Godzilla Baby

Growing like crazy, baby is starting to sprout eyes, ears, nose, cheeks and chin. Those little hands and feet- still webbed like paddles- might wiggle by week’s end, the heart is beating (almost twice as fast as yours!), and blood is starting to circulate

 

This week , I’m refferring to Husib as Godzilla baby becasue husib has nearly tripled in size! Way to be a little monster husib!  Other than that, nothing is too new in pregnancy land, I still forget that I’m pregnant sometimes, but morning sickness is becoming more and more frequent.  I went to Kansas to see my cousins last weekend and telling them was a lot of fun. 

On to the weekly update

How far along? 6 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: same as last week.
Maternity clothes? No. Haven’t bought any yet,still in denial about impending weight gain
Stretch marks? No.
Sleep: Sleeping through the nights these last few days.
Best moment this week: Telling my cousins the news
Movement: Way to early
Food cravings: none, I pretty much hate the thought of food
Gender: I’m thinking boy this week, but haven’t thought too hard about it
Labor Signs: Too early
Pregnancy Symptoms: Sore and growing boobs, sore ab muscles, and dear god the NASUEA.  Also, bloating, and serious tiredness
Belly Button in or out? Innie.
What I miss: Beer and Scotch
What I am looking forward to: Actually fully feeling pregnant
Weekly Wisdom: I have no wisdom this week, mostly I’m scared shitless
Milestones: Telling my extended family

Going to Kansas City

I am excited to go see my cousins in Kansas City this weekend. I’ll be leaving friday night and coming back on Monday night. The best part is one of my cousins, who’s also visiting doesn’t know I’m planning on being there so its going to be a surprise. Also, they have no clue I’m knocked up and I’m really excited to tell them.

Weekly Survey

I saw these little weekly trackers on some other pregnancy blog and decided to steal the idea!

 

How far along? 5 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: minus 2 lbs.
Maternity clothes? No. Haven’t bought any yet, might go shopping with my cousin this weekend.
Stretch marks? No.
Sleep: Some nights are good, some are terrible. Last night was a good night. VERY weird dreams though.
Best moment this week: Sleeping in on the weekend. (I wish every day was a Sunday.)
Movement: Way to early
Food cravings: Wendys Spicy Chicken Sandwich 
Gender: I haven’t even thought about it.
Labor Signs: Too early
Pregnancy Symptoms: Sore and growing boobs, sore ab muscles, and dear god the NASUEA.  
Belly Button in or out? Innie.
What I miss: The ability to actually eat food
What I am looking forward to: That first appointment! (3 more weeks…)
Weekly Wisdom: Sprite Zero can be your best friend
Milestones: Getting my first U/S scheduled

Weekend

One of J and my really good friends Stephen visited this week and it was so wonderful to hang out with him and relax and listen to music. It felt like he had never left. It made me really sad to think that if J and I move again soon, how hard it would be to leave friends behind. We already did it once when we moved from Utah, but I think this time it would be harder because we are older and it gets  harder and harder to make friends as we get older. 

J has been extra sweet lately about taking care of me this weekend. He ordered a type of Pizza that he normally doesn’t like just because my food aversions made it impossible for me to eat our regular order. He also has been making sure to stock the fridge up with Sprite zero because thats what helps me fight the nausea that I’ve had the last few days.

Week 5

Its only been 5 short weeks when I wasn’t pregnant but it seems like a lifetime ago. Already life has changed so much, that it makes me wonder it will be like, once the baby is here. So what food item is making me hungry at 5 weeks? According to thebump its apple seeds, or thats the size of the fetus at the moment. 

 

Your embryo (looking kind of like a tadpole) is starting to form major organs (heart, kidney, liver, stomach) and systems (nervous, circulatory, digestive). Baby’s presence in your uterustriggers production of hCG (the hormone detected by pregnancy tests)… which triggers production of other hormones like estrogen and progesterone… which trigger all those greatsymptoms you’ve probably been noticing!

yaaay! husib ! awesome job on doubling or tripling in size. Although it makes me laugh that the husib has a tail this week. I just can’t believe that no doctor wants to see me yet. Its making me so impatient to see a doctor, which is very weird b/c I hate going to doctors in general. 

This weekend, J and I went to a party where I found out that J had leaked the news about my pregnancy to a few people so it was a little awkward being pregnant in public for the first time. This was also my first large social event where there was lots of drinking and fun partying happening and poor old me was sitting on a couch sipping water , about ready to pass out from fatigue. Oh how the mighty have fallen. My party girl self from a few years ago would have barely recognized me. 

4 weeks

Its been a few days and I still can’t get used to the idea that I’m pregnant. I thought about doing a pregnancy journal, but then I hardly have any time to update this blog, so its unlikely that I’ll be able to pause and reflect in two different places. So heads up to whoever does read this thing, this blog is going to get ultra personal. I mean, I’m blogging about a creature in my belly, its hard to not make that personal.

So whats going on? Husib is 4 weeks along. Why Husib? Back when J and I brought Layla our little fuzzy mutt home, I promised her that she would always be my first born, and then when J and I started talking about having kids someday, we would joke around that it would be Layla’s human sibling, or husib, and it stuck. So now I have a husib. Yes, I do realize, this is very silly. 

According to www.thebump.com the husib is the size of poppy seeds now. Over on the bump, they love to compare the embryo/fetus to food items, which is great except, it makes me think of all sorts of inappropiate things when I see the food items like the olive makes me think of a dirty martini.

In week 4, now safe in your womb, the ball of cells (blastocyst) splits in two, becoming the embryo and the placenta. The amniotic sac and fluid are forming around baby, and will act as a cushion for the next eight months.

As for me, I called the doctor today. I have to go give a blood sample friday morning and on May 10 I have my first appointment with a Nurse practitioner who will do an internal ultrasound and date the pregnancy. Yipeee. In other not so happy news, I’m a little frustrated because I just found out that husib is going to cost us a little more than I had budgeted b/c my insurance year is from July to August, meaning, I have to pay two deductible, one for before July and one for after August. I hate dealing with insurance stuff. blah!

But overall, I feel good, I have no real pregnancy symptoms except for sore boobs, fatigue and a little cramping and tightness in my abdomen. Sometime if I don’t think about it too hard I even forget I’m preggers. 

Big Fat Positive

I can’t believe it! I got a positive! I peed on three different types of tests just to make sure. But holy cow! its positive. J and I are a little shocked and of course ecstatic. But we were really not expecting it to happen quite this soon. I hope nothing goes wrong because its still early days yet! I’m barely 4 weeks along. So hopefully, its a christmas baby for J and me.

Requisite pee stick picture included!

The Two Week Wait

So I guess I have 10 more days until its time for AF to show up.  I am so nervous and excited. I keep trying to tell myself that its ridiculous that it will happen this month because

1) It never happens right when you want it

2) I was gone for most of the ovulation.

But hey a girl can hope right! I just read blogs of other women who have had to do this wait for several cycles and it seems like it takes a lot out of you. I hope I don’t end up an emotional wreck before the pregnancy hormones even get to work. I think I’ve literally gone crazy where every hiccup, every burp, every tingle in my boobs makes me go….”maybe I’m preggers”

One day down 9 more to go