Just a quick update

I had my 18 week appointment yesterday. All is well besides my iron ...But I enjoy adding more drugs to my regimen. So I get to add Iron...Yeah! Bring on the constipation.
My house now contains a painted nursery & an assembled crib. It's all very scary to me. I actually asked the doctor yesterday if I was actually going to bring a kid home...He said yeah...Stop worrying! Easy for him to say...He's not an infertile neurotic like I am.
And one last little topic we think we decided on a name...Alexander Riley. No one as poopooed it yet....Except for my brother who wanted to know why we weren't naming his nephew after him!

Next appt is 11/14/06. I'll try to check in before then. Hopefully it will be more exciting than this.

The verdict is in

I had my level II ultrasound yesterday. The baby looks great! Everything is growing exactly as it should. All the itty bitty organs are great also! And the grand finale is it's a boy!

I am shocked. I would have went to Vegas & put money down that it was a girl. The tech guessed boy & then the doc confirmed! I haven't even looked at boy stuff that's how convinced I was. So now we have changed gears to prepare for a little boy.

This seems so surreal to me. I can actually think of this baby as a person instead of a maybe. I really just can't believe I have gotten this far. My only fear now is that I have so much more to lose should something happen.

We are having a son...Wow it's just bizarre to say that.

I am insane!

I think I'll give you guys the long version since it's been forever since I last posted.
My adorable husband & his lunch buddy took it upon themselves to go to a high priced baby store at lunch on Tuesday. These lovely gents discovered a moving sale with Italian made cribs at over 70% off. I left work & met my husband to look at said Italian made crib. It was the most gorgeous thing I had ever seen. It was also $399 marked down from $1447. It was the last one left. So with trembling hands I gave the lady my credit card & purchased said crib. So I am insane. I spent the rest of the evening repeating out loud 'holy shit I bought a crib!' The said crib is now in the room it will occupy with my ,hopefully, child. I asked my husband if he realized that we now have to bring home a real live baby...He just looked at me with his dazzling green eyes & said I didn't know we had a choice.

Edited to add: Today I am 16 weeks 3 days. I passed my GD test. And only 3 more days till the ultrasound!