20 Day Pregnancy Challenge: Day 2

Day Two: A picture of the father and five facts.

I love Husband's face right here. :]

• He is a United States Marine.
• He loves video games.
• He drinks Mountain Dew like water.
• When we first met, his hair was longer than mine.
• He is 3 years older than me.

 

20 Day Pregnancy Challenge: Day 1

Day One: A picture of you and five facts.

This picture was taken on 1-13-12 (14 weeks, 6 days).

• I’m 21 years old.
• I already know what the nursery is going to look like.
• I have one son, Little Bear.
• I really dislike people and try to avoid them as a general rule in life.
• I really hope that L.B. (Little Baby) is a girl. But I will be happy with another boy. 

Update!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've been on here.

I had a doctor's appointment today, and I couldn't be happier.

Well, I could, but that's only if Husband were here. Stupid deployments. Boo.

Anyway, back to the baby!

First off, the weight gain.

I weighed in at 173.4 today. It's not quite within my recommended range for being 16 weeks along, but I'm not too worried. I'm only off by a couple of pounds.

I've been eating way healthier than I was before I was pregnant. Less junk food, so that might be why I've not gained a bunch of weight.

After the weigh-in, we got to hear Little Baby's heart! The midwife pulled out the Doppler, and found L.B. without any difficulty, a bit below and to the right of my bellybutton.

L.B.'s heart is going strong in the high 140s, and L.B. even wiggled around a bit for us. Before the midwife identified that the weird static noise was, in fact, wiggles, I felt a light little flutter. So maybe that was the first kick felt!!

While we were listening to the heartbeat and wiggles, Bear had the biggest grin on his face. He still doesn't quite get it, but he knows that Mommy and Daddy pay a lot of attention to Mommy's tummy. 

After the appointment, I scheduled the ultrasound.

We find out the gender of Little Baby on February 16. I'll be 19 weeks along.

Well, I'm off!

Sometimes I Love My Nurses

So, I had my first appointment this week. It was just a simple intake appointment, where the nurse asked me a lot of questions for paperwork. Woo.

Pretty much the only cool things that happened this appointment were weight fixing, and making our ultrasound appointment.

The nurse told me that since I dropped a lot of weight really quickly due to my surgery back in August, that my pre-pregnancy weight will be considered what I weighed before. SO!

I like this one a lot better.

Also, I will be getting my ultrasound on Monday! I will be ten weeks and three days along, which I think is really cool. I was exactly that far along when I had my first ultrasound with Bear.

I can't wait to compare them. It's gonna look awesome. :]

9 Weeks

Guess what?! Husband and I bought our first baby-related purchases this week. Well, other than a pregnancy test. :]

Wanna know what they are?

A cute little outfit and a baby name book!

We are so excited. Only 31 more weeks to go.

 I can't wait to see L.B. dancing and swimming around during the sonogram, which should be coming up here in a week or two. Hopefully.


Another cool thing: L.B. is about an inch long now, and is now a full-fledged fetus. Woo!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

DIY-able

Probably one of the best parts about pregnancy is, for me, getting to decorate. Now, don't get me wrong, feeling the little kicks and seeing the little gummy bear in the ultrasound photos are amazing. But designing something that your little baby will spend a lot of time in, and getting to recognize as "mine" is just so much fun.

However...spending the money to make that perfect nursery a reality...Yeah. Not so much fun.

First, there's the furniture. I've already shared my perfect crib for Little Baby here. But I'm pretty much stuck there. I want to be able to save some room in L.B.'s tiny little nursery (at least, I'm almost positive it will be tiny. I don't know for sure yet.) by combining the dresser and changing table, like so:

via Domestic Adventure

I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to find a dresser suitable for this on Craigslist or Bookoo for a halfway decent price.

After spending upwards of $400 on furniture and a mattress, next comes the actual bedding and decor. Yikes. I have yet to find a full set of bedding (quilt, crib skirt, fitted sheet and bumpers) for under $100. I think Bear's was about $125, and that was without all of the accessories.

As for the mobile, I think I'm going to do a mix of yarn pom-poms and tissue paper poof balls. Different textures in the main colors would be fun.

I've been fabric hunting for the last week, and I think that, yes, I'm definitely going to be making the bedding and accessories for L.B.'s room. Erin from Domestic Adventure has a lot of nursery DIY ideas that I'm definitely going to be using as inspiration.

I found the main fabrics for L.B.'s nursery.

If L.B. turns out to be a girl:

via fabric.com

via fabric.com

If L.B. turns out to be a boy, though, I want to use these fabrics:

via Amy Butler

via fabric.com

The Amy Butler fabric can be seen in use here:

via Gussy Sews

Definitely looks cute with red. :]

Of course, whatever we're having, I'm going to be buying some solid color minky fabrics for a bunch of the projects, plus the crochet baby blanket I'm making is going to match for sure. 

I really can't wait to find out what we're having. I almost just wanna buy about 10 yards of each of the fabrics, because I honestly would love to use all of them in the decor. And I wouldn't have to wait at least ten weeks to start on the nursery. Either way, I think I will get the stripes. 

8 Weeks

Have a good weekend!