Now that we have verified that Baby Fletcher is a boy, we can reveal his name. Jeff and I have had names picked out for quite some time. Choosing Baby Fletcher's name was so fun! We love calling him by his name and really like it!
Corbin "Brock" Fletcher
We plan to call him Brock; however, I am certain that he will decide what he wants to be called and will have several nicknames. We are already trying out a few, such as Broccoli, Brockstar...
Monday, April 23, 2012
It's a Boy!
April 6 19 weeks
Looks like we definitely won't need that painting I won at the baby sale because Baby Fletcher is still a boy! He is growing really well and still appears to be a lot like his dad. He was still asleep at our 9:45 am appointment but gave us a good stretch towards the end and started wiggling around. Apparently, we woke him up.
After our appointment, we headed straight to Houston and spent Easter weekend with my entire family. My grandma, aunt, uncle, cousin, and her boyfriend were in town. My other cousin is currently living with my parents while she looks for her own place after accepting a transfer to Houston. Elise was her usual very entertaining self, the boys hung a television at Angie's house and met her new dog and played paintball with Jennifer and Corey for his 30th birthday, and we all enjoyed time together with a fabulous dinner made by my mom.
April was very nice to take me to start registering. Even with all of the really nice things Elise has offered for her cousin to use, there are so many decisions about baby gear. She made it really simple and gave great advice. Jeff was pretty impressed with the registry progress.
Mysterious items appeared in the house after we arrived home. I was going to put this in the other room for now, but it never made it out of my room. It's so sweet!
Kick or a hockey punch? The flutters have turned into kicks or as Jeff calls them hockey punches. Many times they are directed at my bladder, but it is really fun and Jeff has enjoyed catching more of Baby Fletcher's movements.
April 12 20 weeks
While sitting on the couch talking to Ashley, Jeff and I saw Baby Fletcher moving for the first time! I think he moved up a little bit where there is more real estate. I have been getting to feel him move for a few weeks now, but it is so fun when Jeff gets to experience it. Ashley, my very good friend whom I went to graduate school with and now work with, is due one week after I am. The dietitian I work with is due two days after me. Between the three of us and the two other girls in my group due in June, people are kind of afraid to drink the water around there.
April 14
Baby Fletcher attended his first bachelorette party this weekend. He had a great time, and got lots of attention from my sweet friends. Six of us worked in the PACU together and aren't all able to get together very often, but Becca's special day is a great reason!
Looks like we definitely won't need that painting I won at the baby sale because Baby Fletcher is still a boy! He is growing really well and still appears to be a lot like his dad. He was still asleep at our 9:45 am appointment but gave us a good stretch towards the end and started wiggling around. Apparently, we woke him up.
He was kicking his cute little foot in and out of this shot.
After our appointment, we headed straight to Houston and spent Easter weekend with my entire family. My grandma, aunt, uncle, cousin, and her boyfriend were in town. My other cousin is currently living with my parents while she looks for her own place after accepting a transfer to Houston. Elise was her usual very entertaining self, the boys hung a television at Angie's house and met her new dog and played paintball with Jennifer and Corey for his 30th birthday, and we all enjoyed time together with a fabulous dinner made by my mom.
April was very nice to take me to start registering. Even with all of the really nice things Elise has offered for her cousin to use, there are so many decisions about baby gear. She made it really simple and gave great advice. Jeff was pretty impressed with the registry progress.
Kick or a hockey punch? The flutters have turned into kicks or as Jeff calls them hockey punches. Many times they are directed at my bladder, but it is really fun and Jeff has enjoyed catching more of Baby Fletcher's movements.
April 12 20 weeks
While sitting on the couch talking to Ashley, Jeff and I saw Baby Fletcher moving for the first time! I think he moved up a little bit where there is more real estate. I have been getting to feel him move for a few weeks now, but it is so fun when Jeff gets to experience it. Ashley, my very good friend whom I went to graduate school with and now work with, is due one week after I am. The dietitian I work with is due two days after me. Between the three of us and the two other girls in my group due in June, people are kind of afraid to drink the water around there.
April 14
Baby Fletcher attended his first bachelorette party this weekend. He had a great time, and got lots of attention from my sweet friends. Six of us worked in the PACU together and aren't all able to get together very often, but Becca's special day is a great reason!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Flutters
March 1 14 weeks
While I was extremely relaxed and enjoying a facial, I am fairly certain that I felt the first flutter of Baby Fletcher. It was the coolest feeling!
March 16 16 weeks
I went for my check-up, and everything sounded good!
March 19 17 weeks
Jeff felt a flutter, and his face was priceless!
March 27 18 weeks
While I was extremely relaxed and enjoying a facial, I am fairly certain that I felt the first flutter of Baby Fletcher. It was the coolest feeling!
March 16 16 weeks
I went for my check-up, and everything sounded good!
March 19 17 weeks
Jeff felt a flutter, and his face was priceless!
I am sporting my maternity scrub pants. They are almost as amazing as maternity jeans.
March 27 18 weeks
I had been feeling pretty good lately until last week. The sonographer saw a fibroid on my optional scan at 13 weeks, but said it was nothing to worry about. At my 16 week check-up, the doctor said that eventually it would lose it's blood supply and die but cause some pain. Well on the second day of pain turned into cramping, I got nervous and called my doctor. They told me to come in the following day if I still had pain. The next morning I had a visible contraction so I might have freaked out a bit. Everything checked out just fine. I did learn that some women are hospitalized at some point for the pain and it can happen again; however, Baby Fletcher was in lala land and noticed none of this. So we will just keep an eye on it, but the doctor doesn't think it should cause major problems.
The following week I got to attend my first big girl National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners conference in San Antonio and learned a ton. I definitely got my exercise mentally and physically. It was kind of interesting...I found my mind wandering between NP and soon-to-be mommy as I learned about vaccine and medication updates. One of the exhibitors asked if something was going on because it seemed like a crazy amount of women were pregnant at this conference. I know they say that when you are pregnant it seems like there are pregnant women everywhere, but I had noticed an unusual number of pregnant women at the conference, especially in the lines for the restroom. We did get pretty funny looks when my two pregnant friends and I wandered around together, but this fortunately led to very generous samples from vendors for diaper cream, baby wash, etc. I also got to visit with a friend from high school. I hadn't seen her since her wedding and got to meet her precious little 5 month old son!
Snoogle
Somewhere very early on in my pregnancy, Jeff and I parked in the expectant mothers parking spot (he hates it when I do that now) and picked up a Snoogle. Best invention ever! I call it my cocoon. I tried to take it with me to San Antonio, but there was no way to not check a bag and travel for a week with a Snoogle. I did take it to Houston for the weekend, and I plan on taking it to Florida and San Diego. I also plan on using it when I am no longer pregnant. Jeff gives me a hard time, but the has threatened to use it himself. I'm pretty sure when I leave for work in the morning he gets him some Snoogle time.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Motherhood
March 5, 2012
During my last trip to Houston, I had a day all by myself so I made my 1st trip to buy maternity clothes at Motherhood at 15 weeks. My sister and a few friends have been super generous and allowed me to borrow their maternity clothes so I just bought a few essentials and things for work. I'm kind of in that awkward phase where my clothes don't fit nicely, but I don't need the full maternity stuff. Maternity stuff is much more comfortable! The whole trying on the little pillow to see how things will fit in the near future was a little much, though.
I also stopped at Baby's 1st Furniture to check it out and left with one thing, Baby Fletcher's 1st book. It is called Good Night Texas and is so cute! Each page is about something around Texas, including rodeo, NASA (thought about my mom), Fort Worth, Dallas, and below is my favorite page.
I also began thinking about Baby Fletcher's nursery. My mom and I tossed around some ideas, and I think I've got it. I will discuss in a future post, but I have been getting constant texts of furniture, pictures, and other items from my mom and cousin whenever they see something that might work. It is so fun, and so sweet that they want to help find the cutest stuff for a sweet nursery.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Is it a....?
February 27, 2012
No wonder I was so tired...a lot happened in 5 weeks! Below is one of the pictures from an optional sonogram done when I was 13 weeks along. This sonogram is not for determining gender, but the sonographer was 95% sure of her guess. There is proof on another picture, which would mean something has occurred that has not happened in either of our families for at least our generation (except for Jeff). My dad is an only child, my mom has a sister with 2 daughters, and I have two sisters with a niece. Jeff's mom has a sister and a brother, a daughter (Jeff's sister), and he has two girl cousins (one with a daughter). That's a whole lot of estrogen!
No wonder I was so tired...a lot happened in 5 weeks! Below is one of the pictures from an optional sonogram done when I was 13 weeks along. This sonogram is not for determining gender, but the sonographer was 95% sure of her guess. There is proof on another picture, which would mean something has occurred that has not happened in either of our families for at least our generation (except for Jeff). My dad is an only child, my mom has a sister with 2 daughters, and I have two sisters with a niece. Jeff's mom has a sister and a brother, a daughter (Jeff's sister), and he has two girl cousins (one with a daughter). That's a whole lot of estrogen!
Jeff's mom was at the sonogram, and I called my mom right away to tell her the news. Knowing that we would see my family the following weekend we decided to be creative...not sure how mom kept the secret. We all went to breakfast Saturday morning, and my dad opened his birthday present from his first grandson. My dad took me to many pitching lessons and played catch in the backyard no matter how many times I nailed him with a wild throw. This time it will be a baseball instead of a softball.
Angie reading over my dad's shoulder and figuring it out.
Jeff now has a hockey playing, fishing, car fixing, gettin' dirty buddy because it's a boy!! It is so fun to refer to Baby Fletcher with guesses about his personality. We will have another sonogram when we will confirm this news at 19 weeks on April 6. We got to break the news to all of Jeff's family in person, which was really fun! Jeff found a sweet poem about passing on a name and reworded it a bit for Nana...she knew what it meant before she even finished. Jeff didn't realize it, but Cheryl pointed out that he had even used blue ink. They are thrilled that the Fletcher name will continue! I'm pretty excited...I could end up with a blonde cutie like this...
When we got to tell Jeff's sister, Leanne she had one of the cutest outfits I have ever seen. We would put this on a girl too, but Baby Boy Fletcher will look so cute in this! Aunt Lannie is celebrating her engagement to Matt the same week! Looks like we get to call him Uncle Matt now!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
12 weeks!
February 20, 2012
It happened...
Those who know me well aren't too surprised by this picture, but I don't know that I have ever purchased these two items at the same time.
I was told that I would start feeling less nauseous and have more energy after the first trimester. I was almost there when I picked up a stomach bug, likely from the sweet little kiddos at work because my coworker who had worked with me over the weekend was feeling crummy as well. I spent Monday beginning my 12th week on the couch very uncomfortable and unable to eat much. I left work early the following day and went to the doctor to make sure everything was okay. Everything checked out, but she said that since everything GI related slows down during pregnancy I got to experience the bug a little longer. I worked the next day and then had a chance to fully recover just before we planned to head out of town for Mardi Gras, which had been planned prior to Baby Fletcher's presence.Thursday morning, Jeff and I went for my second doctor's appointment. We got to hear the heart beat for the first time with a doppler and then signed consents (kind of weird but makes things real). We headed home to rest up before our trip to New Orleans. We aren't really sure what went wrong. We left with plenty of time to get to the airport, but we missed our first flight ever. I did not realize that DFW was one of about 10 airports in the country that require 40 minutes prior to flight time to check baggage. Everywhere else is 30 minutes. After sitting through construction, getting turned around heading to the parking area, just missing the bus and having to wait for the next one, and getting to our terminal, we were there 28 minutes prior to our flight time. There was not a line at security, and we could see the gate from where we were standing. They would not let us check our bag that was not small enough to be a carry-on. Seriously??? We waited on standby all day and then headed home in shock at what had happened. I hit the roof, but of course Jeff was amazing throughout the whole day. We decided that this was a good lesson for us as we aren't used to our plan and schedule not going how we planned...better get used to this.
Since we couldn't celebrate Mardi Gras (I looked into all other ways of getting there), we decided to go through the entire house and clean out everything that we did not use/want to move. We hope to have everything organized and start packing the stuff we don't use before it gets difficult for me to help since the summer will be pretty crazy. Not only will it be a Texas summer, but our house should be complete in August or September just as Baby Fletcher decides to make his/her debut.
The following day, I went shopping...my first baby shopping spree. Another lady and I were the first ones there when they opened the door at 8am...is this what motherhood does to you? I couldn't sleep knowing that there was a baby sale going on nearby. I bought a bunch of necessities for myself that are usually exceptions to sales at 15% off with excellent advise from my sister. I also bought "Froggie." "Froggie" was April's first purchase when she came to Dallas to shop for Elise. Elise carries "Froggie" around and always sleeps with him so much that he requires a "spa day" quite often. I also won something and got a free rattle!!
I brought Jeff back later that morning, and we bought our baby furniture. We actually liked the only convertible crib right now that converts to a queen size bed, which works perfectly for a visit from my entire family down the road. I am thrilled that we have furniture, and they are happy to hang onto it until our house is ready for it. They will also deliver it and put it together. I can't wait!
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