Going Bananas!

Literally not figuratively :) On Wednesday morning, I woke up around 6am finding myself stretching my legs. All of the sudden I had this excoriating pain through my calf, I think like a charlie horse but I have never had one before. The pain subsided after a minute but left tenderness in my calf that made it fun to walk up stairs all week. Come to find out these leg pains are common starting the 4th month of pregnancy. Lucky me! It does say that one way to eliminate them is to up your potassium intake. Bananas here I come!

SNNNOOOOOWW!

I don't know if you can tell but the snow pile before the tree is almost as tall as me!

Garbage can tops are sporting the newly fallen snow. Looks like 6-8" at least!

We had so much snow yesterday they closed my University! Eric can attest that Case never closes! On the news this morning they said we were at 59.1" of snow for the season compare to 23" this time last year! Luckily, I had already decided to work from home so it was a nice relaxing day. Since the University was closed, I was able to catch up on the Statistics class homework due to my swap in classes.

Eric is in Austin this weekend so I will be checking out another child care center on Friday and treating myself to a prenatal massage after (hopefully) finishing my homework on Saturday. I'll be skipping prenatal yoga on Saturday for a chance to sleep in (so tired this week - baby wearing me out!). Sunday I have another fun Statistics Camp from 9-5. BLAH!

A Weekend of Statistics

Peggy and I rump to rump!

I wish it could have been something fun like baby statistics but it wasn't :) I had class for 3 hours on Saturday, which was so awful that I am switching into the Wednesday class so I can actually learn about statistics and not about my professors views on politics and war. And then I had stats boot camp from 9-5 on Sunday. So unfortunately I didn't get much other homework done and I was so fried yesterday (baby too) that I went to bed at 8:30 pm!

The bright note was that baby and I went to prenatal yoga, which was not at all like my hot yoga but had the benefit of meeting other preggos in the area. A girl from my school is due in April attends this yoga class and already has a group of friends. It was nice to just socialize with others going through the same thing. The class was very very low impact and mainly focused on breathing and some very mild stretching.

The other exciting weekend event was our old neighbor Peggy's baby shower. Peggy and Ken moved to Texas last year and are now expecting a baby girl on April 4th. It was great to see her and be able to share in her exciting event.

Eric is gone to Austin for two weeks so belly and I will be buckling down to get caught up in Stats (since I'm switching classes) and I will also be looking at some additional child care centers. I visited one of the highly recommended ones last Friday and was impressed, especially when a 2 year old told me the name of the president!

Child Care

Eric and I started looking into childcare. What a daunting task! It is funny how all the pregnancy books and websites have no information on finding good childcare (at least that I could find). Thank god for good friends! Eric and I started asking around today for recommendations anyone we knew in the area that had a baby or knew folks that had a baby. We started to get some recommendations back, two of which I will check out in the next week. My friend Jessica sent me an awesome list of things to make sure I ask, so I will go to these sites prepared! Hopefully we will easily find something we like and that is not too costly :) I think Eric is already choking on the price! Oh well, there goes my new dining room table!

Pants

Well, it's is time to go get some pants. I came home Monday walking into the house with my pants falling down because I can't close the buttons/snaps so I all I have holding them up is the zipper which tends to unzip when sitting down :). I only have one pair of pants that I can close and that is with the help of a rubber band! So I went to Target and bought some pants. I tried on all four last night and decided only one pair would work. The below the belly were too big, across the belly too tight but the full coverage worked fine. At least I don't have to worry anymore about mooning anyone!

WHEW!

Wow! Eric and I have had a whirlwind of events the past two weeks. We entered New Years Eve excited for 2009 and the opportunity to tell all our friends about our exciting addition to the Kato household. Instead, we went in for our First Trimester Screening on New Years Eve and were told by the Doctor that we needed to go immediately for a CVS screening that the Baby had something wrong with it and that it could have Trisomy 13, 18 or 21. One of which the baby dies either at birth or within a year.

Needless to say we didn't announce our good news right away. We went for our CVS screening on January 5th and received the final results on Jan 13th. The baby was determined to have all normal chromosones so no Trisomy 13, 18 or 21. Though there could be something still wrong with the baby we won't know more until WK18 after our Full Anatomy Screening.

While we are thrilled with this news, we both are still anxious and nervous. Hopefully our fears will be calmed a bit more after wk18 but most likely not until the baby is born :)

Though I haven't been experiencing many symptoms, I was extremely tired the first trimester and I seem to have spouts where I cannot stop eatting. No consistent cravings yet but I tend to at times want random things like powered donuts, ice cream, cottage cheese and grapefruit.

The baby is due July 10th, 2009, which was earlier than we anticipated so I'll have 5 more classes to complete for the MBA program. In the meantime the baby will be learning about Marketing, Statistics and Entrepreneurship this semester!

I hope to keep up this blog throughout the pregnancy, so stay tuned for more!