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Unfortunately this post will not be as upbeat as the ones before it. I have not been enjoying the 9th week of pregnancy so far. Hormones are at an all time high and making me feel nothing but blah. I have a constant feeling of needing to throw up but rarely do. Dry heaving is becoming more common and Friday night I was up most of the night sick. So let me be real for a second and tell you some things they don't tell you about pregnancy. I'm breaking out like crazy. You know that glow they talk about, yeah, not all women get that in the 1st tri. Some women are so sensitive to the hormones that they break out, and one of those women would be me. Not nice. There's hope that my body will get use to the high hormone levels and the breakouts will go away but no guarantee. Oh, and acne medication is not on the approval list of items to use while you're pregnant. What else? Well, you get up and pee like 90 times during the middle of the night and you have crazy dreams that wake you up. By the time all that happens, when the alarm goes off the very last thing you want to do is get out of bed. But when you do get out of bed, you better eat something immediately or you're going to be super sick. I really don't understand how you can be nauseated and starving at the same time!! Not to mention the things no one even talks about; constipation, gas, breast tenderness, headaches, etc. Uncomfortable subjects, yes, but like I said, let me be real with you. So to all you ladies out there, listen, being pregnant is one of the most amazing things you will ever experience in your entire life but there are definitely some hard things you will have to go through during that amazing experience. No words can describe how awesome it really is. And as you know I have been pretty lucky so far, this week has just got be down and not liking pregnancy right now. I know it won't be forever though so I'm trying to make it through. I feel a little self indulgent to sit here and "gripe" but I'm totally playing it off as letting you ladies in on a few things you might want to prepare yourselves for before getting prego because no one talks about these things. So, now on to happier subjects; the poppy! Who is now the size of a green grape and an inch long! All essential body parts are accounted for but will obviously go through some fine tuning the next few months. Which means that the baby is ready for rapid weight gain. The placenta is pretty much developed now and will be taking over from that yolk sac I showed y'all in the sono pics. The baby moves all the time now, I can't wait until I can feel it!!! That won't be for about 9-11 more weeks though. I totally went and bought some maternity jeans today. I've been doing the belly band, it's a piece of material you put around your waist to wear your normal jeans without having to zip or button them all the way, but that's getting old. I bought these really cool low rise kind that will get me to the 6 month. So I feel like it was a wise purchase, plus I got 2 for the price of one. I don't have an obvious bump to others but to Matthew and me I do. Based on the way I look, I think in a couple of weeks it will be obvious - the joys of being short! Shawnda's tall butt didn't show until like 5 months!! Ok, that's totally it. That was a lot! Talk to y'all soon!
I wanted to make my regular weekly post different from the sono post so y'all are in luck and get two today! So I turn 8 weeks today and things are going so great. This week little webbed fingers and toes begin poking out from the little hands and feet that have been developing. Eyelids practically cover the little peepers now. Breathing tubes now extend from the throat to the branches of the developing lungs. Believe it or not in the brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. Already!!! The baby is about the size of a kidney bean now and is constantly moving and shifting even though I can't feel it yet.
As for me I'm doing pretty good. I'm not as tired all the time . . . I'm still tired but its just not 24/7 anymore. The queasiness stays around pretty much all day. Yesterday the DR said that it will get a little worse over the next two weeks but then start to get better and by the 14-16 week range I'll be great. She said I'll wake up one day and be like, oh my gosh, I'm not tired and I'm not queasy anymore! I am definitely looking forward to that!! Today I am tired and there is acid just sitting in the back of my throat . . . in case you wanted to know!! :-) Other than that I'm just truckin along.
It is just so very exciting to know that there is a little baby inside of me that is part of me, part of the man I love and all God. It truly is a miraculous blessing.
So I had my first sono yesterday and it confirmed my due date of Nov 6! Everything looks great and the heartbeat was nice and strong. So let me tell you what you are looking at. The black area around the baby is the uterus cavity and then directly around the baby is the amniotic sac. The baby is sitting at a 30% angle with his head up. The first picture is of the back of the baby. The little circle down to the left of his bottom is the yolk sac. I don't know if you 
can see but then there are two little lines coming off the yolk sac and one of those is the umbilical cord. So everything else to the left in that big black area is the placenta. The second picture I'm pretty sure the baby is facing forward but still head up. That is the brain that you are seeing. The yolk sac is more pronounced in this picture. Also, on the bottom of the second picture is the heartbeat rhythm; 168 beats per minute! Pretty awesome, huh? When we heard the heartbeat we started crying. It 
was all very exciting and totally awesome. We love that we already have pictures of our baby. It's pretty surreal.
So I am obviously way behind on this post! Sorry! Things have been very busy. I hope everyone had a very happy Easter! My little sister came into town so I have been loving that! So let me catch y'all up on the development of the poppy seed! This week hands and feet have been developing but haven't really taken shape yet. They look a little more like paddles at this point! There are little eyelid folds partially covering the little peppers, which already have some color! The brain, liver, appendix and pancreas are all developed and growing. There is also a little loop in the growing intestines that bulges into the umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from the tiny body. By the end of this week the little poppy will be the size of a blueberry! That's double the size from last week!
So what's going on with me? Well the little poppy's home, my uterus, has doubled in size as well! I also have 10% more blood than I did before I was pregnant. Which is why pregnant ladies pee so much . . . all the extra blood and fluids being processed. The nausea has picked up and I stay queasy almost all the time now. I do have good days but they are few and far between at this point! I'm still tired all the time but I am sleeping better now. Matthew's great and getting back into bike riding again and really loving it!
So we are going to the doctor tomorrow to hear the heartbeat!!!!!!!!!! I cannot wait and wish y'all could hear me say that last sentence in person as I'm practically jumping with joy! We'll get to see the tike as well! So, watch the blog, I'll scan the pic and post it for everyone to see!
So today I am 6 weeks preggers and could not be happier. It's all really starting to sink in that we are going to have a baby . . . kind of. It's still a little hard to fathom that in November this year we'll be a holding a baby of our own and that our lives will never be the same again. Never the less millions of changes are going on inside of me. During this next week the baby's eyes, ears and mouth are taking their basic shapes. The brain is starting to develop into distinct regions and the tummy and lungs will start to appear. It is so amazing to me how fast all of this happens. The heart will be on a regular rhythm now as well. By the end of this week is when the baby will be officially the size of a lentil bean.
As for me, I am so very tired all the time. My sleep is erratic at best which just adds to the problem. Tumms have become my very best friend and acid my worst enemy. I have determined I have night sickness as I do ok during the day for the most part but have a horrible time in the evening. I have to say though that I feel like I have it pretty easy, so far, as I've had friends that have had it much, much worse.
Matthew is doing great and taking it all in pretty well. He's really managing the finances and looking for a house. He's really excited and having a few sympathy pregnancy symptoms already. The other night he got sick to his tummy. It was so cute.
I saw this little toy the other day for babies - one of those things that lays on the floor, you put the baby underneath and toys dangle down for him to play with. Well it was in jungle print and got me thinking. A jungle themed nursery would be sooo cute. I ran it by Matthew and he agreed. So considering I've got 7 more months before I really have to decide, I'll probably change my mind a million times and who knows what I'll land on but right now I'm thinking a jungle themed nursery with lots of pretty greens, monkeys and elephants would be so cute. And it's cross gender so it's definitely a safe thought at the moment!
So believe it or not the little poppy seed has been growing, growing, growing so much this past week that it is on its way to the size of a lentil bean! The most exciting part of this though is that the poppy's little heart has already started beating! Is that not amazing?! There is a little ticker down there now. Amazing changes are happening that are setting the stage for skin, bones, organs, muscles, etc. The little heart beats at 150 beats per minute. I cannot wait until March 26th when we get to hear it ourselves!
I have been ok and sick a few times but for the most part good. I'm already noticing changes to my body, small ones but definitely changes.
We told my extended family on Sunday at lunch. We had a surprise party Sat night for my grandparent's (maternal) 60th wedding anny with friends and family. Then on Sunday we went to lunch to celebrate with just family again. We found a card that said new great-grandbaby on it and gave it to my grandmother. She yelled with excitement and then stood up and read everyone the card. It was a really fun way to let everyone know. They are all super excited and really happy for us.
So pretty much everyone knows now. Which is very exciting. And everyone keeps asking us about twins which is strangely odd and makes me wonder if when we go to the doc on the 26th if we'll hear one heartbeat or two . . .
So tomorrow I wake up 5 weeks pregnant. The prenatal vitamins that I have been taking come with two pills, one is a pure DHA pill and the other is the vitamin. I've been taking them at the same time and they have been giving me acid reflux. So, today I took the DHA with my breakfast and the vitamin with lunch and it went much, much better. So I am very happy about that. I have indigestion/acid reflux right now after eating dinner. Just the littlest bit of spice and it sets me off but only at night I've noticed. Which is extremely frustrating. So my sweet hubby is at CVS right now getting me some Tums. Hopefully that will calm the burn and I'll be able to sleep tonight.
Oh, and Matthew asked me to write that we would be totally happy with a girl too, of course. What we really want is just a healthy and happy baby and will be content with a boy or a girl. He's going to be such a good daddy.
