Yes I am still alive and still pregnant....9 weeks today or 9 weeks and 3 days depending on which due date we're following....I need to confirm that when I meet with my OB next week. I spoke too soon after my last post and that following Monday woke up with horrible nausea and some gagging, YUCK! That continued for about 2 1/2 weeks NONSTOP and now finally seems to be tapering off and I am now only occasionally nauseous, THANK GOD!
We had our first ultrasound at 7 weeks and it showed ONE healthy little baby that resembled a bean. It was the cutest damn bean I have ever seen! We got to see the heartbeat, which was 127 bpm. The doctor that preformed the ultrasound said that everything looked perfect! Words to our ears! I will post the picture later since I am using company time to type this blog and don't have my picture with me. Our second ultrasound is scheduled for next Wednesday and we should also get to hear the heartbeat by then....I think.
I continue to sleep the majority of my life away and I am constantly amazed by how tired I can seem to be no matter how much I sleep....and let me tell you I SLEEP! I have already purchased a couple pairs of maternity pants because I am so bloated that most days mine do not button. My tummy is a little pouched out but it's all bloating......I'm proud to report I haven't gained any weight yet (although I'm sure like the morning sickness comment I have just jinxed myself).
A friend of mine emailed me today, we used to work together but she recently transferred to another department and she wanted to know how's life and how things were going....she felt like she was missing so much. Here was my response:
Life is good….pretty boring really. I promise you aren’t missing much about me right now….haha I don’t really do anything. No good stories, I mean there’s not much to talk about when you sleep through life. I’m looking forward to that wonderful day that all past pregnant women talk about where you wake up one morning and magically have energy again….ahhhhh I can’t wait! But ya for the most part I come to work, ignore most everything going on around me, go home lay on the couch waiting for Frankie to get home (probably fall asleep), eat dinner that Frankie makes me J, go upstairs to sleep when Frankie wakes me from my post-dinner coma from the couch…..Rinse and repeat. I looked outside my window yesterday on my way upstairs to take a nap and noticed that my mulch around my yard has about a million different varieties of weeds growing everywhere….it bothered me for a moment so I shut the blinds and waited until it got a little darker to open them again. I’m pathetic! I’m considering letting my husband rent out a exclusive and thoroughly tested prostitute as long as he promises not to fall in love with her because well….. let’s just say if I was on MTV cribs I would not announce that “this is where the magic happens” when the tour of our bedroom began. Right now as I type this I continue to burp up Fish vitamins….GROSS!!
So ya that's pretty much what is going on with me lately.
My husband continues to be the most amazing man I have ever known in my entire life, and I really do mean that. He has been so patient and understanding....I'm sure it has to be hard for men to understand why your usually "full of life" wife is suddenly unconscious 90% of the time, it's hard for ME to understand but I am just too busy sleeping to give it much thought. There are some days I am afraid my pregnancy is going to make him fall out of love with me because he'll wake up one day and be tired of hearing me complain, sleep, and get fat....that's probably the hormones talking.
I love love love being pregnant....I love it because of how amazing it is that we created another life and now my body is capable of protecting that little life and letting it grow for the next 7 months. I love it because I am so excited to be a "mommy" and watch my husband be a "daddy" and to watch us turn into a family. Pregnancy, I'm finding though, is not all cute bellies, and baby names......this has not been a "easy" 9 weeks. It has been a little tough at times and not without tears but I am still so happy and grateful to be pregnant and I know it will get easier in some ways and harder in others and all worth it in the end.
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