Baby Tickers

If you have poked around pregnancy forums (if you are anything like me, I am guessing you have), you have probably come across those cute little count downs people usually use as signatures for their posts. I've just down some looking around and there is the time line I found to be the cutest tickers I've found so far, from Lily Pie:



They have a lot of options for you to choose from there. I also liked the ones at the  Baby First Site, which also offer a lot of options for you to pick from:



Another one from Baby First: (done before my doc said I was probably one week behind what I expected):

Sure Baby has badges with cute baby pictures, but it is less of a counter (and less informative):

This next one is the opposite: not so cute, but more informative. An option for the less girly/no frills expecting moms out there, from Baby Gaga:



Parents Connect also has an informative, but not cute counter.

Let me know if I missed some nice ones!

***Update: I realized that these counters will keep doing what they are supposed to do and count the way to the end of the pregnancy... so I decided to add some static pics of the counters here, so that you see what they look like early in the pregnancy if you come here in 9 months (click on ticker to see it):

Still there

 :-)

Apparently I am 4 weeks pregnant (the doctor will only see me on Monday). Read about being 4 months pregnant here.

Faint line

This Sunday, I woke up wondering. After some deliberation (it is cold outside./Maybe wait a little longer./It is going to be so long until the next precious morning pee), I put on my many layers and marched to the drugstore. I did a couple of loops covering the whole store, before I finally found them. I did a little pipi dance at the checkouts and read the instructions on my walk home, to save time. I had just enough time to rip the test packet open. Then, I got what looked to me like a faint time. I compared the line with the instruction lines and thought: oh well, maybe next time. Dan woke up, completely oblivious. I explained to him that I had a feeling, but that is was only a faint line and that maybe next time.  Just for good measure, I decided to search for "faint line pregnancy test" to learn more about these things.   It turned out, our line was actually not so faint. In fact, our line could be said to kicks ass. Not wanting to jump into conclusions, we looked for about 5 more minutes, comparing our lines to others in the internet. We said things like "I don't know but..." and reading things like "if there is any line at all, it is a positive" and things of the sort out loud to each other. We got a crash course on "evaporation lines","bfn","bfp" and due date calculators.  Until we could finally say: "Holy Cow! We got a BPF!!!!"

We are so happy and excited! There is a baby (embryo?) in ma belleh!