Baby Update

Baby Drake #2 is doing well, had my follow up appointment today about the ultrasound. She said EVERYTHING ( I didn’t realize they measures so much) on the little one looked great. I maintained my weight this month and babies heart rate was 156. I talked to her about the sinus headaches I’ve been having for the last month and half and she prescribed antibiotics to help get rid of the infection. Hopefully it will work because the headaches are driving me crazy, and I hate having to take Tylenol to battle them.  Baby is moving more and more in my tummy.  The kicks are great, but the rolling around…I’m not so fond of.  Kind of reminds me of my nausea again. :) Speaking of nausea, it has gotten much better, I rarely actually get sick anymore (for the last week and half).  In the evening I still feel a bit sick but nothing like before.  Definitely can tell baby is taking over my belly because I can’t eat much with out feeling overly stuffed.  Well nothing else to report on the baby home front.  Hope everyone is doing well and look for your Gender Reveal Party invite soon.  Party is being planned for October 15th.  Please, get me your addresses so I can get them to my momma.  Drake.jocelyn [at] gmail.com  Looking forward to sharing the news of babies gender with all our close friends and family!!

~Jocelyn

Baby Drake #2

We had our 20 week Ultrasound on Friday. The baby looked healthy however we have an appointment on Tuesday to tell us the final word that the baby is healthy. Kiersten went and she loved seeing the baby. And thinks she needs to have her own pictures of the baby. Will be printing her out copies of the ultrasound shortly. Until then here are the ultrasound pics!

Lumberjack Days 2011

Last weekend Kiersten and I went to experience another Lumberjack days in Orofino.  Since she has been born I don’t think we have missed it, and she loves it. The parades, the rides, the animals and this year my mother in law came up and brought her cousin Carson.  Kiersten had the best time with him and I’m so glad they came up to enjoy the fun. 

This ride they called “The Slide” it was more like an obstacle course where you climbed up nets and across these hanging bridges and it ended with the slide.  Kiersten loved it, however the bottom photo in this collage you notice she is concentrating very hard….her cousin Carson thought it would be fun to jump on the bridge and scare her. She yelled “stooooppp” at him just after I snapped this photo!

 

And her winnings!

A kick in the night…

Baby Drake #2 made its presence known, At around 3am.  Could it have had any better timing?  Kiersten has been sick waking up and coughing a lot over the last few nights and I am tired all the time so I try to get sleep in whenever I can.  However last night was a bit different.  Kiersten woke up crying and coughing at around 2am and I couldn’t fall back asleep only to feel flips happening in my belly.  I was still attempting to sleep all morning however these flips kept me from falling into a deep sleep from 3am on.  When George woke up in the morning I said, I think I have started to feel this baby move and kick.  He didn’t say much as he was in a hurry to get to work.  Kiersten woke up at 6:45am and came in and laid in bed with me. Shortly after George left for work the movement started all over again, so I laid on my back, and I was surprised and shocked to see the little kicks on the outside of my belly.

You might be asking why I appeared surprised, and that’s because according to the doctors I’m only 15 weeks and some odd days.  This seems early to feel and see the baby kick.  I didn’t see or feel Kiersten until 20 weeks. And another thing that makes me suspicious that this baby is going to come earlier than they think it is… the kicks are about an inch above my belly button and they say your uterus doesn’t even hit your belly button until 20 weeks.  The only thing I can think if they are correct is that the baby is merely is kicking the top of my uterus instead of out towards the front and that’s why I feel it higher!    Either way the kicks are real, I can see them when I look at my belly and that tells me baby is healthy and active, and has been active ALL MORNING its now 9am and it started at 3am!!

On another note, My belly is growing and I’ve gotten away with wearing scrubs at work with my job so I can hide it and haven’t had to buy new clothes.  However I took a new position at work and start orientation this week and have to dress up…so this means that today… I have to go clothes shopping…not looking forward to this!

15 week appointment

Not a lot to report with our appointment today.  Went in and saw Stephanie, discussed all my symptoms, shortness of breath, weakness, and more importantly nausea.  She is a little concerned about my nausea because I’ve just been losing weight since I got pregnant. She wants me to gain some weight.  So any time I feel good, EAT and Drink water whenever I can, because I feel dehydrated a lot! Although I will say that I do eat and drink already whenever I feel good! She gave me some hints to help with the nausea but most I have already tried, so my goal this month is at least to maintain my current weight, and try to keep some vitamins down (currently doing gummy vitamins cause it’s the only ones I can keep down part of the time).  She said to try anything with papaya in it….I guess it helps ease the stomach.  So I’m looking for juices and stuff with that if you know of anything!  I don’t even know what it tastes like so who knows if I can keep it down either!  All my vitals were good, pressure was 106/60 which is a little lower than average for me but not my much. My weight like a mentioned before was down a bit again.  But the baby was super easy to find by Doppler and the heart beat was strong!  Next appointment in one month.  She said we could have the US then or wait till 20 weeks.  I opted to wait until 20 weeks because she said that sometimes they can’t to all the anatomy of the heart at 18 weeks.  So we will have our US in a month and half…. we probably won’t be finding out what it is at the ultrasound but rather will be having a get together to reveal the gender with friends and family.  Haven’t decided when we will do that though, was thinking November but may actually do it in October instead due to limited weekends available for my mother, mother in law, and my schedules to coordinate in November!  We will see!  Until next time….

11 Week Appointment with Baby Drake #2 also known as….

Hello everyone,
So here is the update on the Pregnant home front… Just hit 11 weeks today and my nausea is still in full swing.  I’m good if I hold down one meal a day!  Its been bugging me because I haven’t been able to hold down my prenatal vitamins but no need to worry, Doctor said not to worry about them until this nausea goes away.  I had an appointment today and decided that Kiersten could go with me since I know all they do for a while is just listen for the heartbeat.  I went in and they took my vitals, all looked good and then weighed me.  My weight was down 6lb but I kind of expected that with all this nausea. Then we went into the room and the doc came in to find the heartbeat. I wasn’t positive about them finding it because with Kiersten the doctors couldn’t find the heartbeat even at 13 weeks, that’s why we had an ultrasound early with her too.  But this one the doctor found right away.  No I don’t know the heart rate… for those that think they can tell girl/boy by the rate. :)  I personally think this one is a boy… the only thing I really crave is pepsi…and I’m sick all the time. After spending the week with my mother in law camping….and she said she was sick for all 9 months with her boys and LOVED Pepsi.  Coincidence… not sure, I guess we will find out later.  The other reason I think this one is a boy is my dreams… you may laugh but the first dream I had with Kiersten was that I had a Blonde haired blue eyed girl…. and that’s just what we got.  With this one I dreamt that I was having a super chubby dark haired, brown eyed boy!  Will be interesting to find out if this one comes out the same as my dreams.
So I refer to this baby as Baby Drake #2, however Kiersten has came up with a name of her own…. My parents were up visiting a few weeks ago and my mom asked her what the baby’s name was going to be.  Without hesitation Kiersten said, Baby Casen.  I have no idea where she came up with the name and it has stuck… if you call the baby something else she will argue with you about it.  If we do not name it Casen, Which still is under HUGE debate, I’m not sure she will be to happy with us, and I’m pretty sure she will call it Casen anyways!

4th of July 2011--- Lake Cascade

 

Every 4th of July we go camping with George’s side of the family.  Its always a fun time, but I have to say this year was much more fun since we couldn’t salmon fish we got to play at lake cascade and the kids got to actually fish!  Kiersten always has a blast with her cousins especially Carson.  They just seem to like to get into trouble together!    The dirt pictures were one of the first nights of 5.  She was so disappointed (not really) when she had to go swimming to clean up!  The highlight of the week was fishing, the kids couldn’t seem to get enough of it and Kiersten caught a fish ALL BY HERSELF, which she was very jazzed about.  She has come along way…just last month she was terrified of the fish when we took her with Grandpa Scott.  This time she actually held it, not something I even do! Yuck!.  We got to fish, swim, play on the boat, and just hang out in the sun for a week.  A well needed vacation!   Thanks everyone for making it such a great time!

Sister in Law might kill me for this one but I thought it was a great dive caught on Camera!

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!