They Grow Up So Fast....

Today we had our 2nd Doctor's appointment. We're 8 weeks into the pregnancy and so far so good. As you can see from above, Peanut has grown by leaps and bounds. The Doctor estimates that he's grown about 400% since 2 weeks ago. We could see the heartbeat and it was actually easy to see live. While last time the heart looked like a cursor blinking, this time is was quite a bit larger. Cool stuff to see.. :)
Everything looks great so far so we are both very excited. Toni's sugar levels are great and the Doctor said that none of the sugar levels over the last 2 weeks would increase the risk of birth defects and/or miscarriage so we're both very happy with that news. His advice to her - keep doing what you're doing.
Our next appointment is January 3rd. We'll have another sonogram picture then.

And the Oscar for, "The worst movie for a pregnant woman to watch" goes to.....

Knocked Up. As we started our weekend and tried to stay out of the cold, we decided to watch the movie, Knocked Up. Big mistake...... Not only was it one of the slowest moving, longest, and most boring movies we've ever seen, it proved to be a horrible movie for a pregnant woman (namely Toni) to watch. After sitting through nearly 2 hours of mind numbing, over the top crude humor, the movie decided to take a rather startling turn during the actual birth scene...

Now I'm no Roger Ebert but anytime a director chooses to place a scene in a movie showing an extremely graphic "look, the baby's head is crowning" shot, it's in bad taste. Needless to say, the already awful movie instantly got worse. The shot of a woman screaming in agony and seeing a baby's head mere seconds from exiting sent Toni into a panic attack. Not a film I'd recommend to anyone who is pregnant and/or planning on ever getting pregnant...

Besides the movie incident, things have been going as well as can be expected. Toni's been fighting mild to moderate morning sickness. I'm not sure why they call it morning sickness when it pretty much lasts the entire day. Due to the loss of appetite, Toni's lost about 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks. We've loaded up on Saltines so hopefully that will help her at least get something in her stomach.

This coming week she has another Doctor's appointment. They should be talking about her diabetes and going over her blood sugar levels. I'll post more after that appointment.

Peanut

On Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 22nd, Toni woke me in a panic telling me that she needed to turn on the light and that I needed to look at something. We were spending Thanksgiving in Brownsville with her father and I had no idea what was so important at 7:00AM. Blinded by the light, i tried to focus on Toni and saw panic in her face. She held something out and asked me to look at it. "it" turned out to be a pregnancy test. A positive one at that!

We were both very excited and told everyone in Brownsville and all of my family the good news. Although it was probably something that we should have done before announcing the news to everyone, we decided that night to go get another test just to be sure. Actually, we ended up getting a box of 3 tests because the price difference was negligible. Luckily we did. Toni, in her rush to take the test, ignored the directions. 2 errored tests later, I finally read the instructions and found that she was doing it incorrectly. The next morning, she did the third and last test correctly with the same result - pregnant.

Today, we are in our 7th week of pregnancy. We went to the doctor last Wednesday and we were able to see a very early sonogram. I was totally blown away by the fact that we could actually see the baby's heart beating! I will post a picture of the scan in soon. For now, we are affectionately referring to the baby as "peanut" because that's what the picture reminded Toni of.

I am hoping this blog will chronicle the pregnancy and be a way for friends both in town and far away to follow the events as they happen.