The Baby Registery

Finally half way there! I am at the ends of my 20th week and had my regular OB appt. today. Nothing too exciting just checked the heartbeat, still 144, like clockwork, are you sure this is a girl? Usually girls aren't so predictable! Starting to feel the baby move, but still not 100% sure and Jared still has not felt it. We attempted to register on Sunday at Baby's R Us we went to Burlington to check out a few things that place is a disaster. Then later that night we headed to Baby's R Us.
It is one of those things that as a girl who has been a nanny to many and wanting to be a Mom since I first held a baby that you kind of get excited about. I suppose it is like your wedding day you just have expectations of what it will be like and what you partner will be be like. Well not that things were bad but it did not go quite as I had imagined. Not that I thought J would hold up ten different infant dresses and say, " Oh these are so cute! We need to get them all!" But I thought maybe I would get a more excited other half than the one telling me, "We don't need a stroller, we are just going to be carrying the thing around all the time anyway!" Yes, he really did say this:) Gotta love the guy. I have left reading material in the bathroom for him to thumb through all the must haves for babies but I guess that did not help. A few nights before, I knew he was going to be clueless when I told him I wanted to get a play yard for sure instead of a bassinet. OK well I will give the guy a break he is imagining a fenced in area for the yard for the kid to run in and he says, "why would we need that it's not even going to be walking for a year!" After that comment, I went through the book to describe what each item was so he might be a bit more prepared and talked about some things that I thought would be helpful. I guess nothing really works to prepare your man for babyville because he still made the stroller comment after being at Baby's R Us for only a few minutes. Resulting in me saying, OK "why don't I just tell you what we need and you not question it, your job can be to look up which one is the best product to get. This seemed to work better and I put him to work on Baby monitors. We were lent this wonderful book called Baby Bargins, that reviews everything you would ever want to buy for your child and rates it for price and quality. It is the best must half advice I have been given so far! Thanks Ryan and Emily Flanagan! Anyway that was our registering experience. Not really what I had dreamed of or imagined for my first baby but that is what I got, I am going back today... by myself to try to recreate the scenario...Only kidding!

IT'S A GIRL!!! 19 weeks

Well it is as official as it is going to get till my due date! I had my Ultrasound on Monday and we are happy to report we are blessed with a healthy little girl! I had waited to share the news about some blood work on here till we had the results of the ultrasound but if it will help anyone else get reassurance then I will just make a quick reference on here. Jared and I were a little nervous that we may hear some not so great news with this ultrasound as my Quad Screen had come back positive with a higher than expected AFP (Alpha Feto Protein). I was not planning on doing this blood test because it comes back incorrectly positive, a not good thing. After asking a few other people what they did I decided to do the blood test and hope for good results. Well I was one of several that had a false positive result. My ultrasound confirmed everything as far as they can see with ultrasound is on track and Little Girl Toppenberg is growing as she should. I was a bit relieved to be in the Medical knowledge know, because I knew what to ask for to verify all the important parts are working. Obviously I can not read the Ultrasound... wouldn't that be nice, but it made me feel better that all the markers of kids with abnormalities that you see after birth were shown to be normal. So now we are going to be picking out pink and girl names for our little heart breaker! Let the fun begin!