Growing right on track, 171 heartbeat...looking perfect to us!
Can't wait until 2 more weeks go by to see our baby again!
It is amazing how much it has changed in just 2 weeks!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
early parenting books?
I have all your normal pregnancy books...What to Expect When Your Expecting, Your Pregnancy Week to Week, Pregnancy Diet Guides, and I even bought Marcus a father’s guide to read. I want to get some more books to help prepare us for this life changing thing that is going to happen in October! Anyone have any good books they could suggest? I am looking for more of an early parenting guide. One that deals with sleeping techniques, breastfeeding, introducing the baby to a dog (this will be quite interesting) or just and over all good informational book. I know nothing I read can truly prepare me for this amazing life I will be caring for but I at least would like to read up and know that I did as much as I could! So please help and give me some suggestions!
*More question to come in the next 7 months!!!
*More question to come in the next 7 months!!!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Decisions?!?!?
Update:
For the time being I am not going to get the vaccine...too many people in the medical profession have told me that they would not get it if they were me, so for now I am not going to get it. That doesn't mean I won't change my mind.
I have an important decision to make. My doctor has advised me to get the H1N1 vaccine. She has pretty much left it up to me to make the decision, and I am going back and forth on what to do???? They tell every patient that gets pregnant to get it, but it is really up to me weather I get it or not. I am leaning more towards not getting it, but then I go the other way. Has anyone gotten it while pregnant or had to make this decision? What did you base your decision on? I know I should listen to my doctor and trust her but I also want to make sure I make the best decision for me!!!
For the time being I am not going to get the vaccine...too many people in the medical profession have told me that they would not get it if they were me, so for now I am not going to get it. That doesn't mean I won't change my mind.
I have an important decision to make. My doctor has advised me to get the H1N1 vaccine. She has pretty much left it up to me to make the decision, and I am going back and forth on what to do???? They tell every patient that gets pregnant to get it, but it is really up to me weather I get it or not. I am leaning more towards not getting it, but then I go the other way. Has anyone gotten it while pregnant or had to make this decision? What did you base your decision on? I know I should listen to my doctor and trust her but I also want to make sure I make the best decision for me!!!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Seeking Motherhood
I get a daily devotional email and todays was about seeking motherhood. The title caught my eye first of all! I have prayed during this waiting time that God would be praparing me to raise a child in His word and to love God above everything else! I want to give a saint back to God!
Seeking Motherhood
Selections from Luke 1
There was a priest of Abijah's division named Zachariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both were righteous in God's sight.... But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years.... After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said, The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.... Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy.
Wonder why God chose this well-along-in-years woman to amaze with a miracle baby? We don't know if she had given up hope, or if perhaps she still prayed every day for the impossible. But we do know this God can do anything with someone who seeks him.
There are some very human reasons for wanting a child. They draw attention like a magnet. Their little fingers and toes look like the dolls you always played with. And they're so cute in their costumes at the school play. But Elizabeth seems like a woman who had gotten beyond these kinds of desires. Her lifetime of faithfulness to the Lord indicates that her longing for a child came from a yearning to impart God's Word to a little one. And she certainly must have. John the Baptist's life was proof of powerful parenting.
Look At It This Way
When parents receive a child from the hand of God, their job, in the words of Janet Erskine Stuart, is to give a saint to God. Who is sufficient for these things? This small package of living flesh, with their blood coursing through its tiny veins, their features alarmingly recognizable on the wizened face; real, workable fingers, capable of a damp, hot, strong grip on one of theirs; lungs which can produce the most heartbreakingly soft coos and unbearably harsh cries; skin so smooth, so silky, so tender you want to weep when you touch it. And they are responsible for this? Solely responsible to give a saint back to God! A talented woman was asked by a friend, Why have you never written a book? I am writing two, was the quiet reply. I have been engaged in one for ten years, the other five. It doth yet appear what they shall be, said the woman, but when he makes up my jewels, my great ambition is to find them there. Your children? Yes, my two children. They are my life's work. Elisabeth Elliot
Seeking Motherhood
Selections from Luke 1
There was a priest of Abijah's division named Zachariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both were righteous in God's sight.... But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years.... After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said, The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.... Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy.
Wonder why God chose this well-along-in-years woman to amaze with a miracle baby? We don't know if she had given up hope, or if perhaps she still prayed every day for the impossible. But we do know this God can do anything with someone who seeks him.
There are some very human reasons for wanting a child. They draw attention like a magnet. Their little fingers and toes look like the dolls you always played with. And they're so cute in their costumes at the school play. But Elizabeth seems like a woman who had gotten beyond these kinds of desires. Her lifetime of faithfulness to the Lord indicates that her longing for a child came from a yearning to impart God's Word to a little one. And she certainly must have. John the Baptist's life was proof of powerful parenting.
Look At It This Way
When parents receive a child from the hand of God, their job, in the words of Janet Erskine Stuart, is to give a saint to God. Who is sufficient for these things? This small package of living flesh, with their blood coursing through its tiny veins, their features alarmingly recognizable on the wizened face; real, workable fingers, capable of a damp, hot, strong grip on one of theirs; lungs which can produce the most heartbreakingly soft coos and unbearably harsh cries; skin so smooth, so silky, so tender you want to weep when you touch it. And they are responsible for this? Solely responsible to give a saint back to God! A talented woman was asked by a friend, Why have you never written a book? I am writing two, was the quiet reply. I have been engaged in one for ten years, the other five. It doth yet appear what they shall be, said the woman, but when he makes up my jewels, my great ambition is to find them there. Your children? Yes, my two children. They are my life's work. Elisabeth Elliot
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
128 bpm
This is a picture of a picture, so when I get to work tomorrow I will scan it and make it a little more clear. The picture is not much but looks perfect to us!
We went to the doctor today for our first ultrasound and saw one perfect little heartbeat!!! It is amazing that you can see the heartbeat on something the size of a blueberry! It was beating at 128 bpm and measured right on track at 6 weeks 5 days!
We go back in a couple of weeks for another ultrasound! I am going to get used to seeing the little blueberry and then they are going to release me to my regular ob/gyn and I am not going to know what to do!
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