Another week... and the bigger our little beans are getting. Mine's a kumquat this week, and officially a fetus! Yay for 10 weeks. I sent out an email to our good friends this morning to tell them -- widening the circle of those in the know. 
Oh, I hear you. While I'd like to think I have a bit of a pregnant belly, the truth is it's probably from all the carbs over the last month! Good luck with those cravings!! :)
I crave simple carbs big time in the first trimester, as long as they are salty. Sweets make me want to yak. I think it's my body telling me my blood sugar is getting low, and wanting that quick punch of sugar. If I'm better at eating constantly, I can do more protein and things.
I outed myself to my composition teacher today. I've been having to snack in our lessons every week, and today he wondered why, haha. I didn't mind telling him, it's been hard for me to get as much as I want to done on my projects, and now he knows why!
My MIL is here to visit all week, she brought me a radiation shield for my belly. It's like a belly band, except the special shield fabric isn't stretchy, so it has elastic in the top and bottom and is all gathered on the sides. Makes it kinda bulky right now, since I don't have that much belly. 
I've never been one to worry much about that kind of thing, but it couldn't hurt, right? If I stick my cellphone in it, I lose all reception, so it's got to be doing something.
I find that I have to eat a full meal every two hours. It's really quite shocking how much food I have to eat. I never expected to be this hungry. I was definitely ready for the nausea, which comes and goes, but this hunger. Wow. I'm laughing because I always vowed I would never be one of those women who gained a whole bunch of extra weight during my pregnancies, but I'm 9 weeks on Wednesday, and I've already gained close to 10 pounds. (I'm guessing because I really don't want to see what the scale says.) The best part of the weight gain is the new cleavage I've gained. My husband thinks I'm so incredibly sexy with all of my curves. It makes me feel like a million dollars. Or at least when I'm not feeling like I'm going to throw up or getting completely horrified at the thought of food.
We have our first prenatal with our midwives tomorrow. I'm really excited to see what kinds of things we talk about.
Finally, I think I'm going to be in maternity clothes fairly soon. Or at least for working out. I'm wearing mostly dresses during the weekdays, which are far more forgiving of my weight gain than jeans are. (I shudder at the thought of trying to stuff myself into those horribly uncomfortable things.) But I'm really busting out of my exercise clothes. A few more weeks, and I'll definitely need some new things.
As my first, all of this is really exciting!
i'm always fine fine fine and then so hungry I have to eat something Right. That. Minute. or i'm going to yak. Always lots of carbs the first 3 months for me.... need the carbs to keep the yucks away.
I woke up feeling normal and got really worried about it.. it lasted about an hour and I felt horrible again. Isn't 1st trimester yuckiness "wonderful".
I woke up feeling normal and got really worried about it.. it lasted about an hour and I felt horrible again. Isn't 1st trimester yuckiness "wonderful".
I hate those worrying moments! First thing I do in the morning is check that my breasts are still sore! Now that I'm at 10 weeks, I'm done my progesterone supplements. I imagine my symptoms will change a bit as a result, and I'll just try not to panic. :)
i was just telling DH yesterday how I haden't puked in 2 days and was kinda worried by it.
he thinks i'm crazy but you all know what i'm talking 'bout!
Bostonmommy, believe me, this is just one of the many times you will find yourself doing things that you vowed never to do as a mother! I remember so many times saying "when I have kids, I will never..." and then eating my words once I had one (and still do it on a regular basis!)
I'm also eating a lot - just so hungry. I gained 40 lbs in 36 weeks last time (DS was born a month early), and really would rather not do the same again, but I think it is inevitable. It took me probably about a year and a half of nursing to get back down to normal. I'm going crazy in the supermarket - buying all kinds of things I would never buy normally, just because I want snack options! However, a key difference is that this time I am exercising (only did a little swimming towards the end last time), so perhaps the weight gain won't be so high.
I hear you guys about the carbs! It's crazy for me because for the past several months, we also have been eating more whole foods...mostly protein and fresh stuff...avoiding the carbs. And now, it's ALL I can eat half the time!
I gained 55 lb with my son...would LOVE to avoid THAT much weight gain this go around. It did just sort of melt away on its own by 3 months, but still. As much food as I'm currently eating, I was sort of shocked to step on the scale the other day and see that I hadn't actually gained any weight. So, I guess I'm actually utilizing all this food right now. lol
I'm 8 weeks now. I thought I felt my fundus yesterday morning...just barely poking over...which is an exciting confirmation for me that this pregnancy is probably doing well. I'm tired a lot...and of course, the M.S. and food repulsions, but all in all, I'm doing surprisingly well compared to how I felt with my son at this time.
At first I only wanted protein foods but I'm getting to the point where I really want carbs too. I'm having a hard time getting protein down in the AM especially. Right now if I could live on bagels and cream cheese I totally would. It tastes so so good. Before this week I hadn't had a bagel in probably 5 years. The other foods I want all the time are soups. Not sure why but I am all about soup right now.
I'm 9 weeks today and I have this huge fear of loosing the baby right now. I had some ultra light spotting last week but it was really hardly anything and ended pretty fast .Rationally, I don't think it was anything to be concerned about but it scared me. My morning/all day/worst in the evening sickness is still going full blast and even short outings with DH and/or DS leave me pretty tired.
The worst right now is that DS still wants to co-sleep with me part time which means I'm not really sleeping on nights he won't sleep with DH instead. I slept for maybe an hour total between 3:45 AM and 9:30AM while he was in my bed last night. I can't stand for anyone to touch me in my sleep right now and I really need to be in a very specific position with my pillows etc. He likes to press up against me and pinches at my back/neck with his little nails and sticks his feet in very uncomfortable places. I was lying there awake pretty much all night trying not to scream. DH tries so hard to get DS to sleep in DS's room with him but DS only wants mama. When I do happen to get a night of sleep without him in the room I actually wake up feeling pretty good the next day but those days aren't happening nearly as often as I need. Does anyone else struggle with co-sleeping right now? It never bothered me much before this pregnancy but now it's torture.
Yes about the co-sleeping! DS starts out in his room, then migrates in at some point still. We have a little mattress/bed set up on the floor beside our bed, so at least he knows to go there first. By morning he's crawling into our bed, just as the all night nausea turns into the morning "I'm going to puke right now", and all I can muster gently is "get out of bed, mama is going to throw up" Poor guy...luckily he's been very patient, and he just goes to find daddy who usually has migrated into his bed. He is 3.5 though, so it's a little easier to gently redirect him out of the bed while I'm like this.
I'm not sleeping more than hour at a time at night with the night nausea, so the thought of another person in my space at night is nauseating itself :(
Today I reaaaally need a nap...I dread waking up from them though b/c I usually feel nauseous and have slept too long so it takes a while to get feeling "normal" again. Sometimes I have more trouble falling asleep at night if I nap too. I don't think I'll make it through the afternoon if I don't though - wish me luck - ha ha!
The only things calming my stomach right now are protein bars, salad and soda 
Honestly, Im having trouble swallowing anything (I gag whenever I try to swallow, even water) so Im not tempting my stomach by adding something it doesn't want. The first trimester is always hard then I make sure I eat a healthy diet after that.
Had my first baby dream last night. It was a girl, but she was tiny. Like, only an inch long! I could feel her tiny little heartbeat when I held her between my fingers. I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to nurse her, because her mouth was so tiny! It was all really strange.
I'm 8 weeks tomorrow, and my fundus is really obvious, about an inch above my pubic bone.
Hi!!!
I have found I want something to eat one minute and then I want nothing to do with the leftovers the next day (sometimes they even send me running to the bathroom!!) I feel like I'm wasting so much food mostly because I just don't want to eat it. DH doesn't eat a lot of leftovers, and I can only feed DS the same thing so many times in a row... I've tried making smaller portions, but that is always the night when everyone is starving and is wondering why I didn't make enough! My new love however is V8 low sodium. I feel like I'm getting somthing in me that has some healthy components. I know it's not the best, but it is delious!
On a funny Hormone note, Sunday we got up early I was doing stuff around the house, and we lost track of time. We were going to be about 10 minutes late for church which is no big deal as it is very casual! We are normally a few minutes late anyway. I had a 20 minute crying fit because we were going to be late, I just could not stop sobbing, which ofcourse only made us later! Poor DH he's not use to me being upset very often, and definatly not sobbing for no good reason. We ran some other errands, one took us to the mall where I went to the puppy store. not a good idea as all, as it was full of people buying puppy mill puppies and that made me start sobing in the store. Side note, I work with a rescue that takes in the adults and unwanted puppies from mills and I've seen first hand what condition they are in when we get them, not a pretty site. The point is I'm hoping these hormones even out sooner rather than later cause I'm not sure how much more of this crazyness Dh and I can take!
Miss Sonja, I know how you feel with having an older child and this little bean going to totally change your world. Right now I can help in school as much as I want, I'm the cubscout treasurer, and do lost of stuff with them. When this little one gets here I won't be able to help in school, just go out on the spur of the moment, and basic things like sleep (which I have come to love!) are going to be much harder to achieve. We did tell DS(8) yesterday though and he was ok with it. Not overly excited, but not unhappy either.
Cosleeping! lol I actually 'helped' ds along towards weaning last August because all of a sudden that intense closeness from co-sleeping plus nursing was literally preventing me from sleeping and driving me C.R.A.Z.Y.! All that just to say that I'd already sort of established some boundaries about 'closeness' while cosleeping. So, now, I do have a very specific way I like to lay...and I need a lot of pillows near my belly...I know, lol a little early!...but when ds complains or tries to get me to cuddle closer, I just can't do it. It helps that he's just as cuddly with my hubby though...so I don't have too much guilt about it. lol I just tell him mommy is tired and push him closer to my husband ;-)
I have been to tierd/lazy to post but I am so excited to be part of this group.
I have been feeling super tierd and sick the last week, no throwing up but just feel like I have a flu. I had no food aversions with DS (or sickness) but could not eat real food for the last week until yesterday. We usually eat a well rounded "healthy" diet but its been cereal, pizza, trail mix and canned fruit, I feel bad but junk is better than nothing.
Poor DS has hardly been out of the house in 2 weeks, poor guy is going stir crazy but I am just too exhausted!
I can not wait for the next month to be over, I can get back to normal life and TELL EVERYONE!!!!! keeping this secret is so hard!
and, we're moving, and dh is starting a new biz and working long hours. wish I could just go to bed and wake up at 14 weeks. :/
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