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 Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:19 pm
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Mistress Cupcakkes Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:38 pm
in early january 2009.
How did you feel when you found out?:
suprised, stunned, excited, and amazed.
Who was with you?:
no one.
How did the daddy react?:
shocked, disbelieving, excited, anxious, and amazed.
How did your parents react?:
my mom was happy, and excited. i didn't tell my dad, but he found out after i moved and i don't know or care how he feels about it.
How did his parents react?:
he says they're both excited. but i never talk to his dad and his mom doesn't sound too thrilled about it when she talks to me. maybe she just doesn't like me.
How often do they call to check on you?: I live with my mom, i don't talk to my dad or cole's dad. and cole's mom calls me every once in a while to see how my appointments went, but ultimately to see if i found out the gender yet.
When is your due date?:
September 3rd 2009
How far along are you right now?:
(check my sig)
Have you had an ultra sound?:
one so far. second one should be in april sometime.
Have you heard the heartbeat?:
yes, twice so far. hearing it for a third time on april 13th.
What do you want. Boy or Girl?:
either is perfect.
Do you know what you are having now?:
not yet.
Are you happy with what you are having?:
i will be.
Who is going to be with you?:
cole, my mom, and either lucas or christina in the delivery room. lucas or christina whichever won't be in the delivery room will probably be in the waiting room along with; krista, maybe my brother, maybe my godfather, maybe my stepdad, and i'm not sure who else might be there.
Are you going to video tape it?:
i highly doubt it. but if it does get video taped, it'll be from more of my view. i refuse to have a camera aimed at my private part as it's being all stretched out insanely.
Natural or medicated?:
i'm going for natural. i can normaly stand a good amount of pain, so i'm hoping i can get it done.
Do you think you will have a c-section?:
highly doubt it will be neccessary.
Do you think you will cry when you first hold your baby?:
i wouldn't doubt it. baby-making is such a beautiful thing. no god created our baby. this baby is being created by cole and i.
Do you know what you will say to the baby when you first hold it?:
i have no idea...i will probably just be speechless with a smile on my face and tears rolling down my cheeks.
Are you scared about the labor?:
no really.
Do you have a name picked out?:
for a boy---Adonis Ryuk Love
for a girl---Bambi Dragon Love or Neptune Starr Love
Is your baby going to be named after anyone?:
definately not. i really don't like stuff like that. it makes it look more like the parents couldn't think of a name for their child, so now they have to share it with someone else. it's fine and all for other people to do, but it's just not for me.
Did the daddy help pick the name?:
nope, he only got to pick out of a few names i picked out. besides that, the baby is getting his last name right away even though we won't be married yet. so he agreed that it'd be fine for me to pick.
Where will your baby be born?:
most likely at Centegra Hospital.
Have you felt the baby move?:
not yet, but i should start to in the next few weeks.
What was your first symptom?:
well i started getting cold flashes which isn't normal for me because i always enjoyed a cool breeze, but then started needing to keep warmer.
then cole looked up symptoms online and checked my areolas and told me that they looked darker.
Will you have godparents?:
definately.
Who will be the god mommy?:
christina. (my friend)
Who will be the god daddy?:/
lucas. (cole's friend)
What is the babys room theme?:
most likely rainforest.
Are you ready to be a mommy?:
i've been ready for years.
What do you think the baby will be a "daddys girl/boy" or a "mommys girl/boy"?:
it doesn't matter to me either way. but i'd prefer it to be more equal.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:48 pm
DOCTOR APPOINTMENTS first doctors appointment03/02/2009i was really anxious to get into my appointment. me and my mom sat down in the waiting area and i had to fill out a little bit of info about myself and family history. we didn't have to wait long after i finished for a nurse to come and take the info and lead us to the room. the doctor came in after a little while and told me i had to go give a urine sample and then i was to go back in the room and take off everything (socks were optional).
i got a quick pap smear done (the results came back normal). and the doctor said that by the looks of my uterus, i looked close to 14 weeks. after that, oddly enough, i got a rectal exam done right after that. i wasn't told what it was or what it was for. luckily i knew what rectal meant, so i didn't freak out as much as i probably would have. he went straight for it too, so i had no time to ask questions and wasn't asked if i had any. there was a female nurse in the room, so i figured it must've been required. but my sister, and mom (who had 6 kids total) have never gotten a rectal exam while pregnant. i asked some other moms and preggo ladies if they've ever gotten one and all 5 that i had asked, had never gotten one. the only explanation would be that he was checking for any possible hemmroids/hemhoraging.
then came the part i was waiting for, the heartbeat! the doctor left the room for a while and i put all of my clothes back on. it felt like forever for the doctor to come back in. once he came back in, i had to pull my pants down a bit and lift my shirt up a little. he pressed around on my abdomen to find out where the baby was sitting. he rubbed some gel on a little device and held it on my lower stomache. there was a little heart beating away in there! 160 beats per minute. my eyes watered up a bit and i looked over and smiled at my mom. it's so amazing to hear a heartbeat from inside you that isn't your own.second doctors appointment
03/16/2009
my mom took me to go pick up cole in the morning. he was supposed to go to swap, but he said he wanted to come to the appointment. i really wanted him to come too.
we had to go to the store first. that got done pretty quick. then we went back to the house and put it all away.
we picked up cole pretty early too, so we still had an hour or so until my appointment and my mom had to take my sister to the dentist. so we got to have some alone time until they got back.
we left to the appointment immediately after my mom and sister got back. we got in there early because i had to get some labwork done first. it was a walk-in appointment, so i had to give them my information and medicaid card which didn't take too long.
after a couple minutes, my name was called and cole went back with me. he was getting really anxious and kept himself occupied. he watched the nurse take a few vials of my blood and looked really interested. he was even asking the nurse about the color of my blood since it was on the darker side and his was usually a brighter color. she told him that when the blood is darker, that heans that person is really healthy. haha, i've always been a healthy eater even when i was younger. i've never had much of a sweet tooth. she had me hold a cotton-ball to my arm while she grabbed a band-aid to put on me. and while she was setting up my vials of blood, cole asked if he could see one of the vials. she handed one over to him. he said that it felt warm and examined the vial. =) he's so cute. that's the first time anyone other than a nurse has held my blood. and i'm sure that's the first time he's ever gotten to hold someone else's blood. then he handed it back to her and she put it with the others and sent me to give a urine sample.
i got back to the room and cole & i went back to the waiting room where my mom was.
we got walked out of that area and took an elevator to where my appointment was going to be. we signed in at the front so they knew we were there and got sent to the waiting room. we waited for quite a while. there were 2 other people in the waiting room with us and stared a bit while us 3 were talking. we had some fun conversations.
finally we got called back to the room where we waited for a long time after i was told to give as much urine as i could since i just gave some not too long ago. i came back into the room to see my mom explaining to cole using a picture in the room standing up on the counter about how the baby sits inside me.
then he just started spinning around on the doctor's chair and was looking around trying to figure out what everything was and how it worked. he's like a little kid in a candy store. he grabbed a display of a nuvaring and was touching it and asked us what it was. my mom told him what it was and where it goes and what it's used for and he put the pretty quick. my mom had to tell him to sit down and stop touching things before he broke something. he's always been kinda clumsy like that. he was so fidgety sitting there next to my mom and i was up on the table thing waiting.
the doctor finally came in and introduce himself to cole.
he asked me what my decision was about getting a precedure done to test to see if our baby would have anything wrong with it. he had said before that usually when it's done, it helps the mother determine whether or not she wants to abort. i told him no immediately. i was already explained about it all in my first visit in which i sat there and kept shaking my head and saying no to it. but he still insisted i think about it. there was nothing to think about. if i didn't want the baby, i would have already thrown myself down some stairs and done everything possible to abort it on my own and never would have made any appointments. cole got told about all of it since he was curious since i told the doctor no so fast and he wasn't sure what it was he was talking about.
the doctor entered some information into his computer and looked at the results from the ultrasound and determined the conception date was 12/11/2008. the morning after cole's birthday.
then came the part cole was getting antsy for.
same as before, i pulled my pants down a bit and lifted my shirt.
the gel was applied and the device placed where our baby is. and the heartbeat played through. i turned my head towards cole to see his reaction. he looked pretty stunned.
while we were walking out of the room, cole said really loud how awesome that was. the ladies up at the front desk leaned back and looked at him. he talked about it the whole way down to the car. he wouldn't even let me turn on the radio because he wasnted to remember the heartbeat for as long as he could. third doctors appointment4/13/2009it felt like it took forever waiting for my doctor. we go there on time and went back to the room almost immediately. i got weighed, got my blood pressure taken, and gave a urine sample. my doctor still wasn't in yet though, but i was his first appointment.
found out a few minutes later that my doctor was stuck in traffic and would take about 10 more minutes. so in the meantime, the nurse got the ultrasound order printed up.
by the time my doctor got there, everything went a little quicker. i was a little annoyed though after he asked me again if i was sure i didn't want the test to get a needle stuck in my stomache to see if there'd be anything wrong with my baby to decide whether or not i'd want to abort. i brushed it off though and thought to myself he might just be asking again because you never know if someone really wants to do something but are too nervous or embarrased to ask or say something.
i pulled my shirt up and he moved the doppler around my stomache to look for the heartbeat. i was a little worried at first when it took a little bit to find the heartbeat, but i was so releived once he found it.
my baby decided to try playing hide and seek. after we heard it for a few seconds, my baby moved away and we lost the heartbeat again. so my doctor moved the doppler around again and found where my baby had moved to - 135 bpm.
once we got home, i had my mom call in and schedule my next appointment since she was going to have a more busy schedule around this time and my doctor wanted the ultrasound done within the next week.
so it's set up for next monday in the morning. i might be having my boyfriend sleep over so he can come with. i'd really like him to make it to this ultrasound since he missed the first one. he missed the first heartbeat too, but went to the second one. i want him to go to at least one appointment to hear the heartbeat and one ultrasound to see our baby in motion on the inside.
hopefully he'll be able to come. he has swap to do in the mornings. his dad got a little mad at him last time when he went to hear the heartbeat and had to miss a day of swap.
i'm really excited to finally get a definate answer as to what the gender is. then i can stop just saying "my baby" and "he/she--him/her". then i can talk about my baby with a specific name and i'll feel so much better.fourth doctors appointment
05/11/2009
i saw Dr. Parra instead of Dr. Herring this time. i've seen enough of him. Parra is so much better. even just the energy of him got me happy. the lady at the front desk who told me he was really nice was definately right. i really hope Dr. Parra is the one to deliver my baby.
there's still two other doctors to meet. i'm meeting one of them at my next appointment. sadly, it's going to be in the mchenry office, but the only other doctor for me that'd be at the office i normally go to would be Dr. Herring. i know my mom really doesn't want to go to mchenry, but i really don't want to see him again. he makes me feel like s**t when i go in there and i end up feeling kinda depressed.
anyway, Parra told me about some prenatal classes they do at the hospital ill be delivering in. i guess if i do those, they'll also give me a tour of the hospital. and maybe i can find out who i can talk to about my birth plan and how i prefer it to be. i already have it printed out, now i just need to find out who to give it to so i can make sure it all goes more of how i'd like it to make it the best experience possible.
i need to go get some labwork done again sometime within the next 2 weeks. i forget what he said they were doing... i think they're going to be taking more blood and testing for diabetes. i don't understand why they don't do all the blood testing at once. it's not like i mind it or anything, i love getting my blood drawn. fifth doctors appointment6/8/2009this time i saw Dr. Watley; a female doctor. she was really lively and talked to me a lot and asked questions about myself, my family, school, and Cole.
she put some info into the laptop she brought in with her and checked my baby's heartbeat. then before i left, i asked her some questions about my birth plan (who to give it to and when). she said i can bring it in anytime and give it to whichever doctor i'm seeing and we can go over it and talk about how things will go and what is possible or not.
i asked her specifically at that appointment about Cole being able to catch Adonis when he comes out since that was one of the options on the birth plan i filled out and was most excited about. i was bummed to hear that pretty much no hospital allows it and that it's more of a free-thinking idea. i understand though because they gotta help kick-start the lungs and get all the blood cleaned off. plus there's always a chance that something could go wrong in the delivery and he needs to be taken to a room right away to get taken care of.
then i asked about having Cole cut the cord because that was the second thing i was most excited about since i really want Cole to be as involved as possible. she said that if they could, they could hand him the scissors all day long! so that's definately going to happen, so i'm really happy about that!
and i double checked about recording it all since it said it's not allowed in the folder of into i got. she said that you can video tape the labor and whatever else, just not the birthing. it's hospital rules, otherwise they'd allow it. it's pretty much for just in case something goes wrong (no pure evidence for a lawsuit), and it also has to do with an extra person being in the way in case of emergency. so that's pretty understandable.
my mom says shehas her way around the rules though, so we'll probably be able to get it recorded anyway. she was gonna do the same for Jodi, but she ended up having an emergency c-section.sixth doctors appointment
6/29/2009
saw Watley again. i'm really starting to hate having to give the urine samples now. since i haven't been able to see my cooch anymore, these past two appointments I've gotten pee all over my hand.
Got weighed in at 154lbs; just one more pound since I last checked. And it's like a 6lb weight gain from my last appointment.
we had to wait around for like 2 hours until Dr. Watley finally came. she was over in the other building busy with a delivery that ended up being kind of difficult because the baby came out facing up instead of down and the lady had gotten a really weird tear that took a while to fix up.
it was a fairly short appointment. she she went over my info to make sure it was all right, then asked me if i was planning on getting an epidural and made sure to write my mom and Cole's name into the computer as the people that are going to be in the delivery room.
then we listened to the heart beat. he's got a nice strong heart beat. =)
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Mistress Cupcakkes Captain
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Mistress Cupcakkes Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:06 pm
first ultrasound appointment03/04/2009
i drank so much strawberry-banana juicy juice. plus a glass of water before that. i only drank about half of the container of juice. and it felt like my bladder was so full and if i drank anymore i would've felt like throwing up. we sat for so long in the waiting room. like about 30 minutes. i was so relieved when i was called to the back.
i hung my jacket up on the coat hooks by the door and layed down on the little bed. just like when i heard the heartbeat at my doctors appointment, i had to pull my pants down some and pull my shirt up. some gel was put on my stomache and a little device was moved around over it which revealed my baby up on the moniter.
it was hard for me to see the moniter since at first it was aimed more towards the technician and my mom. i could see my baby at an angle and could see that she was taking a couple screen pictures. she told me i really should have filled my bladder more. so next time even if i start feeling queezy or like i'm going to piss my pants, i'll just keep drinking anyway. i want to get the best pictures possible next time especially because that's when i can find out the gender and start getting stuff ready.
then the technician aimed the screen my way so i could see it. there was my baby, just bouncing away like it was hyper from the sugary juice. normally i don't like too mant sweets, i seem to like more of the salty things. my mom said it looked like my baby was dancing in there because it was moving it's arms around.
after it was done and the gel was wiped off of me, i got to use the bathroom which thankfully is right there in the same room.
by the time i got out, the technician had already printed out the ultrasound pictures for me. there were only 2. a side-view picture (you can't even see the legs; probably due to the fact that i didn't drink enough), and a picture of one of the feet. she told me too that at that very point, i was 13-weeks and 6-days. so the doctor was right, just about 14-weeks along. i got a little flip-photo-album to put the ultrasound pictures in so they won't get ruined and keep it in my purse.second ultrasound appointment04/20/2009
this morning i drank a lot of apple juice! it was so much that i felt almost ready to throw up and i didn't even want to walk. i had my mom ask the front desk where we had to go for the ulrasound. i must've looked pretty bad too because they asked if i'd like a wheelchair.
luckily it took no time at all to get called to the back after my mom and boyfriend gave up of trying to video-tape me.
the ultrasound liquid was nice and warm and it felt pretty good to have the device rolled around my baby bump. it was like a soft relaxing stomache massage.
my boyfriend was really excited to see our baby and see the movement. we even got to see the baby's heartbeat and part of the brain ,which i thought was really awesome.
my boyfriend was so ecstatic and amazed to hear that we're having a baby boy!
it's exactly what he was hoping for!
he couldn't stop smiling and after i emptied my bladder, i walked out to see him jumping and dancing around.
i'm so happy.
my life feels like such a fairytale!
i have an amazing boyfriend, our healthy baby boy, and a plan that's already in action.
when we got back to the house, i still wasn't feeling too great. my stomache was still upset from all the applejuice and i had only gotten a couple hours of sleep because our baby was moving around too much.
my boyfriend got inside first and told my sister and our friend meehow that it's a boy.
i dropped my purse and jacket on the table and sat on the couch and tried to make myself comfy. my sister kept asking me if i wanted any water or ice, but i told her no. my boyfriend tried offering me food, but just thinking about food made me sick to my stomache.
i went to the bathroom and got rid of more applejuice urine. then on my way back to the couch, i turned on the fan. i was so tired and uncomfortable.
my boyfriend asked me if i was going to faint because it looked like i was. i guess i started to get kind of pale. so i got up and went into the bedroom, opened the window nice and wide, and got comfy on the bed. right after i got layed down, my boyfriend came in and layed down with me.
he told me that he loves me so much and kissed me. i felt a little better having him laying with me. i fell asleep cuddled up and facing him; he had one hand on the baby the whole time. and it felt nice at first while his hand was cold since i felt so hot at the time.
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