I thought I was going to be lucky, but....

Ok, I might just have to admit it now. I've had three days straight of feeling nauseated pretty much all day. I thought it was just a fluke, but it might actually be morning sickness. (Just not limited to mornings!) No actually puking yet, but we'll see if I stay away from the porcelin goddess much longer. It seems like eating helps for about 30 minutes, but them it comes back. (As long as it doesn't come back UP I'll be ok.)

So now that I've told everyone I can think of about the pregnancy after our wonderful ultrasound yesterday, and went around today at work showing my little Blobby Mott to everyone (named in honor of Chelsea who acknowledged it's striking resemblence to an actual blob) I'm just going to have to try and settle down back to work. Except that this 'baby brain' thing seems to have more truth behind it than I thought! I've seem to be dropping stuff constantly, making a mess when trying to pour myself something to drink, and keep forgetting what I'm doing in the midst of doing it! I think being pregnant gives you ADD! ;)

Well I'm happy anyway. Every symptom, even the morning sickness, is just confirmation that this whole thing actually WORKED and we're really going to have a baby! Who'd of thought!

Baby's first pictures!

We did it! We're really going to be parents! We just got back from our first ultrasound and we have two pictures of our baby bean. We couldn't hear the heartbeat yet (didn't even try actually) but we could definitely see it beating! Click the link below to see the pictures. We're so excited!

As an interesting side note, the doctor thinks the corpus luteum is on the left ovary. This means that the egg came from the left ovary, but my left fallopian tube is blocked. So if the egg came from the left ovary then it somehow must have gotten into the right fallopian tube for fertilization. Either that or my left tube miraculously un-blocked itself. Either way it's a miracle and this baby must be meant to be born! It's implanted in the right spot, definitely not ectopic, and all looks great! I'm officially 6weeks and 5 days pregnant and due on March 30th!

Baby Photos

Pregnant Hair

Well I think this will be a surprise to anyone who's seen me in the last few years. I decided I needed a haircut. What do you think? I love it and Tom even likes it! Jessica went into shock when she saw it, it was very funny. :) Tom and I decided it kind of resembles an early 1980's hairdo, like a princess Di cut mixed with a Dorothy Hammel. Remember those?

Click here to see it!

An ode to willpower

Oh tasty, yummy, sugary treat
That Tom stirred up for us to eat,
That sumptious double chocolate batch
of exquisite brownies with milk to match.

"Oh no," said I as the brownies cooled,
and as my sister stared and drooled
over a 9 by 13 pan of chocolate cake
brownies my spouse had decided to make.

He offered galantly the spoon
to me for licking, I should swoon
or shake a leg for the other room
for raw eggs are not for me till June.

I said, "No way, no how, I think
I'll put that spoon right in the sink!"
I did it too, I do declare,
And tasted none of that chocolate there.

I felt quite good about this act
but soon my will began to crack
as a lovely scent o'erpowered me then
of chocolate baking, oh heavenly sin!

But I must think about my plan,
and maintain my militant sugar ban
to hold at bay those delicate sweeties
that could lead to preggo diabetes.

I'm happy to say I made it through
the entire evening and this morning too,
and didn't have even one small bite
of that chocolatey, sinful, brownie delight.

So this is fatigue.

I've noticed over the last few weeks that I've only felt nauseated three times, and all three times was when I was utterly exhausted. Today I was just about ready to keel over around 3pm and felt awful. I managed to work through it and only left a little early. I took a nice nap when I got home though and it really helped. Not sure exactly how I'm going to manage to build in a nap ever afternoon though. Hopefully the fatigue will end soon.

Well, we had a great weekend! We spent two nights with Gayle and Thad. Colin was adorable as usual. We had two wonderful breakfasts and they took us out to Buca de Bepo, a family-style italian restaurant. It was wonderful! Gayle and I went shopping and I was able to use the gift card from Dad & JM to buy the perfect shirt! It's lightweight nylon, has lots of room to expand, and is teal blue. We almost got my hair cut, but we ran out of time. I think I'll do that next weekend.

On Sunday we headed over to Donna's house. She took us to Babies R Us where we got to start our registery. Oh my goodness is this stuff expensive! We ran around for hours but only got thru furniture and some of the bigger things. I'll be going back sometime later to pick out the other stuff. No one should even think of buying anything quite yet! We've got lots of time and with us moving we very well might change our minds on some of the stuff before long. After we were all exhausted though, Donna took us out to a great dinner at Sweet Tomatos! I must admit I slipped a bit on my no-sugar thing and had one little blueberry muffin after two salad plates. Boy was that good!

After using it since Friday night, I can honestly say I love my new CPAP machine! It seems to work really well! The only thing is my nose is a little sore from having something push on it all night, but I think it will toughen up a bit in time.