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Stories May 26th 2006: They say no news is good news...well, I have no news! Had my 39th week doctor's appointment and I have made no progress from last week. Wish I had more exciting news for everyone, but I don't. My doctor is out of town the end of next week (my appointments have always been Fridays) so I had to make an appointment for Wednesday the 31st. Maybe we will have more news at that time, but for now he is content in not making an appearance for awhile. We hope everyone has a good Memorial Day weekend. May 23rd 2006: At my doctor's appointment last week, I had made some progress towards the end! Nothing to alert the media about, but enough progress to know that there is an end. I am not feeling too uncomfortable or anything, so that is good news. My blood pressure was the lowest yet, so that was good news. Craig and I went to a concert on Saturday night and have a good time, probably the last time we will get to do that for awhile. We had great seats, 3rd row! I am currently working on our contact list for the baby's arrival. Craig and I bought a new car for me yesterday. We decided a 4 door new vehicle with a warranty will be better then my poor little bug. It was sad to say goodbye, I really enjoyed having the bug, but my back with thank me later when I am not wrestling an infant in and out of the back seat. I have my next appointment on Friday. That will be one week from my due date. Oh, yeah, the ticker says 9 days left until my due date. Pretty weird we are in single digits! May 16th, 2006: Had a crazy appointment on the 12th. The baby hadn't been moving too much the previous days, so they hooked me up to a few monitors and became slightly concerned because there was a dip in the baby's heartbeat. So, they sent us over to get an ultrasound and I had a test where the baby had 30 minutes to make 3 "big" movements. It took him awhile, but he finally gave them what they wanted to see after 20 minutes or so. They then sent me over to labor and delivery at the hospital, where they monitored his heartbeat and movements for another hour or so. Towards the end he finally moved enough where they were able to send me home. (Craig and I only had a few moments of panic, thinking if they made me deliver the baby that day, we didn't have the camera with!!) I always thought I had a quiet baby, I don't have some of the movements I have heard other women talk about. Things seem to be okay. I have appointments each Friday...but still no progress towards "the end". Don't be suprised if I go overdue. I won't be suprised, anxious, but not suprised! Reguardless, we should have a baby here within the next 4 weeks. They usually don't let you go more then 2 weeks over. I will ask my doctor. I plan to start my maternity leave 5/31. I would like him here as soon as possible, just so I can be with him and not waste my leave staring at the TV, waiting! Ha. I continue to feel okay in general, some days are better then others, but I feel pretty lucky. Mainly is is a lot of back pain at this point and moving a lot slower then I am used to. I tend to forget how slow I am moving these days and end up making things worse on myself. On May 7th, 5 friends of mine from high school all got together for a shower for me and the baby. We had a lot of fun and good food. Got lots of cute things for the baby as well. Thanks to Leah and Suzy for hosting :) May 5th, 2006: How cute is my mom's entry on the baby guest book? I am almost afraid of the stories she has about me! I should probably be MORE worried about the stories Craig's family has about him. I had a doctor's appointment today, the good news is he did NOT change my due date. It is being left at June 1st. He said the ultrasound is not accurate this late and we will go by my 20 week ultrasound. He also said the baby has dropped some in the past two weeks and I am making good progress for a "first timer" and the baby is measuring fine for where I am at. So no concerns there. My blood pressure has been much better the last 2 appointments. Things are trucking right along. I am going to appointments every week now until this lil dude shows! I am blessed to have had such an easy pregnancy. Much love to all of our family and friends who have been keeping our baby page one of their favorites. It has been fun to update. May 2nd, 2006: Had my shower with Craig's family this past weekend! Sorry I don't have more pictures, these were the only two I had with my camera. I had a really good time. Check out how cute the cake was, I loved it. I appreciate all the hard work everyone put into hosting. We got loads of wonderful presents for the baby. We also were able to pick up some hand me downs from my brother and sis in law and bought some other items with the gift cards from the shower. So, this past weekend was all baby related. I told Craig we need to have a few non- baby related weekends before the baby comes! Craig has beena good sport with all the baby shopping. I think we have all the major things taken care of, so that should be easy. This coming weekend I have a baby shower with my friends from high school: Leah, Suzy, Kim, Lindy and Kristen. I am looking forward to seeing them. April 27th, 2006: Well we have some good news and some news that sucks (mainly if you're me). We had my ultrasound today and the baby seems 100% fine. He is measuring about 5 pounds. I have enough fluid, which is one of the major things they look at. However, they are pushing my duedate back by 6 days. I know in the grand scheme of things, that is no big deal, it is best for him to be healthy...I just was very excited thinking I only had 5 weeks left, and if he came a few days early, I would have a May baby and get to see him and hold him next month. Now, I feel because he is measuring small, and if he is overdue, maybe I won't get to meet him until mid June ...and have closer to 2 months left as opposed to 5 weeks. Also, it is hard to figure out what to do about work! I want as much time with him as possible but I will not be able to continue to make the long drive very much longer. Any time I take off before he is here is that much less time when he arrives. So, we are 100% happy he is fine and healthy. Just kinda bummed we don't get to meet him for awhile. They do say the earlier ultrasounds are much more accurate at calling dates. A friend of mine told me tonight "I don't believe in changing dates. Stick with your original. It isn't fair to do that to a pregnant woman!" I like her thinking! April 24th, 2006: Pssssst. Wanna see the nursery? Click the picture page. We hope everyone can come over and see it in person soon. There are a few more odds and ends to be done, but the majority is done. Before you comment on my wonderful painting job, it was like that when we moved in! We just played up the theme. I am glad I was lazy and never repainted it! There will be more updates come Thursday when we get another ultrasound of our kiddo. I am measuring "small" and haven't gained much weight (for those of you who know me well you know how funny that is. This kid must have given my metabolism a boost) they want to make sure he is a-okay! Good thoughts appreciated. I have my shower this weekend and a shower on May 7th with my friends from high school. I am blessed to have them all in my life. I will post pics of that when I am able to! April 8th, 2006: A few things to update! Had my 32 week appointment, everything is normal. Doctor *thinks* the baby is head down. He wasn't sure but said they don't get too concerned until week 36. Right now he has plenty of room turn and around week 36 he will get too cramped. We had our child birth prep class last weekend, which was okay. I won't get into my whining about some of the things I didn't like! We got our crib mattress so we are looking forward to setting up the crib. We also completed our registries at Target and Babies R Us. There are equal amounts of things at both places, we just know it is much easier for people to go to Target so we wanted to make sure to add a lot of things on that registry. I am starting to move slower and slower each day, it is going to get worse! I added a picture of the cradle my grandpa made for his great grand children and a picture of our baby bedding to the picture page. Hope everyone is well. March 27th, 2006: Things continue to go well! I had my 30 week appointment last week and everything was just fine. This coming weekend (April 1st and 2nd) we are signed up for a child birth prep class, we get a tour of the hospital and some newborn care tips as well. I have to confirm we are signed up! At the end of the month is my baby shower, I am excited about that. I cannot believe it is almost April and in a few short weeks our lives will be different...forever! And...we are 90% sure on the name. But it is a secret! March 14th, 2006: Wow. Third trimester! I admit the "ticker" at the opening page is freaking me out a little bit. It reminds me each time I look at it I only have about 11 weeks left. That doesn't seem so long! We have had a couple big things happen lately...Craig and I bought a crib for the kiddo. It is currently sitting in the box, in the garage, but it is bought. We still need to pick up a mattress for it. The other big thing is I switched doctors. I met with him last Friday. We decided I needed to switch due to my last doctor's constant schedule rearranging. My new doctor already has spent a lot of time with me and even called himself with my test results from some run of the mill tests they give to pregnant women. They are keeping an eye on my blood pressure and hemoglobin, but everything else was normal. I am starting to go every two weeks now! The baby is moving a lot more these days. I can't imagine what it will be like when he gets bigger. I heard that towards the end they gain 1/2 pound a week. Yikes! Febuary 17th, 2006: Time for another update...not too much too much going, which is nice. Had my 25 week appointment and everything is going well. Baby J's heartbeat was at 160 beats per minute which is "ideal" according to the doctor. He is moving more and more each day (the baby, not the doctor!) Craig finally was able to feel him kick me on Valentine's day. I tried a few other times to get Craig to feel him, but it hadn't worked. That night I made sure to eat spicy food, and the baby really got a work out kicking up a storm. We registered for child preparation classes, which will be the first weekend in April. Next week we are starting to look at daycares, I have a tour set up for one place near us already. People told me I needed to hurry up and they were not lying. A few places I called were already booked. A friend told me when she worked at a day care people would sign up their babies when the mom was only 2 or 3 months along. Yikes! I am behind. Only 2 more weeks and I am in the 3rd trimester. January 26th, 2006: Just want to throw a little update here. We don't have too much going on these days, but on a consistant basis I am feeling the little guy move. It is pretty weird feeling and mainly happens when I am just sitting around or laying in bed. Apparently my running around during the day keeps the kid quiet, but at night, he wants to party :). I got stranded yesterday when my car battery decided to die at a gas station a little ways from home. Craig was the ever good husband and came and rescued "us" in the middle of the afternoon. I won't have a doctor's appointment for another few weeks, but everything seems to be fine! We stopped at Babies R Us last weekend and were majorly overwhelmed. We found a cute crib we liked and looked at everything else. I still have to research what we need for sure. Hope everything is well with everyone!
January 16, 2006: After standing my ground about NOT finding out for the last 20 weeks (and even before I was pregnant I always thought I wouldn't find out), the night before my ultrasound, I convinced Craig to find out the sex of our child. I was firm in not knowing, until I had about 18 hours left until I COULD know. Then all of a sudden, I was singing a different tune! We both were suprised! I thought it was a boy from the beginning, but Craig talked so much about being sure it was a girl, I started thinking it was a girl too! Later that afternoon we both went and each picked out an outfit for our son to "celebrate". (and the moral of the story is a mass produced fortune cookie has nothing on modern day technology!) We had a lot of fun telling our families the next few days. Since we had told everyone we weren't finding out, we just used the ultrasound pictures to tell the story. (I posted them here as well). I thought people would make fun of us for finding out after we said "no" for so long (and, yes, I would have to eat my words!), but everyone was just excited for us. I bought one more outfit on Sunday, but will have to stop after that. I am sure we have plenty of things coming our way in the next 20 weeks! Most importantly the baby is developing 100% normal, the spine, heart, kidneys, head, legs, arms...everything was perfect. It is amazing how much stuff they can see in an ultrasound.
Nope, we don't have names. Honestly. We have a few we like, but nothing set in stone. And...we just may keep that a secret since we are blabbing about everything else. December 27th, 2005: Merry Christmas! I cannot believe 2005 is winding down! We just wanted to share some photos of Christmas this year. Baby J isn't even born yet and he/she is raking in the presents! First of all, a present for Craig and I:
The ornament says "Parents to Be" A present for Chantel:
And presents for the baby!
The Twins outfit is from grandpa Reed, he always is giving his grandkids Twins clothes. We also got a prenatal monitor to listen to babies kicks and hiccups, some can even find the heartbeat, but you have to wait until farther along in the pregnancy. Another wonderful gift was a digitial video camera! We know this will come in very handy when the baby is born. We were very spolied this year, but we think we have the baby to thank (and it's grandparents!!!) December 15th, 2005: I had one of my monthly appointments today. These things are so nice. They give you peace of mind and a chance to ask any questions. So far I have lost 8# since getting pregnant, which makes me laugh, for once I am not trying to lose weight and I do. Maybe that was the secret the whole time. The doctor said it is normal. We listened to the baby's heartbeat briefly, everything sounded good. I am feeling good. Doc said possibly by my next appointment I should be feeling Baby J move. I know some women don't until 23 or so week, so I won't get my hopes up. We have what is considered the "big" ultrasound, where you get to take a look at the kid and find out the sex and see if everything is okay. We have it scheduled January 13th. We still maintain we won't find out, but I am waivering, don't tell Craig! I will be 20 weeks then. I keep having dreams where I somehow find out and don't tell him. Doc said that if we say no, they won't even try to look, because with a boy it is a bit more obvious. We had a nice time on our first anniversary cruise! We knew it was our last vacation for a long while so we spent a lot of time sleeping in and sitting on the deck in the sun. Christmas is coming fast and Craig and I are no way prepared. I am still waiting on the photocards I orderd to show up. Hopefully they will so I can get them to people by Christmas....as I was typing that they showed up! YAY! Hopefully everyone will have one soon. Happy holidays from the Jullies! November 24th, 2005: Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today is two months to the day Craig and I found out we are expecting the baby. On September 24th, a Saturday, I had a hunch I should buy a pregnancy test. Craig asked me if I really thought I was pregnant, I said "no". (Little did he know I bought one earlier in the week and it looked like there was a line, but really faint!). He told me to "wait" until I was sure. I shot him a look, and bought my test. I took it a few hours later, and sure enough there was two lines: a positive test! I have to admit, I didn't believe it. So Craig drove me to the store and we bought a digital pregnancy test. Those pop up with the words "pregnant" or "not pregnant" so there is NO mistaking. Later that night, I took it, and it popped up "pregnant" right away. I was in shock for awhile and still am! On October 17th, a Monday, we had our first doctor's appointment with Dr. W. He was wonderful. When I burst into tears when he couldn't find the heartbeat, he put a rush order on an ultrasound and got me over the hospital. There, we saw our first glimpse of baby J, heart beating away at 154 BPM. It was pretty fascinating to see that tiny little thing growing inside of me. That night, we told my parents. They were coming over anyway to help us move some furniture. When they showed up I was wearing a shirt that had a picture of a bun in an oven. My mom finally noticed the shirt and asked me "what is in the oven?" but was starting to add it all up. She then asked if it was a joke! I showed her the ultrasound pictures to prove it. We then went out for chinese to celebrate! (After dad and Craig moved all the furniture and mom and I chatted) The next night, we drove up to suprise Craig's parents. Of course, they weren't home. We didn't often stop by during the week so were afraid they would know something was up if we called to say we were coming over. We called and hunted them down at a nearby restaurant with Keith, Carol and Ryan. We showed up as they were finishing dinner and chatted. We used the excuse we were in the area because we had to drop something off at my brother's. We also had the plans for our new house we were building. A bit into our visit, Craig pulled out the plans for our new house and said "we have made some changes to the plans of the house". He put them on the table and everyone started looking. Carol started asking a bunch of questions and Craig was trying to rush her through the answers. He flipped the page and said "the biggest change upstairs is we are turning this bedroom into a nursery". There was a shocked silence and then Carol said "CHANTEL!" I had been out with her a few nights prior with a friend of ours and we all had ordered a drink and I conviently didn't like mine. So she said "That is why you didn't drink your margarita!" I think we shocked Craig's parents too, but everyone was very very happy. On November 16th, I had another doctor's appointment. I have to go every month for awhile. This time Dr. W found the bab'ys heartbeat right away so no tears for me. About 160 BPM. It was a great visit. I am almost at week 13. One more week and I will officially enter my 2nd trimester. Craig and I are heading off for our "babymoon" on December 2nd. It is a cruise out of Miami for our 1st Anniversary. We planned it before the baby, so this will be a great last trip before the baby comes. |
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