About You

Name?: DeAnna
Age?: 33
Height?: 5'5
Pre-pregnancy weight?:too much

About The Father

Name?: Scott
Age?: 36
Height?: 6'2"
Are you still together?: Yes have been for 6 1/2long years

About Your Pregnancy

Is this your first pregnancy?: Nope, 4th
When did you find out you were pregnant?: Aug 3, 2009
Was it planned?: No way, we where done!!
What was your first reaction?: This cannot be happening, Our daughter was just finishing up her cancer treatments.
Who was with you when you found out?: My girls
Who was the first person you told?:One of my fiends
How did your parents react?: I don't speek to my parents but I did get an email stating how excited they where.
How far along are you?:Well just had an ultra sound and found out where two weeks behind =( I am bummed but am glad baby was okay!! So now we are 9 weeks.
What was your first symptom?:Tiredness and dizzy
What is your due date?: March 29th, 2010 changed to April 14th, 2010
Do you know the sex of the baby?:Nope
If so, what is it?: don't care just as long as he/she is healthy
Have you picked out names?:I have looked but I usually wait till the last min to pick one out.
How much weight have you gained?: I have lost 10lbs
Do you have stretch marks?: From my other pregency's
Have you felt the baby move?: Yep, very active
Have you heard the heartbeat?:September10th, 2009 was around 170, Nov 18th was 145
About the birth

Home or hospital birth?: Hospital
Natural or medicated birth?:Medicated
Who will be in the delivery room with you?: Just Scott
Will you breastfeed?: Yes
Do you think you'll need a c-section?:Yes I have had all my kids that way
Will you cry when you hold the baby for the first time?: Oh yeah, I will cry as soon as the baby cries when they pull him/her out
What's the first thing you might say to him/her?: ??
Would you let someone videotape the birth?:porbley not, c~sections are pretty bloody
Are you excited about the birth, or scared?: I am in deniel still, I have been having a hard time because of having a child with a very serious illness and not knowing whats going to happen with her. My biggest fear is Adriana having to do more treatment and me be pregnet or have this tiny baby to care for on top of Adriana's needs too.



My babies on Adriana's MAW trip to Disneyland



















Supppoting childhood cancer awareness is very impotant to me. I like most parents thought nothing like this could happen to me, but I woke up one day to my little girl limping to not being able to walk with in 4 days. After two week of hell trying to find out why this happened we found out by and MRI that Adriana had a large tumor compressing her spine. We where flowen up to DCH in Portland and soon after found out our baby girl had stage iv Neuroblatoma... a cancer of the nervous system. I think it is very important for other's to know about childhood cancer because it may not happen to one of your kids but someone around you may go through this. There is little funding that goes to childhood cancer reserch and it's not fair that most money goes to fund adult cancer's when our children need to be givin a change at life too. They are our future!!! There are many ways you can get involved to help out......You can visit Cureserch.com and it gives lots of info on ways to help.



1-4 weeks = 1 month -Done!
5-8 weeks = 2 months - Done!
9-13 weeks = 3 months - Done =)
2nd Trimester
14-17 weeks = 4 months - Done
18-21 weeks = 5 months - in progress =)
22-26 weeks = 6 months -
3rd Trimester
27-30 weeks = 7 months-
31-35 weeks = 8 months -
36-40 weeks =9 months-



Adriana right after she was diagnosis with cancer!!




All three of my babies the day Adriana had her tubies removed!! A big day for us!!

I just read ur profile... Wow lady you have really had some tough stuff to deal with. I am glad to see your daughter is doing well. All 3 of ur babies look so much alike, the girls especially!! God bless you and your family!