It's a GIRL!!!

Today was the big day. We had an appt to see Dr. Avery at 2pm. Paul and I saw the sonogramist before Dr. Avery. She took lots of sonogram pictures. She showed us the heart, the bladder, the little legs and more wonderful body parts. With that she showed us three little white lines, which means that we are having a GIRL!!

One of the pictures shows baby girl with her mouth open. We saw her little legs kicking around a bit. The heat beat was 138.

13 week appt

On Friday, June 30th I went for my 13 week appt. I saw Dr. Stevenson. At this point point, I am making my rounds between all the doctors in the practice, I believe there are 6. This way, I have met all the doctors since I will have no idea which one will be on call when I go into labor.

Paul and I listened as the nurse placed the machine on my belly to hear the heart beat. The heart beat was 158. Even though I thought it might be a stupid question, I asked if that was a normal heart beat for a baby at 13 weeks. The answer was yes. I am sure that they hear all kinds of crazy questions, especially with first time moms.

The doctor said that everything looks great. To date, I have gained 9 pounds. We scheduled our next appt for Friday, July 25th with Dr. Avery. That is the BIG day, we can find out the sex of the baby. YEAH!!! Anyone have any ideas of what we will be having???? A Boy or a Girl.

1st sonogram - 10 weeks 2 days

Today was our first sonogram. The nurse came in and placed the warm jelly type substance on my belly and then ran the "wand" on my stomach. As she did that, you saw baby Mickey. It was an amazing site. Just when I didn't think the day could be more amazing we saw the little heart beat up and down. Paul was looking at the screen and asked the lady if she could tell him the sex yet. I think it is going to be a long 8 weeks for him, as he waits to see if we are having a baby boy or a baby girl.

Announcements to our Family

At this point, our immediate family knows, we called them before we went to the doctor. We just could not wait to tell them. Paul and I decided that we wanted to tell the rest our family in a special way. I created this special announcement to send to our family.

1st Doctors Appt!

Today was my first appt with the doctor....everything went fine. They said that I was about 6 1/2 weeks with a due date of January 3rd 2009. Maybe it will be a New Year's baby!!!! My next appt is set for June 18th. I will know much more at the next appt.

The News!

The day was Monday, April 28th and I was studying for my economics exam that was Tuesday morning at 8am. I had been feeling funny for a few days, no sickness or anything, just different. My eating for that week had been all over the place and I had been really tired all week. I was already late, I was due Thursday, April 24th. So, I decided to take a pregnancy test. I don't really know what I was thinking, remember it was the night before my final exam.


So I went to the bathroom and took the test....waiting as the bars showed one (not pregnant) or two (pregnant). With in a few seconds, it showed two lines. I could not believe it, my heart started racing. Paul was working in the garage and with disbelief I opened the door and said,"I'm pregnant". I know that was a really sweet and cute way to tell him. LOL I don't think he really believed that home pregnancy tests were 100% accurate. I had to tell him that when they said pregnant they meant pregnant. I guess I wanted to take another test to make sure before we called the doctor. So, instead of studying for my exam we went to the drugstore and purchased another pack of home pregnancy tests. I went home and took another one, it showed two lines (pregnant). We were excited, scared, nervous and probably every other emotion that you could think of. Still in disbelief, I knew I had to study and get some sleep before my exam.





I got up the next morning and decided to take a third pregnancy test before I called the doctor.....it showed two lines too (pregnant). I woke up and called the doctor. I told the nurse that I had found out that I was pregnant and that I was wondering if I could see the doctor in the next day or so. The receptionist took down my name and said that she would have the nurse call me back. A few minutes later my phone rang, the nurse stated, "The receptionist said you wanted to see the doctor today. Is everything ok?" I responded, "Yes, I just found out that I was pregnant." The nurse then responded, "We like to wait until you are atleast 6 weeks. I will have the receptionist call you back to make an appt." Did I feel dumb!!!! So, the receptionist called, asked when my last period was and then made my appt for Tuesday, May 13th. I then went to take my economics final exam. If you only imagine, my mind was in a whole other place. I think that I finished my final in record time, 20 minutes.

Welcome to Mickey Moments

Welcome to our blogspot. We thought that it would be nice to have a blogspot for friends and family to keep up with our lives in North Carolina. There will be lots to share over the coming months!!!

We tried to come up with a name for our blog and decided that "Mickey Moments" would be appropriate since we will be posting many of the moments that will occur in our lives.

Please enjoy our blog. We hope to update as frequently as possible.