Silverwood Trip

We went up to Silverwood today and Kiersten had a blast!  We played in the water park. I didn’t take any pictures at the water but she loved that the most. Here are some photos from the rides! Thanks Jamie for Riding with the kids….not sure I could have handled it!

Today’s appt

Just got back from my doctors appointment. We had our third ultrasound today and the last for a while until we hit 20 weeks or so!  Ultrasound went great… I saw the heart beat clicking away on the screen.  Can’t see anything else on the baby just cause we are so soon.  Was so thankful that I got into see the doctor afterwards because I haven’t been able to keep anything down for 3 days, and had lost 3 lb in the last few days!  He went over my ultrasound results… said we were guessing on a due date within a range. Because lost week the yoke sac and gestational sac size showed me at about  6 weeks 1 day, then this week the embryo measured about 6 weeks 3 days… so he said my due date could be anywhere from February 8 to February 14th, so he would estimate the 12th as my due date…although all of us know the due date I hate getting because when that date comes and goes… you feel miserable!  that’s how I felt with Kiersten!  Anyhow the other great thing is he prescribed me nausea medicine and it has finally worked. I finally Ate my first meal in about 3 days and have kept it down.  Which makes me so happy!  The bad news is he prescribed it for a count of 30 and my insurance will only cover it for 15 tabs so that means I have to use it very sparingly because its not going to last long!!  So I’ll have to only take it when I’m desperate!!
Next appt is July 20th.

Another one!!

After almost 3 weeks of not knowing what’s going on with this baby in my belly we decided to tell everyone anyways!  With Kiersten we waited until 12 weeks but with this one I just couldn’t do that.  So,  so far I have had lab work drawn multiple times and everything is rising how it is suppose to.  I have had 2 ultrasounds and am scheduled for a third.  I was told to make an appointment as soon as I found out I was pregnant due to the tubal pregnancy I had last year.  The first ultrasound was 2 weeks ago and they didn’t see anything on it, and then this last week I had another one and they saw a  gestational sac and yolk sac but no heart beat yet. So this next week we go back in on Wednesday and hopefully get to see the heart beat!  Looking forward to that.  At my last ultrasound with what they saw…my due date would be February 8th I think, from my calculations but that hasn’t been confirmed by the doctor yet!   so Next Wednesday we will know more!

Memorial Day Camping… and a week in Orofino

First camping trip of the year is always memorial day at the Dever’s.  We love it because we all have a great time and when it rains we have their huge shop to get out of the weather instead of cramped all in our separate campers!!  Here are some photos from a great weekend… Thanks everyone for always making it such a good time.

 

 

After memorial day camping… Kiersten went for a week to her Grandparents in Orofino…. The most exciting things we got to do were go fishing and ride Skippy… the horse I had when I was a kid.  A guy that my dad works with now owns him and so we got to go visit him.  He is still the same old little pony I remember and Kiersten was so excited to ride “your old horse mom”.

 

Not Again… Please

So as my previous post, that hasn’t actually been published to the blog yet, you have heard I’m pregnant.  Last year when I went through the Tubal pregnancy, my Nurse Practitioner said the next time I got pregnant I needed to be seen early, So I made an appointment right away!  I went in for my first OB check today…Lots of stuff… saw the N.P. had lab work drawn and the usual history questions regarding my medical history.  Then Katie (nurse practitioner) decided that we should do an ultrasound with the history of tubal pregnancy last year!  I left and came back an hour later to be taken into have the ultrasound done.  The ultrasound tech was very quiet, and I never did see any fetal sack or anything in my uterus, but… I don’t know what I’m looking for either!  However Trudy the tech pointed out with Kiersten when we had our first US where she was and we got to see her little heart fluttering away.  So all in all I had a not so great feeling about the ultrasound! So I went back out into the waiting area and Katie came and got me and brought me into the exam room and informed me of the news!  That they could NOT find an intra-uterine pregnancy.  And that they could see a mass on my left side…. However I’m still thinking happy thoughts!  I had her pull my ultrasound from last year, with my tubal, and on the report they said that I had a mass on the left also. (so there may be a separate issue that we will deal with later)  So they are going to compare the two US this afternoon. I had to have more lab work ran on my blood and she will call me with my blood HCG levels this evening. 

So we have two ways this can go…one I have a totally normal pregnancy and I’m just really EARLY in the process, (which my hcg levels will have to be low for them to determine this) or my levels might come back high to where they should be able to see the pregnancy….at that point they would probably consider this another ectopic (not necessarily in my tube) but if I have any pain at all… I have to be seen!  Kinda scary but at the same time, I feel like this pregnancy is normal just super early and they just can’t see the baby yet!

So I’m going to keep myself busy this afternoon and Katie is going to call me this evening and let me know what my Bhcg levels show and we will go from there.  I also will have labs drawn again on Thursday no matter what the outcome is today!  So I’m thinking only HAPPY THOUGHTS until then!!

6PM UPDATE:    My hcg levels came back low…so that means I’m just early in my pregnancy.  So the plan is to recheck hcg levels in 2 days to make sure they are doubling.  Then we will talk about doing an ultrasound again for due date and to continue to make sure the baby is in the correct spot!

Wow

Written June 2nd 2011

So this week my parent have had kiersten all week.  Its been sad, but also has given me lots of time to clean my house without having to just turn around and pick it up again!!  I miss her and will look forward to getting her back home on Sunday. So last week I started jogging again, and this week without Kiersten I have had more time to do this.  With that said, my whole body has been a little sore.  For the last few days I’ve chalked it up to jogging more!  This next part might be a little TMI but read ahead if you dare….  But this soreness felt familiar…I was sore in my breasts, So I decided it was time to take a test…a pregnancy test, Yep I’m pregnant, I just found out tonight (June 2nd 2011) by that lovely positive test.  I had this same soreness when I was pregnant with Kiersten in ‘07 and again when I had the ectopic pregnancy last year!  Now that the + showed up…I’m unsure why I chalked it up to exercise.

So now that I sit here in our living room, with George in bed, and Kiersten at my parents… I ponder what this new little life will be like!  Will it be a boy or a girl, mind well like Kiersten or a terror, (what I fear).  Will this little being let me sleep, Kiersten has always loved her sleep!  And how will Kiersten be with a new baby in our house?  I hope she will be a lover and a helper and I can’t wait to tell her!  I wonder what she will say, she keeps telling us she wants a brother or sister, sometimes its brother, sometimes its sister.   I hope they get along great and have many adventures together in the future!! It appears there birthdays will be just a month apart.  I think that this baby will be due in February, so Kiersten will just turn 4, when our family becomes a family of 4. There are so many questions that we will know over the next year and lifetime of this little being!!Can’t wait!!

BTW…this post isn’t being posted when I’m writing this… I just found out at 10pm tonight. So haven’t had time to discuss the details of when we will reveal this lovely news!!  I’m sure I’ll try to think of something creative to let our families know!!  And I’ll post all about that too, after the fact.