A well overdue update

Last time I updated I was 14 weeks, I´ll be 30 weeks on Friday! Good gravy, how fast time flies!
And let me start with a quick recap: at 16 weeks I had a bleeding scare and thought everything was over, just as soon as I finally started to get excited about the pregnancy. There is no worse feeling than seeing that gush of blood. I was especially terrified because I had no signs with my first two losses. I was on strict bedrest for 3 days or so and thinking the worst possible thoughts. Turns out it was just caused by some harmless sex, my baby was fine and the bleeding was coming from little cups up under my uterus, nowhere even close to frijolito. My Dr. just upped my progesterone intake and in a couple days everything was normal again. But I was not allowed peen for a while. I might have broken that rule though.
Next came my fears of lack of movement. I swear I was the last person on earth to feel those little movements. I wanted so so bad for proof of life, to know there was a real baby in my belly. Everybody talks about flutters and butterflies and taps and popcorn sensations, some as early as like 15 weeks. My ¨big ultrasound¨ and gender reveal came before the movement did, right around 20 weeks. And I wouldn´t call them any of those above mentioned things, it was like little muscle spasms and jolts. Hands down, best/wierdest feeling ever.
On January 4th, 2010 at 19 weeks and 3 days we found out we were going to be blessed with a little boy. A son, wow! This came as a total shocker, my ¨mother´s instinct¨ had 100% convinced me it was a little girl. It didn´t help that my Dr. told me 90% of the time that feeling ends up being right. I was dreaming of laces and bows and pretty little dresses, already had her bedding picked out. Franco just knew it was a girl too and there were probably a good three weeks that went by with us calling her Toñita, short for Antonia Elise. After about 15 minutes of searching between the legs and triple checking, my doctor said it was a varon. A little man in there. Oh, sweet relief!!! haha. I just knew I was gonna have a little girl and she would give me back ten-fold all the trouble I gave my mom and dad. Self made Kharma. Love ya´ll, sorry about all that by the way! Now I know I will have a momma´s boy and raise him to be the sweetest gentleman to ever walk this planet.

Those are the main things that come to mind now. Other important dates/milestones:

01/08/2010 - I hit the half way mark, 20 weeks. A half baked frijolito!
01/16/2010 - Mom bought Gabriel´s bedding! (pictures to come in the next post)
01/11/2010 - Figured out what round ligament pain was. Ouch!
01/21/2010 - I got my first ever cameltoe due to tightening of maternity pants, SAD DAY
02/02/2010 - Ordered his furniture.
02/03/2010 - Realized I was having Braxton Hicks contractions Eeeek!
02/05/2010 - Made the decision to name my son after the greatest man I know, my dad. Gabriel David Franco, has a nice ring to it if you ask me : )
02/05/2010 - Was also Viability Day (24 weeks) A relief to know that his chances of survival are on our side. He is of course expected to stay in there until May.
02/19/2010 - 99 days left til my boy makes his grand entrance! Grandma and Grandpa also came in town to get his nursery started/finished.

Oh yeah, and my boobs started leaking colostrum a while back. Dr. says it´s a good thing. I am not impressed, they still haven´t grown.