Baby White

For years Dusty and I have been telling our friends and family that we've got a five year plan and that kids don't fit in until the end but I guess it turned into a three year plan...  We're so excited that we get to welcome our little girl, Lily, sometime around September 6th.

January 7, 2013

I was feeling a little gross so I decided to take the pregnancy test that I had in my bathroom. I lost the sheet that told me how to read it so I couldn't tell if it was positive or negative but I decided that It had to be negative since a year or so ago our doctor had told us that we'd probably need help having kids.

January 10, 2013

I was still nauseous and felt like puking all of the time, so I decided to go buy some pregnancy tests with my co-worker Erin during lunch. We went to her house for lunch and I decided to use one. It came back with inconclusive results. I decided that meant I wasn't pregnant. I was talking with one of my co-workers about it later and my boss Fran came in. After listening to our conversation she said that she was certain that I was pregnant and recommended that I take another test the next morning. She said that she could see in my eyes that I was pregnant... I don't know what that means, but obviously she was right.

January 11, 2013

I still hadn't started my period yet and it was about 2 weeks late so I decided i'd try another test. It was positive. By this time, Dusty had come in, and he told me that if I took enough tests I was bound to get a positive one eventually so he told me to take another one. Three tests later we decided that we were probably pregnant. Dusty was super excited and all I wanted to do was puke... Which I did.

February 11, 2013

We had our first doctors appointment. They couldn't find her using the ultrasound on my stomach, so UP the wand went. Her heartbeat was 172 and everything looked great! I couldn't keep any food down so the doctor gave me some anti-nausea medication. Amused, Dusty offered to buy me a "wand" for home use.

February 24, 2013

We started telling our friends and family that we were pregnant. Dusty had a super hard time keeping it a secret so I let him tell everyone he wanted. By this point I'd lost about 12 pounds and still was having a hard time keeping food down even with the medicine. 

March 31, 2013

Around week 17 I finally started being able to keep food down and had gained some of the weight back. It was still a couple of weeks before we found out that we were having a girl and at this point we (Dusty says it was just me) were pretty sure that it was a boy. 

April 23, 2013

Ultrasound day! We almost didn't get to find out what she was because Lily was asleep and curled up in a ball for almost the entire ultrasound. The ultrasound tech had me roll from side to side and get up and do toe touches to try to wake Lily up, but she wasn't having any of it! She finally woke up with the hiccups up for the last 5 minutes of the ultrasound and moved just enough that we could tell she was a girl. She was trying to hide her lady parts and be modest... I'm not sure where she got that from being related to Dusty and I, but we'll love her all the same. Her heartbeat was around 154 and everything still looked great! 

Her little feet

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May 2, 2013

First baby shower. Some of the girls in our married ward were so nice and threw me a shower. It was super fun! Of course I forgot to take pictures of it though... At this point I weighed as much as I did pre-pregnancy and I could still fit into all of my normal jeans. 

May 25, 2013

We went to Seattle for Jake's homecoming. Grammy (Dusty's grandma) was nice enough to take a few family pictures for Dusty and I. About this time I finally had to start wearing maternity clothes, but at least we were in Seattle where there are actually stores that sell maternity clothes, unlike here in Pullman. About this time we noticed that Lily only likes my right side. She rarely goes over to the left, and if I try to sleep on my right side she starts squirming and kicking until I move back to my left. She also started kicking sometimes when we'd say her name. I'm not sure if that is just a coincidence but it's happened multiple times, so I'm just going to pretend that it means that we have a super smart baby that knows her name already. 

June 14, 2013

Welcome to the third trimester. We're finally to the last part of this (long) journey. We can't wait for Lily to get here! She has to wait until the middle of August though so that Dusty can go to Hawaii for his sister's wedding! 

That's our journey so far. Reflecting back on it, it hasn't been that bad. Besides being sick for the first 20 weeks or so I haven't had any complications and everything has been great at all of our appointments. I haven't really had any cravings besides captain crunch around week 12 or 13, and that might just have been because that's the only thing I could keep down. We're SO excited for Lily to get here and hope that it continues to be smooth sailing!