Pregnancy: Weeks 6, 7, & 8

Let the pregnancy journal begin! 

Week 6: 

I started feeling a little more tired this week and had some food aversions and cravings but not much nausea to complain of thankfully. I did find that I was starving all the time and if my stomach started to get empty I started to feel a wave of nausea but that was easy to fix. I felt like I was eating ALL THE TIME.

This will be the photo to remind myself how amazing the human body is, that it can go from this to a beached whale in just 9 short months!

And probably the last time I ever see that body ever again! But that is AOK with me.

Week 7:

Well the whole "eating all the time" thing quickly went out the window and I had more and more food aversions this week. I could hardly look in our fridge or even in our kitchen in general some days without being a little grossed out. I wasn't nearly as hungry this week and 7up and saltines became my new best friends. Still no major nausea and no vomiting but I just felt a little off. I also became super lazy. I don't feel like moving when I'm at home and our apartment is definitely starting to show it. It's driving me nuts but my bed still sounds better than cleaning. :) 

I found that macaroni and cheese has sounded awful, and thankfully I have a fabulous husband who eats whatever sounds good to me that night. We've had KFC, french toast sticks from Sonic, cheetos, and tomato sandwiches just to name a few. The funny thing is that leftovers of any of these semi-cravings sound awful, and that contributes to the problem with looking in the fridge. :)

I had my first Dr. appointment this week. We heard our first "Congratulations, you're pregnant!" from my Dr. since we hadn't told a soul that I was pregnant yet. It was exciting to be congratulated. She gave me a due date of April 24, 2013. Happy (almost) Anniversary to us. Jesse says due dates are dumb and since only 5% of people actually deliver on their due date that we shouldn't really even have one. I keep trying to explain that it is just a goal to shoot towards. He would just rather say we're having a baby in April. We ended up agreeing we would just tell people we have a baby coming at the end of April. Sounds good enough to me.

I've noticed on facebook a crop of people have announced pregnancies lately. A few due in March, and one even due in May. It gets me all excited knowing that our kids will be born so close together and I get all giddy even though no one else knows I'm pregnant. 

Week 8

I was feeling a lot better this week. I was less nauseated than the last two weeks and honestly have quite a bit of energy, I just start crashing earlier in the evenings and enjoy a 8pm or 9pm bedtime. 

I was able to eat more and began to have an appetite again this week. So nice! Towards the end of this week I was starving all the time! I still have a hard time looking in the fridge though without gagging.

I am burping ALL THE TIME. Does that happen to other people? 

I feel really bloated at night as well and tums have become one of my friends of the week. 

Yeah the pictures aren't the greatest thing ever, but there's also not much to see therefore it doesn't matter, right?!

I guess we have plenty of time to work on Jesse's picture taking skills and my modeling skills!

Oh Baby!

It all began when I decided to take a home pregnancy test. I was a few days late but I'm never on time so I honestly didn't think anything of it. I was absolutely expecting to see one lone line so you can imagine the surprise when I glanced at it and I saw TWO! 

I turned to Jesse and said, "I think that's a second line. Come look, is that a second line? It can't be a second line." 

I had begun to believe that these tests only showed one line, but there were definitely two lines there this time. 

I didn't even know what to do except dance around, hug my hubs, and keep saying over and over again, "I'm pregnant." 

Skeptical Jesse didn't want to believe it until he saw a second test, so the next morning he was sure to wake me up bright and early before he left for work so I could take another test. 

Low and behold, there were two lines again! I know the home tests are very reliable but you still start to wonder if it was just a fluke, but no, I was pregnant!! 

A few more days passed and I felt that I should be exhausted to the point of no return and puking my guts out as that is how everyone else seems to do it when they are pregnant, but I was feeling great! No different in fact, so I had to take another test, JUST to be sure. 

I got home from work one day and took another test that evening. Sure enough, there still two lines and even darker than before. 

It was really happening. 

We were going to have a baby!

And of course I had to celebrate by getting a cute little outfit for our little peanut!
So exciting!!!