Pregnant like a Goat!

We went camping this weekend with Teresa and her family at Lassie Lake. We feel pretty lucky that they introduced us to their "secret" favorite camp spot. It was beautiful with not many people around and a gorgeous calm lake to kayak on.

Only downside is trying to make it through the night without having to pee! I hate getting up in the middle of the night to stumble to the outhouse!!

Doug had a funny dream while camping. He dreamt that I got huge while pregnant, except my stomach grew out side to side rather than straight out. Like the pregnant goat we saw. Hope that dream doesn't come true!

Week 11

Today we enter Week 11. Baby is about the size of a lime and gearing up to double in size in the next couple weeks. We're looking forward to a doctor's appointment next week to hear the heart beat again. We don't get another ultrasound until 20 weeks though.

Some super exciting news is we found out our friends and neighbours, Roslyn and Mike are also expecting their first baby. And their baby is due only about 10 days after ours. It will be so great to go through this together and for our kids to grow up as instant friends!

I'm starting to feel self conscious that I "look" pregnant. Not entirely sure my tummy is any different from my pre-pregnant chub, but I'm convinced it does. Guess we won't be keeping it a secret too much longer. Thinking about officially sharing the news in a week or two.

Feeling okay still. Amazing no real nausea or sickness. How did I escape that?! A little tired at times but overall feeling good.

11 Week Update from Today's Parent Magazine

Boy or Girl?

Well if we believe in the ancient Chinese Gender Chart from this site, it will be a boy.

http://www.thebump.com/calculators/ChineseGenderChart.aspx?MsdVisit=1

If we follow the Chinese Gender Chart from this site, it will be a girl!

http://www.todaysparent.com/pregnancy/article.jsp?content=20080212_155548_3988

Apparently the ancient chart has multiple translations!!

Wonder if Doug's dream will be any premonition - he dreamt it will be a girl. I have no inkling either way yet. Guess we've got seven months to keep us predicting :)

Birth to a Cat

We read that it is not unusual to have strange dreams while pregnant - dreaming of forgetting your baby in the supermarket or leaving them in a filing cabinet!

I had my first strange dream the other night. I dreamt that I gave birth to a cat! And in my dream that was apparently totally normal. It was like you had a 90% chance of having a child, and a 10% chance of having a cat. In my dream I gave birth to a grey cat, I was so ecstatic at first because I was so happy to have just given birth and the miracle of a new baby...cat. It wasn't until they passed me the cat to hold it for the first time, and it meowed,

scratched me and ran away, that I was sad that I hadn't had a child instead.

My mom was there and she was comforting me as I wept! I was saying over and over, "I know that I am so fortunate to have had a cat, but I really wanted a baby, I wanted the baby."

Must have been too much reading about the early stages and the embryo actually having a tail for a while!! Hahaha!

Inspired by Monkeys!

Saw this crib set with Lisa in Calgary and immediately loved it! Who doesn't love monkeys? I started looking around to see what else is out there, but nothing seemed to compare. And my thoughts for a baby room have been inspired by this idea of monkeys and a jungle theme. We were surprised to find it at a store in Kelowna so decided to splurge and get to it to help inspire the rest of the room (wall colours etc.)

Our First Ultrasound

Because we had started looking into In Vitro, the Fertility Clinic offered us an early ultrasound to confirm that everything was looking okay with the baby in the early stages.

These are the photos from our almost week 7 ultrasound. Just the size of a pea, we still got to see and hear the heartbeat. Amazing!

Our Little Miracle

After two years of trying, many hardships, and being told we only had a 3-5% chance of getting pregnant naturally...we won the lottery and tested positive as pregnant on July 7th.

We were, and of course still are, ecstatic with the news!

Even after 2 positive home tests and 2 blood tests confirming the pregnancy it still all just seemed so surreal. We couldn't wait and told our family right away the night we found out.