Monday, August 30, 2010
Here's an Idea
So, I've been thinking about something for some time and I wanted to know what you all thought? You've all seen those All State Car Insurance commercials that talk about "accident forgiveness", well I think Car Dealerships should have a policy similar to All State. Car Dealerships should have "Pregnancy Forgiveness"! If someone like us buys a small 2 door or similar compact cars and within a month or two they get pregnant they should forgive us and let us get a new car! Sure, sure you all must be thinking well why don't you trade it in. And frankly we have and actually tried too last weekend but it just wouldn't be worth it. We've only had the MINI since the end of April so you know nothing much has been paid off on it! So I guess we will continue to think things through and see what happens!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Folklore and Heart Beats
I love folklore's and old wives' tales when it comes to baby's! Today we went to the doctor (14 weeks and 2 days along) and with the help of the Fetal Doppler we were able to hear our baby's heartbeat instead of just visually seeing it. I think hearing it is as precious as seeing it; both melted my heart! The second the doctor put the Doppler on my tummy the heartbeat was fast and strong. After about a minute the doctor told us that our baby's heartbeat was staying around the 150's. Romulo was able to see the Fetal Doppler numbers and he said that it ranged from 148-153 beat per minute. So, what does that tell us?
They say, and when I say "they" I mean folklore's or wives' tales, if the heart beat is beating faster than 140+ then you are having a girl but if the heart beat is beating lower than 140 then your having a boy! I guess our baby wants to stay a SURPRISE for just a few more weeks. (We need to make an appointment for our next ultrasound when I'm between 18-20 weeks along. I think I want to get the appointment set for my birthday -September 24- because I'll be 19 weeks along...how cool!)
So if our baby is not wanting us to know the sex just yet while using the Fetal Doppler then I guess we have to look at some more folklore's or old wives' tales to tell us! If you look at the Chinese birth chart than with the month we conceived this baby and with my age the charts are pointing towards a GIRL! But if you believe that if you didn't suffer morning sickness in your first trimester than your having a BOY! (I haven't suffered any morning sickness...just heartburn.) Oh and another old wives' tale is the more heartburn you have while pregnant the more hair the baby will have when born!
I'm happy with whatever we have; just want mom and baby to be healthy the whole time! I like that this baby is staying a "surprise" for a few more weeks because this baby certainly came to us by a surprise; what a beautiful gift!
P.S. I'm an AUNT again! My brother and his wife had a little girl today! born 5:07pm Eastern Time zone, 7lbs and 6 oz.
They say, and when I say "they" I mean folklore's or wives' tales, if the heart beat is beating faster than 140+ then you are having a girl but if the heart beat is beating lower than 140 then your having a boy! I guess our baby wants to stay a SURPRISE for just a few more weeks. (We need to make an appointment for our next ultrasound when I'm between 18-20 weeks along. I think I want to get the appointment set for my birthday -September 24- because I'll be 19 weeks along...how cool!)
So if our baby is not wanting us to know the sex just yet while using the Fetal Doppler then I guess we have to look at some more folklore's or old wives' tales to tell us! If you look at the Chinese birth chart than with the month we conceived this baby and with my age the charts are pointing towards a GIRL! But if you believe that if you didn't suffer morning sickness in your first trimester than your having a BOY! (I haven't suffered any morning sickness...just heartburn.) Oh and another old wives' tale is the more heartburn you have while pregnant the more hair the baby will have when born!
I'm happy with whatever we have; just want mom and baby to be healthy the whole time! I like that this baby is staying a "surprise" for a few more weeks because this baby certainly came to us by a surprise; what a beautiful gift!
P.S. I'm an AUNT again! My brother and his wife had a little girl today! born 5:07pm Eastern Time zone, 7lbs and 6 oz.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
14 Weeks and 1 Day
Today I'm 14 weeks and 1 day along in this (amazing) pregnancy. Tomorrow we head back to the doctors. I know last week we were suppose to go to the doctors but at the last minute they called us and cancelled due to the doctor being called in an emergency surgery (not fun). So the next date/time that we could do it was Friday! Just another week to get behind me and see where our baby is on the charts. We can't wait and I will post more once we're back from the doctor. While your waiting, please enjoy the picture. (P.S. I changed the color of my ShadeShirt because the blue was just getting boring...so I wore red!)
14 Weeks and 1 Day...We are slowly making our way to February 2011
14 Weeks and 1 Day...We are slowly making our way to February 2011
Monday, August 16, 2010
Mini Cooper Plus Baby
Yes, yes I'm sure all of you out there are wondering "Can you really fit a baby in the back seat of a Mini Cooper?". And trust me, we asked ourselves this very question. But thank goodness for Babies R Us! If you ever want to try something out like a stroller or car seat in your car just go to their customer service desk and hand over your licenses and then take whatever you want out to your car and test it! That's exactly what we did with car seats! It was so hilarious and a little tense at times! Sure it would be easier to get a new car but first off we just got it 3 months ago, 2nd we really like it, and 3rd it would be expensive to trade in a brand new car! We figured even if we bought the most expensive car seat and stroller it would be cheaper than trading in a car and maybe (maybe) losing value! But up to this point it was all guessing! So, we tested out a few car seats and voila found one that would work! Sure its the most expensive brand/type that Babies R Us carries but does it fit in the Mini Cooper; YES!!! Seriously, it fits and I can even sit in the front passenger seat!
The Peg Perego Primo Viaggio infant car seat is the one and only car seat that will fit in our Mini Cooper and sure its the most expensive one but its a pretty one plus its super safe!
The Test
The One and Only Car Seat
Now that that is off the checklist, what next? Oh plenty more! Have I mentioned that we most likely will be staying in our 1 bedroom SF apartment! Oh the fun it is to live in an expensive city!
The Peg Perego Primo Viaggio infant car seat is the one and only car seat that will fit in our Mini Cooper and sure its the most expensive one but its a pretty one plus its super safe!
The Test
The One and Only Car Seat
Now that that is off the checklist, what next? Oh plenty more! Have I mentioned that we most likely will be staying in our 1 bedroom SF apartment! Oh the fun it is to live in an expensive city!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Moving On Up
After two years of working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Romulo got promoted to Senior Associate. I couldn't be happier for him and all the hard work he has put into it! I know I see his hard work and I'm grateful that others especially those he works with see's it too! As part of Promotion Day they gave him a Golden Chocolate Oscar Award! How cool is that? I'm so proud of you babe!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Can I Get Your Attention, Please?
I know Romulo and I already announced our big news on Facebook but that doesn't really count! We know that on this blog we can go further into details! As many of you have heard, we are (finally) having a baby! And we couldn't be more happy and kind of shocked! Why shocked you might ask? Well, long story short (as of now) we were told that for us to have a baby "on our own", our chances would be less than 1%! If you didn't notice at the bottom of our blog we had a link to a private blog, Aguilar's Pursuit of Happiness. Well that blog was my lifesaving grace this past year. It has allowed me to vent without being too public about this little trial of ours! It allowed me to get it off my chest without feeling like I was hanging my dirty laundry out the window! I'm sorry to be so closed on this subject but if anyone has ever gone there Fertility Issues knows quite too well that it's sad, personal, rocky, and frankly a big fat can of worms!
(This is our story, our feelings, our experiences and hope that nobody is offended because we love you all and have been there and done there! Sometimes the best medicine is laughter! And there was a moment through this that I forgot that! So please remember to smile and laugh!)
Ever since we got married we knew we wanted to start a family but every time we discuss it it just wasn't the time. So when Romulo graduated BYU in April of '08 we were like "game on"! So that's what we did, we started trying! Well the months went bye, the year mark came and went and we were no where close to our goals! So finally after some stubbornness we went to the doctors after 1 year and 5 months of "trying". After discussing "family planning" with our doctor she gave us a list of tests (too many blood viles to remember) that we needed. Mine was mostly all blood work but Romulo had his own; sperm count! Oh, how I loved this process! Ha-Ha! After our run of tests came back, we were told (and who would ever have thought this) that we both had issues that was holding us back! Oh great! (If you must know or are curious or are going through fertility issues or have gone through fertility issues please ask if you want to know more. I can give you permission to our private blog and all I have to say is HAPPY READING! I posted a lot!)
After getting news like this it really does a number of to your mind. You start playing the "What If Game" and I just hate that game. It opens a can of worms that nobody should ever have to open. But through it all it made me stronger and made us as a couple tighter and stronger! After some discussion with our doctor and researching our insurance we found out that PWC's (the company Romulo works for) Fertility coverage was A-MAZING! Seriously, amazing! So we told our doctor and we quickly jumped into fertility treatments. We did multiple rounds of IUI (intro-uterine insemination) and all failed! After running more tests we basically were told that for us to get pregnant we needed to do IVF (in-vitro). Okay, well if they are telling us that together on our own we had less than 1% of getting pregnant and then with the IUI less than 5% we knew we needed to do something more. With IVF and with our situation they told us that our chances of having a baby was roughly 33%! Much higher and brighter than the other two! So in February/March we did it! We did IVF! Not getting into too much details, it failed! It failed! I mean who knew IVF WOULD FAIL US! Oh but it did! And its funny because while your going through this whole Fertility process you try to only focus on the POSITIVE statistics and ignore the negative ones. If I would have paid more attention I would have remembered that per the "average" (I hate that word by the way!) couple it takes 2.3 rounds of IVF to work or achieve a positive outcome! So what, they were telling us that we fell into that "average" category! Ha up to then we weren't "average" at all! :) Oh that makes me smile now!
The day we got the sad news we knew we needed to change things up for sanity sake! We rented an apartment in San Francisco (moved from East Bay to SF, bought a Mini-Cooper (perfect planning on our part, right), and even bought white Italian leather couches (another brilliant idea)). In the month of May we had 3 different set of visitors come and stay with us and in early June we went to Disneyland! And in June we knew we wanted to start the whole Fertility process over again! We had given ourselves a good month plus to recover and get our heads on straight! Well, that didn't need to be! After a week of waiting for my period, nothing! And Lord knows I'm never late! I didn't think much of it but knew I wanted to start the treatments up again so I got a pregnancy test! (Conceived in May with all those visitors, I don't know how that happened! Also, it was 23 months since we started trying.) And sure enough I was pregnant. But to confirm I went to my doctors and with blood work my HCG levels were high high! And at 6 weeks along I had an ultrasound and we were able to visible see a little heart beating and hear it! Then at 9 weeks I was released from the Reproductive Center to go to the OB/GYN! That visit we had another ultrasound done and its amazing how after 3 weeks it grew. They were able to see a little head, body, and a little arm bud growing! And now I'm 13 weeks and heading to the doctors on Friday the 13th for another check-up! How perfect to be 13 weeks on Friday the 13th, I'm not scared people!
So with that we are due February 16 2011 and am enjoying every moment of this ride! As of today I am 13 weeks along and doing great! I can't complain about anything except a little heartburn (thank you Tums) and/or tummy aches. I did have a case of a stomach virus a few weeks ago but besides that no hugging the toilet for me! I'm sorry for all you ladies out there that do experience this; its no fun!
Well enjoy these pictures. Here I am at 13 weeks!
Here is the 6 week ultrasound and 9th week!
(This is our story, our feelings, our experiences and hope that nobody is offended because we love you all and have been there and done there! Sometimes the best medicine is laughter! And there was a moment through this that I forgot that! So please remember to smile and laugh!)
Ever since we got married we knew we wanted to start a family but every time we discuss it it just wasn't the time. So when Romulo graduated BYU in April of '08 we were like "game on"! So that's what we did, we started trying! Well the months went bye, the year mark came and went and we were no where close to our goals! So finally after some stubbornness we went to the doctors after 1 year and 5 months of "trying". After discussing "family planning" with our doctor she gave us a list of tests (too many blood viles to remember) that we needed. Mine was mostly all blood work but Romulo had his own; sperm count! Oh, how I loved this process! Ha-Ha! After our run of tests came back, we were told (and who would ever have thought this) that we both had issues that was holding us back! Oh great! (If you must know or are curious or are going through fertility issues or have gone through fertility issues please ask if you want to know more. I can give you permission to our private blog and all I have to say is HAPPY READING! I posted a lot!)
After getting news like this it really does a number of to your mind. You start playing the "What If Game" and I just hate that game. It opens a can of worms that nobody should ever have to open. But through it all it made me stronger and made us as a couple tighter and stronger! After some discussion with our doctor and researching our insurance we found out that PWC's (the company Romulo works for) Fertility coverage was A-MAZING! Seriously, amazing! So we told our doctor and we quickly jumped into fertility treatments. We did multiple rounds of IUI (intro-uterine insemination) and all failed! After running more tests we basically were told that for us to get pregnant we needed to do IVF (in-vitro). Okay, well if they are telling us that together on our own we had less than 1% of getting pregnant and then with the IUI less than 5% we knew we needed to do something more. With IVF and with our situation they told us that our chances of having a baby was roughly 33%! Much higher and brighter than the other two! So in February/March we did it! We did IVF! Not getting into too much details, it failed! It failed! I mean who knew IVF WOULD FAIL US! Oh but it did! And its funny because while your going through this whole Fertility process you try to only focus on the POSITIVE statistics and ignore the negative ones. If I would have paid more attention I would have remembered that per the "average" (I hate that word by the way!) couple it takes 2.3 rounds of IVF to work or achieve a positive outcome! So what, they were telling us that we fell into that "average" category! Ha up to then we weren't "average" at all! :) Oh that makes me smile now!
The day we got the sad news we knew we needed to change things up for sanity sake! We rented an apartment in San Francisco (moved from East Bay to SF, bought a Mini-Cooper (perfect planning on our part, right), and even bought white Italian leather couches (another brilliant idea)). In the month of May we had 3 different set of visitors come and stay with us and in early June we went to Disneyland! And in June we knew we wanted to start the whole Fertility process over again! We had given ourselves a good month plus to recover and get our heads on straight! Well, that didn't need to be! After a week of waiting for my period, nothing! And Lord knows I'm never late! I didn't think much of it but knew I wanted to start the treatments up again so I got a pregnancy test! (Conceived in May with all those visitors, I don't know how that happened! Also, it was 23 months since we started trying.) And sure enough I was pregnant. But to confirm I went to my doctors and with blood work my HCG levels were high high! And at 6 weeks along I had an ultrasound and we were able to visible see a little heart beating and hear it! Then at 9 weeks I was released from the Reproductive Center to go to the OB/GYN! That visit we had another ultrasound done and its amazing how after 3 weeks it grew. They were able to see a little head, body, and a little arm bud growing! And now I'm 13 weeks and heading to the doctors on Friday the 13th for another check-up! How perfect to be 13 weeks on Friday the 13th, I'm not scared people!
So with that we are due February 16 2011 and am enjoying every moment of this ride! As of today I am 13 weeks along and doing great! I can't complain about anything except a little heartburn (thank you Tums) and/or tummy aches. I did have a case of a stomach virus a few weeks ago but besides that no hugging the toilet for me! I'm sorry for all you ladies out there that do experience this; its no fun!
Well enjoy these pictures. Here I am at 13 weeks!
Here is the 6 week ultrasound and 9th week!
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