28 weeks pregnant update

There is a Penis in my Belly!!

Yes I am talking about the sex of our rainbow baby! WE ARE HAVING A BOY. The name we picked out and set in stone is Quinn David Bennett. My little QD (Cutie). Quinn means intelligent and David means Beloved. In olded days Quinns were responsible for arms and provisions in both war and peace. Yeah he'll fit right into this family of hunters. There is a gun show coming up and Im sure he will have a gun before he is born.
I have begun to fell movement from this little guy too. I love it.

He is measuring ahead we were told he was big for 16 weeks when i was 15+5, and he was a good little guy and attached the placenta to the back so no need to worry about having it grow through my c section scar.

NP-First OB Appointment

Sorry if this seems all over the place I blame it on the baby brain. 

On August 23rd Dave and I went to NMCP to talk to the OB. We talked about alot of things mostly about Laken and what happened with her during my pregnancy and things to consider with this pregnancy. I will see an MFM on the 3rd of September. Also I will have to go to the Lab to do my baseline labs ( check all the levels that they test for Preeclampsia). 

Based on my LMP I should be around 9w5d today but I know I ovulated late and based on the ultrasound I am 8w4d which is spot on based on ovulation. Baby Bean's heartbeat was flickering away but sadly the machine they midwife was using she couldn't figure out how to measure it. That kinda bummed me out and annoyed me since we couldn't find it on the doppler either. Apparently baby is still low in my pelvic bone.  So hopefully fingers crossed I get another ultrasound or able to find Baby Bean on the doppler on the 3rd. I really hope to get another ultrasound. 

Last time when I got my first ultrasound with Laken she was all over the place bouncing here and there, but i think i ate some cheerios with sugar.  This time Baby Bean was calm and was willing to work with us for the most part measuring was hard BB liked to stay curled up, I stayed away from the sugar breakfast this time.  

Just like last time I have horrible morning sickness that the only thing that helps is some zofran. I like to call it my little miracle pill. The morning sickness started at about 6 weeks and now I have some good days and very bad days. I can tell how my day is going to go from the moment I get up. If I wake up and have to jump out of bed and end up looking into the toilet its going to be a B-A-D day. 

NP- Fingers Crossed for another reason.

Alright people as you can tell by the counter at the top of the page. WE'RE PREGNANT.  As of today about 6 weeks 5 days. I have already been to the military doctors at the Sewells  Point Clinic. (I hate that place so much) But anyway I HAD to go there for my "First" blood work  lab, to get my pregnancy book that tells you what you can an can not do, what to eat, what to avoid and the changes in your body, and to fill out the ungodly amount of paperwork. Well one question on that paperwork asked about previous pregnancy and of course I wrote down that I had HELLP and PREECLAMPSIA and that I have no living children. When the OB nurse that was doing the class read that she pretty much looked at me and said "Nice to meet you but you will no longer be seen here you will be going to Portsmouth." For those of you who don't know Portsmouth is the Naval Hospital there are more experienced OB's and they have the MFM's there. I may sometime refer to Portsmouth as NMCP (Naval Medical Center Portsmouth).  My next appointment the one where we get to see our little BB (baby Bennett) will be on the 23rd of August I will be 9w5d.

Ok now for the story of  when we found out. I had taken a First Response Early Result on July 16th nothing popped up after the time limit except the test line. Or so I thought through examining it a bit more if I held it to the light I could kinda see another pink line. But I didn't get my hopes up i figured I will just test again on Sunday the 18th the day before AF was due. Well Sunday morning I woke up and went to the bathroom all prepared for another negative and to my dismay the first little pink line came up in less than a minute it was faint at first but at the end of 3 minutes it was a definite positive.





And then I took a digital just to be sure and to see the words "pregnant"











So DH had to go into work to Muster and I waited for him to get home so I could show him. We were so happy. After hubby knew I called my parents but no answer, so I went to the back yard and start mowing the lawn that had grown into a jungle while we were on leave. As I was mowing I was surrounded by a bunch of dragonflies. I'd like to think they are from Laken telling me everything will be ok. Dave and I well I told Dave that if this little one is a girl her theme is going to be dragonflies. When I came back inside My mom called back, my mom was ecstatic and she swears I'm having twins (we'll find out on the 23rd this month).  Another sign we had that this was going to be our month was the double rainbow that the ends of the rainbows were visible on the 4th of July.

 Another surprise is that Just a week before another friend of mine found out she is also pregnant. She found out before me but is 5 days behind me based on LMP. But I pray that we all have long and uneventful PE free and HELLP free pregnancies.