Getting Ready for Halloween

Will is going to be Luke STYwalker, Jedi Knight. He estimates that he will be getting "more than 100 candies, maybe even a billion." (Here's hoping not). Mr. Cubby is going to be a pudgy spider. We've got spider lights hanging off of our breakfront and cobwebs on our bushes outside. Very spooky house this year - especially with the window clings from Walmart that say "Beware of candy munching ghosts."

Names have been the talk of our family lately. John and I have told Will that we're having some number of kids in seven or so months and have told him that we'd love to hear name suggestions. Will was happy to give us a lot of good suggestions. I will post the top 5 here, now.

1. Star Wars (This was the very first name he thought of and likes it quite a bit. I asked him if he liked the name "Luke" thinking he'd say yes, but he said no, he prefers we name the baby Star Wars)
2. Crunchy (he honestly believes this is a contender)
3. Squishy (he was just being silly here)
4. Dairio (as in "Hi ho the dairy-o the farmer in the dell - a keeper!)
5. Tom and Jerry (if it's twins)

Will, as you might guess, is not going to be allowed to influence the baby naming process though we are keeping a list of all the name suggestions just in case he ever has kids.

Further updates include heartburn is getting worse but I'm very happy because this means my consumption of Rolaids soft chews increases. Yum! Morning sickness is bad but I've only thrown up once so far. (knock on wood) It shouldn't have happened. I took my prenatal with oj on an empty stomach. Note to future pregnant Suzanne, don't drink oj on empty stomach during first trimester. Also, my jeans don't button comfortably anymore - bring on the Bella Band! (I'm only 8 weeks!!!!!) And I'm still tired. I didn't get my nap today because I had recess duty (so fun seeing Will play with his friends) and I'm testy. However my bad mood from lack of nap is balanced by my good mood from a Packer win against the Broncos last night so it's not as bad as it could be.

Still looking for an OB. After a long heart to heart with John, I think I'm finally at peace but will see how I feel tomorrow. If I could, I would go back to Tepeyac (sp?). Unfortunately, our insurance doesn't cover neonatology at Fair Oaks. And since there is a chance we might need intervention of some sort at birth we'd like to not have to pay through the teeth for it.

So that's the long and the short of it. Have a spooook-tac-u-lar Halloween.

Ultrasound

We had our ultrasound today. I'm forbidden from revealing the number of babies but I can say that what we saw was amazing, a miracle, and super cool. I love, love, love seeing the tiny heartbeat so early on. It's so incredible that at just 6 weeks (4 actual weeks of gestation for the baby) we could see that little heart beating away.

The good news is that the ultrasound indicated a healthy pregnancy. The sad news is that I have to leave The Midwives. Our new insurance doesn't cover them. Please say a prayer that I'll be able to find a good doctor. They're very hard to find these days. One of the OB's recommended to me spent time working with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in India so I have some hope for her. We'll see how it goes.

5 weeks and 3 days Pregnant

They way they calculate pregnancy is so confusing but according to the pregnancy calculator I found online I'm 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant. The morning sickness started early this time. With Mr. Cubby, it started at about 6 weeks, got worse through 9 weeks and then started getting better. This time it started up all of a sudden on Saturday - so at exactly 4 weeks and 6 days. The tiredness has been pronounced. I nap everyday when Mr. Cubby naps. I'll sleep as long as the kid will let me.

My new best friend is the Relief Band (tm). It looks like a watch but it delivers little shocks to the nerves in the wrist and hand. It's quite miraculous in the way that it reduces my morning sickness from imminent trip to the bathroom to feeling slightly car sick.

Pregnancy predictions:
After concenratating his thoughts on my belly, Will announced that I'm having two babies, a boy and a girl. He said that it's a pattern and he's confident in his prediction. Not sure about the pattern but happy that he's confident.
John predicts three girls.
I predict three girls. (My Aunt Joan has been praying for triplets on her side of the family since my mom announced her pregnancy with me).
My mom predicts three girls.

Due Date: June 7th

So the baby (babies?) is/ are due on June 7th. We're just thrilled to pieces that I'm pregnant again. (I am absolutely fobidden from saying "we're pregnant" because John tells me, and I concur, that he is not pregnant - just me). Today we got our second set of BhCG numbers and they were solid, had a good doubling time (1.64 days). All indications are - at this early stage - that this pregnancy is going to go the distance. We'll feel much better in a few weeks when we can see the heartbeat.

I mentioned before that I took an HPT on Sept. 23. I thought - why not, right? Got a negative. I realized that it was stupid early to expect a positive. So I promised John I wouldn't test again until much later in the week. But I couldn't wait. On Sept. 25 I whipped out a stick in the morning and took another test. Positive, faintly so. We were cautiously optimistic about the pregnancy but wanted to see a darker line. Next day, in the evening, I took my third and final HPT. It was so totally positive. It was great. I still have it sitting out in our master bathroom. I mailed a picture to my mom. I'm so proud and excited.

We were pretty sure that we'd get a positive blood test it was just a matter of how high and would the BhCG double. Thankfully, things look good for at least one of the little guys.

Special thanks to Our Lady of Fatima for this miracle.

2 Week Wait is Over... Sort of

It's a trick title. While our 2ww is over, I don't have the results back and we're not going to post them yet anyway. We'll wait at least until Thursday - after our second blood test. All things are going well. Indications that I might be pregnant include: craving for juice (though, as with my last pregnancy this might just be because I can't drink wine anymore), ta tas might be bigger - hard to say but they feel bigger that that's all that really matters, angrier, extremely to the extremest tired, hungry for meat and sugar (like Edgar in Men in Black), and very light, pinkish spotting several days ago lasting for 2 days. A sign of implantation perhaps?