IT'S A GIRL!!!!

Introducing Katherine (no middle name yet?!) Burt!! Katherine is a name that runs all through Nat's paternal side of the family and it was a name that we really liked the nickname, Katie. Nat also happens to have two first cousins named Katie, one a Kaitlyn the other a Kathryn, so she will be a bit different. Plus even though she bothered her big sister and I growing up, Katie Tillotson always cracked me up and I think she is the reason I always liked the name. So Katie Burt she is and hopefully she will make her grand apperance right around Christmastime.

The ultrasound yesterday was awesome, no other way to describe it. We were able to see her heart pumping blood in and out, we saw her stomach, kidneys, the lobes of her brain and almost all of her skeletal structure. We learned that she is now 9 oz. and she has nice long legs, that's what the ultrasound tech. told us! We also learned that the hemorrhage that has kept me on my butt for 8 weeks has gone away, yippie!!, so hopefully after my visit with my OB on Friday I will be allowed to get movin'!

All in all it has been a very exciting 24 hours for us. We are so happy that Katie is healthy and growing and although Nat was expecting a boy, don't know why, he was already imagining her as a fighter pilot and space ship captain before we left the doctors office.

Ok well mark October 15th on your calendars, that's going to be baby shower day. I still need some addresses, you know who you are, so let me know so I can let my sisters know. Have a good week and hopefully soon we will have a middle name to share with you!

16 WEEKS AND 3 DAYS

I'm just starting to pop out above my belly button, to me it's obvious but maybe not to everybody, please ignore those two overgrown bushes above my eyes. I need to get out!! 

Iv trouble, again!

It seems as though any progress made by my uncooperative body is always followed by a random, yet significant setback which is then followed by a visit to the hospital. The last time I wrote, which unless you check the blog without prompting you never saw, was on the 4th of July. I had been feeling better, eating and drinking, and basically beginning to think that I was coming out of this haze of sickness and then BAM; I was getting sick all day and was back in the hospital getting fluid pumped into me. That was last Wednesday; a week ago today.

Fast forward to today and we are at the scary nexus once again. I have been back on IV therapy for a week, this time I haven't been feeling as great as before, in fact I have been so nauseas that getting out of bed hasn't been an option on certain days. Couple the nausea with the fact that my IV doesn't want to work and the fact that my veins are shot and we come to this moment in time, a big "now what?".

My current number #1 issue is the IV; I'm like a drug addict with that thing, I need it, I want it and I feel strangely attached to it. Sure it's not very convenient being tethered to a bag for 12 hours a day, but it keeps me from marathon vomiting so I love it. LOVE IT!!

The problem, of course there is one, is that in the past week my mini-cath, the actual injection site where the tube goes into your body, has had to be changed four times. Usually I can keep the same site going for three or four days before it becomes sore or irritated, but my last one only lasted one day before it became backed up and fluid couldn't be pushed through the line. Four changes in one week means four different sites have been punctured, irritated, and bruised and are now on the mend but can't be used until back to normal. Basically I'm out of fresh, healthy veins and my only option would be to have a PICC line put in and instead of boring and possibly grossing you out I'll leave it up to you to Google that process, it doesn't look fun and I really don't want to have one put in.

So this all brings us to right now, 4:45am Wednesday morning, wide awake trying to convince this growing miracle inside me to stop making me sick, begging is next. I have my weekly doctors appointment Thursday, oh and yesterday I had 9 vials of blood taken from me for all sorts of second trimester testing, routine stuff nothing out of the ordinary. Hopefully this time I can live IV free without the hospital outcome, but unfortunatly that's not completely my decision. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

Come On......

Good Morning!!

It's 3:30am here and I am once again wide awake and getting sick. What a life?! I was doing pretty well, in fact I hadn't run my IV since Thursday night and as a major bonus I was beginning to eat again, real food like steak and potato salad. (It was soooooo good!!) But the inevitable reared it's ugly head once again yesterday morning when that oh so familiar feeling passed over me and I haven't been able to keep anything down since.

So here we are 3:45am, watching the news and trying to keep my mind off of the rumbling going on in my stomach. It's annoying being this sick because even though I'm ravenous I know whatever I eat is going to make a repeat appearance in about an hour. Double annoyance is that I'm stuck feeling like this for at least a little while longer because I waited too long yesterday and missed out on calling my doctor, now I have to wait until at least 8am when the office opens again.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I'm assuming that my IV will be back in later today, hopefully sooner than later. I had a checkup on Monday morning and baby was chugging away with the heartbeat around 145 bpm. My weight is still somewhat of an issue but I think my doctor was pretty excited that I was eating and drinking on my own so she was cautiously optimistic. Who knows what they are going to have to do now but I am losing ground once again and that isn't going to make anyone happy.

Ok well I am going to attempt to snooze for a little bit, the news is about to begin repeating itself and I am sick of being awake. I hope you all had an enjoyable 4th of July and stuffed your faces for me! Even though I was stuck in bed all day I did have the perfect seat for watching the Jacobus fireworks so that was our little bonus surprise. I'll keep you all updated on my situation......fingers crossed!