Seven Week Update

How far along? 7 weeks (Raspberry)

Total weight gain/loss: I'm down about 5 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight (different scale so not 100% sure).  Still not much appetite.

Maternity clothes: No.

Have you told family and friends?   No one new except PaPa.  He was pretty unconscious, on sedation medication and a respirator so I'm pretty positive remember but I was afraid it was the last time I would see him alive so it made me feel better to "tell" him.
 

Have you started to show yet? No.  I FEEL bloated but almost all of my clothes are pretty baggy.

Sleep: OK.  It helps that I STAY exhausted.

Best moment this week: PaPa responding so well to give me hope that he might meet my  baby!

Miss Anything? I miss having moments through the day where I feel fully awake and not just over ate Thanksgiving dinner full. Oh yeah, and Spark. I MISS Spark!

Movement: Nope.

Food cravings: Absolutely not. 

Anything making you queasy or sick? Laying down.

Gender prediction: Boy

Labor Signs: No

Symptoms: Fatigue, really oily skin and hair and always feeling so full I want to throw up.

Major purchases this week? I did buy some maternity clothes from a friend of a friend.

Weekly wisdom: Take naps whenever you can. Growing a human is really hard work!

Looking forward to: The sonogram next week and planning how we will tell everyone! :)

Six Week Update

How far along? 6 weeks (Sweet Pea)

Total weight gain/loss: I'm down 4 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight as of this week's appointment.  I have absolutely no appetite and nothing tastes right.  If anything gives me away before we are ready to tell I think it will be how drastically my appetite has changed.
Maternity clothes: No.
Have you told family and friends?   Just my L&D nurse who first suspected I was pregnant and told me to go take a test, Miranda and Louise and Dirt.

Have you started to show yet? No.  Just the opposite.  Quite a few people have remarked on how thin I look.

Sleep: Not great.  Congestion and nausea make it hard to go to sleep and rolling over on my chest wakes me up multiple times a night.  I am ALWAYS awake during the 4am hour for some weird reason.
Best moment this week: Telling Louise and Dirt :)
Miss Anything? I miss having moments through the day where I feel fully awake and not just over ate Thanksgiving dinner full.  Oh yeah, and Spark.  I MISS Spark!
Movement: Nope.
Food cravings: Absolutely not. 
Anything making you queasy or sick? Being awake??
Gender prediction: Boy
Labor Signs: No
Symptoms: Fatigue, really oily skin and hair and always feeling so full I want to throw up.

Major purchases this week? No.

Weekly wisdom: Take naps whenever you can.  Growing a human is really hard work!
Looking forward to: The sonogram in two weeks and planning how we will tell everyone!  :)

First Appointment

Today I had my first appointment as an OB patient.  Matt wasn't able to go with me and it was just a consultation appointment anyways but I was still really nervous!  Luckily, my Dr is fabulous and did her best to put me at ease.  She answered all my questions (and there was quite a list), calmed a lot of my fears and wrote me a nausea prescription.  All together I am calling the appointment a win :)  In two weeks we have another (much more invasive, take all your clothes off type) appointment and OUR FIRST SONOGRAM!!!!  We are both really excited.

Life has been pretty crazy lately and (obviously) doesn't look to be getting any less crazy any time soon.  First, my PaPa is really sick again.  The ambulance rushed him to the ER last night and he is unresponsive still today.  My dad got there earlier today and hopefully I will have some more answers later on today.  There is no scenario where it turns out really good.  I'm trying really hard to fight the overwhelming emotions that he doesn't even know yet that he has a new great-grandchild on the way and that there is a good chance my child will never know him.  It's just not how I imagined things and quite frankly I hate it.

Next, we are apparently moving.  I'm not sure when and I'm not sure where to but I do know that we are getting ready to move.  When we first moved into our house our intention was to sell Matt's townhouse and buy the house from our in-laws asap.  Well, with the market being the way it was two years ago, the house was on the market for about six months and we finally had to get a renter (my cousin :) for a year.  Well now the year has been up and it is time to get it back on the market.  In the mean time, we have learned a little in two years and with Dave Ramsey's help and now know that there is no way we can do these three things: live in our wonderful, beautiful, almost perfect house, have a 15 year mortgage where the payment is no more than 1/4 of our take home pay and me not have to keep working full time.  So, the only one of those things we are willing to bend on is the beautiful, wonderful house.  Luckily the market has rebounded quite a bit and my in-laws should be able to sell it pretty quick and make a good profit on it so it will be good for them and they are talking about then buying a beach condo!  Yay!  Good for all of us!  So, both houses will be on the market soon and, depending on what sells when, we will either be buying a new house and moving there or moving back to Matt's townhouse until we can sell it and then we will buy a new house.  I mean who doesn't want to move houses multiple times while pregnant??  ;)

Also the day is swiftly approaching that we can't work together anymore.  We love working together and we love the family environment that we have at work but it's not a job I can do part time and Matt doesn't make enough to support our growing family without me working full time. Plus, he has hit a ceiling there as far as promotions go and, naturally, that doesn't work well with our future plans.  We are just starting the search but it is a really tough market out there and we now have a really strict timeline.

How about some good news?!?  Even though it didn't happen the way we wanted, we have told a couple of people. Last night we told Louise and Dirt.  The plan was DEFINITELY to tell both our families at the same time and not for another month or so but I had some questions that I could only/would only ask my sister who had been pregnant before and she was the only one that fit the bill.  I hated the circumstances that led me to telling one family member before any others but I had no choice and it was kind of fun.  They were both really excited but Dirt was gave us A LOT and it made a really dreary and sad night a lot better.

So, new baby, moving, selling & buying a house, job search, and ailing grandfather.  Good thing there are no real stressors in our life right now :/  Luckily, the blessings far outweigh the stressors and we have a really good thing going between us, a great family behind us and our God is leading the way so we know we are going to be ok.

Last thing!!!  I am SIX WEEKS TODAY!  I am going to try to get  a picture and do a update tonight!  YAY! 

The Story

Ok, I have started breathing normally again and think I have enough oxygen in me to tell our story.  I'm just going to warn you though, it's a terrible story.  I wish so bad I could have a re-do but, alas, there are no do-over's.  I had a plan.  I had a Father's Day card that I have had for a while and whenever I became pregnant I was going to write in it and give it to him and record his reaction.  Wouldn't that have been sweet? 

Instead, it went down something like this.  I realized Friday that I was a few days late.  Not enough to be worried about but late none the less.  I was REALLY, REALLY cranky and really tired, just recently my Spark had stopped working as well.  I used to could have a Spark in the morning and a Spark after lunch and I could be good to go as long as I wanted.  Even at 10-11 at night I was still good to go but the past few days my Spark had been wearing off EARLY, like 3-4:00 in the afternoon early.  All that and my throat hurt and my throat NEVER hurts.  So, Friday night we went to an Advocare even here in Montgomery and I sat by a friend who is a L&D nurse at the hospital here in town.  As I was trying so hard to stay awake I asked her if some of my symptoms might be pregnancy and she said I should definitely take a test Sat morning.

We went to Louise's after the AdvoCare thing and I met Matt there.  As soon as we got home I took the test and left it in the bathroom while I went and laid down.  A minute or two later Matt came in and asked what it said.  In the most cowardly way possible I told him there was no way I could go look.  I knew and I was NOT ready for confirmation.  He walked in the bathroom, walked out almost immediately and was absolutely GLOWING and had tears in his eyes!  Before he even said anything I said, "Nuh-uh!"  He said that it was positive and I told him that he did it wrong.  He said there was no way that it says on the stick two lines means pregnant and there are two lines.  At that point I literally started rocking and crying (hyperventilating) as Matt soothed me telling me how it was going to be ok. 

I am DYING to tell everybody but really Louise!  I just need to ask her some questions!  Matt really wants us to wait and I understand that and I agree it's just HARD.  My OB-GYN office is my customer (and just all together AWESOME) so I went there this morning and told them and even though my Dr has a ten week wait to see her for new OB patients because they love me and because of an extenuating circumstance (I'll go into later on) they got me in to see her a week from today!  Woo HOO!

Last thing, this. is. weird.  It is so, so weird that there is a little thing that is going to be a human being is growing in my stomach and nothing else seems to have changed. 

So This Happened Tonight...

 

There is no great story.  I'm a chicken and made Matt look and tell me.  I'm pretty sure I blacked out after that. 

Symptoms:  Very sore throat, unusually exhausted, face is broken out and a really unusual bad mood today.

My feelings:  Completely overwhelmed, excited, scared out of my mind and blindly nervous.

His Feeling: Extatic.