It's a Girl.

I just realized that I never did this post! It was fun and exciting to go and find out at 18 weeks ( July 7th ) what we were having. Most people thought we were having a boy since my pregnancies have been TOTALLY different, but nope! It's a girl. Here is a picture of her. You can see her head, both eyes, nose and even her teeth. One little hand is off to the left, some of her torso is visible too.

It is always so weird to look at them like this. Very alien like. You still wonder what they will look like when they come out.



It took awhile to get Gweniveve to say baby sister since she kept telling us it was a boy and calling it Woody or Buzz (yes she loves Toy Story that much). Now she is so cute, she goes up to my tummy and kisses it and says hi baby sister and talks to her for a little bit. It makes Brett and I smile everytime and hope that when she gets here Gwenie will continue to be sweet and loving.

Here is the video, mainly for the grandparents to see.



I also wanted to throw this ultrasound picture in here. We got to see her at 9 weeks since I was having some problems and they wanted to make sure everything was ok. She looks like a little bean and not yet a person, so cute!

Out Into The Void

Have you ever seen the movie You've Got Mail ? Well there is a scene in there where Meg is emailing Tom and at the end of her email she says " I really don't want an answer to this, I just want to send this out into the void." That is what I want to do. I am just putting this out here so that I can remember and have a reference if Gweniveve or any other girls we have ask and want to know.


Pregnancy Symptoms with Gweniveve July 2006 - March 2007

• Threw-up everyday, starting at 2 months (which is when I found out I was pregnant), sometimes more than that, for the first 5 months. Smells, looking at some foods, or just plain nauseousness caused me to. I mainly had problems around dinner time.

Side Note: Funny story that I want to remember. One day I had made chicken enchiladas and after we ate them I put hot water in the pan and set it aside to wash later. When I came back to wash the pan, the look of the nasty water made me immediately throw up. To this day I have never made chicken enchiladas again, nor do I plan to. Brett laughed about it forever and still thinks it is really funny. Water making me throw up!

• About the time I started to feel better my hips starting to hurt. They were trying to expand and I would have to sit all day and not lay down because if I did then I would not be able to sleep that night for the pain in my hips. I "saved" my hips for the night.
• Around 5 months or so (can't remember exactly) I started to get Panic Attacks. This runs in my family and I have had them since High School but these were really bad. I had one everyday of the rest of the pregnancy and no matter what I said to myself, to try to calm down, it did not help. I was just so scared of giving birth, the unknown is what always scares me, I could not stop the attacks. This was one of the worst things, I pray that none of my kids get this gene from my side of the family, it is HORRIBLE.
  
• At 6 months I got Heartburn. Not just any normal heartburn, that I could have taken Tums for, it was the worst pain ever. To help me from not crying in pain all the time, I stopped eating lots of food and would eat dinner at 4:00pm with nothing to eat after that. Even water killed me. I had to sleep sitting up and even with all of that I still had heartburn but it was not terrible pain if I slept that way and stopped eating at 4pm. The pain was so bad I did go to my doctor and get a prescription (and you know how I am sooo against pain meds when I am preggers, but the pain was that bad). I took the medicine for a couple of weeks and it didn't make a difference so I stopped taking it. The heartburn did not go away until I gave birth.

Pregnancy Symptoms with Penelope March 2009 - November 2009

• I immediately knew I was pregnant. I started to burp all the time at 2 weeks, which was a symptom I had with Gwenie.
  
• I immediately started to feel the most craziest exhaustion ever at 3 weeks. I was unable to do anything for the first 4 months. Brett says to people when they ask how I am, " Well she doesn't leave the couch" Which of course is not totally true but it gives you a great picture of how much the exhaustion was taking out of me.
  
• Had bleeding and cramping for a weekend when I was 9 weeks.
  
• Nauseous all the time, gagged alot. I had to eat dinner by 5 or otherwise I was sick the rest of the night. Smells, the thought of some foods or just looking at some foods (especially food commercials) would make me gag and sometimes throw up.
  
• Threw up 7 times, but one of them was in Target as I was passing the pet food isle and the swine flu was huge in the news and everyone starred at me! I started to clean it up while telling everyone I do not have the swine flu, I am just pregnant. Totally embarrassing, most everyone laughed when I told them the story. Needless to say I didn't go to Target for a long time.
  
• Had the worst gas pains ever the first 3.5 months.
  
• Fainted all the time. Black-outs for a couple of minutes or less. Most of the time I made it to the floor or couch (one time Bretts arms) before I totally blacked out.
• Dizziness, light headiness. Especially if I was sitting or laying down and got up fast.
• Insomnia
• I have a hard time breathing. My doctor said I had pregnancy congestion which takes over your lungs and nasal cavity. No wonder I can't breath.
• Headaches. My doctor said I am getting them because of my nasal congestion.

I am only 4.5 months along and so when I start to get new symptoms I will come back and update, but I wanted to get this all down while I had it fresh in my mind.

• 20 weeks (5 months) hips started to hurt so no more naps and sleeping was not easy.
• 23 weeks Heartburn set it. I am chewing gum after dinner until bed time and eating tums and sleeping sitting up. So far it has not been as bad as with Gwenie, but that might be that I know to stop eating after dinner and what I shouldn't eat for dinner (no salsa or anything with lots of bread).
• 26 weeks I got Bronchitis. I was put on antibiotics for 5 days and coughing up a storm.
  

A list.

This is what:

• fainting (luckily Brett was here to catch me)
  
• throwing up
• throwing my back out
  
• pregnancy exhaustion
• lack of sleep
• nauseousness
• plus so many others that I do not care to list
  

will do to your home. Trust us, both Brett and I think that this picture does not do it justice, it is much worse in person.