Listening to...

So now baby can hear, so we're playing music for him/her. This week, s/he is listening to the original music from Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. American Idol's Andrew Lloyd Webber week inspired momma to download her favorite musicals from her dancing days. Maybe the baby will enjoy musicals, too!

feeling it, working it

Bek and I were watching Grey's Anatomy last night.

"I think I felt a kick," she said. In the last few days she's thought she's felt kicks here and there, but she was never sure.

I put my hand on her belly and she moved it over the the spot. We waited. Nothing.

A few minutes passed.

"I felt it again," she said.

I put my hand on her belly. Waited.

It took me a second to register it, but I felt the tiniest thump on the palm of my hand. I couldn't believe it. Later on, when Bekah said she could feel it again, I felt another thump. So tiny. This joy I feel now, as I write this, is hard to describe. But the most powerful emotions are always hard to describe, aren't they?

17 weeks

17 weeks, and thought it was time to put together a little slideshow. We'll update it every couple of weeks.

We went to the doctor last week and all is well. The heartbeat was strong. We find out the sex on May 14.

Baby and momma are doing well!

Update

Well, we're now at 14 weeks and 3 days, well into the second trimester. It's hard to believe how fast it is going, really! I have been feeling pretty good lately, since about 11 or 12 weeks. I have only been sick a couple of times during that time and once was definitely due to a greasy meal (should've known better). Also, I am not feeling the need to nap in the middle of the day as I was before. I have heard to enjoy this trimester because once I get farther along, I will not only be huge but very tired as well. And then once the baby is born, I think the word tired will get a new meaning.

One thing that I welcomed with the second trimester was the beginning of prenatal yoga classes. I have been going for a couple of weeks now, and I really enjoy it. It's a nice, relaxing time, and I get to be around and talk with other moms-to-be. This past weekend, I met two women whose due dates are in the same week as mine and are delivering at the same hospital! We joked about hearing each other's screams from down the hall. Well, one thing with yoga is focusing on breathing and ways to get through labor. I know it will be painful, but I actually have felt much more comfortable with the idea of labor since I began the yoga class.

I am almost almost almost done with school. Fantastic! Classes end next month, and finals are the first week of May. Graduation is May 17. I am really looking forward to being in the 'real world' with a full time job (which I already have lined up, thank goodness).

We go back to see the doctor next week. I don't think we will have an ultrasound this time, just a check up. Our next ultrasound is at the beginning of May, when we will find out the sex of the baby. I have had three dreams that it is a girl, so we'll see if my dreams are right! I even dreamed the baby's name in my last dream, and we happen to really like it. So if it's a girl, we may use it.

Travis and I babysat my friend's 11 month old the other day, and it was a delight. We were with him for a few hours, so we got to feed him, take him for a walk in the stroller, put him down for a nap, and then be there to feed him when he woke up. Funny thing was, when the baby took a nap, Travis was out, too!

We have bought the crib and changer, as well as some bedding. Not everything is assembled yet, but when it is, we will post some pictures. I'm also going to take a belly pic this week sometime and post it for all to see!

Take care.

Update - second doctor's visit

We met the doctor last week and we're happy to say we feel good about him. Friendly and open. We were kind of hoping to get another ultrasound so we can see just what the little one looks like (so we could argue about who the baby resembles more...ha ha, just kidding - we never argue). But he tried out his Doppler instead. This was news to me, but apparently doctors can use this Doppler, which is basically a super-microphone, to hear the baby's heartbeat.

He rubbed it across Bekah's belly just like an ultrasound device and we listened hard. At first the speaker on the Doppler popped and crackled like a walkie-talkie, much to the doctors dismay. He checked it and cleaned the microphone part and tried again. This time the popping was gone, and within a minute or so, he said, "There it is." I took me another second, but there it was, a strong heartbeat. The doctor said that was a great sign, that at this point things are looking great, the baby seems quite healthy.

So that was a huge relief. I mean, we can only wonder what's going on in there, hoping everything's good. So now we can feel good about it for another few weeks until we start to worry again and then it'll be time for the next appointment.

Oh, and this Friday marks twelve weeks. The end of the first trimester!

Celebrity Gossip a la Perez Hilton

Sexy celeb and 9 weeks-pregnant Bekah Leger was spotted in Central Park earlier this month, where the Louisiana native was treated to a few hours of snow.

She was spending her Mardi Gras break in NYC with her husband, hotty writer Travis Leger.

The couple were rumored to have caught a showing of The Lion King and visited Pinkberry, the Gugennheim, and a maternity shop.

I couldn't help myself.

TP Sunday and profile pictures

So I am on this pregnancy message board on whattoexpect.com. It's a website done by the woman who wrote What to Expect When You're Expecting. I haven't been very active in posting on the group, but reading through what the other pregnant women have to say can be helpful. They have separate boards for the month that you are due, so the ladies on there are all going through the same period in their pregnancies.

One of the posts today introduced a game, called TP Thursday. I just read it today so I am going to play TP Sunday. The idea is to check, once a week, how many squares of toilet paper it takes to wrap once around your belly. So I thought I would try it out and keep my progress on here...9 squares!

And what the heck, while I'm at it, I'll post some belly pics. The first one is at 4 weeks and the second at 8 weeks. This takes guts to post them, so please don't laugh!

Travis got me those running tights (in the pictures) for Christmas. Little did he know I wouldn't be running in them, but taking profile pictures instead!