We saw the doctor this morning and he waited until the end of our appointment to tell us boy or girl. Michael told the doctor sarcastically as he was leaving, "Hey thanks for waiting until the VERY end to tell us what it was." The doctor laughed like - mwah haha.
Anyway, we'll now start narrowing down names. We have a few ideas, but for right now we affectionately call her Myrtle. Just kidding. She's very healthy, everything looked good and he didn't see any problems. Hurrah!
They gave us an ultrasound video to take home, and it's below. The whole video was 15 minutes long, so I've tried to edit out parts where he took measurements or just stopped the ultrasound for a moment. The doctor kept pausing it to explain things to us, so if it looks like your video has frozen, it probably hasn't. The cutest and clearest stuff (little hands and foots - so cute) is after the 5 minute mark, so you can just skip to that if you want. I don't think anyone will watch the whole 7 minutes except people who are REALLY excited. (And if you are I have to say - I can relate)
I apologize ahead of time to my kid for having her hoo-hoo exposed to all of the internet. I will save up for therapy.
My favorite part of all is just how much she moves around in there - like - it's aliiiive! We were talking about how much she was moving around and Michael was like, "Yep, that's my kid." - uh oh. Last night she kicked me really hard a couple times - she's only 21 weeks for pete's sake and I thought my belly-button might invert or something. So I was telling that to the doctor, saying "Is that normal? Or do I have like super-baby?" And the doctor just said, "Yes. You have super-baby."
lol
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Check it out
STILL NO UPDATE ON BABY GENDER
Just for those of you who are dying to know. We'll find out tomorrow.
But I had a couple of things to share today.
First, I just found out that an entire class of third graders just voted on what I'm going to have... 3rd graders that I've never met! I just got this email from my mom:
"Well, my class just voted, and 19 think you are having a boy, 6 a girl, and two abstained. - Mom"
My response: what do 3rd graders know, anyway?
Mom agrees.
Second: I've been trying to go off of my anti-nausea pills for 2 weeks, to no avail. I'm still horribly sick without them, and even taking them I still throw up now and then. So yesterday I gave in and called my doctor to renew my prescription (since I had just taken my last one). They phoned in a new prescription to my pharmacy and wonderful Michael picked it up for me. I noticed some interesting things on the bag when he brought it home.
First, what we paid:
Then this line:
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HAHA. Doesn't that amaze you? My anti-nausea pills retail for about $20 a pill! (there were 60) But I know that my health insurance company doesn't pay nearly that much per pill - probably less than 10%. Also - if my health insurance didn't cover it, I know that Walgreen's has a pharmacy club you can subscribe to for $20 a year, and that takes the price of each pill down to about $2. So the total prescription would have cost me $180.
So in reality, my health insurance company saved me at most about $190. But that's still a lot of money! I'll take $0.16 a pill any day.
Just for those of you who are dying to know. We'll find out tomorrow.
But I had a couple of things to share today.
First, I just found out that an entire class of third graders just voted on what I'm going to have... 3rd graders that I've never met! I just got this email from my mom:
"Well, my class just voted, and 19 think you are having a boy, 6 a girl, and two abstained. - Mom"
My response: what do 3rd graders know, anyway?
Mom agrees.
Second: I've been trying to go off of my anti-nausea pills for 2 weeks, to no avail. I'm still horribly sick without them, and even taking them I still throw up now and then. So yesterday I gave in and called my doctor to renew my prescription (since I had just taken my last one). They phoned in a new prescription to my pharmacy and wonderful Michael picked it up for me. I noticed some interesting things on the bag when he brought it home.
First, what we paid:
Then this line:
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HAHA. Doesn't that amaze you? My anti-nausea pills retail for about $20 a pill! (there were 60) But I know that my health insurance company doesn't pay nearly that much per pill - probably less than 10%. Also - if my health insurance didn't cover it, I know that Walgreen's has a pharmacy club you can subscribe to for $20 a year, and that takes the price of each pill down to about $2. So the total prescription would have cost me $180.
So in reality, my health insurance company saved me at most about $190. But that's still a lot of money! I'll take $0.16 a pill any day.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Hump day
Today I'm 20 weeks along, which is halfway through my pregnancy. I celebrated by throwing up spectacularly this morning. Seriously, it could have been choreographed to "Stars and Stripes Forever." And my pregnant sister called right during the performance! And she could hear me! Wonderful. We just found out last week that she is pregnant and only 2 months behind me! It was a big surprise, and my baby will have someone to play with at family gatherings, so that is really cool.
We have the ultrasound next week to find out the gender. I tried to fool myself yesterday into thinking that I should enjoy this next week because it'll be the last time that I can think of my baby in a generic non-gender "my baby" terms, but it's not working. I have half a mind to walk into my doctor's office and demand to know this minute. Mostly so I can just get decorating already. Ok, that's a lie, I have no money to decorate. But I can start planning.
We have also been living in a new house for the last month and a half, I know I haven't said anything about it so far. It's been more challenging than anything else. It's a cute little house with pretty wooden floors all across the upstairs, and nice big windows. It's a rambler, so I don't have to go up or down stairs to get to the kitchen from my bedroom. There's still a lot to put away, but we can function at least. Michael surprises me everyday by fixing something or taking care of something else. It's so nice but sometimes I feel like I can't keep up with him and that is frustrating that I can't do as much. But he gets a lot done. The only problem we really seem to run into is saving up enough to get things from the hardware store that we need to fix things around the house. I think it will just come together slowly over time. Hopefully a lot will be done by next February.
We have the ultrasound next week to find out the gender. I tried to fool myself yesterday into thinking that I should enjoy this next week because it'll be the last time that I can think of my baby in a generic non-gender "my baby" terms, but it's not working. I have half a mind to walk into my doctor's office and demand to know this minute. Mostly so I can just get decorating already. Ok, that's a lie, I have no money to decorate. But I can start planning.
We have also been living in a new house for the last month and a half, I know I haven't said anything about it so far. It's been more challenging than anything else. It's a cute little house with pretty wooden floors all across the upstairs, and nice big windows. It's a rambler, so I don't have to go up or down stairs to get to the kitchen from my bedroom. There's still a lot to put away, but we can function at least. Michael surprises me everyday by fixing something or taking care of something else. It's so nice but sometimes I feel like I can't keep up with him and that is frustrating that I can't do as much. But he gets a lot done. The only problem we really seem to run into is saving up enough to get things from the hardware store that we need to fix things around the house. I think it will just come together slowly over time. Hopefully a lot will be done by next February.
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