I can't believe it's been a whole freakin' month since I last posted! I keep meaning to... And I am still trying my best to keep up with all of the blogs on my list, just not keeping up with my own blog!

I've got lots of belly pics to update, but I've somehow misplaced my camera cord, and though both my printer and laptop have card readers I lost the adaptor that makes my super tiny memory card fit into the right slot. I have an idea which room the cable is hidden in - the soon to be new-person room, formerly my home office/random stuff storage room - but I haven't been able to pull together the motivation to actually look for it.

Things are progressing normally. I've had a few minor meltdowns over things that turn out to be nothing - things that at the time scare the crap out of me, like extremely painful Braxton Hicks contractions coming every five minutes for hours on end, exposure to Fifth Disease, and more. According to my doc, the severity of the BH is normal as long as I show no other signs of early labour. And the Fifth Disease exposure turned out to be a non-issue because I have the right antibodies to show that I have already had it earlier in life. And there's been other stuff... stuff I almost ran to the computer to blog about but then decided to wait until I'd been checked out so that I didn't unnecessarily worry any of you...

Work goes on as usual, with 101 days until my expected departure for my maternity leave. No, I'm not really counting the days like it seems - I just know that I have 111 days til my due date, and I'm scheduled to start my time off 10 days prior to that.

So yeah, nothing new to report. GD test will be booked at my next appt on the 28th, and I am so not looking forward to that. I get migraines when I have too much sugar, and that test is guaranteed to exceed my 'safe' level of glucose consumption.

But... back to work for me! Read you all later!

I have a migraine, so this is going to be a very short post, but I promised myself I would get our u/s picture up before the end of the weekend.

I still have yet to pull my 16 week pic up from my camera, so it'll probably go up sometime this week with my 20 week pic I'll be taking Tuesday(ish).

Hope everyone is doing okay!

I officially have the attention span and memory of a goldfish.

And at the moment, that is totally bumming me out, because it means that I'm going to miss the first class of prenatal yoga that I was supposed to be going to tonight... Hopefully I'll remember next week or I'm going to be really bummed.

We had our 19 week ultrasound yesterday, and all is well. It was absolutely amazing, and wonderful, and beautiful. Stay tuned for a picture sometime soon...

I know I had more to write about... but I've lost everything to this case of goldfish brain I've got going on... so I'll have to try again later if I remember anything. *sigh*

I really thought that Christmas would bring with it more time. Time to catch up on all of the blogs I haven't been to in weeks. Time to post a long overdue update on my own blog...

Instead, every day has been a dawn to dusk flurry of activity! Most of it completely spontaneous.

And now, my time off is ending. One more day off and then it's back to work and school and all the busyness that goes along with them.

I haven't even taken a belly pic since the last one I posted! I think about it every day, but always when I'm in the middle of something else or too exhausted to bother.

Everything is going well. I'm starting to feel Thumper squirming around in my (rapidly expanding) belly. It's really starting to feel like this is actually real. This is actually happening. It's amazing.

Anyway, I better sign off - R had a bad fall snowboarding today, which resulted in a bad sprain, and he's on his way home from the hospital right now so I need to make sure I'm ready to take care of him when he gets here.

Take care everyone! I hope to catch up on everyone's recent activities very soon!

I've been a bad bad blogger...

Frankly, I've been ridiculously busy. Between work and school and all of this extra sleep I've been needing, my blog reading and writing time is suffering. Classes are over for the semester tomorrow, and then I've just got one more term project and two exams to get through.

Thumper is happily thumping away in there - 150BPM at our check-up on Monday. Next u/s is January 16th. I think R is really excited for that one, because Thumper will be less blob-like and more baby-like by then.

I am absolutely blown away that we're 13 weeks already. It's just flown by faster than I could ever have imagined. Again, school, work, and extra sleep contribute to how fast it's going I think. At this rate, it'll be June before I know it!

OMG, I am so freakin' excited for lisalou right now, and you have to go to her blog right.this.second and see why!

New belly pic added - link to the right if you want to have a look. I see a big change between last week and this week - very exciting!

I've also been tagged by Diana for a meme, but that is going to have to wait until term projects are taken care of - three to go, first two due in two weeks! Eek! I haven't forgotten Diana, I just need to stop procrastinating and get some work done!

Spread the word!

Mel is up for an award for "Best Medical/Health Issues Blog", and we really need to rally up our support for her and help her win! It would be a huge opportunity for the IF community to get some press and help raise awareness of IF!

Please vote for Stirrup Queens until November 8th:

http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-medicalhealth-issues-blog-1.php

We can do this!!!

Belly Pics - Updated!

4 Weeks

8 Weeks

12 Weeks

16 weeks

20 weeks

24 weeks

WE HAVE A HEARTBEAT!!!

149BPM to be exact, and we heard it loud and clear!

Thumper (embie's new name - popped into my head as soon as we saw that little heartbeat) is measuring 8w0d, and is right where (s)he belongs!

I'm so relieved. Breathing feels good.