Our First Trip to the Doctor

We finally went to see our OB, Dr. White, on Monday. It was amazing! We were able to do a sonogram and our little baby is 7.8mm long. That's about the size of an eraser on a pencil. He said we are 5 1/2 weeks along and the baby should be due on April 13. That is a Wednesday, not a Friday (yes, I checked). Unfortunately we couldn't hear the heartbeat yet. Apparently you can't hear it until about 6 weeks so we were just 3 days or so too early. He said we could go back next week to hear it but we decided to save that $30 and hear it next month. So of course, yesterday was an exciting day for us! Here are the two pictures we took home. Our little baby is in the black circle somewhere...

The doctor asked if I had an nausea and I told him just a little, but not a lot. He said one of the main things I can do to avoid nausea is not going long periods of time without eating...I don't think that's going to be a problem. Last night Tony made pancakes and bacon for dinner. I can usually only eat 2 but I had 3 and I was still hungry, but I ate the last one. I ate something else but I can't remember what it was. I don't know when cravings are supposed to kick in, but I've been craving mexican a lot lately. We went to bueno two days in a row last weeks and I begged Tony to go to a mexican restaurant for dinner on Saturday, but the doctor told me to stay away from spicy foods for the weekend, so we didn't...so sad.

So over the weekend I was having these really bad stomach pains. They felt kind of like cramps, but they were worse in my opinion. I told Tony and he immediately looked it up on google and concluded that it was not normal. I figured I was ok, but I called the doctor to make sure and apparently it is normal. They said my uterus is making room for the baby so I get the short end of the stick with the pains (which I'm okay with as long as I get a baby). So our first "scare" wasn't too bad.

Tony and I were talking over the weekend about what sex we wanted the baby to be. I want a boy first so our girl can have a big brother and get that "big brother" feeling when she's a little older like my brothers gave me. I have fallen in love with baby boy dress suits, Nike shocks, ties and sports apparel to deck out our little boy in. Tony on the other hand wants a girl. Now don't get me wrong, I can play dress up like no other and if we have a girl she's gonna be daaaang cute 24/7.....but I still want a boy first. Plus I know that if we have a girl first I'll never get to play with her because Tony will be spoiling her rotten all the time and then I'll be the mean parent and Tony will be the fun one. She'll want Tony more than me and I don't want that to be my first experience....maybe the 3rd time around jk!

Now I have to tell you the cutest thing Jason and Jenna (the kids I nanny) did. First, Jason. Last week I told Jason I had a baby in my tummy. He says, "no, that's not your baby; that's Jenna's. Here, you can have these stickers in your tummy." He proceeds to give me a page of magnets for his chore board thing. I thought that was hilarious! Then yesterday I was with Jenna in her room and she tells me, "I like the baby." I asked her, "What baby?" She replies, "the baby in your tummy." Is that not so flippin cute??

That's all for right now. Yay for the baby!