9w2d

Just gonna get right to it... here's baby Haney!




I measured 8w5d, but they said to keep the same due date and to go with the 9 week info. So my due date is officially November 1st now. The heartbeat was so nice and strong, 171 bpm... it was so sweet looking at it beating on the screen! The little guy or girl was moving around in there and everything, no more webs on the fingers!

I emailed the pictures to Patrick, and he is going to go up to the library now to see them... I can't wait! It just makes me feel so much more at ease having seen the little bean now :)

8w4d

I'm sure if you hear another post about me being sick you'll scream.
Well I am about to.

I've gotten to the sneezy phase today-where every sneeze makes my head throb.
I'm usually such a sucker when I get sick and I go right for the allergy meds and the amoxicillin/z-pack...
This time I've done my duty. Drank lots of water, eaten lots of chicken noodle soup (annnddd drank all the broth... draggg...) and the cheap vanilla ice cream for the nausea. I've gotten plenty of sleep. BOUNCE BACK, self! This is going to be one long, rotten weekend if I don't. I need to be ok by 9am Friday morning before I start out on 6 hours in the car.

In other news, I've lost more weight. I've lost 4lbs since I went to the doc for the first time, and am 1lb lighter than pre-baby. And my belly is still expanding. And it's so crampy all the time. I bet there are like five little suckers in there.

Well Sneezy McSneezerton is off to blow my nose for a few more hours while preparing to NOT sleep another night... whee!

8w2d

Is there anything "dangerous" to the baby if I get sick at this point? My sinuses are majorly draining and I can already feel the usual throat/upper respiratory infection starting (it happens a time or two a year, so nothing shocking) ...I am going to try and nurse it myself-lots of water and I have some decaf tea-blahhh... it would just be a long day if I decided to go to the doctor tomorrow (as a walk-in I usually wait at least four hours to be seen-they have one scheduled appointment every hour, so there's always a few week wait to get one)... aacckkk. I'd rather sit at home.

In other news... It's too uncomfortable now to sleep or lay directly on my belly. It's a growing! Only one more week till the ultrasound!

7w6d

I want any or a combination of the following:

-Cici's cinnamon rolls
-Tortilla chips and a refried bean/sour cream mixture
-McDonald's french fries
-Green olives (oh those would be yummy with the chips/beans/sour cream mix)
-Quesadilla from Applebee's
-Ruffles (regular) potato chips and French's onion dip

Unfortunately any or all of these would require me to get dressed, get in the car, and go to the store...THIS is the purpose of husbands! I think the Marine Corps should supply me with something supplementary while he is away. Though that is in my dream world, and in my dream world he would never be gone at all.

Oddly enough, with all these things I am craving and eating (mostly salty stuff) I've actually lost a few pounds... I gained a little at first, but now I am back down to what I was actually before I went to the doc the first time. I know this is normal, I just think it's goofy because my belly IS expanding (I went up a size in pants this past week)... but I am in that awkward phase that makes me look like I am just gaining weight-it doesn't look like a baby yet.

I have to munch on something... I am actually really hungry because dinner consisted of 2 Eggo waffles and that's it. Oh, what to do!

7w5d

What do the old wives tales say when you are sicker at night than in the morning? Boy or girl? That's definitely me... usually I'm queasy and gaggy all day long, and just worse at night (particularly when I climb into bed... then it hits!) but today I was pretty ok this morning and all afternoon (another Nervous Nelly moment) and now it's back. I'm just curious... I've tried to look it up online but all I find is info about morning sickness and how to make it a little more manageable... THANKFULLY that has not been me, and I am pretty sure by this point I have been spared.

Kas thinks girl (her necklace trick says it every single time), the chinese tests I've taken online (well all whopping TWO of them that I have taken) say boy... for some reason, I think boy-but I think that's because the few times I've browsed around at baby names I automatically go to the boy list first, even though they are right next to each other, and I thought maybe that could be a sign-SO silly, I know! We won't start the guesses till it's public knowledge, which we've agreed will be when Patrick comes home, and I will be between 13-14 weeks at that point. I'm curious to see what people say as far as how I carry the baby too-but that's a ways away yet... as is the actual finding out... November seems a LONG way off at this point!

7w3d

All I can think about.
At getting close to midnight...
Is a turkey sandwich from Subway.
American cheese...
Some lettuce...
A glob of mayo...
The wonderful wonderful bread...
It doesn't make it any easier that Patrick is sitting in Subway as I type this.


Silly "foods to avoid" list!

7w2d

Well Patrick is gone... and it might be a good thing! I don't know when the next time I will be able to make a square meal is... It's still rough going for the eating thing.

Although... I just spent a whopping $60 at Walmart... on CRAP.

Some of the items that graced my cart were a few cans of Spaghettios, Dinty Moore beef stew, the Stouffers and Lean Cuisine grilled sandwiches that I love, waffle fries, Luigi's Italian Ice... a couple of bananas... crackers for this weekend's trip.

I told Patrick about it, and he said it was fine-with everything in existence making me queasy (yesterday for dinner I had a waffle with butter on it, the night before I forced down mashed potatoes) I need to get some sort of calories down. I think that's why I was feeling so awful yesterday... I know I need to eat, I don't want to though.

One VERY exciting thing... I am trying to drink way more water and juice... and today the heavens opened and dropped down DIET Ocean Spray juice! I love juice, but the sugar in it is usually way more than my hypoglycemic self to handle... so I have a teensy glass here and there. But I found the sans sugar version today, and I grabbed a bottle of the Cranberry Grape, and I am a happy girl.