So today (04-25-2010) Eric felt the baby for the first time! It was adorable cause he hadn't kicked at all this morning so Eric started to shake my belly a little to wake him up and it worked. He started moving around and kicked!!
We had our friends Rusty and Andrea come over for lunch yesterday and they brought their 1 year old Melina over! She is such a doll, she showed me all the things that I'm going to have to child proof in my house! My obsession for candles is going to have to go pretty soon haha!
Our neighbors Travis and Sarah just welcomed their little girl friday! We are so excited to meet her today! I can't wait for the day we bring home Gavin! ;-)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Half way there!
We were on a long 6 month journey trying to have a baby and it seemed like no matter what we did the test at the end of the month was always negative. It took such a toll on both of us that eventually we gave up and I started birth control. After one month of birth control making me really moody (haha) I stopped it. & two weeks later we got pregnant!!!!!
We found out January 10th 2010. How we found out was pretty funny too. I took a test at like 9:30 pm on the 9th and I was so used to a negative test that once I saw only 1 line come up I just set it down on the counter and just assumed it was negative. Well around 12 pm Eric gets up to use the bathroom looks down at the test and says "Umm Ashley there are two lines on this test!" I did NOT believe him, I got up and looked and yep there it was. We were finally pregnant!!!
The first time we saw our baby and heard his heartbeat was 02-25-2010. That right there was the most amazing and rewarding moment ever! I started crying and almost made the ultrasound tech cry! She said "I wish everyone acted the way you are". How could anyone not cry and the sound of their child's hearbeat?! I was already madly in love with my little peanut on the screen :)
So my first trimester and into the second trimester (up to about 15 weeks) was really tough and hard. I was always tired, all I wanted to do was sleep or cry! haha My appetite was really crazy too, I could hardly eat anything. Poor Eric tried surprising me with my favorite dinner and I couldn't even take a bite because it tasted so gross to me.
So the time had come I was 18 weeks and we could finally find out the sex of the baby!!! It was April 9th 2010. The whole time I just knew it was going to be a little girl and Eric was praying for a boy. So this day we were waiting for seemed like forever!! My mom and sister came with us but they had to sit in the waiting room until the last ten minutes because the tech had to do all the measurements to make sure the baby was growing properly. My sister MADE me wait to find out the sex until they all could be in there and find out together. So of course our baby had to be difficult and it took 40 minutes just to try and get the measurement of the head! Finally the tech said I would have to come back in a couple weeks for another ultrasound because the baby wasn't cooperating to get the measurements. So my mom and Tiffany could FINALLY come back into the room with us. The second she went down to that "area" of the baby there was NO question it was a boy!!! Then she went to look at the heart and put the speaker on so we could all hear his heartbeat and me, my sister and my mother started crying so hard. All of us just lost it and again the ultrasound tech about cried too!
So on April 14th 2010 I was sitting at work and I felt a little flutter in my belly and then a kick! & Gavin had just kicked me for the first time. I started crying (seems to be a pattern here haha) it was so amazing! My little man was moving around inside me!!! That weekend we were out at dinner for my dad's birthday all the sudden he kicked me so hard that it actually startled me and I jumped! haha
So in two day's (this friday) I will be 20 weeks! We are half way there! So far this has been a crazy journey and I know it's just the start of it all! It's amazing to think that next Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday and Christmas we'll have our first child to share it all with!!! I couldn't ask for more!
We found out January 10th 2010. How we found out was pretty funny too. I took a test at like 9:30 pm on the 9th and I was so used to a negative test that once I saw only 1 line come up I just set it down on the counter and just assumed it was negative. Well around 12 pm Eric gets up to use the bathroom looks down at the test and says "Umm Ashley there are two lines on this test!" I did NOT believe him, I got up and looked and yep there it was. We were finally pregnant!!!
The first time we saw our baby and heard his heartbeat was 02-25-2010. That right there was the most amazing and rewarding moment ever! I started crying and almost made the ultrasound tech cry! She said "I wish everyone acted the way you are". How could anyone not cry and the sound of their child's hearbeat?! I was already madly in love with my little peanut on the screen :)
So my first trimester and into the second trimester (up to about 15 weeks) was really tough and hard. I was always tired, all I wanted to do was sleep or cry! haha My appetite was really crazy too, I could hardly eat anything. Poor Eric tried surprising me with my favorite dinner and I couldn't even take a bite because it tasted so gross to me.
So the time had come I was 18 weeks and we could finally find out the sex of the baby!!! It was April 9th 2010. The whole time I just knew it was going to be a little girl and Eric was praying for a boy. So this day we were waiting for seemed like forever!! My mom and sister came with us but they had to sit in the waiting room until the last ten minutes because the tech had to do all the measurements to make sure the baby was growing properly. My sister MADE me wait to find out the sex until they all could be in there and find out together. So of course our baby had to be difficult and it took 40 minutes just to try and get the measurement of the head! Finally the tech said I would have to come back in a couple weeks for another ultrasound because the baby wasn't cooperating to get the measurements. So my mom and Tiffany could FINALLY come back into the room with us. The second she went down to that "area" of the baby there was NO question it was a boy!!! Then she went to look at the heart and put the speaker on so we could all hear his heartbeat and me, my sister and my mother started crying so hard. All of us just lost it and again the ultrasound tech about cried too!
So on April 14th 2010 I was sitting at work and I felt a little flutter in my belly and then a kick! & Gavin had just kicked me for the first time. I started crying (seems to be a pattern here haha) it was so amazing! My little man was moving around inside me!!! That weekend we were out at dinner for my dad's birthday all the sudden he kicked me so hard that it actually startled me and I jumped! haha
So in two day's (this friday) I will be 20 weeks! We are half way there! So far this has been a crazy journey and I know it's just the start of it all! It's amazing to think that next Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday and Christmas we'll have our first child to share it all with!!! I couldn't ask for more!
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