It's been way too long since I've blogged - really since I've been able to blog. You see back after my last post, my husband and I were blessed with a little surprise!
That's right my friends! We are expecting our first child in July!!!
The first trimester (and more) was very hard. I was very sick and slept for about 3 months straight! If I wasn't working - I was sleeping. Thankfully, it wasn't anything the doctor hasn't seen and I never had to go to the hospital for any negative side effects! At 8 week we had our first ultrasound to see our little peanut.
It was a lot of fun telling our family. All our parents were shocked and enjoyed the small pacifiers we wrapped for them!
At our 10 week checkup we met our primary doctor for the first time! Ladies, Dr. Johnson in Kalamazoo is AMAZING! I highly recommend her and feel so blessed to have found a doctor I love! Things were going well until she tired to find the heartbeat and then our little peanut gave us a bit of a scare - we couldn't find the heartbeat! Dr. Johnson was so calm about it but quickly got us into an "emergency" or unscheduled ultrasound. Thankfully, there was not a problem and our little peanut was simply sitting too low for the heart monitor to pick up the beats! A strong 148 BPM for our little peanut (the things you remember)!
Now onto the long wait until our 19 week appointment where we found out what our little peanut is. Thankfully around week 17, I started feeling much better and my energy and appetite returned!
Here I am at 18 weeks or "22 weeks until the Baby arrives!" I'm carrying pretty far in front and have not gained any weight - in fact I lost 5 pounds (doctor said congrats when I told her at our 14 week appointment haha)
Our 19 week appointment was on Wednesday March 25th at 3:10 pm and oh my goodness was that day LONG! I think even longer for Scott who had a half day from work (at least I was able to keep busy!)
(19 Weeks on Sunday March 22, 2015)
The big moment finally arrived! Or more so we arrived at the big moment (doctors office) 30 minutes early....we were hoping they were running on time or early. To our dismay the were running 10 minutes late! It was painful for a number of different reasons. 1) I had to pee SOOOOOO bad! and 2) Every time a nurse came out to get someone in the waiting room it wasn't for us! The room started full and by the time we were called back it was empty :(
Never fear - we were still in great spirits and very excited!
I had dreams the night before that the baby would be cross legged and stubborn and we wouldn't be able to tell what HE or SHE was. But that DEFINITELY was not the case! Our little peanut wanted us to know right away!
With excitement, we left our appointment to attend a gender reveal party at Scott's sister's house. While we knew what we were having, we bough silly string in the proper blue or pink color and took the caps off for our family to spray! Everyone was very excited when the string came out a beautiful PINK!
Scott and I are very excited to meet our little Girl Klaasen on or around July 19, 2015!
Until then, senior photos will be coming up so please please please don't forget to contact me for your session. I will be on maternity leave from my full time position from July 19 to October 5th however gone from only July 19 to September 1st. Let's schedule your session soon!
