20 Weeks

So, this past week has been kind of crazy, with me moving in with my brother-in-law and his family. I missed my 20 week picture by (oh about 5 days lol). But here is me at 20 weeks & 5 days. Definitely noticing a pretty rapid growth in my belly! yay for baby growing strong.

I started my away rotation in Trauma & Emergency surgery in San Antonio this past Monday. It's definitely been a good learning experience for me, i never realized how spoiled I was in Lubbock. Now I have no clue what i'm going to do for residency, but at least i feel better informed about my choices. Even though my belly is sticking out quite a bit now I'm still hiding it (or rather, just not mentioning it) to the doctors/residents i'm working with in San Antonio. You'd be surprised at how much the loose-fitting scrubs can hide. Although I am having a problem keeping my pants up! I no longer have a waist to tie the pants on so they just keep sliding down (especially because i typically have a pager, my name tag, my stethoscope, and sometimes a phone hanging on my pants too)

Our little GIRL is kicking up a storm nowadays too! I absolutely LOVE feeling pregnant, it's such a neat experience. I'm so blessed in every aspect.

Today i'm on my day "off" because i work my first 24 hr shift tomorrow. It's a saturday night in San Antonio so i have a feeling there won't be any sleeping.

Weeks: 20
Fruit/veggie: banana
Milestones: Started my away rotation, I can feel the baby kick through the outside of my belly now too. :)
Cravings: None, back to just trying to make sure i get enough protein & calories to support both me on trauma and my baby girl growing.

It's a GIRL!!!

So after a LONG week of waiting, a  delicious cake, and a surprise unintended phone call from my OB's office that accidentally told me the gender 1 day before the big reveal...we now know we are having a little girl!!!

even though it wasn't a total surprise for me or hubby (since i found out he DID cheat at the ultrasound!) it was still really fun to tell all of our family members at the same time. And the cake was REALLY good! 

We are pretty sure of the name, but since we have 2 that we really like we may wait until we meet her to decide what her name should be.  I love Micah's face in this picture. He was so happy just to be able to have kids that he always said he would be happy to have either a boy or a girl, but I know him so well and he is going to be an AMAZING daddy, especially to a little girl! 

I'm so excited for ballet and tutus and princess stuff and dolls! 

We love you baby girl and there are so many people who cannot wait to meet you! 

Future Dr. Beierle

Going to detour away from the baby for a minute. My residency application goes out in less than 1 month. They took professional pictures of us for the application... It's kind of weird to see a picture like this of myself. I look so...official lol. Anyway, this is the picture that all of the surgery program directors will be looking at as they decide whether to interview me.  Seems like just yesterday a photo like this was being taken for my high school senior pictures! (technically 8 yrs ago?!?) Now just 3 months until I start interviewing, and 7 months until I learn where i'll be spending the next 5+ years of my life. 

Hi world, introducing S. Beierle, soon-to-be-MD

Let's see, I have a degree in Biomedical engineering, i'm married to the man of my dreams, I'm a mom (technically), I have a house with 2 dogs, and I'm nearly a physician. Have I mentioned how much God has blessed me???? Just typing that makes me want to cry... (or maybe it's the horomones?) 

To anyone reading this... THANK YOU! for all of your support helping me get to this point in my life. I definitely didn't do this alone. 

what was I thinking?

Why oh why did we agree to keep the gender of the baby a secret?!?! This is so hard. I want to go shopping for baby stuff so bad but I don't want to just get gender neutral stuff, there are so many cute flowery girl things or adorable blue blankets... *sigh* oh well, guess our checkbook will benefit from me not knowing yet. Here is a picture of the envelope! Still sealed...

4 more days!

Oh, and I think we came up with the perfect boy middle name. (the first name has always been decided because it was Micah's Opa's name and has a lot of meaning and significance for the family) but the middle name we have been waivering on. We'll reveal the full name saturday night if it turns out that's what we are having.

Lastly, Hannah cracks me up with all the different positions she sleeps in. I swear she is the only dog who sleeps more like a human than a dog. Hips facing one direction, upper arms facing another, and head vacing another. Silly pup.

Belly progression

Decided to do a progression shot so you can see the progression of the actual belly (as opposed to my gut) the 1st picture was taken at 17 wks 2 days, the second one at 19 weeks.

a different angle comparing 17 wks to 19 weeks. Not much higher, but wider definitely. 

19 weeks

So here we are, 19 weeks along now. Nearly 1/2 way! I'm starting to think i should be more picky about which clothes i take these pictures in. today's outfit definitely isn't flattering. I think if I had a smaller butt I wouldn't look so big. If you take and cover up half of my butt with your hand suddenly I don't look quite so big. Oh well, tis the body God gave me :) 

lots of stuff going on this week. I'm off of school and on Wed.  Micah and I are heading to Fredericksburg, TX for a little "babymoon": 2 nights in a bed & breakfast, with lots of little shopping, eating, and relaxing. Then we visit family for 2 nights. Saturday is Micah's mother's birthday so we are having a combined birthday dinner slash gender reveal which i'm SUPER excited about. Micah got into the spirit too and he suggested that he wear a pink shirt and I wear a blue one. We found him a pink t-shirt with a deer skull on it and I'm wearing a blue maternity shirt with a cute saying i found as an iron on (i'll share it after saturday). meanwhile i also found 2 other iron-on's that I liked, one of which I'm wearing for this picture :) Yay for crafting. 

one of my 5 dollar t-shirts with the iron-on that says "Gift from God" 

On sunday Micah will fly back to lubbock and I will get settled at his brother's house in San Antonio. I'm Terrified. I'll be living with people i've met only a handful of times (including a 2 and 5 yr old). I'll be working in a hospital i've never stepped foot into, with people i've never met before, in a city that i've never lived in... Oh yeah and it's my job to impress them so they want to hire me as a resident. And don't forget I'll be back to working 80 hrs or so while being 20 weeks pregnant. *sigh* this is where I remind myself that I am just trying to follow God's plan and i shouldn't worry because if it is his wish then things will be fine, and if it isn't, well, I don't really have a say in it anyway lol. At least come Saturday night I'll know if the baby that keeps wiggling inside me is a boy or girl. One day at a time, right? 

Weeks: 19
Fruit/Veggie: mango
Weight gain: 8 lbs

Milestones: Finding out sex of baby! Definitely feeling kicks now, albeit small ones

other stuff: i'm HOT...all the time. Like seriously. I feel so bad for all those women who have to go through menopause in Texas. I'm so sad that just as Lubbock will start cooling down i'm going to be in San Antonio so i'm going to have another month of HOT. 

Heaven on earth

So, after planning this gender reveal thing I found myself looking at more and more pictures of cupcakes and cake than i could imagine. let's just say I found myself 5 days into a HUGE cupcake craving, so after going to the gym yesterday I decided I deserved a cupcake today. so i made a little trip down to the best cupcake bakery in lubbock. "Peace O'Cake" and oh my goodness they are good! Micah and I split a "black & white" which is the cupcake with blue icing in the picture as well as a "cookies & cream" cupcake. They were quite possibly the best cupcakes I've ever had in my life! As I sit here trying to work on an essay i need to write the baby is wriggling around like crazy. Guess all that sugar hyped the baby up too :) yes baby, it is the best thing ever!