mother's day

so I got to celebrate my first mother's day - woo hoo! Nate was so sweet, he got me flowers from the market and had breakfast ready when I got up - eggs & sausage & blueberry pancakes...mmmmmm.......

We spent the day playing Lego Star Wars on the PlayStation. It sounds geeky, and it is, but it is also hilarious and so much fun.

My flowers -





The hugest time-suck ever -



Also - ultrasound pictures! They are just pictures of the printouts as we got the actual prints scanned pretty late last night, but it's better than nothing for now, right? Right.



So that's our little gremlin (it's the white blob inside of the dark blob)...pretty cool, huh?

Status report...I'm definitely getting into morning sickness land, but only as a tourist. I almost threw up while brushing my teeth this morning but usually I only start to feel sick if I haven't eaten in the last hour or so. And since I really enjoy eating, there is generally not that big of a gap between meals.

wow

So it's really in there.

The doctor's appt went pretty well, once we got in. They were running really behind (or, I should say *my* doctor was running really behind) so we were about 45 mins late getting in to talk to the nurses and then just as I was all gowned up for the exam Dr. George got paged to the hospital for some other baby. Hmph. But he was back within an half hour and away we went.

I had the timing exactly right according to the size of the blob - I was 8 weeks yesterday and due on 12/18. The blob cooperated and gave us a nice profile view, which was awesome. We got to see its heart flickering away on the screen, which was also awesome.

Nate is going to scan the pics tonight so I will probably post them this weekend.

Here is the announcement I just sent out -


So welcome any new readers!! Please feel free to forward my announcement email to anyone I have missed, there are a lot of email addresses I don't have or have in weird places, so please please forward!

Happy Friday!!

eight weeks

yet another development photo -



Just look at that pixel-y little guy (or girl)!

It's starting to get a tongue and the intestines are moving to their proper place in the interior of its body. Cartilege and bones are starting to form and it has little fingers and toes but they're webbed. Its eyes are forming and it has the beginnings of eyelids, as well.

Apparently chocolate milk is my big craving item...probably good since I generally don't get much calcium in my diet. I've been drinking a (small) bottle of it a day at least - yum.

Today is our first appointment, hooray! We should be able to see the heartbeat and if there's more than one in there we *should* find out this afternoon. Yikes. I will report back with the results!

mmm.....nausea.....

So this morning I am in Foodtown (or Jackson Whole Grocer, excuse me) looking for something to fill my stomach for the 15 minute drive to the village, where I have yogurt and fruit and nut to tide me over until lunchtime. I was looking for some crackers or cereal and some chocolate milk when all of a sudden the smell of approximately 18,000 different spices, vegetables, and random cooked meats hits me like a ton of bricks.

I almost vomited right into the milk fridge.

I made it out without puking, but sadly also without cereal, crackers or chocolate milk. When Nate came out he was a bit confused -

'where did you go?'

'I almost just barfed.'

'Did you get anything to eat?'

'No, I wanted crackers but couldn't stand it.'

'......well, you realize that I could have gotten you something.'

'........shit.'

Next time I'll just send him in with a list of demands from the gremlin.

On an unrelated note, I've just set up a Facebook profile so if you're on there, look me up!

announcements

I worked on some pregnancy announcements this weekend and am very excited about them. A bit more tweaking and they should be ready to send out after my appointment on Thursday.

I'm developing the 'breathlessness' side effect...it's so nice to have pregnancy to blame it on rather than my general poor lung capacity. It's still a little disheartening to be puffing like a water buffalo after two flights of stairs, but oh well. The joys of growing a whole new person.

Our roommate told me this weekend that I was having triplets. He's just mean.

headaches

So I've already missed some work due to un-medicatable migraines. I know you're supposed to be able to take Tylenol, but a) the gremlin is developing like mad right now and I really don't want to disrupt that and b) Tylenol probably won't do squat for my migraines anyway.

So what's a gal to do? Nate has suggested acupuncture, and I'm going to ask my OB about it at our appointment next week. I have a two page list of questions to ask him, poor guy...although I'm sure he's used to it. Apparently acupuncture can work really well as a preventative for headaches and morning sickness and all sorts of stuff so if Dr. George gives me the thumbs up I'll be full steam ahead. I'd really like to avoid taking any sort of over the counter remedies even though I'm normally a huge believer in better living through chemistry (that will be in evidence when I go into labor and immediately demand morphine and an epidural).

But in the meantime I'd like to keep the pill-popping to a minimum and I think that acupuncture may be a good way to do that.

I'm just about done with my sewing projects for now, I may even put the sewing machine away (gasp!) when I finish up this last skirt. Or maybe not.

Status report - a bit of back pain probably due to spending approximately 36 hours in bed with a migraine, a bit tired, a tiny bit of nausea but so far it's only after I eat, heartburn is still on vacation, hooray!

seven weeks

A photo:
Looks dark in there.

Let's see...this week we have elbows and some fingers and the beginnings of feet. It's teeth are starting to form and the intestines are still hanging out in the umbilical cord. It is less than a half inch long and it appears that most of its size is in its head.

I now have two finished skirts but since it's SNOWING out I'll have to wait a bit to debut the second one. I packed away some stuff that I won't be wearing for a while last night - I don't know how I can fill a big plastic tub with clothes and not have my closet look any different.

Hungry thirsty hungry hungry thirsty hungry gotta pee hungry hungry thirsty pee thirsty pee hungry thirsty pee.

That's pretty much my day.