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Last night, I had my first craving. It was pretty late, like 8:30 (well...late for US) and I just got this super huge craving for a Frosty. I said, "Chris, ya know what I REEEALLY want?! A frosty." and he said, "Okay! Let's go!" Aww so sweet! 

BUT, I have decided, even IF I do crave icecream and stuff, I can't just always have it or I'll turn into an Oompa Loompa. I just gave in last night because it was the first one and we had to do it to say we did it!

So, other than last night, I haven't had any cravings, food aversions, or any weird new food loves. Weird!

EXHAUSTED!

All of the baby website and apps say that you get super tired during the 1st trimester, I think I'm fully starting to understand what they're talking about. OH MY GOSH, I am always EXHAUSTED! It almost feels like I have mono...either that or I'm growing a baby :)

Last night was Travis and Shawna's wedding. SO many people were asking me when we were going to have a baby and if I'm still on birth control, etc. It was so hard not to say anything. Allyssa is due at the end of April so we were talking all about her baby, I wanted to tell her about our baby SOOO BAD, just a few more weeks and we will be able to announce it. 

I made my first appointment! October 18th at the Birth Center, I will be 8 weeks exactly! I'm 4 weeks and 5 days today, our baby is the size of an orange seed...aww!


Also, I got kicked off my parent's gym pass at Lifetime because I am too old, DANG IT, so tomorrow I'm going to sign up for a year pass at the South Jordan Rec Center. I want to swim and do yoga classes. 

Baby's first gift

My momma bought our baby his or her first gift!

We got a few cute little outfits! YAY so exciting!

There is 1 more, but for some reason it wouldn't upload. What's up with me being picture/computer stupid lately?! They are all way cute! I laughed because we're pretty far off from knowing what our little one is, that's why she had to buy boy AND girl outfits hahah.

THANKS MOM!

Baby Higley is 4 weeks old today, well technically only 2 weeks, but I'm 4 weeks into my pregnancy. Super weird concept. Only 36 more to go! Today was supposed to be the day when my period started, SO tomorrow I will be calling The Birth Center to schedule my blood test, so that we know that it's official! I wanted to make sure my period didn't start before I called for my first appointment! Yahoo, I'm REALLY pregnant! Peace OUT periods [for a while]!!!

Symptoms

I have definitely been feeling many of the "early signs of pregnancy" symptoms! Sometimes I randomly get super nauseous, no throwing up yet (unless you count the time today when I threw up in my mouth, YUCK!) I haven't thrown up since the day after I turned 14...so I'm not looking forward to it. I have been peeing like a race horse. I am pretty dang tired lately. I have been feeling light cramps. My boobs are tender and already getting bigger. I can smell everything around me when no one else can!

We are just SO dang excited! We told both of our parents, but we've decided to wait and tell the rest of our family and good friends until I'm 8 weeks. It won't be too hard, it's only one month away! I'm already almost 4 weeks (3 weeks and 5 days to be exact). Then, we'll announce it to the rest of the world a couple weeks later.

My period is due on Tueday, so when my period doesn't come (or so I hope, ah!) I'm going to call The Birth Center and get an appointment for a blood test. At that point we'll be able to discuss pricing, classes, and appointments! 

It still hasn't sunk in for either of us. I think it will start feeling more real when we start telling more people, taking classes, and going to appointments! AH I can't wait to start telling people so that we can start celebrating and talking about it openly with friends and family!

We can't wait to meet little Vivien or Jack, being a parent is going to be the greatest ever!

Oh baby!

Our baby is 3 weeks and 3 days, I have 36 weeks and 4 days until my due date.

According to my iPhone apps, my due date is May 29, 2012! What a perfect day!

Our baby is the size of a poppyseed, aww so mini!

Oh my HECK!

I have about 4 or 5 days until my period is due. The 1st Response home pregnancy tests claim that they can detect pregnancy up to 5 days before your missed period. I told myself that I wouldn't test until I actually missed my period. BUT, being the impatient person that I am, I decided I wanted to try one today, nothing bad could come of it. I got home from work, peed in a cup, dipped the stick for 5 seconds, put it on the counter, and walked away. It says to wait 5 minutes for it to register, but (once again) I was impatient, so I ran to the bathroom with high hopes but low expectations.

And this is what I found...

NO WAY!!!

I started to laugh, then I started to cry, and then I ran out of the house, I knew I had to break the news in an exciting way to Chris! I am SOOO happy and SOOO excited! I can't believe how FAST it happened! We only started trying 2 weeks ago! It really hasn't sunk in at all yet. Maybe when I tell Chris it will feel more real (yeah he's still at school, I'm DYING to tell him!)

I went and bought some onesies, 1 blue and 1 pink. A bag of Hershey's Kisses. A blue gift bag and pink tissue paper.

For some reason, this picture would not upload to blog in the right direction, whatever! 

Oh my gosh, there is a tiny cell ball baby inside of me right now! I can't believe it! I want to tell everybody! There is no way I'll be able to wait 3 whole months to tell anyone! Of course I'll tell my mom and Chris, but that's probably it until I'm farther along and it's more certain. AH I'M GONNA BE A MOMMA!!!

1 more week...this time around

1 more week until we find out if there's a baby to be or not to be.

3 words: longest cycle ever

If I'm not pregnant, my body has been totally tricking me, I'm probably just imagining the signs and symptoms. I feel bloated, sometimes I feel twinges in my ovary areas, I have been smelling weird things lately that no one else can smell, and sometimes my belly feels nausious. But, again, I think it's just my body really wanting to be pregnant, so it's probably imagining it all and I'm just being very in-tune with everything that's going on in my bod. 1 more week. We've got this!

The beginning

This is the beginning of my baby blog!

While Chris and I were dating and engaged, we had our whole lives planned out...I would work while he went to law school. We wouldn't start trying to get pregnant until he was finished with school. I could keep the money coming in, and then we could travel a bit before we had kiddies. It was the perfect plan....until we got married. We had been married for about 2 weeks when I started having VERY VERY strong feelings that we should NOT wait that long to have kids. Having these thoughts made me really grouchy...after about a week of being a brat, I finally just decided to talk to Chris about it, "Chris, what if we didn't wait as long as we had planned to have kids?" And, to my surprise, he said that he liked that idea! I guess he had been having the same feelings as me.

Change of plan:

Law school is very time consuming and expensive! Which means Chris isn't able to work and we are racking up the student loans. I'm completely fine with both of these things! We don't want Chris to have to miss any class, as long as we can prevent it. So, our plan changed to try to plan a baby to come in the summer while he isn't in school. That means that the best months to get pregnant are September, October, or November.

I went off birth control for the month of August to get it all out of my system by the time September came around. Worst month ever! I didn't have any side-effects of going ON birth contol, but coming OFF of it was miserable! It made my skin break-out like crazy, I had light cramps for the whole cycle, I had a constant headache for 2 staight weeks, and when my period came, it was the worst one I had ever had. I blacked out, I had a fever, I was pale as a ghost, and I couldn't even stand up. EWW! Finally, it seems like my "hormone withdrawl" is over, my skin is healing, my headache is gone, and we're hoping for a baby in the near future.

I'm on day 17 of my cycle, I had my last period on August 23rd. I have googled EVERYTHING there is to know about getting pregnant, the best days to get pregnant, everything about ovulation, periods, vaginal fluid, sperm, and anything else you can dream of. I could basically be a doctor on the subject by now. So, we tried our very hardest from day 9 to 15 to make a baby. Now we're just in that long 2 week waiting period. I really hope that I'm a fertile myrtle like my momma, she got pregnant the very 1st month they were trying, and she didn't know a single thing about ovulation or anything (how did people live without the internet!?) I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I went to the doctor for my yearly girl check-up 2 days ago, everything went really well. My cute doctor said that everything seems perfectly in order for me to make a baby! Perfect age, perfect health! Let's keep our fingers crossed and our prayers constant!

Here is me with no baby on board, I definitely want to take pictures of myself with a growing belly!

I am a hippie and I want to try my absolute hardest to have a natural birth. We have toured 2 birthing centers in Salt Lake. The first one is called The Birth Center, the other is called Better Birth. I definitely like The Birth Center more. They have more experience, it seems cleaner, more organized, and they require that you take a natural birthing class of your choice to birth there. I probably want to either do a Hypnobirthing or Briobirthing program. It is so much healthier for mother and baby, it is a more intimate experience, and this is what a woman's body is made to do. They did it for thousands of years without medication, I don't understand why more people don't do what our bodies are naturally made to do. Hippie Cami. Chris is all about my natural plans too, he is so supportive and I appreciate him SO much.

For my whole entire life, I have LOVED planning out my future children's names. So, of course, Chris and I (well mostly me) talk about names all the time. We already have 2 full names picked out for girls and 1 full boy name.

• Vivien Lila Higley
• Nora Brooklyn Higley
• Jack Christopher Higley
• Max ____ Higley

We love them all! I like Max Tucker, but I think Chris needs some more warming up on that one haha! Well that's about it for this week. I probably won't update until either I start my period or get a + pregnancy test (please please please).