Moving Along

Posted by Me Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:02:00 GMT

Two Weekends’ ago we made a trip out to LA to visit relatives and celebrate my cousin’s 18th Debutante Party. It was quite the affair – complete with big dresses, lots of dancing, and food/drink fitting for such an event. My parents flew out from Florida for it and it was great to see and spend some time with them.

All my aunts (I have 5 aunts and 2 uncles on my mother’s side) were thrilled about our news and it was great to see everyone so excited. Nausea was abated pretty well and I was thankful to feel almost human again while out there. It was an active weekend so I was tired by the time we trekked on back to good ole’ Vegas on Sunday.

After our whirlwind trip, we arrived back at home to a fun-filled week of work and such. Work has still been really busy. I finally “came out” though at work so at least I don’t have to worry about that anymore. We have our next appointment with Dr. H on Sept 7th where we will hopefully find out the gender of the baby. I am still convinced it’s a girl for some reason (as is everyone else who ventures a guess!). I guess we’ll see at the ultrasound (provided Baby G cooperates).

Other than that, nothing new to report. I had planned to start clearing out the room that would eventually become the nursery this weekend, but alas a relapse to throwing up in the evening kept me rather immobile for the weekend. :( I had tried to stop taking my B-6/Unisom remedy only to go back to awful nausea and puking. So not fun! I ended up going to bed at 8pm on Saturday – waking up at 2am (starving!!!). Tried after a slice of toast to go back to bed at 3am – discovered that was futile and thus ended up watching TV at 3:30am until 5am. My stomach was still real wobbly so it wasn’t much fun. No puking though so that’s good! :) Eventually, I managed to venture back to bed at 5am and woke up at 7am. Ullgh! Nausea combined with puking & insomnia is so not fun! Oh well – you win some – you lose some.

I am currently 18w1d! Yowzers! We still have our handy dandy doppler and hence are able to keep an eye (err, rather ear) on Baby G’s heartbeat. Oh what a lovely sound to fill a room! I am nervous about the ultrasound next week since I hope all is well and the tech/Dr doesn’t see anything abnormal! I just want Baby G to be healthy! All I want is Baby G to be healthy and sticking around until it’s time to come out! :)

Anyways, that’s the latest update. We haven’t picked out any names nor made any moves towards the nursery. I think once we make it through more milestones we’ll feel more comfortable making strives towards that stuff. It’s crazy to think that we are close to being half-way through the pregnancy already. :) I pray that all continues to go well.