Andrew and Brenda

Today was Brenda’s first official visit with Dr. Myers. Not a lot of new news this time. They took a bunch of blood to test to make sure she hasn’t gotten toxoplasmosis from the cats. Since I’m on pooper-scooper duty now, that shouldn’t be a problem.

So far everything is going well, with still no morning sickness. Tommorow starts the sixth week, and Dr. Myers wants to do two ultrasounds. The first will be September 20th. This early we won’t be able to determine the sex, but we should be able to determine quantity (for those that don’t know, both grandmothers have been doing voodoo rain dances so we’ll have twins).

We’re still in the early stages of planning for the big event, but Brenda has already gotten some maternity clothes and is trying to find some decent bedding options. We’re going to use her sister Lisa’s old crib, but will probably spruce it up a bit. That’s it for now. More tidbits as they develop.

Today was Brenda’s first visit to the doctor. Before you get too excited, it was mostly to discuss billing and insurance. Gotta have our priorities straight, apparently.

Anyhoo, she filled out a bunch of paperwork and watched a 17-minute video on the do’s and don’ts of pregnancy. As it turns out, one of the don’ts is to avoid cat litter. So guess who’s going to be cleaning up after three smelly cats for nine months? It’s a conspiracy.

She also got a goodie bag filled with all sorts of stuff like pregancy and baby magazines, catalogs, coupon books and a little travel thingy for baby wipes and such.

And, oh yeah, they deduced that Brenda is about 5 weeks pregnant, and our “tentative” due date is April 19th. Don’t quote us on that until we’ve talked to the actual doctor, though. Other than that, things are going well so far. No morning sickness yet, which is a plus since morning comes for Bren at 4:30am. I’ve never been, but I hear it’s quite early

More updates as they come along. Official doctor’s visit is the 23rd.