Say Hello to Our Little Friend: Baby Gaga

There are a lot of exciting things going on in Bowling Green these days. A massive snowpocalypse dumping virtually INCHES of show on the ground, a Gigi’s cupcake shop opening on Monday and a couple of new Redbox rentals being set up at the Krogers. It’s like New York City minus the cultural diversity, crime rate and bustling arts community. (Sorry, Capitol Theater – I don’t mean to undermine K-Ci and JoJo’s recent appearance) Boy howdy. Things have been outta control in this idyllic little college town.

And by outta control, I mean inna my belly. Yessiree – that extra little bit of lady padding I’ve been carrying around isn’t your standard, “Girl hit that turkey HARD over the holiday” weight. It’s more of that “Girl been swimming in baggy tees to cover up her baby bump” weight.  Which – there wasn’t much of a bump until about two weeks ago. But as of January 29th, I’ve passed the 12 week mark. This officially ushers me out of the first trimester “fear and loathing” period and into the second trimester “safer and more swelling” zone. Corey and I – we’re totally psyched. (Is that word still around?) Now we’re super freaking psyched to be able to share the news with everyone else.

So – a quick rundown of some thus-important dates:

January 14th - 9w5d

Saturday, December 5th – Positive at-home test

Monday, December 7th – Blood test confirmation

Wednesday, December 16th – 1st Ultrasound at 5w5d – saw the heartbeat ‘flicker’.

Thursday, January 14th – 2nd Ultrasound at 9w6d – pictured above.

Thursday, January 21st – 3rd Ultrasound (after a health scare – details are unnecessary as all is well, but they performed an Ultrasound just to be safe) at 10w6d pictured below – saw the baby move its arms and legs. Corey: I thought they just floated around this early.

January 21st, 10w6d

Friday, January 29th – Second Trimester begins

Sometime around the end of March – find out the sex of Baby Gaga.

Friday, May 14th – Final exams end, Third Trimester begins

Friday, August 13th – (Or in that ballpark) the arrival of Baby Gaga!

So, there it is! We don’t really know how people announced pregnancies in a pre-blog, pre-social media world – but that’s just how we roll in the Patterdice household. But for realsies – we’re thinking good thoughts and hoping hard for Baby Gaga to make a safe and healthy entrance to the world this summer.