Pregnancy Week 7

Week 7

Yep, the nausea is in full swing.  My daily routine this week is getting up, peeing, laying back down in bed to fight nausea, get back up and throw up.  Shower.  Start to get ready.  Throw up again.  Every. Single. Day.

Having a harder time eating this week as well.  It’s not often something sounds good to me to eat, so when something does I try to jump on it.  I admit to taking the easy way out when I went grocery shopping this week.  I bought “no effort” food.  Corn dogs, frozen burritos, frozen pizza, etc.  Poor Alan has been having to fend for himself for every single meal last week and this. Generally the smell of food makes me more nauseous, so the thought of cooking something I just can’t seem to stomach.

Next week is our first doctor appointment, and I can’t wait. I need some nausea relief!  I’m trying everything I can find online………peppermint and ginger teas, peppermint or lemon candies, Sprite, saltine crackers, sipping juice before I get out of bed, smaller meals more frequently, etc.  Sometimes some of the items provide some relief, but I just feel miserable all of the time right now.  Here’s to hoping I find some relief soon.

Pregnancy Week 6

Week 6

The nausea has really started to kick up!  Early in the week I felt so horrible between nausea and fighting a head cold and allergies, by the time bed time hit I just laid on the bed and cried.  Alan was super sweet and just held me and rubbed my back until I stopped crying.  Since then he and I have both been researching how to handle morning sickness and I’ve been trying a few things.  Sprite and saltine crackers are my best friend this week.  Those along with peppermint candies and ginger tea seem to be helping enough.  Sometimes it even seems like the peppermint altoids (it’s all they had at the gas station) help even just by smelling them in the tin.  I have to use something constantly though…….Sprite, mints, crackers……..it’s a constant cycle.  I’m also finding I am pretty tired during the day.  I feel like just a 30 minute nap would help a ton, and an hour would be even better. Too bad I can’t have naps at work, right?  Outside of the nausea issues, my back still gets a bit stiff sometimes if I stay in the same position too long, and I haven’t buttoned up my pants the last two days. J  They still fit, I just feel like they push too much on my stomach when they are done up, so I’m not doing it.

I’ve been doing lots of reading online about things we should buy for the baby and things we shouldn’t.  Some of the things are pretty consistent and others are random.  I can’t wait to be able to tell my family, mostly my aunts, so they can help me make sense of it all!  I also went and did my Brazilian wax last night as scheduled.  I found out the hard way that when you are pregnant, that area becomes much more sensitive!  Sensitive and swollen is the name of the game it seems.

Doctor’s appointment is in just less than 2 weeks now and I can hardly wait!  My friend Jessica told me we’ll get to hear the heartbeat! (I told one friend and Alan told one friend the week we found out! We just had to tell someone!)  I assumed we’d do the ultrasound, but I guess I didn’t think about the heartbeat.  With how emotional I am right now I’m sure I will cry getting to experience that. The tears seem to come consistently right now.  But…..just two more weeks until we get to see our little one for the first time! I am so excited!  I hope by then this morning sickness will have calmed down as well. 

Pregnancy Week 5

Week 5

This first week after finding out is a whirlwind! I have to pee, a lot. I mean a lot.  I am so thirsty during the days.  I am drinking at least 80 ounces while I sit at work, and then more at home. I just can’t get enough water!  I have had a few brief moments of nausea, but nothing that hasn’t passed after 30 minutes or so.  I also started to experience some light back pain.  It’s pretty constant.  Getting comfortable on the couch or in bed has been more difficult because it hurts.  We ordered some pregnancy workout DVD’s online over the weekend and I should get them any day now.  I’m hoping this will help w/the pains and also keep me from gaining too much weight   Other than those few things, I still feel just as I did a month ago!  Our first doctor appointment is just 3 weeks away and I can’t wait!

Pregnancy - Week 4 - Just Finding Out

August 27, 2014

Today I finally got brave enough to take an at-home pregnancy test; Three days after I was “late”.  I waited until Alan had left for work and took the test without him knowing. I didn’t want us both to be disappointed if the test said no, as it had many times before.  I went in to the bathroom and did the test.  Within about 30 seconds I saw the results…..2 lines. 2 lines meant pregnant!!!!!  Wait, I read it correctly, right? 2 lines meant pregnant?? I stared at the test making sure I had read it correctly. I did.  I started to cry the happiest tears of my life.  I then did this happy cry/laugh/disbelief thing for a few minutes.  Then I worried I had misread it again. I pulled the box back out and looked at the instructions in the box again. Yes, 2 lines meant pregnant.  Ok, I read it correctly, I was PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!  The next 20 minutes I just cried and laughed and couldn’t believe it.  Our months of trying had finally worked!  We were pregnant!  I finally remembered I still had to go to work that day and pulled myself together.  I put the pregnancy test in my sock drawer so I knew Alan wouldn’t see it yet and proceeded to get ready for work.

Once at work I started planning how I could tell Alan.  I looked up hundreds of ideas online.  I figured after work while he was at school I would drive to Babies R Us and get a little onesie that said something about ‘daddy’ and give Alan a present when he got home that night.  Yep, that is what I was going to do.  Until about 11:00 that is.  It was almost lunch time and I could not hold in the excitement any longer!  I decided I would tell him when we went home at lunch time.

Lunch time came and we drove home to eat as normal.  We got home, started making our sandwiches, he was talking about work.  I said I needed to go to the bathroom, but also needed to go upstairs to get my chapstick to take back to work.  I went upstairs while he finished lunches.  I got the pregnancy test from my drawer and tucked it in to my pocket.  I went back down, helped finish the lunches, and he took his over to the couch to sit and eat.  Before he turned on the TV though, I walked over and said “Honey, before we turn the TV on, I think we need to take some time to talk about our budget again and where we have money going.  He said OK and looked at me.  I pulled the pregnancy test out of my pocket and handed it to him as I said “And this is why”.

He took the test, not realizing what it was quite yet.  He looked at it, and kept looking at it.  After about a minute or two his eyes started to fill with tears and he said “No freaking way”.  He then looked up at me, and he cried his own happy tears as he pulled me to an incredible hug.  As we hugged we both cried our own happy tears, party in shock it had finally happened.  We couldn’t believe it, we were finally going to be parents!!!  We pulled apart and talked about some pregnancy things, which I can’t quite remember all of.  I told him my estimated due date, he asked how accurate the at home tests were, and we decided to wait until I was at least 10 weeks to tell anyone.  Easily one of the happiest moments of our lives. 

We Moved!

I'm definitely slacking in keeping up on this blog in a timely manner, but better late than never, right?  We moved!  We've been in our new place for 3 weeks now and just love it.  We didn't have to move far and just went from Pleasant Grove to American Fork.  We were probably 7-8 minutes away from our work before we moved and now we are like 5 :)  It's amazing.

Reason for the move? More room!  While our last place (and first place together) was nice, it just wasn't great.  Very small living room and kitchen, one car garage, horrible hot water heater our landlords wouldn't fix, and generally just small.  The new place we found to rent is 600 sq ft bigger!  It has a 2 car garage (hooray!), still 3 bed 2 1/2 bath, but also has a bonus room upstairs. It's kinda like another family room.  Currently we have our office stuff in this room along with my sewing stuff.  Our hopes are to put a second TV along with recliners up there as well.  The kitchen and living are so much bigger too!!  The living room itself is the same size as our old living room and kitchen combined. It's awesome. We can actually invite people over now and have room for them!  There is also a back porch we can actually use, although it sits empty for now as we have no outdoor furniture or BBQ grill yet :)  Overall, just a bigger, nicer place for us to live.

I've been up to get a few things up on the walls so far, but still have a long way to go in decorating.  I need an unlimited supply of money for this :) I have some cute projects in mind for some of the decorating and hope to be able to do them soon. The good news is we only have like 4 boxes that haven't been unpacked.  We are just lazy and haven't done them yet.  But a little bit at a time, right? Anyway, we are happy to be moved and have more space.  We can't wait to invite friends and family over now for fun game nights, movies, and dinners!