End of the year IEP

As we get close to the end of the school year, I can't help but think about how incredibly far my little Lily has come this year. Since being diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech in September SO much has changed. When we started speech at the school in November she still only had 20-30 words, now she is using 3 sometimes 4 word sentences! There is still a lot of work to do though. Her apraxia makes it very hard to understand her so even the words she knows don't always come out correctly, but the progress she has made is truly amazing. I can actually joke with her now and she will point out things on the tv and has even started making her dolls have little conversations. At her last IEP meeting we decided to keep her in the classroom setting instead of moving to just speech therapy, there are still a lot of fine motor skills she needs to be working on. I also had them add on eating techniques, since she still struggles with forks and spoons and drinking from an open cup. They also want to increase her days from twice a week to 5 times a week next year since she is struggling with routine, like coming to the carpet for circle time without being prompted multiple times and stuff like that. But she is still only 2 (3 in July) so things like that aren't that big a deal. If someone had told me in September that I would be able to have small conversations with my daughter by June I would have never believed them. Now I just need to find ways to build on it so we can continue to learn through the summer while she is out of school!

Welcome Annabeth!

Annabeth was born on February 6th at 9:10pm at 6lbs and 11ozs!

Deciding to take a little turn on the blog and go from just infertility to covering getting into shape with a chronic disease, healthy recipes, and being a mommy to my little ones with apraxia and food sensitivities.

10 weeks

Soooooo ready for this trimester to be over. Between throwing up and not wanting to eat anything except red meat and peas, I am very ready for the second trimester. I was graduated to my OB and already had my first appointment but I didn't have a full work up yet. He did however check my BP a couple times though and it was very high, which has me very worried because I developed preeclampsia during my first pregnancy. Since then I have been watching it at home and it seems to level out beautifully when I am relaxing, so I am hoping he will allow me to take it easy and monitor it myself instead of going on a medication, which will mean I have to be referred to a high risk doctor as well. I did get an ultrasound to get my dates correct and I saw a bouncing, head banging little rocker in there with a strong heart. So other than the BP everything seems to be going well, and my crazy two year old is definitely keeping me on my toes!

7 weeks

Went to our ultrasound a couple days ago and saw one beautiful little peanut with his heart just flickering away! He measured right on time and my RE said to go ahead and schedule my first appointment with my OB here at home. Last pregnancy I wasn't released to my OB till 10 weeks so I was very surprised he is graduating me so early. So tomorrow I have to get that scheduled and I also need to call a speech therapist for Lily. Her doctor said she is way too far behind in her speech for a 2 year old and I have to get her into speech therapy. :-/ One of the disadvantages of an only child not in child care I guess.

6 weeks

Today makes 6 weeks pregnant. The cramping has eased off a lot and has been replaced by headaches and crippling morning sickness. Whoever coined the term "morning" sickness, should be shot. I've been living off of saltines and ginger ale for days, but I did manage to get down a bowl of cereal this morning which might help. On top of that the ac has broke at our house in the middle of the worst heat wave ever. The heat index is 114 degrees and all we have are ceiling fans, which just makes me feel worse. We were lucky and kept our power through the storms though, everyone else I know in the area lost power and are being told over 24 hours before its back on. At least our house has moving air, there are a lot of miserable people out there today. :(
My ultrasound is the 6th so we are now counting down the days

5 weeks

My second beta was a 70, so I was doubling every 34 hours. I had another one on Friday but I won't get the results till Monday. Everything seems to be fine so far. I haven't had any spotting but I am definitely uncomfortable. I guess it's something about second pregnancies, I look at 5 weeks what I looked like at 12 weeks with my daughter! My belly just exploded. My ultrasound is scheduled for July 6th, I can't wait!!!

Second beta results tomorrow

I should get the results of my second beta test tomorrow morning! Definitely on pins and needles, I'm so anxious to hear my doctor say that everything is looking great. The period has officially been skipped, I should've started roughly two days ago, and the symptoms are coming in force. A lot of pulling and twinges and bloating like crazy. I could swear I am already showing, so I started googling it to make sure I'm not going insane and apparently it is very common to show early in a second pregnancy. There were multiple forums where I saw women complaining about starting to show almost immediately after they found out, some even said that was how they knew. I can tell most of what I've got is just bloat, but damn if my pants aren't starting to feel uncomfortable already. I thought I would have a few weeks but I may need to start digging out the old maternity clothes and getting them washed and ready to go. But I guess first things first....first I need to get a call from the doc. I'm feeling optimistic though, I haven't had any menstrual like cramping and absolutely no spotting. So I think it looks good.