My last ultrasound was to see the baby's nose and lips, also to find out if Levi is a boy or girl. The ultrasound tech did get a good picture of the baby's nose and lips, but Baby Levi is still a surprise! Uhg. Levi was very interested in the camera, moving everywhere it went, but was sure to keep his/her leg's crossed.
In the mean time I've been getting all sorts of goodies in the mail. I got these cute skull Robeez from eBay, a little onsie with a hood and pouch and a brown hat with little pom-poms on the tops... Oooo I can't wait to play dress up with my baby!
I can't believe how much the baby moves around in my tummy and how hard he/she kicks already. I've noticed that Levi doesn't like things resting on my tummy which I find pretty funny and I like to annoy him SOME times. Last night I told Frazer to put his finger in my tummy button so he did lightly and I said "No, like this" I pushed his finger harder into my tummy. He got startled and quickly pulled his hand away. I laughed and asked him why he got scared, he said "I felt him just turn around in there... what if I just pushed the baby too hard?" I thought it was pretty funny and reassured him that he didn't injure our baby.
My baby reacts to different voices now, he seems to get very excited to hear his dad's voice after I haven't been around him all night,
I get kicked so hard you can see my tummy move and watch him moving around,
crazy thing. When I'm around my family, Levi is very relaxed and barley moves.
Time is going so fast and I'm getting so anxious to meet my baby and introduce him/her to the world. I have no real complaints, I had an idea what I was getting myself into when I was told I was pregnant... discomfort, waves of emotions, pain, puking, getting all fat and streched marked up. But I don't find any of it to be all that bad, it's exciting and all worth it in the end. 23 weeks and 5 days today and I am feeling good.
Took my frist pregnancy trip to the ER on Sunday night. I was really hoping I would be tough through this whole pregnancy and not be THAT annoying pregnant women who takes multiple trips to the hospital for no good reason, BUT I was pretty sick.
I felt completely fine Saturday, cleaned the house, hung out, went to bed. When I woke up on Sunday morning I had a bit of a headache (which is normal) and I was hungry so Frazer went to get us breakfast from Mackenzie. After I ate breakfast though my headache got worse and I started to feel nauseous, I firgured it was because I had forgotten to take my nausea meds. for pregnancy the night before so I layed down tried to sleep thiking it would go away. It didn't, it got worse. I started puking around lunch time and didn't stop until 10 o'clock at night when I finally went to the hospital. I couldn't even hold down little sips water with out racing to the bathroom to throw-up and being dehydrated just made my headache worse. I was so exhausted and in pain I finally broke down and started crying (a VERY rare thing in the life of Sarah) I called Chauna and she came and brought me to the hospital.
At the hospital they checked for the baby's heart beat, which they couldn't find for 5 mins because the mechine they were using was too big to locate a 22 week baby and that scared the crap out of me. After they found the baby's heart beat with a proper machine, the doctor gave me IV mixed with nausea medicine and I instintly started to feel better.
I'm happy it was nothing serious and Chauna is so helpful and supportive to me. I feel so lucky to have a healthy pregnancy and an amazing family to be there for me whenever I need them.
Today I had another prenatal doctor apointment and the doctor let Frazer use the machine to find the baby's heartbeat (which was 156) and the doctor told me the baby will be around 8lbs when he or she is born. Oh! And I get another ultrasound because they couldn't see the baby's nose and lips in my last one. I'm so excited! Hopefully I will get to find out the gender of Levi at this ultrasound :)
TWENTY ONE. Holy snot. How did I get here? I never would have thought I would be living with Tamara Voudrach and Frazer Arey in a two bedroom apartment, preparing to have a baby if you had asked me last year. But I feel right where I am suppose to be, my life feels perfect and I feel like this is the way things should be.
On the big day, I went to my parent's place for dinner and Chauna made her home made Pizza and it was the best, as always. Frazer and my grandma joined us too, I was excited for my family to meet Frazer and I was exctied for Frazer to meet them. It went well and it wasn't as awkward as I thought it would be. I want us both to start spending more time with each other's families, it will make everything easier when the baby comes and I want the baby to feel close to both sides of his or her's family.
After dinner, my grandma had darts and Frazer bought tickets for a hockey game so they left shortly after. I stayed and hung out with Chauan & Jay for a bit and then headed home. When I got home Tamara and Jeanelle had decorated the house with "Happy Birthday" Banners and balloons and Tamara cooked a bunch of apitizers (my fav taco dip included). It was such a nice surprise and I was happy to have all my friends with me together to celebrate.
Life is good. Life is grand.
**I forgot to say Chauna and Jay got me a new DVD player and a 42" TV for my birthday =D
My lastest doctors apt. was on Monday, it went really well. I lost a pound though, probably because I'm so sick all the time. Frazer came and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time, I could tell he was really happy to hear it (the heartbeat was 152 by the way). My next ultrasound will be on Thursaday and I will find out if we are having a mini Sarah or a mini Frazer. Most people think the baby will be a boy, but Amber, Alyssa and a few other people think the baby will be a girl, either way I will be happy.
These days I'm super addicted to ebay and pinterest. I feel the need to order something new everyday or find something new on pintrest to want, ah I just can't get enough if it.
So far I've been keeping up with my house chorse and attempting to cook as often as I can, I'm surprised by how much money I have to spend on other things now that I don't waste my money on drinking and weekends anymore.
Anyways, I find it quite funny with how fasinated Frazer is with everything. He asks all sorts of crazy questions. I'm happy he isn't shy about these sorts of things and I am of course always willing to give him a well educated anwer after I do some Google-ing ;)
