Pregnancy Updates...

So I’ve been writing in a booklet (kind of like a journal) for the past 3 months about how things are going and how I’ve been feeling and what not. Then as I was writing today I realized that I could just put it here on my blog! DUH!!! And because I’m board at work I figured that I could type a few of them up so that whoever wants to can see how I was feeling at that current time. So here goes... *****Started writingMay 26, 2009
Had a doctors appointment, we talked about a bunch of stuff. She will refer me to a different doctor for delivery. She doesn't do that. I asked that I be sent to Peter Lougheed (?), as it’s easier to get to.
Booked an ultra sound (two words?) for June 10 to see exactly how far along I am. Booked a physical for July 2.

June 1, 2009
I'm not sure if its because I haven’t been sleeping well, or if its because of the baby but I’ve just been really tired. It doesn't help that it’s hot in the house.

June 5, 2009
I felt sick in the morning all week, I didn't ever actually throw up, and I sure felt like I could have. No food cravings, just hungry all the time. I get really hungry in the mornings, I never use too. Fruit will usually fix it.

June 9, 2009
Tomorrow is the ultra sound, I’m so excited. My doctor thinks I am 12 weeks along, I don’t think so. I just want to see it. And know that it really is there. I think I’m only like 6-8 weeks. So we'll see.

June 15, 2009
We had the ultra sound last Wednesday, very exciting. I defiantly wasn't as far along as my doctor thought. I’m only 7 weeks. As of today I will be 8 weeks. By the time we go to Kyle’s cousins wedding I will be at 12. So that'll be good. And I’ll go in for my 18-week ultra sound because we go to BC. So we can tell Kyle's aunt Heather, she wants to know the sex of the baby so she can buy us stuff. Nothing else to report, feeling okay, just tired. I think my due date is January 25th.

June 26, 2009 (week 9)
I have no idea what my due date is. Now I think its December 28. I’ll ask the doctor when we go. If I remember, I’ve been forgetting a lot lately. I’m having problems keeping my suppers down. I’m thrown up a few times, and every other time I’ve been really sick and wanting too. Oh well, I don’t mind because it’s leading up to something awesome.

July 15, 2009 (week 12)
I forgot to ask the doctor when my due date would be. Oh well. I am now past my 3 months, YAY! I haven’t gotten sick again for a while, so that’s good. I don’t really feel different, I think I will once I start to be able to feel it move.

*****Today

July 27, 2009
So..... My real due date is January 26, 2010. I was really close with my first prediction. So now instead of my thinking I was going to have a Christmas baby it will be a my birthday present. Depending on when it wants to show up.
We heard the heart beat on July 23! At my doctors appointment. it was awesome, like a horse running (trotting). 150bpm I think she said. I cried, no really I did, and I know I never cry, right? Haha, wrong, I’m a crybaby.
I booked my 18-week ultra sound for August 28th at 11:45am! I really hope it’s in the right position that we can see what the sex will be. I NEED TO KNOW!!!!! Well I don’t need to, I just really really want to. And I think a lot of other people want to know as well. I would like it to be a girl. But I’m not going to be sad if it’s a boy. As long as it’s healthy then I don’t care. I have another doctor’s appointment August 17th, I’ll be able to hear the heart beat again!!!! I'm going to record it this time and send it to my mom! She will love that.

So those are my 'journal' entries. I’ll post them on here whenever I do them.

We are going to my mom's house this weekend (long weekend). And we will go to waterton for a hike and camp there one night. It’ll be nice. I know that we will go for a hike on Saturday, I’m not sure what we will do Saturday night, maybe play cards. Who knows, I think it will be fun. It’ll be nice to get away. And its brooks' birthday this weekend, so that’s another reason that we are going.
Not much else to write about. We are slowly cleaning out all the rooms in our house to make room for baby. I had no clue how much junk we had till we started cleaning it. Anyways, bye byee for now.

Amanda

I'm such a liar...........

So on my last post I said 'no baby yet' when actually at that time I was 3 weeks pregnant! I know, it’s amazing. I had no clue till I was 8 weeks. The symptoms that I was having were also side effects from the medication that I was taking, but once I stopped taking the meds and the 'side effects' were still happening I decided to take a home test. And to my shock the little purple line showed up right away. I couldn't believe it, and neither could Kyle. Luckily I had a req. form to get a pregnancy test though blood work, so we grabbed that and went to the lab place that’s about a 3 min drive from our house. So about 2 hours after I got home I called the fertility clinic (because they would get the results, and they usually get them right away) and talked to one of the ladies there. She went and checked and said that they got them and that they were positive!!! YAY!!! She told me to book an appointment with my family doctor and then we would go from there. So because we found all this out on a Saturday I couldn't call my doctor and book an appointment. So instead I called my mom... this is how that went... (A being me, and S being my mom"
A - "hi mom"
S - "hi Amanda, how are you?"
A - "I’m good, guess what"
S - "what?"
A - "guess"
S - "your pregnant"
A - "YUP!"(Me starting to cry)
S - "oh my gosh" (she totally wasn't expecting that)
A - "I know"
S - "are you crying?"
A - "yeah" (sobbing)
S - "happy crying?" (As she starts to cry)
A - "yeah" (sob)
S - "okay"
A - "you can tell Brooks"
S - "okay"
A - "but not a whole bunch of other people"
S - "okay"
A - "I’m going to e-mail every one"
S - "okay"
A - "talk to you later"
S - "love you"
A - "love you too mom"

That’s how that went. On Sunday I decided that she could tell whomever she wanted. I guess she tried to call everyone but no one would answer, so she e-mailed all her family. She was very happy.

As something fun I wanted to tell Kyle’s parents (and my dad and sister) in a different way. So we went to wal-mart and bought 4 coffee mugs and some special markers that can write on ceramic (?). And wrote "#1 Grandpa" on 2 and "#1 Grandma" on the other, and "#1 Aunt" on the 4th. We went to Kyle’s parents house first, gave it to them and Mike (Kyle's dad) burst into tears, he cried for probley 45 min's like a little girl, and Cheri (Kyle's mom) cried too, just not as much as Mike. So we were there for a bit, Mike called his Mom and talked to her for a little about it. He was very happy. So after we left there I called my dad to see if he was home. He said that he was working in the back on his truck; I said that we might stop by because I needed to drop something off. Then we made our way over. When we got there he was under his truck. We then waited for him to get out and I gave him the mug, told him to look at the other side and then his eyes went huge "REALLY???" and I said yeah, he got all teary eyed and gave me a big hug. He was so happy that he too called his family members right away, at least the ones that would answer. He talked to my aunt for a while, and then I talked to her. It was nice to see him so happy. Now it’s all he talks about. Which I’m okay with because it’s all I talk about too.

So now that I am at 12 weeks (3 months) I’m letting the whole world know. I figure that I am either due December 28th or January 18th. I have no clue. Because if you think about it, December 28th is 36 weeks. Which is 9 months, but because some months have more then 4 weeks in it it’s confusing... I’ll be 40 weeks on January 18th, so I think that would be my due date. But I don’t know. I’ll have to ask my doctor when I go in 2 weeks. I have a little list that I keep writing questions down on, and that has now been added. I didn't think to ask when I was there last week. So anyways. My doctor doesn't do the whole delivery thing, she said that the only baby that will be waking her up at 3am will he her own. She will send me to someone at the peter lougheed hospital, its about 15 min’s away from my house and really easy to get to. But until I go see that person I will go and see my normal doctor every 4 weeks.

So that’s my super exciting news that I wanted to share with everyone. We are SUPER EXCITED about it. So anyways. I better be getting back to work.

Amanda

So...no baby yet.

So...no baby yet. I got a call from the fertility clinic and they said that the results of my blood work showed no ovulation. Oh well. But apparently i'm not ammune to Rubella!?!?! So now i have to go get a vaccine for MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella). And because its a live vaccine we have to not get pregnant for 30 days after the shot. and once i get the shot and its been 30 days i will call the clinic and they will give me a new perscription for the clomid(higher dose) and then we get to start the process all over again. So maybe we will be pregnant in 2 months. who knows...
and really sucky news...Kyle got laid off. about 2 1/2 weeks ago. we have e-mail/faxed/dropped off countless resumes and nothing! he got one call for somewhere that was only going to pay $8/hour. and that was just a joke, who can live off $8/hour??? maybe someone that doesn't have a mortage to pay. but whatever, eventually something will come up. we can afford all our bills and mortage on just my salary. and i'm getting a bonus through work so that'll help too.
but anyways. i dont have anything else to report on. bye byee for now.

End of March already?????

It has been way too long… It has been over 2 months since my last post. I don’t think there is all that much to update people on though…(I was wrong)

We finally got our shower in the down stairs bathroom put in. with assistance from my mom and Brooks. Kyle and Brooks did all the work, my mom and I just watched. But we did clean the house and got rid of a bunch of junk/garbage from the back yard. And we put a “new” toilet in the basement and in the up stairs bathroom. So with that being done we will soon re-do the counter top down there as well, and lastly the floors and that bathroom will be done! For the upstairs bathroom we just need to put in the new counter-top (sink and taps), and then that will all be done.

We will start finishing the baseboards next weekend I think, or maybe this week sometime. We are having people (my cousin Kim, her husband Andrew and baby Brianne) over for dinner on Thursday so it wont be that day. Maybe Wednesday if I think we can get it all done, we’ll have to wait and see. We are going to Edmonton this weekend so it won’t be Saturday that we get it done.

There are now new doors on the 2 bedrooms and the 1 bathroom upstairs, and wow did it ever make such a difference. The only problem was that the house was so old that everything shifted, so the square doors didn’t fit the doorways. So we had to sand the doors down till they would close. And now all I need to do is paint them. I would really like to just go home today and get my can of white and finish all the trim that’s up right now. Maybe that’s what I will do. First cook dinner, then paint. Good plan.

We are now looking for someone to cut the trees down in our front yard. I have a plan on what I’m going to put there, and I wont have to get the stumps grinded out, so that’s good. We can leave the stumps in, what I’m planning on doing is build really bid planters boxes around them. And then put flowers and shrubs in them. It’s a really good plan, its just going to take a while to get it done. Eventually I will have the out side of the house looking how I want it to.

I think that’s all the house stuff… if I think of anything else later I’ll stick it in.

So now I’ve started my hormone therapy, YAY!!!! I’m taking clomid. Its weird. I’ll explain it in not to much detail, and if people want more info, e-mail me. Haha, so on day 3 I take a blood test to see where my hormone levels are at, then from Day 3-7 I take 1 pill at bed time, because it makes me dizzy, then day 10-16 “like rabbits” (some people might get what that means, if you don’t, think dirty), hahaha. Then on day 21 more blood work to see if hormone levels changed, if there is a good increase then that means that I ovulated. And then wait 2 weeks and take a pregnancy test. If preggers, awesome, if not start from day 1.

I’ve also decided that I’m not going to look for a new job. I’m going to stay where I’m at. Because what if I go get pregnant? Like every place that you work you have to be there for a year to qualify for mat leave. So I’ll stay here till I get pregnant, and then go on my mat leave. And maybe come back here. If I really want to. That is undecided. I’m sure that I will work again, Kyle’s mom doesn’t work, so I’m sure she won’t mind being the baby sitter.
So that’s just about it for now. Nothing else that I can think of that I want to tell the world. Spring should be here. It snowed like 15 inches Saturday night, so it doesn’t feel like spring. But a lot melted yesterday and today. But apparently its going to snow more this week. I just keep telling my self, that all the snow is really water and its going to make all my flowers happy, and the grass green. Maybe if I tell myself that enough it will come true, haha. Anyways. Its almost home time, I didn’t think it would take this long to type out my blog, but I kept getting interrupted by work. Oh well. Bye byee for now.

Oh my goodness…. Its 2009 already.

A new year, a new me, to quote my cousin. There is so much that I want to get done in 2009. Like finally finishing our house, or at least get it all put together so when we choose to sell it, it will be ready. And of course having a baby. I’m “baby crazy” as most people that know me would say. Another big one is to get into shape, we have been going to the gym about 4-5 times a week, and staying there for at least 45mins. 30 on the elliptical and 15 on the sit down bikes. I’ve started to feel a little better, the scale tells me that I’m down 8lbs(since the start of December), but I don’t like to believe what they say, my mom says that I should go by how my cloths are fitting. I bought 2 new shirts that don’t fit right now and I would like to be able to fit into them by the summer, unless I’m pregnant, then that’s okay if I don’t fit them. J

Christmas was good. We got to go see all the people that we wanted to see, and spend some extra time with my mom (we finally found someone that could watch the dog overnight). We got everything we wanted/asked for, plus a little more. It seems like Christmas took forever to get here and of course like every year its gone in a blink. We were driving last night and some people still had their trees up, lights going and all. I took ours down on the 27th, I don’t like leaving it up longer then it needs to be. Same with the out-door lights, they are still up, just not on. We’ll take them down the next time its nice out.

For the past week the weather has been crazy, -42 with the wind chill one day and then 2 days later the Chinook comes. When the weather is like that it’s not really all that good, Kyle and I both get head aches. But its okay, we just take the extra strength stuff and tough through it.

Last Friday (the 2nd) was my 2-year anniversary for working at AGAT. It sure doesn’t seem like its been that long. But then again we have owned our house for 2 ½ years now. So its not all that shocking. And in 2 weeks I will be 22. Sometimes when I think back to things I cant believe that some times I have to day that something happened 12 years ago.

Anyways, I don’t have anything else to write about, that I can think of. Bye byee for now.

December

December…

Winter I guess is finally here. We had a pretty good windstorm the other night, it didn’t bring very much snow with it. But it blew so hard and flung the screen door open I thought it was broken, but it was okay.

We got all our Christmas lights and decorations put up. And I’m glad that we did it last week when it was “nice” out. I’ve wrapped all the parents and other family members gifts, and I think today I will attempt to wrap Kyle’s.

We are going to hold off on any more renovations to the house till the spring, the only thing that is left is to finish the stairs and front entry. Well the only ‘big’ thing. And we need to use a wet tile saw, but wont when it’s so cold and snowing out side. Unless my dad tells us of something we can use inside to cut the tile we are out of luck till spring.

We finally chose a gym to join, on a 1 year contract too. So no backing out this time, I think we will be more diligent with going this time around, first off we have a car so it is easier to get there and home, and in order for us to have a baby my doctor said that I need to loose weight, because weight loss will give your body a 'kick' in the reproductive area (her words). So I’m excited, we went last night and we are going tonight too. I want to loose 15lbs by Christmas, and I’m not drinking pop anymore either, well maybe 1 can every 2 weeks. But water with dinner every night, I already drink a lot of water, but not so much with food, so I hope this will help.

We got our Christmas plans all straitened out. We will go to Lethbridge in the morning on the 24th, spend the day with my mom, Brooks(mom’s husband) and my Grandma who is up from Orem Utah. And any other family members that happen to pop by. Then I think we will go to my Aunt Denise’s house in the evening for my dad’s side of the family’s Christmas get together. Then back to Calgary for Christmas morning with Kyle’s parents, then we will go home, have our Christmas with just the 2 of us, plus the dog and cat. Then back to the in-laws for Dinner. I think I’m going to see if my Dad, his girlfriend, Heather and Beau will come over for early Christmas dinner and gift opening on the 20th, or21st And if that doesn’t work then we would have to do the 27th. I’ll have to call him and see what there plans are then we can decide. Christmas was always pretty crazy, having to decide where everyone goes for those days, and wanting to be with all the different sides of the family. But we are going to try and see everyone this year and see how that works out.

I’ve decided that instead of buying people that I work with gifts I’m going to bake cookies and put them in cute little Christmas looking containers and just give those out. Its better then spending a bunch of money on people and I think that people like it better because you took the time to put everything together. I hope that people will like that.
I don’t have anything else to report on. TTYL…

November all ready...

I cant believe that its November already. in under a week it will be Kyle's 24th Birthday! YAY. then soon Christmas will come, the new year, then my 22 Birthday. This year has gone by a lot faster then i thought it would, so much has happened.

We have decided that we aren't going to sell our house just yet, the market has really dropped, so we'll wait till it starts to pick up. we have a "friend of a friend" that is a realtor and she said that the market should pick back up in 1-2years, we are okay with waiting, the house still needs a lot of work done to it.

Its starting to get cold out there again, we had our first snow fall last week. but it warmed up so most of it is gone. but in the mornings i still have to scrap my windows, which i dont mind, its better then taking the bus.

we still havn't heard back from the fertility clinic about our appointment. and havn't heard anything about Kyle's test results either. he did it more then 2 weeks ago and the doctor hasn't called or anything to let us know about it. its very frustrating because we want to find out if its just me with the problems, or both. we are still trying all the time ;) so who knows what will happen. i will call the doctor again today and leave another msg. and maybe she will get back to me. i just want to know if we are getting our referal or not and then to know when the appointment is would be fantastic. i have the number to the clinic so i figured that i could just call and see if i can make a appointment my self. but i dont know if they let you do that. but anyways. i will call and we will see whats going on with it.
For more about my condition(mainly the family members that ask me about it) you can check it out at this website(or just google PCOS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome

but i better be getting back to work. i'm sure i'll have more to talk about in the next little bit. TTYL.

Amanda