THE ANDERSON FAMILY
cluck·y [ klúkee ] (comparative cluck·i·er, superlative cluck·i·est)
adjective Definition: Australia wanting children: eager to have children (slang) ( the idea of a broody hen)
Don't know why, because it's bad timing on my part and is definately going to be a while... but I am just a little baby hungry...
...I would love one in this variety aka gender...
Date is set... once again for the 23rd. Somehow they were able to swing it... not too sure what the whole drama of it was and why they had to try and reschedule me but we are back on for the 23rd.
I said to Cory, all this organizing and changing about and you watch we will go on our own or something crazy like that!
Just to make myself feel better....
Cory, Cade and I will have another little one of these to love and snuggle and isn't that just worth all the frustration in the world!!!
*Disclaimer... this is a bit of a rant from a sleep deprived, hormonal, pregnant woman...;)
AHHHHHH!!! So frustrating! I got a phonecall this morning from the womens clinic (which I usually love getting mind you), to schedule my c-section. Perfect! Exciting! All these lovely thoughts running through my mind. Then she proceeds to tell me that I can not have the date as scheduled. Not available! Not possible! Not doable! What the heck?? Just a week ago my Dr was so perfectly happy to do so but apparently this is not his doing and something that is scheduled by the hospital and the clinic together or something like that. AAHHHHH!!! So frustrating!
Don't get me wrong, I in NO WAY wish my pregnancies away, I truly love being pregnant and savor what I can from them as I know there will only be very few times I can experience this and I always want it to be special, so that is not my issue, that I want this baby out sooner rather than later. It is just the hanging feeling, like you have planned it and then it is snatched from you. I would rather not have know, have scheduled anything and just have gone naturally if I knew but that is a danger I am not willing to take if at all possible. I really didn't think they would want to leave me that pregnant to be honest. They want to push back the c-section to the Wednesday, the 25th which means by the Dr's dates I will be 3 days from due date and by my dates 6 days from due date.
But here is the kicker... Cory has a major presentation on the 25th, worth half his grade so now we are having to try and once again reschedule school and work. I know this is not their problem but that is what makes it annoying, granted, if I were to be like every other person and just be playing the waiting game we would be in the same boat if we went naturally on that day but to have the luxury of knowing was kinda a nice luxury prior to the chopping and changing that is! Plus I figure if I have to have a c-section surely I can have the perk of scheduling on my side...right?!
AHHHHH!! Frustrating!
Just waiting on a reply from Cory's teacher pretty much so we can get back to the clinic and give them a nod or reschedule again.
I had my 32 week ob appointment today and all is well. I am much relieved to say that we have a date set for the birth of this little boy. Monday March 23rd is the day! My doctor said he will be there so we are all a go on that! I don't know why it is such a relief but it is and I am glad I no longer have to think about it, I will be all too busy with all this nesting I have been up to. It has started a little earlier this time around. I didn't really have as much time to nest when I was pregnant with Cade as I was still working but it came in waves and I tried to do as much as possible before 36 weeks so I could relax as much as I could in those last uncomfortable weeks. I have been having such baby hungry moments this week, especially today, unpacking totes with itty bitty clothes that I just love!! Cade thinks it is dress up and tries to wear the babies things, little spunk he is.
We have had some success and progress in the way of potty training. Cade wore his big boy undies for 3 hours this afternoon without an accident and then when we went to dinner we put a diaper on him and when we returned home he stripped off his pants and wanted to wear his undies again. This is definate progress as he HATED his undies before now. I am so in awe of how big my little boy is getting.
Well I have officially reached 20 weeks and am feeling great. Morning sickness is finally over and that is a happy day for all!! I had my iron levels tested yesterday and am slightly iron deficient. Yuck!! I don't know how, I must eat red meat atleast 4 times a week as I can not stomach chicken this pregnancy. Other than that I am hoping for an uneventful next 28-29 weeks, yep scheduled c-section during spring break at this stage. We planned that one well... hehe.
Can't go posting about being half-way without a pic!!
Here is pics from 18 weeks in my pregnancy with Cade.
And here I am today... with little boy number 2.
(I so think I am smaller this time... well atleast carrying differently)
Baby Boy was indeed putting on a show, he was sucking, smiling and staring at the probe. It was fantastic! We got some great pictures and an awesome DVD that captured the poser in fine form!!
I will give you a run down on the days happenings yesterday. I was meant to have my ob appointment and ultrasound next Tuesday (11th) and I called up there on Monday as there was drama's with our blue cross insurance that had finally been sorted so I called to get that situated. My sister-in-law works there answered the phone and transferred me to bookkeeping and when I was done with that call she called me back and told me I wasn't book for the ultrasound just an ob appointment and she was looking an NOTHING was open until December with the ultrasound tech. I about cried I tell ya. Stupid I know but you get so nervous and excited and then to have it pushed back a month... not happy. She asked if I could come in the next day however as there was one appointment opened. I said, "I'll take it!" then she told me it was at 1:30pm which is right smack in the middle of Cory's classes. ARGH!! I kept the appointment after talking with Cory and figured I would be going alone but he was able to talk to his teachers and swung it to come! I was so glad.
We were asked if we wanted to know the sex and we said, "Heck yes!" and Cory had been indicating through little comments he has made that we were having a boy. I really have felt like I was having a boy but seriously thought timing wise based on ovulation etc that it was a sure thing to be a girl but felt like I was carrying a boy.
This little bub was putting on quite a show I tell ya and the tech said right away, "ok I can tell already what the sex is!" and I could too, just like Cade, he was mooning us to show all his glory and there was no denying he was a proud boy!! I was big smiles and Cory goes, "I KNEW IT!" pumping his fist in the air all proud! He was just so pleased for another boy! I am so happy. I am surprised that I am so happy actually... not that this little man was not wanted, just that I was worried others would be a little disappointed to know we were having a boy, but as Cory said, we are happy and that seriously is all that counts. I had always said when Cade was young, if I could be guaranteed boys like Cade I would have 100 of them. He was the most delightful baby and is such a beautiful spirited little boy and I can just see myself with a little boy either side of me in the church pew and that makes me smile. I am tickled!!
On my side of the family each of my sisters have had the opposite sex with their second child so they were planning on a little girl I think. I have totally thrown the system off with my 2 boys... 2 boys! That is so neat to say! Technically with the 'system' on my side Cade was meant to be a girl as it had gone in order, boy, girl, boy, girl etc and a girl was next but nope, a gorgeous little boy it was and then we have thrown it off again with another little boy!! Hey we are making our own tracks it seems and could not be happier!
Thank you to the those that wished us well and for the congrats you have given. We really appreciate it and are just smitten by these 2 little men we have created!!
Just a quick note, I will post pictures and more info tomorrow but we are expecting a BABY BOY!!
We are so excited and Cory is so over the moon he could hardly contain himself...
Will post more tomorrow if Daddy can get baby scanned!
Our ob appointment got moved up a week as there was a scheduling problem and they didn't schedule me for the ultrasound as well. So tomorrow is the day we may know the gender of this little baby! Cast your final votes and pray for a happy healthy little one!
We had our 3rd Ob appointment today and I seem to be carrying so low, I am measuring right and am just about to my belly button with the size of my uterus but baby was way down low to listen for a heartbeat. I remember at our 1st appointment this pregnancy that baby was on its head for the most part so maybe that's what's happening, who knows really they move about so much. We scheduled our ultrasound to also find out baby's gender on the 11th November. Very exciting! Is it just me or do others get nervous to find out the gender? I don't know if it is because I worry they might get it wrong or because it is also the time to pick up on anything that might pose a problem and that worries me. I just need to not stress about it and focus on those things I can control I guess. So you have another 19 days to cast your votes on your predictions on this baby's gender!!
I had Cory take a couple of pics last night of the ever expanding belly... I am almost 14 weeks (by my dates, 14 weeks today by measurements). The first 2 pics are this pregnancy and the next one is from about the same week with my pregnancy with Cade. I am so much bigger I think!
Here are a couple of hints....
Yes indeedy we are pregnant! We are really excited. I was a little shocked at how quickly it happen for us this time around as it was a year to the day that we first started trying, when found out we were pregnant with Cade. This time it seemed it was the week we decided to start trying that I fell pregnant. Meant to be apparently!!
I am into my 13th week so on my way to my 2nd trimester. I have been quite sick this time. Different to how I was with Cade in alot of ways. This time my sickness comes in waves and catches me unaware where my pregnancy with Cade was kinder in the fact that it was much more predicatable. I also have no appetite, I am hungry but nothing sounds good whatsoever and that is a stark constrast to how I was with Cade so I am still trying to get over the sickness hump. I have popped a bit, seemed to start showing almost right away. By now I am the equivilent to how I was at about 16 weeks with my pregnancy with Cade. At night I look huge in my opinion but Cory disagrees... but he is too baised to be a help!!
I had my first ob appointment at the end of August (and as soon as I figure out the pic I will try and upload it). I love going to that first appointment, actually I enjoy all my ob appointments, but I do get anxious and hope all is well each time and that worrying part I don't so much enjoy. My mum was here and was able to come to the ultrasound and it was just so exciting to see our baby. Baby was moving a fair bit, more so than I remember with Cade. Little arms and legs going crazy, swimming about, it is always nice to see.
Today was my second appointment and it was a quick one, check up and listen to the heartbeat and that was that. It surprises me that they can see and hear baby so well this time around as with Cade I had to have ultrasounds clear up until my 17th week as Cade was so far back or because of my tilted uterus you couldn't audibly hear his heartbeat clear enough for me to hear it also.
I am due at the end of March but I will have a scheduled c-section the 3rd week in March, so likely by the 20th baby will be here.
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