14 Weeks!!!

Another week along! Again, not much new to report over here. Last night I had a migraine from hell, and this morning, it is still there, just not full-blown like last night. It really sucks when you can't medicate yourself for these problems, I wanted to take an Advil so freaking badly! Anyhow, here is the weekly bean status report....

Welcome to your second trimester! This is a big milestone because it marks the end of a critical development period. All the basic structures of your baby's body are formed now. Head to bottom, your baby is just 3 1/2 inches long — about the length of a lemon — and weighs about 1 1/2 ounces. She's starting to develop an ultrafine, downy covering of hair all over her body called lanugo . Thanks to brain impulses, her little facial muscles are getting a workout as she squints, frowns, and grimaces. She can grasp now, too, and she may be able to suck her thumb.

Hmm... I thought I was in my 2nd trimester two weeks ago! Oh well... I wonder if bean is sucking it's thumb right now? awwww...

~Preggo

13 Weeks!

Well, it's been a fairly uneventful week, hence the lack of blogging! I had a doctor's appointment on Monday and everything looks fine. I've been feeling much better with the Diclectin, but have been suffering from a nightly headache. Anyhow, here's the weekly bean status report....Your belly may soon be big enough to announce to the world that you're expecting, but your baby is still tiny. In fact, he's only about 3 inches long crown to rump — roughly the size of a jumbo shrimp — and weighs just about an ounce. Despite the small proportions, there's a fully formed baby inside your womb now. Much more proportional than it was a few weeks ago, his head is now only about a third the size of his body. His tiny, unique fingerprints are already in place. His kidneys and urinary tract are functional, and he's starting to urinate out the amniotic fluid he's been swallowing. As you start your second trimester, most of your baby's critical development will be completed, and your odds of miscarriage will drop considerably.

I know that the little bean growing inside of me is miraculous and everything else, but really, "urinating out the amniotic fluid he's been swallowing"?????? that's SICK.

~Preggo

Adios Trimester One!! - 12 Weeks!

Yippee!!! We made it past the first trimester!!! I'm happy to have reached this milestone and am looking forward to the apparent energy and good feelings that are supposed to come along with the 2nd trimester.

I am feeling better today, with the assistance of a very expensive prescription that I got from the doctor yesterday. You see, after my last entry, I became violently ill, and was throwing up everything including water. It was like an unrelenting stomach-flu on crack, possibly the worst 24-hours of my life. So, I bit the bullet and got the Dilectin, which seems to be helping things. Today was the first day that I can remember in a long time when I took the bus and didn't get off and yack. At $200 a month, this shit better work!

Anyhow, here's the weekly update from babycentre.com..

"Your baby's hit the 2-inch mark (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce. Her eyes, which started out on the sides of her head, have moved closer together. Your baby's intestines, which have grown so rapidly that they protruded into the umbilical cord, will start to move into her abdominal cavity. Her kidneys are secreting urine into her bladder. She may have acquired more reflexes, including sucking, and she'll even squirm if you prod your abdomen, though you still won't be able to feel her move for a few weeks. "

~Preggo

This sucks.

I've thrown-up 3 times (so far) today on my first day back at work after the long weekend. I swear, it's something in the air here. I didn't get sick once this weekend. Or maybe it was the lady on the bus this morning who hadn't bathed in about a month. Whatever it is, I can't handle it.

I'm patiently waiting for Thursday to roll around as that is when I'm officially OUT of the 1st trimester and I'm hoping to wake up on Thursday morning miraculously cured of all nausea and vomitting. In the meantime and incase that doesn't happen, I've been busy at work researching home remedies to cure morning sickness. Ha! What a joke. Here's what I've found so far....

• get plenty of rest ( I try)
• chew your food thouroughly ( I would if I could eat something)
• make sure your stomach is never empty - carry fruit and CRACKERS around with you to nibble on throughout the day (no comment)
• keep a snack by the bed for when you get up in the middle of the night, and have a snack when you wake up in the morning before you get out of bed
• eat a high protein snack right before bed
• eat salty crunchy foods
• sniff a fresh lemon peel (lol)
• suck a piece of peeled gingerroot (eww!)
• To avoid actually vomiting, try grasping your tongue with a piece of cloth and pulling gently but firmly (lol)
• Lie completely still with your eyes closed

The only one that I figure actually works is the last one. I mean, is it just me or do these so-called "cures" all seem to cause the problem at hand. For me at least, the problem is that if I eat something, I throw it up... Why would I attempt to cure this problem by eating more?

I've also heard of these "preggie pops & quesy pops" which are suckers and sucky candies that are supposed to cure morning sickness. I'm thinking when I get home tonight I'll be sending Kyle out on a mission - not for pickles & ice cream, to find me some preggie pops!

~Preggo

11 weeks!

I'm 11 weeks today. Above is the picture of what my bean is supposed to look like at this stage.

According to the weekly email I receive from http://www.babycenter.ca/,

"Measuring from the crown of his head to his rump, your 1.5-inch/ 4-centimetre fetus has all his parts, from tooth buds to toenails. Your baby is busy kicking and stretching; his movements are so fluid they look like water ballet. Fingers and toes have fully separated. Now the fetus's main task during the next six months will be to grow larger and stronger until it can survive on its own outside the womb"

I can't believe he/she already has toothbuds and toenails! (What are toothbuds?)

~Preggo

Crackers..

I know that people mean well, I honestly do, but I swear to god, if one more person tells me to eat some crackers to cure my never-ending morning sickness I'm going to lose it. After another session of praying to the porcelain gods in my work bathroom this morning, I have had 2 people approach me and tell me about this so-called cure of eating crackers. Really? Is that all it's going to take? I've been vomitting for 2 weeks straight and all I needed to do was eat a stinking cracker? Shit, I wish I would have thought of that myself. Trust me, I've tried the damn crackers. I've tried everything, nothing helps. There is this medicine that you can apparently get from a doctor but it's expensive ($2 a pill, 5 pills a day), might not be covered by insurance, and can cause severe headaches (which you can't take anything for) I figure I'll just wait it out.. It's supposed to get better between 12-14 weeks but I swear, at this point, it's getting worse every day.
Okay, rant over.
~Preggo

Knocked Up!!

Welcome to my new blog!

Yes, our little family is growing.. which is worthy of a new blog, all to itself! This blog will serve several purposes... First, it will be my online pregnancy journal, to keep friends and family up-to-date on the goings on in this mommy-to-be's uterus. I will post pictures of my growing belly (well, maybe) and what else? I don't know. But I'm sure there will be other purposes!

So, I guess I'll start at the beginning... it was Sunday August 12th, 2007 (Kyle's 22nd birthday), early morning when I first saw that second line on the Home Prengnancy test.. It took awhile for it to sink in, and initally I didn't even tell Kyle! Eventually, I went and got Kyle and told him I had another birthday present for him. I gave him the pee-stick and we had our little happy family moment of celebration..

We got to see our precious bean for the first time on September 19th at the first ultrasound. It was such a great feeling to see our little bean's heart pumping away on the screen and we got to hear it too, it was so fast - 179 bpm!

Today I am 10 weeks and 6 days pregnant, so I'm just over a quarter of the way there. Up until about 9 weeks, I had it pretty good.. no nauesa or vomitting. Just extremely tired and waking up every 2 hours in the night to pee....

And than last week it hit me really hard. I was on the bus to work when I felt a very strong urge that I was going to yack so I got off and ralphed on the sidewalk in front of about 20 people waiting for the bus. Holy embarrassing! I cried and walked away. For the rest of the week I drove into work and was able to get sick in the privacy of my own car on the side of the highway.

This week I've been braving it and taking the bus again. It's not been pleasant but I haven't actually gotten sick on the bus. I have gotten sick on multiple occasions in the public bathroom at my work though, which makes me very unhappy, and also brings me some unwanted attention from the office gossip queens.

Anyhow, what else...

Believe it or not, I can no longer even stomach a cup of Tim Horton's coffee in the morning. Instead, I go for a gingerale every day when I get to work!

I've lost 5lbs, which is strange considering... but apparently it's normal to lose a few lbs in the first trimester. I think it's from not drinking any beer!

Kyle and I have both quit smoking!

My bra has gone up a cup size! Okay, possibly too much information.

I've experienced multiple episodes of pregnancy brain.

I'm obsessed with Cucumbers, like really, I could eat 10 cucumbers a day.

I've mastered the art of getting up in the middle of the night to pee and staying asleep while doing so.

Besides some cramping, headaches, and heartburn that's about it. Sounds great hey? I know.. but it will all be worth it in the end.

Later!
Preggo