Day 6 & 7 with a Belly Shot

Day 5: A picture of something that makes me happy. 

So I of course have several pictures. The two things that make me happiest right now are my belly and Christmas. So pics of both!

After being shocked by our old lights, we went LED this year and I LOVE them! They are so bright!

Our tree and stockings. And yes there are only two of us, but we have the kitties and puppy. I still need a stocking for the pup since he is new to our family this year. I am going to wait until next year to get one for Fin.

22 weeks and one day. AKA Fin and his first Christmas tree.

Me & Lola during "Lola upside down time."  She is a funny cat. And yes that's the messy house I referred to in my list of things about me.

Day 6: Where do you shop?

Mostly Amazon.com. We live in a town with one grocery store, a Bealls and a small local departments store. Its an hour to Santa Fe with more stores and an hour 45 mins to Albuquerque with all of the stores. We don't go to Abq often so we usually stick with Santa Fe and Amazon. 

Days 4 & 5

Day 4 - If you won the lottery what would you blow your money on (after charity and bills, of course) list 10 material possessions you would buy for yourself.

1. A brand new Dodge Charger.

2. A brand new Dodge Challenger for hubby.

3. Design and renovate a room to be an art studio.

4. Kiln for my art studio.

5. Glass blowing lessons.

6. A newer, bigger house.

7. A vacation house in Texas, probably in the Hill Country.

8. A giant whirlpool tub.

9. A pool & hot tub for our newer house.

10. Foosball table (I could get one now, but would need the bigger house first).

Day 5 - 15 facts about yourself.

1. I am a messy person. I couldn't stand to live in a house that is super neat. It makes me twitchy. I love my nice messy house.

2. I really miss teaching and wish I could handle being on my feet that much.

3. My hubby calls me a Christmas crack head. I LOVE Christmas time. The lights and the tree and the family. I love it all.

4. I am addicted to feeling the kiddo move! Just in the past 3 days, I have started feeling movements several times a day.

5. I have a hopeless addiction to TV shows with a supernatural theme from the 90s & 00s. Examples: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel & Charmed. I am currently rewatching Charmed on Netflix.

6. I also have a hopeless addiction to trashy romance novels. I tried to keep track of how many I read last year. I know I missed some, but I counted 67 for sure.

7. I am also very cheap in my romance novel addiction. I generally get them from a local thrift store where they usually cost around 10 cents each. I only buy 3 or 4 new each year.

8. I have come to like the snow. I hated the cold so much at first when we moved from Texas, that I couldn't appreciate the snow. But now that we are in our second winter with not much snow so far, I miss it.

9. Garlic bread may be the best food on the planet. And thats not just a pregnancy craving talking. I have always loved it!

10. I am an annoying in between size in almost everything. My pants are too long if I get longs and too short if I get regulars. Larges are too small and XLs are too big in many shirts (except over the girls, there XLs fit). I am even technically in between cup sizes for my bra! I wish clothes fit better.

11. Monkeys are awesome. I know this isn't technically about me, but I guess I could say, I think monkeys are awesome.

12. I'm apparently very boring because this is way too hard!

13. Currently Fruit Loops are my new craving.

14. Even though I like the snow, I really want to be on a beach right now!!!

15. In 5 more minutes I will close my window and head home to a big bowl of chili and cornbread!

Yay!

No more placenta previa!!!

Huge sigh of relief. Plus on the way home from the docs, I was talking to my dad and Fin kicked me 4 times in a row! I was totally psyched! I have an anterior placenta so I don't feel as much as lots of ladies by this point. My dad started laughing and said "Well, alright, he loves his old grandpa!" It was really cute.

Unfortunenately now I have no worry to distract me from the big scary prospect of hubby's job ending. We should have some word this week on the possibility of his getting converted to staff, but who knows when the final word will come. His job is over in Feb if he doesn't get converted. So we may be moving when I'm 7.5 months pregnant! And who knows where we would be moving.

So one big yay! I'm just gonna focus on that! Oh and Fin is measuring in the 54% which is GREAT! I forgot to get the pictures scanned, but maybe tonight. We got a pretty cute profile, but mostly the freaky Skeletor face :)

Day 3 & Fingers Crossed

Day 3 - What's in your makeup bag?

 

Well, lately it doesn't matter because I haven't worn makeup in months. I should restart at some point, but sleep is so much more important :)

 

I do have a makeup metal lunchbox (it from the show Firefly, yep I'm a nerd). It has a bit of everything from stuff that's exclusively for costumes to my regular powder and mascara. Pretty boring.

 

Well now I'm off to the Perinatologist!! I get to see Fin again soon. Fingers crossed for a moved placenta!!!

Day 2

30 Day Challenge

Day 2: What's in your handbag?

Well, Chapstick (I'm addicted to one specific kind so there are usually 3 or 4 in my purse at any given moment), wallet full of cards & such, Glucose Meter (no GD and my readings are PERFECT!), pink alligator print zipper case with nail file & clippers and such, mini first aide kit, cell phone, fold up hairbrush, lots of random reciepts, and a random trashy romance novel (todays is called The Truth about Lord Stoneville).


In other news, totally unrelated to my purse, today I had my first super dizzy spell followed by a massive hot flash. In the past few days, I have had several hot flashes. I have had several dizzy spells, but all the past ones have been when I got up too fast. This one today was crazy. I was standing at a work station and started having that head swimming feeling followed by extreme nausea. I just stood there. One of my co-workers came back and saw me looking funny. He walked me back to my chair (I could not have made it on my own). After about 5 minutes it was gone, but wow, it was crazy! I'm a bit terrified of driving. If that happened on some of the roads here in the mountains, it would be bad. I'll have to talk to my doc about it tomorrow.

30 Day Challenge

Day 1 - What is the meaning behind your blog name?

Day 2 - What's in your handbag?

Day 3 - What's in your makeup bag?

Day 4 - If you won the lottery what would you blow your money on (after charity and bills, of course) list 10 material possessions you would buy for yourself.

Day 5 - 15 facts about yourself.

Day 6- A picture of something that makes you happy.

Day 7 - Where do you like to shop?

Day 8 - Describe your dream vacation.

Day 9 - List 5 things you want to do before you die.

Day 10 - What is your favorite book?

Day 11 - If you could have 3 wishes, what would they be?

Day 12 - List 5 pet peeves.

Day 13 - List 5 guilty pleasures.

Day 14 - Put your iPad on shuffle.  List the first 10 songs that play.

Day 15 - Show your favorite outfit or fashion pieces.

Day 16 - How did you and your partner decide when you were ready to start trying to conceive?

Day 17 - Discuss the most ridiculous thing you ever heard about conception. Where did you hear it? Did it work for someone else? Did you try it?

Day 18 - Besides Mothers Day, what is the hardest holiday for you as an infertile?

Day 19 - Write a letter (one that you never have to send) to a fertile in your life. Did they hurt you? Support you? Tell them how you feel, all the things you can’t bring yourself to say in person.

Day 20 - Discuss how you found your way into the ALI community, and what being part of it has meant to you – good and bad.

Day 21 - If you had gotten pregnant that first month you started trying, how would you have been a different parent? What changes have you made to your parenting style (either current or future) in the time you spent trying to conceive?

Day 22 - What was the first baby or pregnancy-related purchase you ever made? Was it before or after you started trying to conceive? Or was it after you were already pregnant?  Why did you choose that particular item to buy first? If you haven’t purchased anything yet, why not?

Day 23 - Talk about how you chose your RE.

Day 24 - If a very observant stranger were to walk into your house, what clues could lead them to believe that you have struggled with infertility?

Day 25 - Have you ever bonded with someone IRL over infertility?

Day 26 - Were you the product of infertility? Was anyone you know the product of infertility? How do you know? Or do you just suspect based on circumstances like age differences between siblings, time between marriage and conception, etc.

Day 27 - Talk about a time when you made someone in your life understand more about infertility.

Day 28 - What do you use the “nursery” for right now? If you already had a baby, what did you use it for before pregnancy?

Day 29 - If you had known that you would have trouble conceiving, what would you have done differently in life? If you already knew, did that knowledge affect your other life choices?

Day 30 -Tell us about a friendship you lost or a relationship that changed for the worse because of infertility.

Day 1 - What is the meaning behind your blog name?


Well, that started out as a snarky statement of my crappy luck, turned into a celebration of great luck. When I started this blog, nothing in my life was going as planned. I had recently found out that I didn't have a crippling disorder that I thought I had for 20 years. While I am totally aware that was GREAT luck, it threw my world into a tailspin. It took a while to figure out who I was. So I consider the 20 years of false identity as the unluckiness. 


Since then we have done IVF and I am now 21 weeks and 3 days. My luck has changed a lot. I still feel like at any moment the old crummy luck will be back, but I am hoping to at least get to hold my little man before it is back.

Why I am Actually Liking my OB

I had heard some stories from several different people that made me leary of staying witht he same OBGYN that I've seen since we moved here. Most included being induced for various reasons that didn't seem good enough to me. But so far, I'm actually loving my OB.

For one, she told me where to order great maternity clothes online :) I know thats not really a  reason to love an OB, but it made me feel comfortable talking to her.

But the main reason that she is awesome is how she treats fertility patients! They allowed me not to get a pap as early in the pregnancy if I wanted to, because of the likelyhood of bleeding. They assured me that the pap was not risky, but that many women who have dealt with IF are worried about any bleeding. I went ahead and got it over with, but I greatly appreciated the option.

When I spoke to the doc about wanting to keep things as natural as possible, she totally understood. She did caution me not to get to set on one direction since birth is different for everyone and things can happen unexpectedly.

We also talked about whether or not I am actually high risk. With the placenta previa I am if it doesn't move, but mostly they call all women who have done IVF high risk. She implied that it is more for our benefit since being high risk gets you more ultrasounds and more monitoring. She expressed that they take it very seriously that we have put so much into getting where we are. She even said that she completely realizes that if we loose our baby, we may never get another chance. We can't just go home and do the nasty and end up preggo again.

I am completely butchering our talk, but it was great and it made me feel like she really understands what we (preggo IFers) are going through. Its an odd place to be. We are so excited to be here, but so scared too.