The 50-yard line!

I am past the 50 yard line!!! Even though I have finally started to be able to enjoy this pregnancy a little I am still so... happy that I am more then half way through this pregnancy. i just can't help but look forward to the moment I am being driven to the hospital and the feeling of excitement that I will be experiencing knowing in a short while I will finally hold my little girl for the first time. I can't wait to go get our 1st family pictures, I can't wait to see the look on Danny's face when he holds her for the first time, I can't wait to see what she looks like, and i can't wait to be a mom. So yes while pregnancy has it little joys here and there, there is no greater joy in mind then the end result =)! Not too much longer now!!

Updates:
I no longer throw up every morning and I've even notice this week that my nausea after eating has gotten a little better!! I went to the scan lab last Monday night and they said that Taylor was around 10 ounces-which is awesome since not even two weeks ago she was 6 ounces. If she keeps up the good work she may even double her weight this month. I am worried that her mom might double her weight this month too. I must say that I have definitely noticed an increase in my appetite this last month. I am REALLY nervous that this next appointments weigh-in. I have a feeling I won't be as lucky as my last weigh-in to hear I only gained two pounds. Well we'll see, maybe I will be pleasantly surprised-yeah right!


Also, I have started to feeling my little angel move!! I was so looking forward to that, it's not a lot but I'm sure the bigger she gets the more I will feel her.

Taylor Update! Appt on 08/06/08. 6ounces@17weeks4days

I had my anatomy appointment where they do a very detailed ultrasound to make sure everything looks good. Over all my little Taylor passed with flying colors. The only thing they noticed was that she has a umbilical chord disorder called SUA (single umbilical artery). Which basically means normally when an umbilical cord develops, it forms three vessels: two arteries and one vein, while little Taylor's only has formed two vessels: one vein and one artery. The most common problem is low birth weight and early delivery. So on the bright side this means that almost every time I go to the doctor I will get an ultrasound scan in order to make sure that Taylor is getting enough of what she needs from her umbilical cord to grow into a healthly little baby and growing at a normal rate...this is usually not an issue until towards the last month of pregnancy when the baby starts needing more food and nutrients. But all that to say I have complete faith that Taylor will be a healthy little baby and according to my doctor she looks completely healthy and she is in the 32%. So keep up the good work little one because mama loves you so... much and prays for you everyday! I can't wait to see you and hold you in my arms!

A side note: Almost every time I get an ultrasound Taylor is sleeping and wants us to leave her alone but on Wednesday we must have caught her during play time because she was kicking, moving her arms, turning, rolling, opening her mouth and I could honestly say it looked like she was waving a couple times it was so...neat to see her moving around like =).

Random side note: Ok so all this time I thought I wanted to go with pink and brown for my nursery colors but I can't find any bedding that I like in those colors, so I've started looking and the more I look the further from pink I move....so we'll see where I end up =). I've seen a lot of cute stuff and I think Danny likes the idea of not going pink too =). I mean if we could find a cute bedding that had pink,brown and a third color to spice it up a bit that would be neat but who knows, weird how your opinion changes when you actually start looking around. I have like 3 that I really like so who knows!!!

We're having a little girl!

Wednesday 07/31/08 Danny and I found out that we are having a little girl =). We both had a feeling that it was a girl but it was neat to finally know for sure. When we got to the appointment I had no idea what to expect, I just kept getting so nervous that they would tell me they couldn't tell. Shortly after the ultrasound tech. started looking at the baby she said I think I know what it is BUT I'm not going to say until I can get confirmation, and before she would say she wanted to give some of the students a chance to practice scanning....I was thinking NO...WAIT...PLEASE, I can't handle this. She let a few of the students go and finally came back to see if the baby had uncrossed it's legs so she could get a clear shot and finally after what seemed like forever she said,"It's a girl!". I was so thrilled to finally know!! We're going to have a little girl!! How wonderful, I honestly didn't care either way- to me it was a win-win! But how fun will a little girl be, she'll be my little princess and daddy's little girl =). We already had agreed that Taylor Lynn would be our girl name as for the boy name we couldn't agree at all, so thankfully we have more time to come up with something we both like. Poor Taylor was so tired of being messed with after about 45mins she turned over, got in a ball and covered her face, so we couldn't look at her beautiful profile-she made it clear she had had enough! Right after the appointment we went and bought some PINK stuff in honor of our little girl! So now we have a good 5months to get ready for Taylor Lynn Raney. Let the fun begin!!