I have been MISERABLY sick today! Worse than I have been this entire pregnancy. Threw up everything I ate all day.
I guess I'm going to go back to the Unisom at night. That seemed to be working out okay before.
Corey is picking up the prescription my dr. gave me last time but it is for Reglan. I really did not want to take that drug because of what I've read about it. But, I am so miserable right now that I may take it just to see if I can get back to the Unisom routine working. I can't even keep down a chewable antacid! UGH!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
14 Weeks
How am I feeling at 14 weeks? Well...right now, I feel pretty good. The sickness hits mostly late at night right now. But, I haven't been throwing up at all anymore.
I skipped my nightly b6 and unisom for the first time in MANY weeks last night. I was taking it at night because that was helping me feel better during the day, but I thought maybe since I was feeling better anyway, that perhaps it wasn't helping much anymore and could just be making me lethargic and feel worse now. We'll see how that goes today.
I will be needing to buy some maternity clothes soon. I am so reluctant to do that, so reluctant to buy anything actually. I still just can't believe it I think. As much as we are planning and as sick as I've felt I just truly still can't believe it's happening! ha ha.
We are in the week of the lemon:
This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches, and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
I go to the doctor next week! I am very much looking forward to it!!!!
I skipped my nightly b6 and unisom for the first time in MANY weeks last night. I was taking it at night because that was helping me feel better during the day, but I thought maybe since I was feeling better anyway, that perhaps it wasn't helping much anymore and could just be making me lethargic and feel worse now. We'll see how that goes today.
I will be needing to buy some maternity clothes soon. I am so reluctant to do that, so reluctant to buy anything actually. I still just can't believe it I think. As much as we are planning and as sick as I've felt I just truly still can't believe it's happening! ha ha.
We are in the week of the lemon:
This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches, and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
I go to the doctor next week! I am very much looking forward to it!!!!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Second Trimester
I guess I am officially in the second trimester now! 40 weeks divided by 3 is 13.3....not sure how that would translate into days, but I am 13 weeks and 4 days, so pretty sure I am there by now.
I felt really great last week, as I mentioned in my previous post, but something has changed in the past 3-4 days. I have felt very nauseous and even threw up again one night this week. Antacid seemed to help, and yesterday I felt great again, but today back to bad. Oh well.
It's probably from sugar. Sugar has been making me feel really miserable. Last night Corey made homemade Rice Krispy Treats per my request and that's probably why I feel so bad today.
We started the pre work on the kids room rearrangement today.
After a lively conversation about which room would work best for what purpose (baby or kids sharing) we decided that Katie's current room will be the room that Katie and Noah will share together. And Noah's room will be a play room/catch all until we get the basement play room finished, at which point Noah's room will be turned into a baby room/nursery/guest bedroom.
Katie currently has a full sized bed. It is very cute, painted black, but distinctly a girl's bed. If we find out we are having a girl, we will use her bedroom suit in the nursery as a spare bed (anyone whose ever had a baby/todder will know how valuable an extra bed in the nursery can be) and it can be used for anyone who comes to help when the baby is here. The dresser can even be used as a changing spot by just adding a pad. And, if we're having a boy, we'll just look for a cheap alternate headboard to go with the set and we already have the dresser/changing table we used with Katie and Noah which is unisex. It will be nice to have an extra bed. Especially since the kids are each getting their own loft/bunks for Christmas, we will have plenty of room for company now!
Speaking of the loft/bunks, I am excited about the kids new room. We are planning to do a rock and roll theme bedroom and they will each have a canopy/tent over the top loft area which will be a book/reading/quiet/private area for each of them since they will be sharing a room.
Our goal is to have the kids moved together in their new rooms for Christmas, then focus on the basement play room. Then, we will have next summer to work on the nursery/baby room. What does a 7 month old really *need* for Christmas anyway? I think a room of their own would be a great Christmas gift project for him/her! :)
We are not even going to pretend that we will need a nursery before the baby is actually here, or even immediately after he/she arrives, ha ha. We have a bedside co-sleeper that we used with Noah, and there is plenty of room in our bedroom for a small crib until we get a nursery done. Since I nursed both Katie and Noah for a full year and being in the room with us works out great for us until they sleep through the night, we aren't going to waste time and energy preparing a nursery when what we REALLY need is a playroom for the kids!
In all honestly, the nursery will probably be functional by then most likely...as in a space for a crib and chair or something, but it's definitely not on our current to-do list. Our "must-haves" for the baby's arrival consist of very few things:
1. car seat
2. diapers (newborn only, natural, we are going to cloth after the newborn stage)
3. wipes
4. sleepers/clothes
5. blankets
I felt really great last week, as I mentioned in my previous post, but something has changed in the past 3-4 days. I have felt very nauseous and even threw up again one night this week. Antacid seemed to help, and yesterday I felt great again, but today back to bad. Oh well.
It's probably from sugar. Sugar has been making me feel really miserable. Last night Corey made homemade Rice Krispy Treats per my request and that's probably why I feel so bad today.
We started the pre work on the kids room rearrangement today.
After a lively conversation about which room would work best for what purpose (baby or kids sharing) we decided that Katie's current room will be the room that Katie and Noah will share together. And Noah's room will be a play room/catch all until we get the basement play room finished, at which point Noah's room will be turned into a baby room/nursery/guest bedroom.
Katie currently has a full sized bed. It is very cute, painted black, but distinctly a girl's bed. If we find out we are having a girl, we will use her bedroom suit in the nursery as a spare bed (anyone whose ever had a baby/todder will know how valuable an extra bed in the nursery can be) and it can be used for anyone who comes to help when the baby is here. The dresser can even be used as a changing spot by just adding a pad. And, if we're having a boy, we'll just look for a cheap alternate headboard to go with the set and we already have the dresser/changing table we used with Katie and Noah which is unisex. It will be nice to have an extra bed. Especially since the kids are each getting their own loft/bunks for Christmas, we will have plenty of room for company now!
Speaking of the loft/bunks, I am excited about the kids new room. We are planning to do a rock and roll theme bedroom and they will each have a canopy/tent over the top loft area which will be a book/reading/quiet/private area for each of them since they will be sharing a room.
Our goal is to have the kids moved together in their new rooms for Christmas, then focus on the basement play room. Then, we will have next summer to work on the nursery/baby room. What does a 7 month old really *need* for Christmas anyway? I think a room of their own would be a great Christmas gift project for him/her! :)
We are not even going to pretend that we will need a nursery before the baby is actually here, or even immediately after he/she arrives, ha ha. We have a bedside co-sleeper that we used with Noah, and there is plenty of room in our bedroom for a small crib until we get a nursery done. Since I nursed both Katie and Noah for a full year and being in the room with us works out great for us until they sleep through the night, we aren't going to waste time and energy preparing a nursery when what we REALLY need is a playroom for the kids!
In all honestly, the nursery will probably be functional by then most likely...as in a space for a crib and chair or something, but it's definitely not on our current to-do list. Our "must-haves" for the baby's arrival consist of very few things:
1. car seat
2. diapers (newborn only, natural, we are going to cloth after the newborn stage)
3. wipes
4. sleepers/clothes
5. blankets
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
13 Weeks
I have felt really well the past week. Especially compared with how I was feeling before. I haven't had to take any medication other than my nightly unisom and b6 (suggested by the dr) because late at night I tend to start feeling pretty badly. I am extremely tired and taking a nap most afternoons. If I don't eat every few hours I start to feel bad also. But as long as I stay on top of snacking I feel pretty good.
I am almost into the second trimester. I can't believe it. I know the holidays are going to make things just seem to fly into the late second and even third trimester. It will be here before I know it.
This is the week of the peach. I definitely feel my insides shifting around. It's almost exactly two weeks until my next appointment.
Here is the run down of week 13:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long and weighs nearly an ounce. This is the last week of your first trimester, and your risk of miscarriage is now much lower than earlier in pregnancy. Next week marks the beginning of your second trimester, a time of relative comfort for many women who see early pregnancy symptoms such as morning sickness and fatigue subside.
I am almost into the second trimester. I can't believe it. I know the holidays are going to make things just seem to fly into the late second and even third trimester. It will be here before I know it.
This is the week of the peach. I definitely feel my insides shifting around. It's almost exactly two weeks until my next appointment.
Here is the run down of week 13:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long and weighs nearly an ounce. This is the last week of your first trimester, and your risk of miscarriage is now much lower than earlier in pregnancy. Next week marks the beginning of your second trimester, a time of relative comfort for many women who see early pregnancy symptoms such as morning sickness and fatigue subside.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
12 Weeks
12 weeks! My sickness has now settled into an evening event. Better than all day I suppose.
I am already looking forward to my next appointment! But it won't be for another 3 weeks.
I ordered a fetal doppler and it came on Saturday. I tried for a while on Saturday and Sunday, but couldn't find the heartbeat at home. But I really didn't stress. Very early yesterday morning I got woke up by a bad storm, and my bladder was very full so I got up and tried at that point. And I found it! Just beating away like crazy!
I am only going to let myself check it once a week though, IF I am super worried. I just like having the ability to check it if I want to.
Here's some more info about week 12: the week of the plum!
The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.
Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long and weighs half an ounce.
I am already looking forward to my next appointment! But it won't be for another 3 weeks.
I ordered a fetal doppler and it came on Saturday. I tried for a while on Saturday and Sunday, but couldn't find the heartbeat at home. But I really didn't stress. Very early yesterday morning I got woke up by a bad storm, and my bladder was very full so I got up and tried at that point. And I found it! Just beating away like crazy!
I am only going to let myself check it once a week though, IF I am super worried. I just like having the ability to check it if I want to.
Here's some more info about week 12: the week of the plum!
The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.
Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long and weighs half an ounce.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Baby Update
Well....this little one is growing!!!!
I had my second appointment today. I still love this practice. I was in and out in less than half an hour!
The doctor came in, and said we'll try to find the heartbeat, but sometimes it's difficult at just 11 weeks.
She searched around a little bit and we kept hearing my own heartbeat.
Then, all of a sudden, there it was!
Loud and clear!
Strong, beautiful, rapid baby heart beating away!
The doctor said, "I can see the change on your face" and she laughed.
Words cannot explain the relief I felt at that moment. She listened for a bit and said it was in the 150s she would guess. Nothing scientific, ha ha.
I think I will be allowing myself to really get excited now. I just can't believe it!!!!
I've never been so excited to NOT get an ultrasound at an OB appointment!
I had my second appointment today. I still love this practice. I was in and out in less than half an hour!
The doctor came in, and said we'll try to find the heartbeat, but sometimes it's difficult at just 11 weeks.
She searched around a little bit and we kept hearing my own heartbeat.
Then, all of a sudden, there it was!
Loud and clear!
Strong, beautiful, rapid baby heart beating away!
The doctor said, "I can see the change on your face" and she laughed.
Words cannot explain the relief I felt at that moment. She listened for a bit and said it was in the 150s she would guess. Nothing scientific, ha ha.
I think I will be allowing myself to really get excited now. I just can't believe it!!!!
I've never been so excited to NOT get an ultrasound at an OB appointment!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Reprieve (11 weeks)
I have felt pretty "okay" the past few days. On Sunday I felt well enough to drive us out to Rome for lunch at The Olive Garden. The soup, salad, and breadsticks were soooooooo delicious! Then, we went to Toys R Us to pick up some of Katie's birthday party supplies, then came home and I cleaned up a good bit around the house.
Yesterday I felt pretty well too, but not quite as good as Sunday. I was back to the cheese grits, but no throwing up and no medication!
The only thing I have been doing differently is sticking to taking the B6 and Unisom at night. And I've kept a banana by the bed at night and take a bite when I wake up any during the night.
It's good to not feel awful ALL the time!
I go back to the doctor tomorrow and I am very anxious to get in there and see that everything is still good. I have every confidence that with everything still going well at 11 weeks, I will be able to relax.
11 weeks! Only 2 weeks away from the second trimester... I can hardly believe it! The size of a lime now...here's the rest:
Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.
She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.
Yesterday I felt pretty well too, but not quite as good as Sunday. I was back to the cheese grits, but no throwing up and no medication!
The only thing I have been doing differently is sticking to taking the B6 and Unisom at night. And I've kept a banana by the bed at night and take a bite when I wake up any during the night.
It's good to not feel awful ALL the time!
I go back to the doctor tomorrow and I am very anxious to get in there and see that everything is still good. I have every confidence that with everything still going well at 11 weeks, I will be able to relax.
11 weeks! Only 2 weeks away from the second trimester... I can hardly believe it! The size of a lime now...here's the rest:
Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.
She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.
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