16 weeks and 3 days.

Today I am into my 4th month and everything is going really well. Today I think I actually felt some sort of movement. This evening I was laying down watching TV when I felt a strange bump, quickly followed by another bump. They were subtle, but it could be the baby saying hello.


In about 3 weeks, I will go in for another check and and we'll schedule my first and most likely only ultrasound. I'm interested to see pictures of the critter on the monitor. I have a doppler at home, so I'm able to hear the heart whenever I want to. It beats at about 150 beats a min. I took a picture. I decided not to post pictures at 10 weeks or 12 weeks or whatever because there was really nothing to show. You guys can just all assume my stomach was semi-flat before I hit my second trimester. =)

So there it is...that picture was taken last week, right at about the 16 week mark. So it's business as usual. Kyle has been working his usual hours, taking on his many projects and I have been on a huge project for a while, content writing for a few big companies. I don't see a slow down anytime soon, but come July, I'll have to re-think my priorities and take it down a notch. Till then, we just work on getting the condo ready. We have plenty to keep us busy.

So that's all for now. Don't forget to make your guess at our baby pool, the link is in the first blog.

Cari and Kyle

The First One of Many

Greetings,

For those of you who aren't aware, Kyle and I are expecting our first child on July 12th 2009. We found out very early on in the pregnancy, so it's been a fun few first months. At this point, I am 13 weeks or 3 months and one week pregnant. Depending on the website you visit, I am in the beginning of my second trimester, or the late first.

We don't care about boy or girl...just as long as it's one of them. We're doing a really fun baby pool at www.expectnet.com/games/BabyCooney so if you haven't been there yet, you should go! I've already had a few appointments with my midwife, yes I am using a midwife, not a regular doctor. I don't believe in lots of medical intervention and OBs are trained surgeons...so during labor their natural desire is to cut you open to get your baby out. No thanks.

A lot of people are asking since I am using a midwife, if I will be having my baby at home. I can tell you NO. I don't want to clean up that mess, plus having the baby in a hospital with the help of a midwife will keep unecessary intervention away unless it's actually needed. At this point, I am trying not to use any drugs during delivery. We'll see how far I get!

In another month or so, we'll be able to find out the gender of the baby, and yes, I will be finding out. I want to know for sure if I need to buy blue or pink. Yellow and Green are such ugly neutral colors. Hopefully we'll only have to do one ultrasound to figure out what's in there, I've been lucky enough to have everything else go very well. No morning sickness!!

My time in my regular jeans are done but you really can't tell by looking at me that I'm pregnant, I will start posting pictures soon so that people can see me progress from normal to monster sized!

Take Care,
Cari and Kyle