Actually Made It to the Gym

Thank God that I'm feeling back to my myself again. I even got my ass to the gym this morning

after not showing my face there for a week and a half. I wonder if I'm feeling better because my "morning sickness" is over or because we haven't been having stupid winter temps the last few days.

I was so glad to see the resolution gym goers where out of there this morning. They gave up fast this year.

Hope this new trend continues........with me and the weather!

Beautiful Day!

The weather here today was beautiful!! It was like 60 and sunny. Jealous much?

Of course I only was in it for a few minutes while chasing the dogs down the street because Greg left the gate on the driveway open. GRRR! How hard is it to make sure you push a little button on a remote?

Maybe tomorrow I'll get my lazy pregnant ass off the couch and go enjoy our nice weather. In my defense though, I am getting over a sinus infection.

Grape

Here's my 9 week update from babycenter.com:

"Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain."

Maybe after a few weeks I can post the picture that they have with the update. Right now they're kind of gross looking.

My Baby is White Trash

I'm scared that my baby is going to come out with a Nascar t-shirt on, wanting a Bucsh beer instead of a bottle, and demanding that I take it to Walmart. I think my baby may be white trash because I keep craving Taco Bell, hot wings (of course not the chicken part), and other crap food.

I already have had to go to Taco Bell several times in the past month and half. Then this morning I saw some wing sauce that Greg had in the pantry. I actually ate wing sauce on bread dipped in ranch dressing. Oh the shame!

Why, oh why, is my baby turning me into white trash?

On the plus side I woke up still feeling better this morning.....at least before the ranch and wing sauce bread.

Feeling Better and First Baby Purchase

OMG yesterday was the worst f'ing day of my life! I felt like dog crap all day. I was literally in tears with my head in the trash can all day. I was having visions of being one of those women with "morning sickness" for my whole pregnancy. SCARY!

But then this morning I woke up feeling so much better! I think the calcium supplement that I was taking was giving me nausea on steroids, so I'm done with it for a while. I'll just have to have more diary.

I made my first baby related purchase. I know that it's pretty early to be shopping, but it was for something that I know I want (which happened to be way on sale).

Here it is:

It's an Arm's Reach Mini Convertible Co-Sleeper Bassinet.

It's pretty cool. It will pull right up to the side of our bed and has safety straps that attach under the mattress. All the reviews say that it's great for middle of the night nursing sessions. As long as you don't have to change a dirty diaper, then you can just reach out and pull them to you to feed, without fully having mom or baby wake up. It's like having the baby sleep with you without being able to roll on top of them. Plus it's not some cheesy pastel color that will clash with our furniture and decor.

I think my husband is a little worried that the baby shopping flood gates have now opened, but I think I'll be mostly holding off until we find out the gender. I really want gender specific things since we're only having one child and because of my love of pink ( since I already know it's a girl!).

Kidney Bean

According to babycenter.com, this is what is happening in my uterus this week:

"New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it."

If you're expecting, and haven't signed up on baby center yet, you should. You get an email like this every week telling you what is happening with your body/baby. You can also have the same one sent to your partner or spouse. There's also tons of other information on their site, and there is a forum with other moms to answer any questions you have about your pregnancy.

The only weird thing about it is that they compare your baby to a food every week. We, of course, refer to the baby by that food name for that entire week.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope your weekends were good. Ours was decent.

I was super excited that apparently all the football games were over, so some new tv could come back on Friday.

Friday is one of my favorite tv lineups with Ghost Whisperer and Medium on CBS. So Friday night was a relaxing one laying in the bed with the dogs and watching the tube while trying to stay warm.

Saturday was a tough nausea day and made work pretty difficult Saturday morning. But I made it through.

Saturday night we went to our friends Ashley and Mike's for their joint thirtieth birthday party. This was the first time that I've been around my girlfriends and at a party with everyone having drinks, and I can't. It was pretty depressing, but Greg helped by voluntarily refraining with me. I told him to enjoy having a D D, but it did help having the solidarity. It was still fun to soberly see some good friends and some faces I haven't seen in a while. Ashley is quite the little hostess, so everything was adorable and the food was fab! Especially the cake our friend Chevelle brought ( I had 2 pieces). I really should have taken some photos, but my camera never made it out of my purse. That's probably because I usually start taking pictures around drink 4.

Today we hauled all of Christmas stuff down to my mom's to put into their attic. We don't have an attic, and we have to clear out as much room as possible in our closets, so baby can have the whole closet in what will be it's nursery.

This week the weather thankfully is suppose to warm up! I can't wait.

Yuck

This morning my hurting stomach actually woke me up at 5am. I laid in bed feeling like I was going to puke for the next hour. Then from 6 to 6:30 I actually was getting sick.

Hoping this is the peak of my nausea, and it will diminish from here. But probably not. At least I won't be gaining a bunch of weight my first trimester.

<--- Do You See It Says 225 Days To Go?

OMG I'm so impatient! I can't believe I'll be preggo for another 225 days! I feel like it's going to be forever until we meet our little peanut. Of course I want to go full term, but is it going to go by this slowly the whole time? I guess it doesn't help that this is the only thing I'm focussing on, especially in weather that's not fit for man or beast.

Is this how all of you moms felt? Or is this how you expectant moms are feeling? When does it get better? Or are you in limbo for 40 weeks?

Love the New Doc

The doctor appointment today went great! We love, love, love the new doctor. She has a much better approach to caring for an expectant mother who wants natural childbirth. She has eased all my anxieties about having a hospital birth.

We also got to hear the heartbeat on the ultrasound! It was pretty awesome, but I thought I would get more emotional over hearing it. It was funny how fast it was, but the doctor said that was exactly how it was suppose to sound.

We also got a more accurate due date. It's August 21st. That is pretty funny since the first doc said August 10th, which I knew was wrong.

So we don't go back for a month, which seems like forever. We will almost be past the first trimester at that point, and I hopefully will be nausea and exhaustion free.

A Good Checkup, Please. Thank You

I'm going to the new OB this afternoon. I'm pretty nervous. I'm nervous that I won't like this one either, or worse yet, that something will be wrong with the pregnancy. I wonder if I'll feel like this before every check up. I hope not.

I guess this is just part of becoming a parent. You worry something is going to go wrong the whole time you're pregnant. Then when you have a healthy baby, you worry about keeping them that way the rest of your life.

I'll report back later (and hopefully with an accurate due date!). Maybe if things go well we'll be ready to tell the rest of the world that we're expecting!

Tired, Nauseated, and Zero Appetite

How do pregnant women gain any weight there first trimester? How do they not lose ten pounds?The thought of food is sooo not appealing to me right now.

Pregnancy nausea has been pretty weird so far. I expected more of a hung over feeling. Like needing to run to the restroom to toss my cookies. But it's been more of a dull nausea that comes and goes. Last night it was pretty constant, though. NO FUN!

Most days I can manage to eat about a meal and half a day, drink a few big glasses of water, and take my prenatal liquids. I'm getting worried that I'm not getting enough nutrients.

And it's not like I'm just constantly nauseated (like where I would need to be put on medicine), but just that I have no real interest in food.

Being really lethargic hasn't helped. Maybe I'll get some energy back soon, so I can get to the gym. Surely working out would help increase my appetite.

I posted a poll for what you think we're going to have, a boy or a girl. Make sure you vote. FYI I think we're having a girl based on how long boy sperm can survive vs how long girl sperm can survive.

Happy 10!

10 just doesn't have the same ring to it as '08 or '09 did, does it? So what are you suppose to call 2010 for short?

We were the most boring people on the planet on NYE this year. We were both literally asleep, and had been for several hours, at the stoke of midnight. We didn't go out this year at all because Greg was on antibiotics for a sinus infection, and I can't drink anyway.

Why can't I drink you ask? Well now that I figured out how to stop my blog post from going to Facebook I can tell you.

I'm PREGNANT!! 7 1/2 weeks along. Due in mid-August. ( wouldn't have been cool if the due date was October 10, 2010, 10-10-10)

In know all the people who live in Memphis are gasping at the idea of being fully preggo in our August heat, but I'm actually fine with the prospect. I'm hoping the intense heat/humidity will insure me not going past my due date and therefore no Pitocin.

I'm warning you now that my blog will probably become all about my pregnancy because honestly nothing else can go on in my life while I'm knocked up. I can't go out to eat any great meals because they'll probably make me puke. I can't go out drinking because of the obvious. I can't get excited about wanting or buying any new clothes because I'm going to be too fat to wear any of them in a few months. And I'm probably going to have to clean up my gutter mind and sense of humor if I'm going to be someone's mommy.

OK, maybe not the last one. I have to have something to do.

I'll probably have something new to post about what's happening after my appointment with my new OB on Tuesday. This new one is suppose to have a much better attitude about natural childbirth than my current one, so I'm pretty excited about this appointment. Plus this time I will be far enough along, 8 weeks, to see the heartbeat on the ultrasound.

So, if y'all know about any other blogs of pregnant girls then hook me up! I would love to read about what's happening with some other mommas-to-be. Or maybe some of you should start trying to get pregnant right now. You could get that 10-10-10 due date!

PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE! We aren't telling everyone yet.