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13 Weeks!

By on March 16, 2012

How far along? 13 weeks

Maternity clothes? Nope. My jeans are getting a little tight. I’m loving my dresses!

Stretch marks? Except for the ones I already had, nope. Damn freshman 15. 🙂

Sleep: Pretty good. Up at 5am every night to pee, but other than that I’m sleeping through the night. And I’m still trying to get used to not sleeping on my stomach or back.

Best moment this week: Texting back and forth with Josh about names for the baby while we’re at work. 🙂

Miss Anything? Sleeping on my stomach. And red wine. 🙂

Movement: Nope.

Food cravings: Fruit, salads, lemonade, Pop Tarts, and anything sweet.

Anything making you queasy or sick: BBQ, sometimes Mexican food, onions and Greek yogurt. Which is sad because I bought a 12 pack of Choboni at Sam’s right before I started having morning sickness. 🙁

Gender: I’ve been feeling boy but everyone says I’m having a girl since I’ve been craving fruit and sweets.

Labor Signs: Nope.

Symptoms: Still a little queasy here and there. And still a little sore in the chest area.

Belly Button in or out? In.

Wedding rings on or off? On.

Mood: Happy but sleepy.

Looking forward to: Relaxing this weekend. And we’re going to the Melting Pot on Saturday for their “endless fondue” event!! Can’t wait to pig out! I’m eating for two, right? 🙂

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What I’ve learned so far…

By on March 2, 2012

Morning sickness…that stuff is no joke. At both my appointment with my family doctor and my appointment with my obgyn, I felt fine. Literally less than 24 hours after my obgyn appointment…BAM. Sick as a dog.
And ever since then? Sick, sick, sick!!! I’ve been feeling TERRIBLE!! All day long nausea. No throwing up…but that’s because I HATE throwing up. I’d rather feel sick than throw up. I’ve been gagging a lot too. It’s miserable.

I can’t stand any meat. I’ve been eating a lot of scrambled eggs and peanut butter and jelly. Pizza and quesadilla are also settling ok. And fruit is still good. But I’m getting really tired of eating the same things over and over and over.

At work, I’m miserable. At home, I’m miserable. In the morning, I’m miserable. In the evening, I’m miserable.

I’ve tried eating saltines right when I wake up.

I’ve tried ginger gum.

I’ve tried vitamin B6.

I’ve tried ginger ale.

I eventually broke down and called my doctor. She prescribed me some nausea medicine. Even it doesn’t help that much!

So I’m just miserable. I can’t even THINK about food. (This from a girl who loves to cook, loves to eat, and watches tons of Food Network and Cooking Channel.)

I can’t open my fridge – the smells make me sick.

I can’t go to the grocery store – too much nasty looking food and too much to smell!

I can’t even look at Pinterest because if I scroll by a picture of food, I gag!

Y’all – this is horrible. I’m praying it will only last the first trimester…

And on the bright side, at least I know that baby is still in there! Even if he is making me sick. 🙂

P.S. Please don’t give me suggestions – trust me, I’ve tried almost everything. Just commiserate with me. 🙁

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I won’t be eating ribs for a looooong time

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Until my first ultraosund, this pregnancy had been a piece of cake. (Uggg…cake sounds gross…)

I really haven’t had any morning sickness.

The only craving I had was for jalapenos. (Which sound disgusting now…)

My vitamins haven’t made me nauseous.

And I haven’t had any food aversions….

Until yesterday.

Remember the story about the ribs? (Uggg…even typing the word makes me want to puke…)

Well the night after my parents came over, I decided we should go ahead and eat the ribs. (Bleck.)

Even though all day I was wanting a salad. A nice crisp salad with butter lettuce and real ranch dressing. (Which now sounds yucky…)

So even though ribs sounded a little gross to me, I got home and put them in the oven. (Thinking about the smell….ewwww!!!)

But I was fine. I ate the ribs. And I didn’t feel bad…YET…

The ribs were actually pretty good. (At least at that moment they were good…)

Well later that night, I was sooooooooooo incredibly nauseous. I couldn’t even tell Josh what was wrong. Every time I went to form the words in my head, it made me super sick to even think of the work “ribs.” I just lay on the couch and eventually feel asleep because I was so miserable. When I woke up later, I had to ask Josh to clean up the leftovers because I didn’t think I could look at the ribs again without throwing up. I went straight to bed. Even this morning when I woke up, I couldn’t think about ribs. Ewww!!!

So lesson learned. If a certain food seems a little gross to me…DON’T EAT IT!!!! You will regret it.

And I’m pretty sure I will not be eating ribs for the rest of my pregnancy.

Gross.

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8 Week Appointment!

By on March 1, 2012

Here’s a post I wrote write before my 8 week appointment:

In about an hour and a half, Josh and I will be at my new obgyn doctors for my 8 week appointment. I’m so ridiculously excited and CRAZY nervous. I can’t wait to see the baby (I confirmed they’re doing an ultrasound!!!) even though I know it won’t look anything like a baby this early. 🙂 I hope we get to hear the heartbeat – who knows, it might be too early to hear it? Guess I’ll find out soon! I have so many questions, so many hopes and dreams running around my head. I haven’t been able to concentrate all morning!

But mostly, I’m just praying that everything is well with the baby. That he or she is healthy and growing…

I don’t know what I’d do if we got bad news…but I’m trying not to think about that now…

I’ll update after the appointment. We’re also planning on telling my parents tonight if all goes well. And THAT will be exciting!!

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The appointment went great!!!! There’s really a baby in there!! However, my new obgyn thinks the baby isn’t quite 8 weeks. Still pretty small. But we did see the little guy (he looks pretty alien!) and saw his heart beating (just looked like a little flicker). I forgot to look over at Josh during the ultra sound (like I said – I was really nervous during the whole appointment) and I’m kind of sad I didn’t see his reaction. I’ll have to make sure to look at him next time. This time I was too busy looking at the baby on the screen! We got a picture – the first pic of baby D! We had to drive over to the doctors separately since we were both coming straight from work and when we left the doctors, Josh asked, “Can I ride home with the picture?” SOOOO SWEET! He’s so excited about all of this. I love it!!

When we got home it was torture waiting for 5:30 when my parents were supposed to come over.

Oh – and a funny side note. I totally already have baby brain. I prepared ribs the night before to cook for my parents. I rubbed them with a dry rub and got them all set up in the crock pot. I was just going to take the crock pot out of the fridge in the AM and have them cooking all day and ready for dinner at 5:30. Well guess who forgot to take the ribs out of the fridge in the AM?!?! This pregnant lady right here. Argh. Luckily, my mom had some leftover roast she brought over for us to eat. I fail. 🙂

Anyway, my parent’s FINALLY got there. We were all standing around chatting in the kitchen. I was sooooo nervous about telling them. I couldn’t wait any longer. I asked them, “Hey – do y’all wanna see the new Toms I bought?” And I pulled out these to show them:

I let them look at them for a while (you could tell they were totally confused) and then I said, “Of course, I won’t be able to use them until September!” And that’s when it clicked. They were so excited!!!! We showed them the ultrasound pic and talked for a loooong time about the details of everything. They were amazed at all of the times I’d seen them since I found out and the fact that I was able to keep it a secret. 🙂 I told them how hard it had been lying to them (since they both knew we were trying and were always asking questions). But they didn’t care. They were so thrilled. One of the most fun moments EVER!!

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Telling a Few More People

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So after telling Josh, the next people I wanted to tell were our parents. BUT, a few more people heard our secret before we were ready to tell our family.

On Monday the 23rd, I made an appointment with my doctor just to talk to her about how we’d been trying with no success. Then on Tuesday the 24th I found out I was pregnant. Figures right? It’s so crazy how things always seem to work out like that.

Anyway, I decided to keep the appointment, just so I could confirm what the home pregnancy tests were telling me and to see if my doctor had a recommendation for an obgyn. The appointment was for the 31st. (That was a LONG week to wait!)

When I got to the doctor, I told the nurse that we had finally gotten a positive pregnancy test. My heart was beating so far when I told her – she was only the second person to know! And boy, her reaction was disappointing. She just nodded. I was bummed. Then I realized she probably didn’t know we’d been trying. So I told her and THEN she said congratulations and asked me more questions. Yay! Then when my doctor came in (I’ve been seeing the same sweet doctor since I was 14) she asked me with a big smile on her face, “So, are you ready to do some celebrating? You ARE pregnant!” It was sooooo nice to be able to talk to someone other than Josh about the pregnancy. She asked me if I’d had an nausea (not yet) or food aversions (not yet) and we talked about due dates (September 16th according to her calculations!!!). It was so great sharing the news with someone, even if it was just my doctor. 🙂

A few nights later, it was raining so Josh and I decided to go walk around the mall to get some exercise. We stopped in Kohl’s to look around and found the CUTEST frame for your ultrasound picture that said “Now Showing.” Adorable, right?!?! We went to the check out counter and when the girl was ringing us up, she looked at me and said, “Are you expecting?” I was secretly hoping she’d ask and my mouth turned up into a HUGE smile and I blurted out “YES!” She asked how far along I was (7 weeks!!) and then told me about her little 10 month old boy. Josh and I walked out of the store beaming – how exciting to talk to people about OUR baby!!

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