First Purchase for Baby!

We bought our first thing for the baby today! Just a little 2-pack of outfits and Tommy's little brother Daynen picked this outfit out which is cute!

I can't wait to find out the sex of the baby so that I can start planning the nursery! :)

Free / Bargain Sites

There are some bargain baby sites that post deals everyday and I have been watching them for things that I need. Here are the ones I have been watching:

Mama Bargains
Baby Steals
Baby Half Off
Kids Woot
Zulily

Some have 2 deals a day, some have one.  Sometimes they are on useless things like baby shoes but its worth it to watch for the things like cloth diapers and strollers.

There are some free things I have done as well. Most are sampler types of things but still good!

Nestle Baby Program
Free Baby Samples Canada

13 Week Survey

How far along? 13 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -8 lbs (down 10 then up 2)
Sleep: Sleep is getting better but still sleeping a lot.
Best moment this week: Listening to the heartbeat on the doppler.
Movement: Not that I am feeling.
Symptoms: morning sickness getting better but still there. Have a terrible cold this week.
Symptoms I DON'T have: hmm not sure.
Food cravings: not craving much just trying to get enough food in each day.
Food aversions: changes daily! or minute to minute.
Gender: not sure yet.
Belly Button in or out? In obviously 
What I miss: nothing at the moment
What I am looking forward to: Feeling movement
Weekly Wisdom: not too much just that sometimes things happen that can't be changed!
Milestones: Officially out of 1st trimester this week no matter which method you use to calculate it! :D
Size of Baby:

Weekly Belly Picture:

Kijiji

Love Kijiji! About to go get a brand new organic infant cloth diapering kit for $160! Woohoo. Saving money. Especially since the woman selling it received it as a gift and did not use any of it. Super excited!

I will keep perusing kijiji for more items, hopefully I can get a lot of stuff this way!! 

So far, here is the best blog/info I have found on cloth diapering:

The Much Requested Cloth Diaper Post

A Million Good Links

Everyone keeps saying I will change my mind about cloth diapering but I don't think so. Tommy is on board, my mom cloth diapered and lots of people do it.  It really isn't within my realm of values to even consider disposable diapers. All the time spent doing laundry would be spent going out to buy more disposables anyway. 

12 Week Survey

How far along? 12 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -10 lbs
Sleep: Sleeping ok!
Best moment this week: Getting my doppler in the mail and hearing the heartbeat!!
Movement: Not that I am feeling.
Symptoms: Easing up a bit! Starting to feel a bit better
Symptoms I DON'T have: hmm not sure.
Food cravings: cheese and chips
Food aversions: lots of types of meat 
Gender: not sure yet.
Belly Button in or out? In obviously 
What I miss: nothing at the moment
What I am looking forward to: Feeling movement
Weekly Wisdom: nothing particularly earth shattering this week.
Milestones: Woohoo almost to 2nd tri, and hearing the heartbeat!! Also bought my first 2 pairs of maternity jeans :)


Size of Baby:

Weekly Belly Picture:

11 Week Survey

How far along? 11 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -10 lbs
Sleep: Fall asleep early and wake up at the crack of dawn for no apparent reason.
Best moment this week: Coming home from my travelling with work. Also good- receiving money to eat out every meal and choose anything you want at the last minute. Proved very handy.
Movement: Not that I am feeling.
Symptoms: Still constantly sick. Switched to Flintstones vitamins to prevent ninja puke.
Symptoms I DON'T have: That symptom where you feel fine haha
Food cravings: Hmm. This might be long... cheezies, sandwiches, steak, scallops in alfredo sauce (which is interesting because prior to this craving I had never tried scallops), salads
Food aversions: I don't even want to think about it but any type of pork 
Gender: not sure. had a dream it was a girl.
Belly Button in or out? In obviously 
What I miss: Non-nausea
What I am looking forward to: Feeling movement, telling people, 
Weekly Wisdom: Don't go to football games when It's freezing and you are nauseous (and seated at the top of all of those stairs.)
Milestones: Almost to the all-important 2nd trimester. And I am more pregnant than I have ever been :) Which is awesome


Baby Size:

Weekly Belly Picture:

11 Weeks

Wow! I can't believe I am already 11 weeks. I kind of thought I would never get here. I ordered my doppler and I can't wait for it to arrive (probably sometime in a few weeks).  That will make me feel better I think.
Baby is the size of......

A lime! 2 more weeks and then we hit second trimester. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.  I haven't written much in the blog because I have been so nervous and I haven't taken many pictures (unlike last time) but I think I am finally getting over my anxiety a little bit. 

We had an ultrasound at 9w3d and saw a heartbeat which was awesome! That definitely helped my fears out a bit. 

Not a very good picture but Tommy just snapped it with his iPhone.  Still feeling pretty sick but I will try to start doing the weekly quizzes.