8 weeks

8 weeks. 2 months. Craziness! It's still surreal. I have the ultrasound picture set as my screen saver on my phone and every time I see it I think "that's my baby. That's growing inside me right now." I think about seeing and hearing it's heartbeat on the ultrasound and I think about that, and that tiny heart beating inside me. I just get this happy feeling every time I see it. Even though it just looks like a little blob! I can't wait for my next ultrasound on feb 6th! It will look more like a baby and less like a little blob! I'll be 9weeks3days when I have the ultrasound.

Not much has been going on, just work. We went out to dinner and saw Hansel and Gretel on Friday, I liked the movie! It was good. We also went and bought an outfit for a friends baby, she's due really soon. It makes me seriously want to know what baby is so I can start shopping! I plan on getting a neutral stroller, infant seat, swing, pack and play, etc., but I can't wait to start buying baby clothes! And start sewing stuff for the baby! I plan on making the bedding, a cart/highchair cover, carseat cover, changing pad, bobby covers, bibs, burp cloths, nursing covers, and whatever else I can find to sew for the baby! Then we can start figuring out a name and calling baby by name! (we already have a boys name).

I also decided to cloth diaper! I bought my first cloth diaper the other day and some fabric to try and make one. I'll send it to my cousin to test out and hopefully it will work well so I can start making some! I plan to buy them slowly throughout my pregnancy so when baby comes I'll have a nice collection!

I've been feeling the same, not really feeling too bad so I'm considering myself lucky so far! A little moody, but that's expected.

Here's 8 weeks:


I also started taking a picture of my bare stomach this week and plan on doing that weekly from now on!

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More real!

Since we saw the little bean on the ultrasound yesterday, saw and heard its healthy heartbeat, its so much more real. There's a little person growing in there!!! Granted it just looks like a little blob with a tiny flickering heart, its still a perfect little bean that's going to grow into a perfect little baby! When we heard the heartbeat I looked at Josh's face and he was just staring at the ultrasound screen in awe. It was so cute! I think he realized "holy shit there's seriously a baby in there". I'm sure he'll it'll become even more real at the next ultrasound in 2 weeks because the dr said it'll look more like a baby. It'll have little arm and leg buds and well be able to see it moving around! I'm so excited for that! That's one good thing about going to a fertility clinic-you have more ultrasounds early and get to see the little bean growing! So exciting. I made my first OB appointment for Feb 12th and I'm not sure if the OB will do an ultrasound before 20 weeks since I will have already had 2 when I start seeing him? If not then I'll have to wait until I'm 16 weeks to go have the gender ultrasound!

After the ultrasound yesterday morning we went to the grocery store and I stocked up on some healthier meals to take to work for lunches. I've been eating kinda crappy the past few weeks because I was wanting fast food cheeseburgers and fries so I'm trying to eat healthier! I got grapes, strawberries, bagels, cream cheese and yogurt. I made lasagna for dinner last night and while it was cooking I washed the grapes and strawberries and divided them into sandwich bags, I put the bagels into separate sandwich bags, I had enough (fruit an yogurts) to make lunches/dinners for work for the rest of the week (4) I packed each lunch into a grocery bag and put them in the fridge so when I leave for work I can just grab one and go! This morning I had a fruit smoothie for breakfast and when I got hungry at work I had my grapes and then I had the yogurt, strawberries and bagel for lunch! It was SO yummy! And I feel good for eating healthier! And I think the fruit is already helping with the constipation issue! So yay!

Later that day I went on a work errand with josh and then we went to sees candy and there was a babies r us in the same parking lot and we went in there to look around Josh was pretty overwhelmed! He really has no clue about baby stuff! And a lot has changed since I was a nanny and since my niece and nephew where born! We were looking at cars seats and I was like "come over here, lets look at the infant seats" and he was like "wait, there's different car seats? You have to buy another one when there older?" And I had to explain the whole infant seat stroller travel system and how it works and why. I think he's still a little confused. I definitely plan on getting a car seat stroller travel system and he said "but if you get that then you need to get a whole new one when they get too big for the infant seat?" And I tried to explain that you get a new at seat that stays in the car and then just use the stroller without the infant seat, but I don't think he was understanding it! He thought you had to buy a new stroller too when they outgrow the infant seat! It was pretty funny! I looked at the pack and plays and they have come a long way! I think I want one instead of a bassinet to put in our room. There's one that has a bassinet/rocker seat that you can use alone or on the pack and play and it had a changing station!

I also think I'm going to cloth diaper. My cousin is doing it and she's liking it so far. It's just so much cheaper then disposables. And better for the environment. I'm going to attempt to make one and send it to my cousin to test out! If it works well I will make most of mine, but also buy a few.


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Ultrasound

Yep, there's a baby in there! Measuring at 7weeks1day with a heartbeat of 142bpm! Yay! I'm so excited!!! And we got to hear its perfect little heartbeat! I go back one more time in 2 weeks for one last ultrasound and then ill start seeing an ob! Now I've got to find an OB!


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Nervous

Headed to my first ultrasound and I am so nervous! I hope and pray everything is great and we see the little bean and see (and maybe even hear) the heartbeat, but I'm terrified that she'll look and won't be able to find anything in there, or there won't be a heartbeat. I really hope that's not the case! I just want the reassurance that everything's ok!


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7 week pic!

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7 weeks!

It seems to be going so slowly and so quickly at the same time! The days are long, but the weeks are short. I guess that's the best way to explain how it feels right now. Only 2 days until my first ultrasound! I cant wait to see the little bean growing inside of me! And only 8-9 more weeks until I can find if the baby is a he or a she. I find myself calling it her and when I picture the baby I picture a girl. For some reason I think it's a girl. Maybe wishful thinking? Although I'll be happy with either! A place at the hospital does gender checks at 16 weeks for only $30 if your delivering there or at the other nearby hospital. The "boutique" places do it as early as 15 weeks I think, but cost a lot more. I'm not sure what I'll so yet, but if my ultrasound when I can find out the gender isn't until 20 weeks I don't want to wait! I want to know as soon as I can! So if I go at 16 weeks that will be March 24th!

The room that is going to be the babies room has been my sewing/craft room since we moved in almost 2 years ago and it has become my dumping ground for all my stuff. It's a cluttered unorganized mess. So I moved my desk and bookshelves into our bedroom and last weekend I cleaned out a small dresser in our room and some of my stuff in the closet and put clothes that don't fit me into storage boxes. I organized my most of my fabric into the dresser today and started going through and cleaning out and organizing my stuff onto the bookshelves. I'm planning on spending a few hours every weekend (or day off) getting that room cleaned out. Getting my new little crafting/sewing area organized and throwing things out. I tend to hold onto things and think everything is important to keep. Like my work shirts from when I worked at T-mobile 4+ years ago...yep. Found them in a box of clothes today. And into the trash they went! There's a lot of stuff I know I need to get rid of so slowly but surely I'm hoping to de-clutter and get organized! And then I can start setting things up in the babies room! I have a big bookcase from ikea



That I plan on using in the nursery. I'm going to get some baskets/storage boxes for some of the shelves, and display toys and books and stuff on open shelves. We already have a crib and there is a daybed in the room that I'd like to keep but I need to get the book shelf and crib set up to see if there's enough room for the bed plus a glider/rocker. The bookcase is black but the bed is white and I want to paint the crib white (it's a really light wood color). I'm not sure I'm going to love the bookcase being black. It's still in the boxes though so I'm considering exchanging it for white. I plan on doing gray walls so maybe I could leave the bookcase as is and just use white storage baskets? I don't know. I still have plenty of time to figure it all out. And if we happen to find out we're having twins (which I highly doubt) I'm thinking we'll just return the bookshelf and get 2 cribs from ikea!

So I still really haven't been having many symptoms. A little bit of queasiness here and there, tiredness (but not too bad yet). My boobs on the other hand are SO unbelievably sore. My nipples hurt. I sleep on my side/stomach and if I lay on my boobs it hurts so bad. I've been wanting unhealthy food. Fast food, a burger and fries is so good. But restaurant food and food I used to cook and enjoy just doesn't taste the same, it's just not very good, except spaghetti...mmmm...my spaghetti is yummy and good thing josh loves it to. I really want to try to make an effort to eat healthier. I plan on stocking up on fruit when I go to the grocery store this week and eating that throughout the day. Maybe get bagel thins and cream cheese for lunches at work to have with fruit. It's so hard to figure out what to take to work for lunch. Nothing sounds good so I've been having top ramen. I snack on whatever cheddar cheese its to keep from getting nauseous. And I have one craving so far - orange juice. I've always enjoyed orange juice once in a while but we never buy it because I'd have a glass or 2 and then it would go bad sitting in the fridge, but know its just so good. I have a glass every morning and when I don't I think about it and crave it until I have a glass. I even stopped and got some on my way to work one day because I didn't have any that morning and I was craving it so bad. This is making me want some right now. I also had something that didn't agree with me. The grocery store by more work has these cheese balls that are really good so I got one and some crackers and after eating some I felt sick. Like I was going to puke, I didn't though, but I felt icky for most of the rest of the day.

I guess that's it for now! Until I get to see my little bean on Tuesday!!!


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Gross

I know this is so gross, but a new symptom has come up. Constipation. I've experienced it before, or so I thought, a few days without pooping. Then I poop and all is well. Maybe take a stool softener once in a while just to make it happen. But holy crap. This is a whole new level! It's been a few days and yesterday and today I would feel like I might need to poop but I never did. Well tonight I knew I needed to go and it hurt SO bad. I sat there forever. It totally sucked. Wow. Now I know what the big deal about constipation is. When you finally go it hurts like hell! I think I need to find out if its ok to take a stool softener and if so then I need to take one whenever I haven't gone in a day or 2 to try to prevent this issue!


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6 weeks!

After trying for so long it's so surreal to know and actually say out loud that I'm pregnant! And it's crazy that I'm 6 weeks pregnant!

I still don't really have any major symptoms. I'm tired and occasionally queasy, but nothing too bad. I have my first ultrasound 1 week from tomorrow! I seriously can not wait!




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Morning sickness

I think morning sickness is starting. I usually have orange juice and cereal or a fruit smoothie every morning. Well yesterday I bought my favorite cereal (oh's) which I normally love. I was so excited to have a bowl of it this morning and when I did it was kind of gross. It didn't taste very good at all. I was still able to eat it and drink my oj, but I've felt nauseous all morning. I feel fine otherwise, but I think morning sickness is kicking in. Work should be so much fun today. Maybe it's just a fluke and not really morning sickness, I don't know. My tummy also feels so bloated. I feel like its huge. My boobs are also really sore. And while this all sucks, I feel pregnant! Which is awesome! I'll just keep reminding myself that these symptoms mean there's a baby growing inside of me!


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The little things

Sometimes it's the littlest things that make me happy. I drink a lot of water. I mean A LOT. Even pre-pregnancy. When I don't drink enough water I get headaches. I'm really trying to do what I can to avoid headaches now that I'm pregnant because I don't want to take anything (and apparently You can't buy Tylenol anymore? I had no idea until I was at Walmart and was going to pick some up to have on hand in case I need it but there was none. So now I need to ask what I can take). Anyways...I used to drink a big bottle of smart water (I think it's 33.8 fluid oz.) when I was at work and now I find myself finishing that and needing more during my workday. So I started taking a second smaller bottle of water to work too. I'm just so thirsty and crave cold water. I usually reuse the bottle a few times because our fridge has a filter so I fill it about 1/3 way and freeze overnight, then fill it the rest of the way when I leave for work so I have nice cold water all day. Well I decided to look for a new water bottle that I could take to work. I looked at target today and found an awesome one! I could probably do without the handle.



It has a straw thing on the top



And a thing that screws into the bottom of the lid that you freeze to keep it cold (I probably won't use that though, I'll probably just use ice). It's big, but not huge and it hold something like 56 oz! Awesome! And it was under $9! This seriously makes me so happy!

And I really think I'm feeling stretching or something (maybe like round ligament pain?) it's only when I cough or sneeze or stretch a certain way that I can feel it and I think it's too early for it, but I'm seriously feeling it. Weird.

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(almost) 5 weeks

I've been meaning to take a picture of my belly now to watch how it changes each week but I've been putting it off because I already have a tummy because I'm overweight. I plan in working really hard after I have the baby to get back in shape, lose the baby weight I gain in the next 9 months and the weight I've gained over the past few years, but for now I just want to enjoy my pregnancy! I also feel so bloated now, but oh we'll! I finally took a pic. I took it at 4 weeks 5 days:



So I'll be taking seeking pics starting this week! I'm calling this one 5 weeks.

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Still not convinced

I KNOW I'm pregnant. I saw the positive tests and got confirmation via the blood test. And despite the symptoms, there's still this little voice in my head that it's too good to be true, that I'm convincing myself I have symptoms but that I really don't. I don't feel sick yet so maybe that's part of it, I know it's normal though and I'll probably start feeling yucky and being exhausted in a week or so, but overall right now I feel pretty normal. I don't necessarily feel pregnant, but it's still so early, that I think it's normal. I can't wait until the 22nd for the ultrasound so that I can see that everything is fine and that there really is a little baby in there! And I know I might regret saying this, but a little morning sickness would be a nice confirmation any time now.


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Blood draw

So yesterday morning I had my blood draw to see if I'm pregnant! I took the last digital test that morning and saw "pregnant" across the screen for the third time! I went in at 8 am before work. I told the nurse that I think I am pregnant. That I've tested a few times and it was positive. She said that's great but, sometimes your hormone levels are high enough to get a positive test but not high enough to sustain a pregnancy. When the analyze the blood if the numbers (what ever numbers there looking at I have no idea) are low that's probably the case and they'll have me come back in ever few days as the numbers go back down to 0, if the numbers are good then we'll schedule my first OB ultrasound with them. After the first ultrasound they will release me to a normal OB. So I was nervous. I KNEW I was pregnant, but then I starting thinking that maybe I was wrong? She said she'd call me that afternoon as soon as she got the results (I asked if to please leave the results on my voicemail if I didn't answer). I went to work and kept checking my phone all morning even though I knew I wouldn't get the call until after noon. She called close to 12:30 and I missed the call. I had just gone to lunch when I saw that I had missed the call. I listened to the message which said "you were right! Congratulations your pregnant!" and then to call her to schedule my first OB ultrasound. So I called right back and made the appointment for Jan 22 at 8:30 am! They do the ultrasound at 7 weeks! I can't wait to see our little baby (even though it won't look like a baby yet!). Josh is excited and took me out to dinner last night to celebrate.

Symptoms : I have to pee ALL the time. Heightened sense of smell, I find myself breathing through my mouth often because I get a whiff of a smell that doesn't agree with me. It doesn't quite make me nauseous, but it really bothers me. I'm craving, and loving, orange juice. Foods don't taste the same, like foods I normally enjoy and I'm excited to eat just taste not so great. Instead of finishing the meal thinking "mmmm, that was so good" I'm thinking "that was ok I guess". I'll feel hungry but nothing really sounds good, except orange juice.

I've been eating healthier and I found a V8 drink that is pretty good, it's sparkling pomegranate black cherry (I think) and it has 1 serving of fruits and veggies. I usually have one of those with lunch. I've been trying to have a fruit smoothie every morning for breakfast. I put milk, low fat vanilla yogurt, frozen fruit (I like berry mixes, right now it's a blackberry, blueberry, raspberry mix), and I've been throwing in some baby spinach leaves. The first time I did it I only added a little, but you can even taste it so now I'm adding more! I just throw it all into the magic bullet and blend it for a few minutes. It's yummy and healthy! I also got the pre cut apples that are already divided up into bags, for kids lunches, because I done like eating a whole apple off the core, I like slices and for me it's just easy and convenient. I'm also loving white cheddar cheese-its. I keep a baggie of them in my locker at work and when I'm hungry I just go snack on those. I also used to be big on having candy and so now I try to snack on those instead, I know they probably aren't the best thing to eat, but better then candy or chips. I haven't had coffee in 2 weeks. I really thought that was going to be the hardest thing for me because I LOVE coffee. I even looked up info online and most health care professions say you can have a cup of coffee a day during pregnancy and I thought I would, but it just doesn't really appeal to me anymore. I have had vitamin water a few times and I want to check with the doctor to make sure that's ok. But mainly I just stick to water. I love water. When we go out to eat though I have been enjoying non-alcoholic drinks that I normally wouldn't get because I'd be drinking alcohol. I've had some yummy flavored lemonades and other fun drinks! Last night I had a cherry limeade and it was so good! I do limit myself to one and get water too.

Going by when I had my IUI I'm 4 weeks 4 days pregnant and the baby is the size of an orange seed!

I find myself calling the baby "her". I just have a feeling I guess, but as much as I would love to have a baby girl I will be happy with either a boy or a girl! In the end I want (at least) one of each!


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