27 weeks and 4 days pregnant... with an entire hot summer to go until due date of September 1st.

1. Maternity pants that didn't fit, now fit.  Last time I wore my maternity jean capris I continually had to pull them up because the safety pin I had been using to keep them in place broke.  This time they stayed in place just fine.  There's still plenty of room for me and Plurk to grow!  (This should make my doctor happy.  At 24 weeks I had only gained 8lbs the entire pregnancy.  I was encouraged to...

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Weeks 20 and 21

It's been two weeks since I had surgery to remove a vaginal cyst.  Thank you to everyone who prayed for or thought of me and the baby!  What's most important is that Plurk (a.k.a. Baby Montano; yes nicknamed after the social media site because my dear husband thought the name would be a funny nod to my semi-addiction to social networking) is doing just fine! 

I hadn't really been feeling Plurk move around but at the hospital and at appointments leading up to and after the surge...
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Week 18… almost Week 19

I have so much I want to write about.  The original purpose for this blog was to focus on my garden.  That evolved into cooking, canning, freezing the bounty of my garden.  Since all that’s done in my home, I started writing about home.  Lately my posts have all been about pregnancy. 

I haven’t forgotten my other purposes for this blog.  So if you’re here to talk gardening or the kitchen or the home, I promise I will continue to write and share these adventures....
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Week 14

It's been two weeks now since the endometrioma, a.k.a. chocolate cyst, was found and drained.  Today (Thursday, March 4th) is not a check on this, though I'm sure it'll be a main topic of conversation with the doctor.  Today is my 14 week ultrasound. 

Since I'm an at-risk pregnancy due to medical history I need a 14 week ultrasound to measure my cervix.  Since 2006 I've battle with abnormal paps for which I underwent a LEEP, a Cold Knife and hospital stays.  I've had two absce...
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Week 13

I've had a week to absorb the fact that I had a endometrioma, a.k.a. chocolate cyst, drained and that I've been diagnosed with Endometriosis.  I've done research and I've talked to my coworker Dr. Dave Hnida about it.  Dr. Dave put it eloquently.  "You're a rare case as it's not usual to find Endometriosis in a pregnant woman.  It's quite wonderful you were able to get pregnant.  Be happy."

Today (Friday, Feb. 26th) is my follow up check with my doctor to make sure I've healed and ...

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*Warning for anyone who doesn't like to talk vaginas or female problems you'll want to skip this post!

Just over two weeks ago I found a vaginal lump, or more specifically a vulvar lump.  I felt a pinch and a sharp pain as I tried to urinate.  I've had a series of problems over the last few years, including a battle with abnormal paps for which I underwent a LEEP and a Cold Knife and hospital stays, and two abscesses.  I knew the pain was not good. 

During a self exam I found the lump on t...

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New Year's Eve and early January


I've now taken four pregnancy tests, two of them digital so there's no trick lines to play with me. All four positive. I am definitely pregnant; I think.

My stomach issues since early December when I was on antibiotics have only gotten worse and then out of nowhere actually getting out bed became very difficult. I figure this is morning sickness, maybe.

It's New Year's Eve. The boys were with their mother for the holiday this year. We've always celebrated big as...
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Dec. 24th

I'm wide awake again way earlier than normal. This time I forgo the internal argument and head straight to the bathroom to take test number two. This time I do it wide awake while never taking my eyes off the test. Sure enough the faint vertical line shows again making a positive sign, again.

I walk back into the bedroom holding the test and plop back down on the bed. "Well?" Shawn asks? "Positive. Again." I respond. I'm not as shocked yesterday but I still can't believe...
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Dec. 23… later in the day. (What happened earlier in the day.)

I’m walking in a haze.  My eyes aren’t truly focusing unless I’m concentrating on something.  The voices and sounds around me jumble all together.

An hour later I’m walking around like nothing in my world has changed.  There is no thought of pregnancy swishing around in my head.  I’m functioning as if that plus sign had never happened.

Thirty minutes later I‘m in a haze again.

Back and forth like that I go.

My mom c...

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I've written some blog entries since finding out I was pregnant, but haven't posted any until now. At first it was I simply couldn't post because we weren't telling anyone about baby until the end of the first trimester. Now I'm almost 15 weeks and everyone knows, but I've still been dealing with morning sickness, which has until recently been a 24-hour event for me. I've not had the brain power to post anything.  Then I had a medical issue (blog to come) and now currently a cold w/a...
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