily, there's one pretty close to my work so I get to go a lot.
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