The fall...

It was a relatively nice to start to a Sunday. O and I ate breakfast and played a couple games of cootie. After Daddy woke up, I went back to sleep for a few hours as I seem to be getting more and more tired lately. After be woken up from my nap by my sweet O and Daddy, they began to head downstairs while I got myself ready for the day.

As I was getting ready, I heard something (or someone) tumble down a couple stairs followed by a thud - turned out it was O! Neither of us actually saw the start of the fall, but Daddy saw the landing - a bit on our side/head area. I flew down the stairs and Daddy already had him. Daddy was doing a great job comforting him, but I had to make sure we were ok too! Of course, once mommy is there, that is generally who O wants to help him feel better. So I took him up to my room (I know, I shouldn't have been carrying him, but how do you say no at this moment?) and had him sit/lay on the bed so I could check him out some. Once we got sat down, I noticed that there was a little blood coming from his mouth, so I grabbed a washcloth to get him to put in his mouth so I could find out how bad the wound was - couldn't really find an exact source and it didn't bleed very long. He was crying, as to be expected, primarily saying that his mouth hurt and that he was scared.

Once it appeared that there were no other major bruises/bleeds, we headed back downstairs and got some juice and an ice pack for our chin. Gave him some ibuprofen to hopefully help with the pain. Once he was pretty calm, we went to get a snack (my way of seeing how he was walking now) and all looked good.

After about an hour and a half, I was able to get online and look up about a child falling down the stairs and it appears that parents are generally more concerned then they need to be - children falling is much different then adults falling as they are much smaller (shorter) and flexible then we are. It appears that if O was crying, could walk/move his limbs and wasn't bleeding from a location other then his mouth/nose, there wasn't generally any thing to be obviously worried about - just needed to keep an eye out since he hit his head.

All seems great now and as the website said - I think this was more traumatic for us then it was for him!

A bit of a scare

Wednesday night, I slipped when walking down my stairs at home and fell down on my butt then continued to go down about 8 more stairs on my butt! I sat there for a minute in shock wondering if that really just happened. My son, O., said "Mommy, are you ok?" as he was lying in bed (had just laid him down for the night). I said, "yes honey, mommy is ok." I didn't know if I should call the doctor - I didn't really hurt all that bad, the stairs had carpet,... I did finally call on Thursday and they asked me a few questions, consulted the doctor, and told me to come in on Friday for a quick ultrasound just to check (especially as I had not felt the baby move yet!) I was a little concerned that they wanted to see me, but decided that if it could wait until the next day in their minds, they weren't too worried.

I went to the doctor's early this afternoon and found out everything is great. The baby looks good, the placenta and umbilical cord are fine, and now I was emotionally ok as well. The tech said that my placenta is attached in front giving a "cushion" which may make it harder for me to feel that baby - and that I'd enjoy that "cushion" later!

Since my hubby wasn't there, we're waiting to do the real ultrasound next Friday still - he is able to get an hour or so off of work to come!!

Baby update - not much to tell

Today I am about 17 weeks along with the pregnancy. Even though that is a ways into things, I can't help but still worry. I haven't felt the baby (that I know of) yet and that makes me nervous. They say most feel by 18 weeks if it isn't their first and I know that since I had more "padding" to begin with it makes it harder too. So I must say that I am looking forward to my appointment on Tuesday to hear the heartbeat again and to reassure me that things are going ok! (Maybe I should just buy one of those dopplers so I can listen whenever I need reassurance)

I am sort of between clothes right now. If you were to say I'm showing, it would be above the belly button, not below. So most of this week I was still able to wear my regular pants - but they are getting a bit too snug for me. So today I wore a pair of my maternity jeans and I had to constantly pull them up. I could invest if one of those belly bands, but by the time I get one, I'm sure I'll be into maternity jeans just fine :)

Hoping that at the next appointment we schedule the "big" ultrasound. Really hoping that the baby cooperates so that we can find out if it is a boy or girl. With already having a boy, and for many more complex reasons, we would like to find out so we can plan accordingly, especially since we're banking that this is our last chance for a child.


I'll try to remember to post after my appointment on Tuesday. Keep us in your prayers please!