Soooo behind!!!

Hey everyone! Sorry I have been so far behind on writing on this blog. Life has been crazy. Finding out the sex of our baby, in laws and sis in law in town, starting the baby room and simply getting caught up on life. So I am sorry I have been MIA and haven't posted on this blog at all lately. 

To get you all caught up, we had our ultrasound to see the sex of the baby. It is a GIRL!!! We are beyond excited and the decorating and buying cute girl clothes has began. Indy started painting the room and Jenna and I have been buying cute girl clothes. Well, Jenna has been buying a lot more than me. She is already spoiling her niece like crazy. But it has all been a blast. Indy and I also finally got to babies r us and started our registry. We had to leave right after buying the new crib because we were simply just overwhelmed. We will go back there soon to finish it when we have more of a game plan on how to attack that store. 

The in laws were in town and everything went well for the holidays. We all got to spend Christmas together and it was a blast. Tons of presents and food and relaxing time which was a plus. I got to catch up on some much needed rest as well which was very much needed! 

Below are a couple pics.....1 of the baby bump at 18 weeks (I am 22 weeks 3 days now), 1 of the start of the baby room, then 1 of the newest picture of our little peanut!! Love her to death already! If you look closely you can definitely tell she is her fathers daughter. She has a perfect cute little nose and adorable big lips just like daddy! LOVE!

16 Week Check Up

Today I had my 16 week check up! 

It was a very nerve wrecking one as of course I am always afraid of going in and the doctor not being able to hear the heart beat! 

The doctor got his lil tool and starting running it over my tummy and my worse fear felt like it was coming true. It took the doc a good 3 minutes to find the heart beat. Lucky, it was found as the doc was just way to high and the baby was sitting much lower. Worst feeling for those 3 minutes thats for sure!

And to top it off Indy was not with me but luckily I had my lil support system there, my lil sister Shana came along. 

After he found the heartbeat he let us listen for quite some time to settle my nerves.

I love hearing that lil heart beat! It is already so dang cute and beating so fast!

Well the next time we go to the doctors office will be in 4 weeks and I think it will be the most exciting one yet. It will be my 20 weeks check up and that is when we will find out the sex of the baby! We can not wait!! So excited!!!

Hope you are all doing well! Sorry I haven't updated this blog in a while! xoxo

Meeting our OB and Results the next day!

Thursday was a great day. We got to meet the doctor who would be with us through the rest of our pregnancy and we were beyond amazed by him. He sat in the room with us for a good 30 minutes just answering all the questions we had for him. We, of course, came very prepared with a whole page of questions. We felt a little over the top but he reassured us that these are typical questions that all new parents ask. He was so calm about everything! We can tell he is going to be able to keep me very leveled during this whole pregnancy. Leaving the office, Indy looked at me and smiled. I asked him what he was thinking and he told me he was very happy as he believes we were put with the perfect OB for us. He agreed that Dr. Klaich was going to keep me calm and that is exactly what I needed. So all in all we are beyond excited to start this new journey with a very warming and spectacular doctor. 

So, I got the scary call back from the perinatologist on the results for our 1st trimester screening on Friday. I was a nervous bee for some random reason. I knew we were going to love our baby no matter what but all of a sudden I was getting all those scary feelings on what the test could show. Well the lady on the other line was beyond excited for us. She said "your numbers were excellent! So good that we are so amazed." She started throwing our numbers where our baby scored so well in but I was totally lost. I stopped her and was like "you are speaking jiberesh to me but as long as your saying my baby is amazing then we are good right?" She laughed and said yes everything was great and she would sent the great results off to our OB. 

So what was all the worry about you ask? I have no idea. I guess just crazy mom worries already :). 

Perinatologist

Today was such an amazing day! We went and saw the perinatologist for 12 week testing. Basically they are testing for down syndrome and making sure the baby is healthy and doing well.

Our little peanut looked soooooo good! He/She is now truly looking like a baby and is so adorable!

The whole testing process took forever. The baby has to be in a certain position in order for the doctor to get the correct measurments. Wow was that a tough one for our peanut. We waited so long in the waiting room that peanut fell asleep and was very lathargic. Peanut was sound asleep when we started the ultrasound so of course he/she was faced the completely wrong way.

So, to fix this problem, doc sent us on a 10 minute walk outside to get peanut moving and hopefully get him/her to turn. Well when we got back and the doc re did the ultrasound, Peanut was still in the same position and had not moved. Haha, already have a stubborn child. Doc continued to push very hard on my stomch to try and move the baby but of course that was not working not to mention it was very uncomfortable for me! I felt like he was hitting my poor child! Talk about already being a protective mom :).

So doc decided to try one last trick. He literally positioned the table I was on, downwards. He tilted it all the way back so my head was pointing down. Well that did the trick and peanut got moving and got in the perfect position for the doc to get the right measurements. Everything looked amazing! He got some great pics of our baby that has already stolen our hearts. He did one 3D picture and then one from the side! Amazing how technology is these days! 

On another note, we get to meet our doctor who will be delivering peanut and be my new OB for the remainder of my pregnancy. We are very excited to meet Dr. Klaich (who is actually the cousin of one of Indy's co-workers...small world) and get a lot of questions answered. I will post more tomorrow after our appointment with him! Muah, love you all!

Visitng Peanut!

Today started off upseting as I found out my mom could not come with me to my doctors appointment because she has the Flu! Of course my hubby is working so couldn't come either. The last thing I wanted to do was go to a check up alone as I want Peanut to know tons of people care about him/her. Luckily I have an amazing friend, Shelby Abart, who left work to come with me to my appointment to see Peanut. It was a great apptointment as Peanut was moving like crazy! Finally looking like a human, we watched Peanut move around like crazy and wiggle around constantly. Then we watched as Peanut "picked his/her nose". I dont think that was happening but the Doc sure believed I had a nose picker inside me :) haha too funny! Dr. Allen also tried to make an educated guess and point out in the pic that he believes we are having a boy. Of course he can't be 100% positive but he is confident with his work :) haha we will see as he always says girls could look very similar down there at his age. Well, Indy was of course ecstatic as he is dying to have a boy! I donno, only time will tell what is in there. Boy or girl, I am beyond excited with anything I get as long as he or she is of course healthy! 

October 5th, 10 weeks! Our healthy, perfect baby! :)

Ups, downs and finally positive!!

As we have been on this very tough journey of infertility we have learned a lot about ourselves. We have come to lean on each other more than ever before. Our marriage got incredibly strong as going through this process you feel so alone. Luckily, we had one other close couple who was going through similar struggles. She helped pull me through the day to day emotions that I encountered like clock work! For those of you that do not know what we have gone through in the last 6 months, I will back up a bit.

Back in April 2011 we had decided to go see our OB about why we weren't getting pregnant. Test after test nothing seemed to surface on where these problems were coming from. So, it was beyond my OB's practice to really do anything else with us so he sent us to a specialist. Little did we know our lives were about to change dramatically. We went to our first appointment with the specialist, Dr. Whitten, and spent over an hour in his office. We went over everything possible, from our families medical history all the way down to our jobs and the way that would effect us. We left his office feeling great and I especially was ready to begin this long painful process that I have heard a lot about. The next day I had my first big appointment with this new office. I met amazing staff who were ready and on board for what we were about to begin in this so called journey of our lives. Dr. Michelle Mays examined me and did an ultrasound to show us exactly what we were wanting to accomplish through this all. And to our surprise the drugs, poking and pricking all began at this appointment. Feeling like we were moving a little fast I started to get scared but knew these doctors were doing what they needed to do to help us created a miracle baby. The first week of drugs were very rough on my body. I was sick, my face was breaking out like I was a teenager again, and my emotions were through the roof. After the first week we went in for another exam to see if the drugs had worked and if I was in the "ovulation" phase yet. Well, yes I was and everyone was excited and ready to move right along. The next day I had my first IUI procedure and left feeling very determined that this had worked. Well after the big 2WW (2 week wait) I received a very hard phone call. The procedure had not worked and I needed to do another month of drugs and then the procedure again. This was not only emotionally hard but financially as well. I wont go over that but for those of you who are familiar with all this know that it financially broke us. But, we continued knowing it would all be worth it in the end!

So, I did another month of poking, pricking, and drugs, then ended with another IUI. I went through yet another 2WW to find out that once again it had FAILED! Now I was officially emotionally broken down. This process breaks every part of you and makes you asks month after month, why us? Why is this happening to a couple that is financially stable, owns 2 houses, owns cars, has jobs and are happily married? How come there are people out there that do not have any of those and do not even want a baby that are getting pregnant? Those questions ran through our heads day after day. We decided we would go through with one more month of treatments and then move on to a year of fun and no fertility treatments. So, now it was time for treatment #3, the last and final treatment. The month of drugs went by and the IUI procedure was upon us again. We went in feeling positive knowing that we have tried what we needed to try at this time in our lives and we would move on at the end of this and continue to live our lives as a happy married couple knowing that if this didn't work, again then at least we had each other. Another 2WW went by and the day I was getting the phone call went by so slow! I was at work when I received the call. The voice on the other line had a tone to it that I hadn't experienced the last 2 times I got these calls. I began to cry as I knew right away my life was about the change for the better and we had succeed. Paula continued to say, "yes McKenzie 3rd times the charm. We are so proud of you and you are PREGNANT." I could hardly breath as I was overcome with emotions. That day, August 24th will be a day I will never forget.

Yes!!! We are finally pregnant and couldn't be happier. I am now 10 weeks along in my pregnancy and loving every moment of it. I have been sick and exhausted but loving it all as I know it is all worth it. There ends my very first blog. I promise to keep this updated as much as possible and keep all our amazing friends and family up to day on our expanding Caldwell family. :)

And to end this post, here is our little growing Peanut :)

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