Babies like cheerios

Ok I am back, its been a while since I have written anything on this blog. It is hard sometimes because Yvette seems to have alot more to say than I do. This whole baby thing is new to me. I do know that I loved seeing the baby's heartbeat. It looked like a little radar blip-you know like in those movies with fighter planes (the man's perspective :) So needless to say I am feeling a bit out of my league here and I am learning a whole lot. One thing I do know is that I always see kids eating cheerios and now yvette carries a sandwich bag of cheerios to work...so she is on the right track :)

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Nix the Nausea, Enter the Exhaustion!

Fatigue has taken me over, seems like my transition happened between the second & third month of pregnancy. I haven't had nausea for almost 2 weeks now & have been extremely tired for about a week and some days. I've also been experiencing aches & pains that I'm trying not to focus on. Everything seems fine & normal, & we're looking forward to getting back to the dr's office to confirm that on the 31st.

Today's Urgent Prayer Request

Thanks to my friends who were able to pray ASAP without asking questions upon receiving notification that I needed it. I began to break down in the dr.'s office today as the office scheduled me for an ultrasound with the one person I did not want to see again - the person who did Mercy's ultrasound. Quickly, my heart drifted back to the day we lost Mercy in that office, with that technician & I was losing hope quickly about today's ultrasound & Symone's little heart. I asked Ramon for a scripture, and he gave me Philippians - whatever is true & good...think on these things. Great choice. But of course I couldn't think of ANYTHING good at the moment, so I decided to send a desparate plea out to friends who are on text messaging to beg prayer of them. I know for sure that Emily & Melissa got the message and were praying because they were able to respond immediately. Thank you girls, and thank you to everyone who prayed!

Finally after waiting for what felt like an eternity, we were able to see our dr. first and explain the situation to her and she offered to perform the ultrasound for us & schedule our future ultrasounds so that we wouldn't have to go back to the person who did our original one. Praise God!! I didn't even realize that was an option, so I'm so glad the dr. took the time to explore it. We proceeded into the ultrasound room with the dr. & were completely blessed by everyone in the room & our experience was exceptionally above the original one. I am so thankful that I can cry out for help and be heard & receive response like today. Thank you all again! =)

Next Appointments

We are scheduled for 2 more appointments in January - both are on the 31st. The first is an OB appointment with our dr. @ 4pm & the second is for an abdominal ultrasound & first trimester testing @ 5pm. This testing is done between 11 - 13 weeks - we'll be about 12 weeks along at the time of the testing. The date is absolutely perfect because we were able to schedule both appointments for the same day back to back on a night that our dr. is on duty & available for questions. This is really important to us because we want the assurance of full disclosure available to us after every ultrasound / appointment. Typically the people performing the ultrasound give limited information and you must wait for the dr. to be available to review your records to get the full story. My concern was that with an ultrasound scheduled for a Thursday we may not be able to hear from our dr. until Monday or Tuesday of the next week, which is just a very long wait. In our first pregnancy, we were not aware that the ultrasound technician would withhold info from us and we were really devastated by the way we found out that Mercy's little heart had stopped beating before we could even see it going. So, all that to say, praise God that this time our dr. will be around and open for discussion on the day of our next ultrasound. We were able to fit both appointments in before Ramon leaves for Ethiopia in early Feb. That was a huge answer to my prayers and just an all around blessing to have him be around to experience each appointment throughout this process. These appointments are also scheduled at the same time as my last day of winter intercession classes at LA City College, which means my students should love me for giving them the final exam a day early. =)

Celebrating Symone's Heartbeat !!!

Go, baby, go! Dr. says baby is looking good and development is on schedule! We were mistaken to think that we could hear a heartbeat at this point, however we were able to see a heartbeat today! Quite possibly the most beautiful thing I've even seen in my life. Just a few more weeks to go until we are past the hump of this first trimester...please keep praying with us!

Postponed Ultrasound =(

Today's appointment for an ultrasound was canceled & postponed to Monday 1/7 @ 10:45am. Bummer! We were really looking forward to this one! Oh well...guess we'll have to wait just a few more days to listen in for those one or two little heartbeats! Please keep praying! We value it so much.