No Divorce

I figured that I should probably post a little update on here too. I dismissed my divorce case a few weeks ago. Ben and I have decided to work on things, and are pretty much figuring it out as we go. But, we are staying married and for now Ben is still living in CO.

14 week appointment

Everything went well with my 14 week appointment. The baby's heartbeat was between 150 bpm and 161 bpm. I go back in 4 weeks, and in the meanwhile I need to talk to the insurance again. Depending on how that goes, I will decided which blood test if any I will be getting at my next appointment. Also, I need to call to schedule my 20 week ultrasound soon. I only have 5 more weeks until hopefully we will know if the baby is a boy or girl, and I'm sure that time is going to go by fast.

6 year old check up and flu shots

Friday was Carissa's 6 year old check up, and she got the second dose of the flu shots. She did great at her appointment, including the shots. She has decided that if you relax shots aren't as bad, a very good idea. It has taken a couple of months, but finally all three of us are done with flu shots. Carissa is 43 1/2" tall, and weighs 40 lbs. She grew 3 inches over the last year.

Carissa's Party and Ultrasound

On Friday morning, Ben and I went to my ultrasound appointment. I still had the ultrasound, but I won't be getting the integrated screening afterall. The insurance won't pay for one of the lab tests, and would have paid for a list of all the other components. As it turns out it is an all or nothing test, so I won't be doing it. But, I still had the ultrasound and I screening for risk factors and we aren't in any high risk groups. We got pictures of the baby's hand and foot to take home.

Then that evening was Carissa's party. She got to have her birthday cake, and then she opened presents and played for a little while before going home.

Carissa's Birthday

Carissa's 6th birthday was on Wed. and she got to take a treat to school with her for her class. They finished the whole bag of oreos that she brought. Then after school, we dropped Gabe off at his gymnastics class and went to pick up Ben at the airport. Then we headed to pick up Gabe from my mom, because Gabe's class was over before we left the airport. Once we were all together, we headed over to Joe's Crab Shack for some dinner. That was Carissa's choice for dinner, and she got to be a pretty, pretty princess while they sang Happy Birthday to her. Then tonight we will go to my parents' house to have cake and for Carissa to open her presents. I was kind of surprised that when I gave her the choice of opening the presents from me on her birthday or waiting until tonight that she picked to wait until tonight.

These are the photos that Joe's Crab Shack took:

First prenatal appointment

This time I'm seeing a new doctor and going to a new office as well, so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Most of my appointment went like I thought it would with the normal exam, labs, etc. Then I was hoping that I would get to hear the heartbeat today, and I got even better. I got a quick ultrasound to check the size of the baby with my due date, which turned out to go together pretty well. I got to see the baby wiggling around, and see and hear the heartbeat. It was 171 bpm. Also, I'm about 4 pounds under my starting weight right now, but that seems to be a normal pattern for me. And, I've already gained some of my weight back, so I'm on the right track. I have my next appointment in a month, but I have another ultrasound on the 29th of this month and Ben will be here for that one.

Flu Shots

Yesterday, I finally got Carissa her flu shots. She hasn't had any since she was about 1 1/2 years old, because of her allergy to eggs. It wasn't worth the risk, and she did fine without one. We originally thought that she had outgrown her egg allergy completely, but her allergy test in October said that she was still allergic to egg whites. So, with H1N1,and being in kindergarten we decided to look into Carissa getting a flu shot. It is a pretty time consuming process, and unfortunately the first time we went in for an appointment to do it they didn't end up doing it. So we had to make another appointment and come back about a month later. Carissa had to have a skin test done with histamine, saline, and then both of the vaccines. We had to wait half an hour and have that checked and she didn't react to the vaccines. Carissa did great with that though even though the histamine was very itchy and she couldn't scratch. Next they gave her a 1/5 of the dose of the flu shots and we waited another half hour. That time it was much nicer for Carissa because she got to play in the waiting room, and since we were at Primary Children's there are lots of toys to play with. After the half hour wait she was still doing well, so we went on to her getting the other 4/5 of the dose of the flu shots. Then another half hour in the waiting area. After that we talked to the doctor again and we got to leave. Because she did so well at her appointment, even getting 4 shots she got a little stuffed blue bird and a DVD of All Dogs Go To Heaven. She was very excited when they gave her the movie. She has seen it before, but we didn't own it.