Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Baby Petersen!!!!


So I haven't blogged in forever. I don't even know if anyone reads this anymore :) But I felt like this was blog worthy and just wanted to document my feelings! We are finally pregnant! The ultrasound picture is really poor... I seriously think my Dr's machine was  the first ultrasound machine every invented. They warned me before I came in that it was really crappy, and they only use the machine for the first ultrasound, to basically see if anythings  in there and if there is a heart beat...so here's the not so great, but so great because it's ours, picture! The main ultrasound at 20 weeks will be done at the hospital on a nice ultrasound machine :) Here is our little baby at only 8 weeks! That white little blob in the black circle! The Dr had Andy come right up to the machine and take pictures with his phone and record the heart beat flickering away! He said the baby was right up to size with a perfect heart beat of around 160-170! I had planned on waiting till I was 12 weeks to finally announce it to everyone else who didn't know, but after our ultrasound, we couldn't wait! Still so early but we are just so elated and ready to tell the world! It took us a year to get this little one on the way...which I know, may not seem like a long time to a lot of people out there struggling with infertility  but when you want a baby, you want it yesterday. I was on fertility medications off and on through out the year. I was one of the unlucky ones who got some pretty yucky side effects, like killer headaches, along with some other not so fun symptoms, on the medication. It was hard for me to do the medication month to month, with no results. We finally took a break with the medications with Andy's job/insurance change, and in January we pulled out the big guns. I had a procedure done that was supposed to help make you really fertile, along with medication and AI procedure. And on our first month with that combination we got the best news ever! I had plotted out in my head exactly how I wanted to tell Andy the "good news" once I found out. A cute dinner that would somehow announce it...or, wrap the test up in a box....just something special. Well, it was Sunday morning and I woke up at 5 am. I had already been feeling really sick 2 days before that. I thought, "I'm just going to test, but I'm sure its too early to tell." (Any girl that's been pregnant or trying knows that feeling....it's too hard to wait.) Anyway, it came back with a big fat positive! I was in SHOCK! After all this time! It actually happened! I couldn't even wait to tell Andy and I was crying so what did I do? I just went right in our room, woke him up and said "I'm pregnant " and started crying :) He was SO happy!!! We couldn't believe it! I couldn't fall back asleep and just layed in bed until my alarm went off, thinking about how this was actually going to happen for us now! So here we are! Baby Petersen is due October 29th, one day before Andy's birthday. This baby has been longed for, prayed for, fasted for, and dreamed of for what seems like forever. We had so much support from our family and close friends that knew what we were going through. At 8 weeks, with every symptom in the book, the second trimester couldn't come fast enough for me and I can't wait to find out what this little one is! Carter can't wait to be a big brother, and I know he'll be such a good big brother! We are so excited for our new little addition!!!!