Thank you Champion for the best sleeping bra EVER!

I have just finished an old fashioned practice...I wrote a letter to Champion to thank them for creating such an amazing product to help me sleep!

The Champion C9 Camisole Sports Bra has so far saved my sleep and hopefully my overly ample bosom.  You can get them at Target and they amazingly protect the sensitivity AND provide great support!  I am soooo excited to have found this wonderful product, and I am NOT a paid spokesman but I would be happy to be one!

The Big Reveal

Couldn't see what they were looking for because the little alien was face-forward, but it's definitely a baby...it might be an alien baby, but it's a baby!

Appointment scheduled for genetic counseling and level 2 sonogram on December 1st...more anon! 

We have a heart rate...

So there's an old wives tale that states that fetal heart rate is a gender predictor, the opinions are mixed on this topic among the medical community and my doctor kind of rolled her eyes when I brought it up but...

Heart Rate at 11 1/2 weeks....183

Do with it what you will.

Ultrasound tomorrow, stay tuned!

Never thought I would be excited about this Gold Card!

The alien lima bean has coverage now!  Through persistence I now have pregnancy Medicaid in the State of Florida.  A tip for the future to all of the women of child-bearing age out there...DO NOT OPT OUT OF MATERNITY COVERAGE!  Opting out of maternity coverage leaves you with extremely limited options, as pregnancy is pretty much a pre-existing condition under most definitions.  You options tend to be, self-pay or Medicaid.

The great thing about pregnancy Medicaid in the State of Florida is that once you are approved, you are approved until 2 months after the baby is born, no matter what (hopefully positive) changes occur in your financial situation.  I had been worried about pursuing currently active accounts and booking meetings without weighing out the risk of losing coverage and now I can go gangbusters with work without worrying about how it will impact my maternity coverage. 

What does Medicaid cover for pregnant women?

• 1 ultrasound
• 10 prenatal visits (14 for high risk pregnancy)
• 2 postpartum visits
• 1 newborn assessment
• delivery, etc.

In today's economy, it is good to know that these resources are out there for folks who may have made the error of opting out of maternity coverage...

Out of the funk…

Had to get through the whole questioning paternity (even had the BALLS to question the pregnancy?!?) negativity that was invading this pregnancy with the gentleman no, I dare say not the gentleman, the mammal who chose to release his baby juice into me without permission or warning. Growing up in the South, there are some things about me that are quite old fashioned. First of all, I do NOT hand it out like candy, and I have instructed and mentored many of my female friends not to do the same. Being accused of such strikes in me an angry tone, having been one who is relatively chaste in comparison to many of my peers. So I move on. I proceed with this condition, which is teetering on being an event, without the "baby daddy" by my side. Over the last two weeks I have felt the negative energy wash away and my soul cleansed of that anger and badness.

Here is a point that struck me in these interactions; after making said point I shall veer away from addressing it much at all. If I happened to be one of those women who did hand it out like candy, I also happen to choose gentlemen to date. I daresay that if I had been with 3 different men, all of whom had irresponsibly spilled their seed into me, and if I had told each and every one of them the entire situation and the impending new life on its way (remember that this is a hypothetical with the men that I tend to date, not the one in question), if you gathered the last three men that I dated, each and every one of them would have stood up and been by my side throughout the entire thing. Been emotionally and financially supportive; while perhaps not wholly enthusiastic, and ridden out the entire nine to ten months waiting on a verdict. Perhaps I am too optimistic about my mate selection; but I believe that would be the case. It just seems that this time I chose poorly.

So what is there to do but to move forward for the sake of this child. Reach out to my friends and family for the love that they share for me and for the world and create an amazing being!

And so, my village…welcome.

Seriously? NOW you are doubting paternity?

Having a lovely banter with the newly dubbed "sperm donor".  His main concern in the beginning of all of this?  "I don't want to be treated like a sperm donor, I have always promised myself that I would not be an absent father like mine was"...well guess what?  You just did it yourself.

As I have previously expressed within this blog, I recognized early on that I was not being as kind and as inclusive with him as I should have been.  I tried to include him.  Seems he wants all or nothing.  I have felt, in the last several days, that he is trying to stress me out to the point of miscarriage or lining up at the abortion clinic.  He was all help and hope in the beginning; but I think that this attitude was contingent upon my coming back to him and being a "family".  Now, not only is he questioning paternity, but he is also saying that it was my "misjudgment" that caused me not to have maternity coverage.  Perhaps it was his misjudgment that caused him to fire a live one into me after one minute without my permission or approval.  I hold steadfast in my knowledge that this little one has made it clear that being born is a non negotiable; otherwise I would be first in line to "deal with it".

Guess these things are good to know now.

What are my rights as a single pregnant woman in Florida??  Here is some information from Florida Title VI, Chapter 63 (funny this chapter is regarding adoption)

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