3 Month Appointment

This morning, I had my 12 week appointment with Dr. Ali. Ted had to drive me because Frederick had major freezing rain and I was nervous about the roads. He had a 2 hour delay at work cause it was worse there, so it worked out well that he didn't have to use any leave time. Dr. Ali went over my blood work I had done a couple weeks ago and said everything looked good so no worries there. She wasn't sure if I was far enough along to hear heart beat through dopplar, so she tried but couldn't get anything. So she had to do a sonogram to check on heart beat. Oh darn, another chance for me to see Baby T haha. She let me see the baby for a little bit. She pointed out head and body which is more obvious now than at 8 weeks. I saw a hand and asked her to make sure. It was up by baby's mouth, maybe starting to suck? Then she played around with the angle a bit and we saw both hands go up and move around. Pretty cool. Then she did a reading on heart for us to hear and it was at 166/min and sounding good. She wants me back in 4 weeks for another check-up and even though I don't go until March, she gave me the paperwork for my sonogram at 18-20 weeks when we can find out the gender. I am posting the picture she took today at the appointment. Again, it isn't the best quality but you can kind of see. Baby's head is on the right and just above neck/chest you can see faint outline of arm and hand.
Weeks Along: 12
Morning Sicknesss: Yes still unfortunately.
Weight Gain: -2
Sleep: Not so well, Trystan keeps waking up in night because of "ghosts".
Movement: No
Gender: Don't Know.
Looking Foward To: Having this morning sickness go away and having some energy back, hopefully soon!

The Worst Two Weeks

Just after the holidays, the first week of January, Trystan got pretty sick. He had a temperature of 104, no appetite, cough, runny nose and just overall ickiness. I was still having a hard time with pregnancy symptoms, i.e. tiredness, nausea, morning sickness. So, trying to take care of him was a challenge. We took him to the doctor when his fever didn't come down on the third day and they said it was just a cold. That "just a cold" lastest 6 days. Once he started to feel better, Ted and I started coming down with the same symptoms. So now we had a feeling-better toddler and two sick parents. This "cold" was a beast and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. And of course being pregnant, I was resigned to tylenol doses every 4-6 hours, which was doing absolutely nothing. My temp was around 101 with the tylenol, Ted's hit upwards of 102.7. Just like Trystan, there wasn't much we could do except try and keep temperature down, get a lot of fluids and rest. Not easy when you have a toddler. It was hitting me extra hard because it threw my morning sickness into hyperdrive. All I could manage was water, gingerale (occasionally because it hurt my sore throat), crackers and toast. Ours lasted around 6 days too, equalling the worst two weeks. We finally just got our Christmas tree down and did a preliminary cleaning of the house. It needs a lot more work since our toddler had basically been running the show for a week. I am posting a picture at 11 weeks, obviously it was taken after I was feeling better from last week.
Weeks Along: 11
Morning Sickness: Still a big yes!
Weight Gain: -2
Sleep: Better now with pillow.
Movement: No, not yet.
Gender: Don't know.
Looking Foward To: My next appointment so I can hear the heart beat again and know baby is doing good.