Pregnancy Journal: Week 14

Still sick. Still tired.

I am starting to get amazed at how much my body can expand and grow when I feel like I am not keeping down/eating much. It makes me realize just a little bit more that there really is a little person inside of me! I am slowly getting some of my energy back. Now, when I come home from work I can do a few things and actually watch TV in the living room all night instead of watching it in bed :)

My clothes are really starting to not fit anymore, but all of the maternity clothes that I borrowed from my wonderful sister-in-law Happy (thanks Hap!) seem too big. I'm thinking that it might be time to do some in-between wardrobe shopping.

Belly picture:

Pregnancy Journal: Week 13

We had our second doctor's appointment this week and got to hear the baby's heartbeat again! It was so wonderful!!

Right before Anthony hit record, the doctor had found the heartbeat but then the baby moved and he had to search around a while before he found it again. I imagined he/she getting woken up by someone messing with him and trying to move away from the intrusion :)

Cool New T-Shirts

So Ant and I decided to buy some cool new t-shirts a few months ago. Here is a picture of us wearing them:
Did you look at them closely? .... We are going to have a baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We seriously can't be more excited! I am almost 13 weeks along and I am due February 27, 2010, just two days after my birthday :)

Here is the story of how we found out (Written June 23, 2010):

I missed work yesterday because of a really bad migraine, so yesterday I stayed in bed all day recovering. Today I was feeling better and ready to go back to work. In the back of my head I realized that today was the day that I was supposed to start my period. I took my temperature in the morning and it was still high, and I hadn’t felt any kind of cramping or PMS symptoms. Once I fully realized this, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to get any peace of mind until I took a pregnancy test. Of course, I was sure that it was going to be negative since I’ve taken about a million of them and they always turn up negative, I mean that is just what they do for me! I stopped by the store for a few tests and took it in the bathroom at work. As I watched the test start to work, I noticed that the first line showed up right away. “Wait a minute..” I thought. I’ve taken enough of these to know that the control line is usually at the end of the test so that you know that it worked correctly. Sure enough, a few seconds later, another line appeared. TWO LINES!!!!! I couldn’t believe it!! I was in shock, and then crying, and then I didn’t know how in the world I was going to get through the day without being able to tell anyone.

Finally I decided to just go home really quick, pretend that I had forgotten something, and then show Anthony the pregnancy test. I entertained the idea of doing something cute to surprise him, but we have been trying for so long that I just couldn’t keep it from him. When I finally got home, I said hi to him and told him I forgot something. Then I slipped the test out of my purse and told him that this is what I forgot to show him. He was so happy!! He couldn’t stop saying, “Na uh!!!” and squeezing me so tight that I needed to ask him for air. He still wanted to see “the magic” for himself, so I took the second test in the pack so that he could watch the positive result show up. It came up right away, and he got even more excited all over again. Now it was time to go back to work and try to pretend that I wasn’t bursting!

Pregnancy Journal: Week 12

I can't believe that I made it this far! I have been in seriously whiny survival mode for the past two and 1/2 months and I am just starting to feel like we are getting somewhere. If I have to feel so yucky, I might as well feel yucky farther along, right? I have my 2nd doctor's appointment next week and I can't wait to hear the baby's heartbeat again. How much do you think it would cost to buy one of those doppler thingys? Hmmm... How awesome would it be if I could hear the heartbeat anytime I wanted to?


Most of the extreme hunger and crazy cravings has kind of calmed down. It is weird, I would think they would get worse but it is kind of nice to go back to eating like a normal person. There are finally more things that I can eat than I can't, so that is nice. At the moment I still can't eat: vegetables (raw snacks are okay, but cooked vegetables, gag!), meat (any kind, even chicken), smoothies, yogurt unless it is the extra thick kind, and anything that is too spicy hot. The baby LOVES refined carbs, so I am often trying to talk myself out of buckets full of bread, crackers, and pancakes :) (Oh and that is my excuse for now and the next 7 months if I want to eat something. It is not for me it is for the baby, so really I am sacrificing by eating that piece of pie)

Pregnancy Journal: Week 11

Same old, same old. Still nauseous everyday, but usually only at the end of the day so I can make it through work reasonably well and go home and crash in bed and watch TV for the rest of the night. I am running out of shows to watch, I'll tell you what

This week I took my first belly picture! I've kind of been avoiding because I haven't really felt cute, but the day I took this I did. Plus, I couldn't believe what my belly was doing, so I decided to take a picture. Of course, I am fairly certain that most of this belly is water weight and bloating, but belly it is nonetheless :)

Pregnancy Journal: Week 10

There isn't much new this week, just sick and tired all of the time. I finally filled my prescription that I got from my doctor for nausea, and tried it out. It works great! At least, for a few days and then it seems like the effectiveness wears off and I have to have more of it for a smaller effect. So now I ration it and try not to have it unless I am at work or doing something I absolutely have to be functional for. If I am just at home, I do my best to just rest and drink broth or something to soothe my stomach.

We visited Anthony's family this weekend and got to tell them the good news! It was really fun. We wore these shirts that I ordered off of the internet that say "Mommy '11" and "Daddy '11" and we wore them to visit Ant's sister and brother-in-law and to visit his parents later on. It was so much fun waiting for them to notice and say something about it. Ant's sister, Happy, noticed right away and said, "Are you guys trying to tell us something". We just grinned and nodded and she was really excited for us. Ant's brother-in-law, Jared, needed a little more coaxing :) We basically had to keep hinting around, "Do you like our t-shirts?" and "Don't you like t-shirts that say things?". He was completely oblivious for awhile until he finally got it. Once he did, he said that he noticed them, but just didn't connect it to us being pregnant.

Anthony's parents were really fun to tell! Almost as soon as we walked into the door his mom saw my shirt and kept repeating it hopefully, "Mommy?!, Mommy?!". I told her to look at Anthony's shirt and when she saw what it said she squealed so loud, I couldn't believe it!! She was beside herself. Ant's dad was happy too, but nothing compares to her joy :) We all hugged and hugged multiple times and then she raced out of the room. I thought she was going to get the camera, but she came back with a stack of maternity shirts that she bought for me last year and was saving for just this occasion. Here are the pictures we took with the future grandparents and great-grandparent: