Pregnancy Week 8

Week 8

Well this week started off horrible!  I got up Monday morning for work, threw up twice before work, and it was so bad it gave me a horrible headache from all the pressure.  I ended up coming in 30 minutes late to work as I needed some time to pull myself together. (Thank goodness I told my boss last week I was prego so he’d understand why I was struggling in the mornings!)  I made it a whole 90 minutes before I couldn’t take it any longer and went home.  My intentions were to go home, sleep the headache and nausea off, then come back to work in 2 hours (ish).  I got home, immediately fell on the couch, pulled a blanket over my eyes, and went to sleep.  Starting then for the next 3 ½ hours I just slept on the couch.  I woke briefly when Alan came home to make lunch, and he gave me a cold rag for my head, then back to sleep I went.  By the time I woke up, the headache was manageable, but I still felt horrible and couldn’t get any food down.  I opted to stay home from work the rest of the day.

Then came Tuesday.  Our first doctor appointment!!  Still feeling very nauseous, but able to keep down some food, I went in to work as normal.  Alan and I left for a late lunch and headed off to the appointment.  First stop in the appointment was to do the ultrasound!!!  I am not far enough along to do the belly ultrasound yet, so they did a vaginal one.  It was AMAZING!  We saw our little baby!  We got to hear the little heartbeat and see it beating on the screen!  They took some pictures and checked a few things, and we were done.  Alan and I were both so happy to see that little heartbeat!  Words cannot describe.  The next stop was to see the doctor. (Ok, there was a urine sample in there too, but, eww.) Alan I went in and got to talk to the doctor and ask all of our questions.  Alan also met my doctor for the first time, and good news, he likes him too.  The doctor did a quick exam and a PAP and sent us on our way.  We then got to get a “new baby” bag with all sorts of goodies I haven’t yet looked through, they gave us a book about pregnancy (how nice!) and then they took my blood for all the standard tests.  We set up our next appointment and we were on our way.  What an amazing experience.  Our little one is confirmed.  There is a heartbeat.  Baby is just a little tiny dot in my stomach right now, and if you ask Alan, looks like a frog on the ultrasound.   Oh, and good news, I got a prescription for some nausea medicine!  Wahoo!

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.