9 Weeks & 5 Days

Only one more week until our next appointment, I'm so anxious! Although we read in our pregnancy book yesterday that there is a chance we may not be able to hear the baby's heartbeat. I guess it depends on the positioning of the baby & the placenta. I really hope that we can though or I will probably make the doctor do an ultrasound.

So I was worried that something was wrong last week because I stopped getting nauseous & my boobs weren't sore anymore. So I went into my doctor on Thursday, May 21, 2009. They were going to check my pregnancy hormone levels & let me know either the next day or not until the following Tuesday (since it was a Holiday weekend). THANKFULLY my results were back the next day & my levels were right where they were supposed to be. They went from 15,000+ (at 6 weeks, 3 days) to 121,000! It was such a relief!

I've already read the Jenny McCarthy books: Belly Laughs & Baby Laughs. Now I am reading her other book Life Laughs. They were really good and funny too. I love her writing style. I just wish the books were a little longer. There was one part of her book that was totally what I do - and I bet a bunch of other pregnant moms do it too. I'll go to one website & read about the baby's development & then I'll go to like 4 other websites and read those even though it basically says the same thing. Except maybe the other one will say that it grew an eyelash or something and I'll get so excited.

I catch myself daydreaming all the time about what the baby will look like and what kind of personality it will have when it's older. Will it be shy & reserved like its Dad or talkative and outgoing like me?? I can't wait to find out! I feel like for the rest of my life I'll never be able to think about anything except for my baby. That's ok with me, as long as I don't become one of those moms that no one wants to hang out with because all she talks about is her kid. Thankfully I have a lot of Mom Friends who will understand :)

Until Then.... Anxious Mom-To-Be