The Answer Revealed...

Ha! Now I know how to get people to comment on my blog! Just offer $20 fake bucks! Hehe. Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Now to answer all your questions....without sharing too much information, if ya know what I mean.

This pregnancy was actually a surprise, which was surprising since I wasn't surprised with the first two. I can pretty much tell the minute I'm pregnant. Well this time, there were all sorts of things going on with my health. I had all the symptoms of pregnancy but wasn't, then I had that visit to the ER, then a couple weeks later I went to the instacare cause I couldn't breath (they thought I might have asthma), then I was experiencing all sorts of pain and irregular bleeding....Well after a couple months of this, I decided it was time to make an appointment with my doctor. I show up there, and the nurse has me take a test cause I'm a couple days late (but still totally within normal range for me) and then she comes back in within 5 minutes and says, "Congratulations! You're pregnant!" Huh. The doctor comes in and is worried that the bleeding and pain may indicate an etopic pregnancy, so she calls up my OB and schedules an appointment for me for the next day. B and I go to the OB the next day and after an ultrasound we discover that the cause of all my health issues is not a tubal pregnancy, but a cyst on my ovary. Oh, and that there really was a baby in there, too (and in the place it should be). :) My OB wasn't too worried about the cyst--it was only about 3cm (6cm and above is when surgery becomes necessary). She said that it wasn't hurting the pregnancy and that it may actually be helping to sustain it. They usually resolve themselves before the second trimester. So, there you go. I also found out from the bloodwork done at that appointment that I am already low in iron. Fantastic. I had the same problem with the first two, but it didn't come on until midway through the pregnancy. That's when I knew that it was going to be a very long 9 months. And the last three weeks have been an eternity. Nauseous all day long, so tired by 2:00pm that my body hurts which adds to the nausea, muscles so tight and painful by the end of the day that I'm in bed by 9:00 most nights. Ugh. Three is a good number, right? :) Actually, other than the fatigue, I've been feeling pretty good the past 3 days. I'm hoping that means the nausea is passing! My fingers are crossed!

So my little grape has grown into a kumquat. I have no idea how big a kumquat is. I only know this cause of babycenter.com, my source for everything baby. I am 10 weeks along, and am due April 6th. April 6th is a significant day for me: it was the day I was due, some thirty plus years ago. Cool, huh? Of course I'm not planning on waiting until April for this baby to come. I think March sounds much better. hehe. Besides, April 1st-April 6th are already claimed with other family birthdays--and I'm NOT waiting until the 7th!


Here's a picture of our little one. We are thinking about naming him Noah Joseph so that when we call his name in Spanish we can say Noe Jose (No way, jose). The kids have decided that Dora will be a good name if it's a girl.