11 Weeks

Next week there will be another picture of baby!!!

10 Weeks!

"It's just my normal fat belly... it's not like I'm showing at all!"

- Tanya

"I still think you're beautiful."

- Scott

The telling begins...

We took the trek to Binghamton this weekend to let my father know about being pregnant. He was quite happy with the news. Seemingly the family has extrasensory perception as the family decided to descend upon my father's house around the same time. We were pretty much made to call all those who didn't show up.

I think Tanya Plans on filling in the rest of her family next week and then going public with everyone during the Memorial Day weekend.

Here's a picture of Grampa checking out the sonogram.

- Scott

Belly at 9 weeks 2 Days

Isn't' she just beautiful?

- Scott

My how you've grown.

We had our two week follow up yesterday after our scare and everything continues to look good.

We stopped by the book store to get a book of Irish baby names and Tanya picked up "The Belly Book", a pregnancy journal (lets see if she's more apt to fill that out than this blog).

We experienced about a month of pretty good health, albeit with consistent exhaustion. Now it looks like Tanya's getting sick again.

- Scott

Mother's Day

So Tanya had her first Mother's Day... a cute and kind of novel idea for an expectant mother. Next year I'll have to go out and get flowers and a gift "from baby." Anyway, I took her out to lunch and drove her to work and picked her up (which is a big deal for her as she doesn't have to worry about parking and walking).

We have a doctors appointment on Wednesday with another sonogram. We are, at this point, only a few weeks away from making our news common knowledge! We plan to tell my father soon and then "come out" to all our friends at the big memorial day bash in 3 weeks.

The next great plan is to get Tanya to write something here. I suppose that once she's through the woods of the first trimester she will be able to relax, take a sigh of relief and really let the reality of the situation set in. She's experiencing all the changes now, and that's her way of being close to the situation. These writings, in a manner of speaking, are the closest I have to a visual metamorphosis into fatherhood.

- Scott

Back after a long weekend

Tanya and I took a long weekend this week and camped up at Suttershire in our new 5th wheel. Tanya also took this opportunity to tell her Mom that she was pregnant. Somewhere around the beginning of June we will start to tell everyone.

We stopped at Burger King on the way up and Tanya left her drink in the cup holder (Baby brain?). It leaked all in the cup holder and I put my iPhone in it. My phone no longer works, and it tripped the moisture sensor so it won't be covered under warranty... looks like I have to go buy a new one!

Tanya was put on an antibiotic by the OB doc and now it's causing some pretty uncomfortable side effects. She made me go into the grocery store and buy her some over the counter cream from the ladies "intimate care" section. Oh... what a joy!

- Scott

Our little bean

Yesterday started off with a frantic run to the doctors office as Tanya started to experience some bleeding. Now, maybe it wasn't all that much.... but it might as well have been a pint for all the freaking out we did.

I think I'm starting to like this Dr Bebla guy... he really put us at ease. The ultrasound still showed our little bean with it's heart ticking away at 150 beats a minute.

One good thing that came out of the scenario was that I got this little image of our bean to put up here.

As of now everything is okay

- Scott

Sometimes dreams do come true...

We saw the little bean yesterday with it's little heart ticking along at 141 beats a minute. The obstetrician sees everything as just fine.

It really makes you wonder about Tanya's dreams.

Tanya walked out saying "maybe it is communicating with me." I don't doubt the power of the mothering instinct.

In related news that really doesn't matter considering how positive this news is.... the printer on the ultrasound wasn't working... so no picture to put up here as I had hoped.

I do think I will hassle the hospital about finding a way to get us one.

- Scott

Dreams

So we drove 130 miles to get our 5th wheel camper yesterday... then 130 miles back. Mom... being the ever lazy bum that she is, spent half the ride asleep.

"I had a dream everything was okay" she woke and said.

Now I'm not one to place faith in much of anything,let alone dreams. However, Tanya rarely remembers her dreams. The last dream she remembered was that she was pregnant... and voila, she was.

Maybe Mom and baby have a connection (well.... obviously they do) and subconsciously she knows the baby is there.... and that it is okay.

It helps that my research shows pretty clearly that her lab results were potentially too close to give a clear suggestion of a problem. Also there are a number of factors that could be playing here... some of which we know are indeed factors. Besides, there's been no other signs of a problem.

So I will hope... I will hope some more... and I will be there for Tanya every step of the way.

Tomorrow I believe we will see that tiny little heart beat... and we can get back to the joy we have been feeling. Right now our emotions are on hold... all we can do is fight back the worry with hope.

- Scott