Check up

I got to hear the baby's heartbeat on Monday. It was wonderful. The dr. said we had a 50/50 chance of hearing it, that the baby had to be in just the right position. I guess baby was! I love that sound. Everything else looked fine and they gave me some ideas for helping with morning sickness although it has been easing a bit the past couple of days. Thank goodness!

10 weeks

Still lots of ups and downs. Saturday morning I felt great. Really better than I have felt in a long time and then I ate two eggs and spent the next two hours on the couch feeling worse than I have in a long time. Ugh. 12 weeks can't come soon enough!!

I have my 2nd dr. appointment tomorrow and I am looking forward to it. Mom is going to meet me there to keep an eye on Joshua and then I think we are going to go shopping afterwards.

The baby is now considered a fetus and most of the critical development has occurred. This is fantastic! I think I can feel the top of my uterus now. It should become more pronounced and I may even feel movement over the next few weeks as the baby will go from just 1 inch now to 3 inches in the next three weeks. Wow!

Another Good Day!

Yesterday was a reasonable good day! Wahoo!! I ate every hour on the hour but I was able to actually get the house partially cleaned, Joshua and I went to storytime and we watched Yanna and Val afterwards. We had our naps, ran to the store and made dinner. I couldn't have done that Monday but yesterday it seemed to work! So hopefully, today, will be a good day, too. I have to go to work so eating is harder but most of my clients are understanding.

9 weeks

Today starts my 9th week. Just 3 more to go before this morning sickness is over. It is really a minute by minute situation. The weather seems to affect it, even if I am in the ac. Yesterday was horrible but I think I got a bit dehydrated and that added to it. Today was so-so. Not so good in the morning but after I got enough food in me I felt a bit better.

I am finding I can eat food that I don't prepare (that's a challenge) so we have been eating out a lot and eating freezer type meals. :-( Not ideal.

I think by next week I should start being able to feel my uterus. The baby is already 1 inch big and has most of he important internal workings. I have another dr. appointment then and I am looking forward to that. I can't believe it has been a month since the last one.

The house seems to be falling apart around me but as Kimberly says, "You are knitting a life together." So, I guess it can wait. There seems to be no time to anything at all. But we are doing what is important: spending time as a family, taking naps, eating dinner together.

A Good Day...

Well, I have learned the secret to not being sick the ENTIRE day. I fell asleep last night at 7:30pm and slept until 5:30. It was wonderful. I still had my bouts of nausea throughout the day but they were managable this time if I ate something right away and I was able to get a few things done. I went for a walk in the morning and my mom and Dylan came over to help later in the morning. The weather was cooler today, too. Not humid and I think that also helped. So I am planning an 8:00pm bedtime tonight. I just need to get one more snack in me before sleep. I woke up at midnight last night and was starving but didn't want to get out of bed so hopefully this will pre-empt that hunger strike.

To the beach...

We had a lovely trip to the beach last week on Thursday and Friday. It was nice to just pack up and get away. Saturday was Ellie's birthday party. The morning (all day) sickness continues to be miserable. It is making work and everything else very difficult to complete. I am counting the days until the end of this trimester (july 29) that is about 3 weeks.

Cravings

I learned some very disturbing information yesterday... McDonalds does not sell french fries before lunchtime. What kind of craziness is that? And no, I don't want something else!

I didn't really have any cravings with Joshua but I have wanted some unusual (for me) foods with this one. Eating still seems to be a problem. I hope that it eases in the next trimester (a month from now) ugh.

excellent..

If there's any good news about morning sickness, this may be it. Women who experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy may have a lower risk of breast cancer later in life, according to new research.

7 weeks

"Your baby still appears to have a small tail (actually, it's an extension of his tailbone), which will disappear in the next few weeks. But that's the only thing getting smaller. Now almost half an inch long — roughly the size of a raspberry — he has elbow joints and distinct, slightly webbed fingers and toes. In his oversized head, both hemispheres of his brain are developing. His teeth and the inside of his mouth are forming, and his ears continue to develop. Eyelid folds partially cover his tiny peepers, which already have some color, and the tip of that nose you'll be tweaking someday is emerging. His skin is paper-thin and his veins are clearly visible.

Your little one also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. His liver is busy producing red blood cells, and a loop of your baby's growing intestines is bulging into his umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from his tiny body. You can't feel his gyrations yet, but your baby is like a little jumping bean, moving in fits and starts around his watery home."

The rest of the description goes on to say that 'You're in the throes of the first trimester....' Oh so true. Today sucked. It didn't help that the reunion was yesterday and Jason and I were up until 2am. The morning sickness is all day. I am so tired and nothing is appetizing. The peak is around dinner time making dinner making almost impossible. I just hope that they end of this does come at 12 weeks. I don't remember it being quite this awful with Joshua but then again, whenever I was tired with him, I slept.