I've been really slack

I've been slack when it comes to this blog, mainly because there's not much to report...I'm feeling pretty good pregnancy wise and everything seems to be progressing just fine. My stomach has rounded out a little bit more and now when I where maternity pants, I actually look pregnant and not just big. We go to the doctor on Tuesday and will schedule the big ultrasound, which I am extremely excited about!! I cleaned out the room upstairs for the nursery and now it's just waiting to be decorated.



Right now I am 17 weeks but here is a picture from 2 weeks ago.
















Anyways, nothing really exciting to report, hopefully the rest of the pregnancy will go this smoothly!!

Baby Hamm is definitely growing!!

I work at a doctor's office and wear scubs every day. It's hard to really see how big I've gotten when I'm wearing those. But I have showed a few people at work my growing belly and almost everyone I've shown it to have been kinda surprised at how much I was already showing. I was 12 weeks yesterday and took some pictures. What do you think? Am I really bigger than most women at 12 weeks?



I'm still wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans, even though they are beginning to become greatly uncomfortable. And shopping for maternity clothes this past weekend was a bust. I ended up buying one sweater that's not even maternity. Overall, I have felt really good. This past weekend I had a horrible headache all weekend and it just kept getting worse, but now it has eased up, which is a blessing.




The baby is now roughly 2 inches long, which was very surprsing because I just knew he would be bigger than that. So you mean my stomach is that big with only a 2 inch baby in there?!?! :) That's ok, as long as he's growing healthy, I don't care how big I get. Our next check up is Friday and I can't wait!! Seemed like this one came a little quicker than the first one. I'm so excited to get an update on our little baby!!

Nothing really new....

Nothing really new here- it seems that the queasiness is getting better and better. Hopefully by next week I'll be craving everything in sight. :) We've got our next appointment next Friday so we're really looking forward to that. I can't wait to see his little heartbeat again and make sure everything is just fine. I wouldn't say I'm that much bigger and I'm not sure that I'm really showing. I know that I can tell but not sure that strangers would know. Right now I feel like we're having a boy, but who knows. I'm so happy that things seem to be progressing right on track. I'm planning on taking pictures Sunday, which will mark 12 weeks!!!

Food....I used to love food

Food has just not been the same for the past several weeks. I really hope this is a 1st trimester thing because I used to love to eat, with only a few minor exceptions. Take for instance ice cream- I was addicted to ice cream before I was pregnant. We would take at least 2 trips to Marble Slab in a week. Now I can do without it. I really miss it but just can't bear the thought of eating it. And that goes along with just about everything else. It seems as though I'm forcing myself to eat to keep myself from being sick. I might not feel like eating, but I make myself and then realize that I do feel better. It's just making myself eat when I don't really feel like it. Food in general just does not sound appealing to me anymore. I eat now, not because I like it, but because I need it. I liked eating because it tasted good....

Again, hopefully this will change because I hate this feeling. Other than that, the pregnancy has been going well. I shouldn't really complain about my food aversions, but that's really my only problem at the moment. I guess I should count myself lucky- I've known a few girls that have been deathly sick with their pregnancies.

We still have 3 weeks til our next appointment. Seems like this appointment is taking forever to get here too. But it will come, and we can't wait!!

The baby is now the size of a prune-still hard to imagine it being THAT small. The baby now has little feet and hands- not the webbed ones like before. He's begun moving, but still too small to notice. And he even has fingerprints- how amazing!!! He now weighs approximately .07 ounces.

Maybe next time I'll have some belly pics- I've been too tired and lazy to take any recent ones.

8 weeks and 1 day

Today I am 8 weeks and 1 day. I knew I wouldn't be as far along as I thought but that's ok. We had our first appointment today, which was very exciting. The doctor came in and did all the routine things and said she would grab her dinosaur ultrasound machine and let us see our baby (an ultrasound at 8 weeks isn't routine). So we were just excited to get to see him with her old machine. At the very end, with the end frame on the screen, she kept looking at it and said, let's just let you go next door and get an ultrasound with a new machine just to make sure there's not 2 in there. She said she was 95% sure there was just one but the last picture looked suspicious. So we got an actual ultrasound done, with pictures and a DVD! It confirmed we are just having 1. We saw his little heartbeat, which was measuring at 164 bpm, which was good. I was relieved to see his heartbeat and know all is well. We go back on Oct. 30 for our next visit and I can't wait for that one either!! At that one we'll listen to his heartbeat again with the doppler. Here's our little bean's first pictures:

7 weeks

Today marks 7 weeks. Yes, only 7 weeks. Shouldn't I be atleast 10 weeks by now?! Hope this doesn't mean the rest of the pregnancy will continue to be this slow. Nothing new really- still no morning sickness, although I have felt a little queasy at times. I'm usually more tired at the end of the day. I'm not sure if you're technically supposed to be "showing" at 7 weeks but I feel like my stomach has gotten bigger- maybe it's just bloat, I don't really know. I took some more pictures- let's compare them to the 5 week pictures and see! :)


















Yep, I would say I'm bigger. 12 more days til our appointment- can't wait!!!

Just 34 weeks left...

Sure does sound like a long time, but I know it will go by so fast! Before I know it, we'll have our little one here. Today marks 6 weeks- I'm curious to see if the doctor agrees with that later this month.



By now our little one is the size of a sweet pea.
Yep, that's it, a little sweat pea! It's hard to imagine
really...and to think that in only 34 weeks it will
probably be at least 7 pounds! Amazing, simply amazing!!!




I still have yet to experience true pregnancy symptoms. Still no morning sickness. Occasional cramping throughout the day and I have noticed that at night I'm more tired than usual but it's not anything I can't deal with. Less than 3 weeks now until our appointment and I couldn't be more excited. Before getting pregnant, I always thought I would want to wait to find out the sex, but I don't know if I can wait that long. :) We might just have to find out sooner.....

We got our first baby gift today! It felt so strange getting one that I'm actually going to keep! It's the cutest little baby frog rattle/blanket and it's so soft!!

I think that's all I can think of right now...I think I'm ready for bed now. :)

Surprise!!

So tonight we had planned to tell my mom and Jason's parents about the big news over dinner. His mom thought something was up when she walked in our house and saw my mom. We were gathered in the kitchen fixing our plates and Jason took the camera to take a picture. Instead of saying "Say Cheese" he said "Say Renee's Pregnant!!" and then snapped the shot. Here's how it turned out:
So my mom and his mom were excited and wanted to start calling people right after they found out. I think they were somewhat in shock too. As his mom and dad were pulling out of the driveway, I'm pretty sure I saw his mom on the phone. I imagine the whole family will know by tomorrow. :)

Pregnancy and Memory

I've always heard that when you get pregnant, your memory goes out the door. I never thought it started this early. Yesterday was one of those moments. I get all ready for work- have my phone, car keys, water, lip gloss (which I have to have) and now I'm ready to start another day of work. As always, I put on my lipstick on my way to work- only yesterday when I went to grab my lip stick out of my purse, my purse was no where to be found. I had left home without it!! Although, I guess I had all my necessities. :) I'm not off to a very good start!!

So tomorrow we will be telling some of our family- my mom and brothers and then Jason's parents. I plan to tell my dad on his birthday next month. I know it's early, but I really want them to know. I'm hoping they can keep it a secret for several more weeks, until we feel safer that everything is growing well. But, we're having them all over for dinner and will tell them then. I am so excited and I can't wait to see their reactions!!! I'll update with pictures tomorrow!

Hello Everyone!

Everyone is doing it, right? And I've got a very good reason to start a blog- only because we're having a baby!! That's right, we're expecting- early May 2010.

Here's the proof:

Today marks 5 weeks! The fact that I'm pregnant really hasn't hit me yet. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm really not having any symptoms, so I don't really feel pregnant. I have the occasional cramping but other than that, that's it. I'll take that as a blessing because I'm sure it won't last long. I have my first doctor's appointment scheduled for September 28 at 1:00 and we are both so excited!! We both took the day off from work, which will be really nice. I'm praying everything is fine and the little baby is growing strong!

Even though it's early, I've already been thinking about baby names and I'm finding it harder to pick out girl's names that I like. That probably means we'll be having a girl. :)

I took some pictures today, not that I'm showing yet but I thought I needed to have a starting point. So I'm starting off chunky but here they are: