hi!

Hello!

::long sigh:: it’s good to be back folks. The break was timely but it’s nice to be back.

I rested, I worked a bit, I rested some more, and I worked some more. All “behind the scenes” kinda work but work nonetheless.

The break was good but I missed you guys*.

What’s new!? What have YOU been doing? Fill me in.

Currently I’m in Chicago sitting in my sister’s new apartment. I’m visiting my family for a week! As soon as David and I were picked up from the airport, we headed straight downtown to visit my sister. We threw her in the car and drove over to the Lincoln Park Zoo!

I had an OB appointment last week and I got to hear the baby’s heartbeat with the doppler. When I was pregnant with David it took them a country lifetime to find his heartbeat. I wasn’t worried as they warned me it might take a bit of time, and I knew they could just do a quick ultrasound if they needed to check anything out. David was thrashing about so much that he wasn’t still enough for them to get a good heartbeat!

So, I lay on the table, mentally preparing for this to take a couple minutes, and no sooner than the cold doppler microphone touches my belly I hear the heartbeat and a repetitive whoosh. The doctor tells me he/she has hiccups. It was cute. ADORABLE actually because c’mon.

Anyway, those doppler appointments are always so short, which is fine with me, but while I was there we booked the next appointment which is the big anatomy scan!

I don’t think I ever told you guys that David had marginal cord insertion, did I? You can read about what that exactly is here, but I can explain it best as this: if you wanted to plant a tree, you’d pick a good plot of land and plant that tree right in the center so the root system has every direction to stretch and grow in order to provide that tree proper nourishment. In a marginal cord insertion, it’s as if you plant a tree on the edge of a cliff. Sure, there’s plenty of room for the root system to grow, but it’s not in the most ideal spot. So, getting nutrients from the earth, or in the case of the baby–the placenta, may be a little bit more work.

Sometimes marginal cord insertions can cause issues, and sometimes it doesn’t. Talk to your doctor about any questions you have because I am not a medical professional.

SO because of that, I had a few extra ultrasounds later on in my pregnancy to make sure David was growing nicely and getting all his nutrients! And he was! He’s perfectly healthy and you would have no idea that his cord implanted in a semi-challenging spot. This was not the reason why I had a c-section. I had a c-section because he was breech.

With this pregnancy, it’s strange to imagine the next ultrasound being my last, assuming everything looks fine. I have no reason to assume this baby will have the same marginal cord insertion that David did, by the way.

In other news, my husband just dropped a bomb on me a couple of weeks ago and suggested we wait to find out the gender when the baby comes out.

I was like,”ahem WHAT!?!”

He’s been really persuasive so we’ve got about 3 weeks to decide what we’re going to do. Now, say what you will but I don’t buy the whole “it’s the only way to be surprised” but my argument is that you get not one, but TWO surprises when you find out early. You get surprised with the gender at the anatomy scan, and then surprised again when you get to meet/see the baby when he/she is born!

I have to admit I’ve already warmed up to the idea, so we’ll see when the time comes.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from David as a newborn it’s that he doesn’t give 2 sweet potatoes (and he loves sweet potatoes) what his nursery looks like. We’ll put the baby in the nursery and move David to another room, so if it’s a boy we are good to go, and if it’s a girl, she won’t care one bit. I’LL CARE, but she won’t. And I’ll just make a few Target runs to get some pink happening in there.

Now, keep in mind I’m pregnant, emotional, and going to change my mind every few hours so we may walk into that ultrasound room with one thing and mind and leave knowing the gender after all.

In other news, I’ve been working hard on compiling my Capsule Wardrobe. I’ll share more about that soon. I’m also getting the itch to film a few hair tutorials, so keep your eyes peeled!

Alright, this is probably the most brain-dump post I’ve ever written so I should wrap it up now.

Thanks for sticking around. There are a lot of great blogs out there, but I appreciate you checking in with mine.