Hey, ladies! Just wanted to give a little update on me. The semester started back for us today, and I'm at 6w 2d. Today was fine. I got a little nausea while eating my yogurt on the bus, but it passed quickly. I had a weird pregnancy craving for a hamburger at 9:30am, and I sho nuff was going to go get one, but a colleague (a pregnant one, at that!) asked me to sub her class because she had a doctor's appointment with a specialist. She's been having some serious problems (seizures, passing out in the third tri, bed rest), so of course I said yes! Needless to say, I didn't eat anything else until 12:30, and by that time I was just about sick with hunger!
When I got home today, I passed out on the couch for about 2 hours, but now I'm feeling almost like myself again. So far so good with this pregnancy. I have actually had very few symptoms. The only one that's been slowing me down is the exhaustion, but even that is beginning to let up a bit (and when I say "let up," I mean that at least now have short bursts of energy between long bouts of feeling like crawling up underneath the bed and passing out!) I do not have any morning sickness, and so far, I have not thrown up (knock on wood!) I do get cramps just about every day, and sometime they are so bad that the wake me up. Then again, the need to pee every 5 minutes wakes me up, so if it's not one thing . . .
I've got two more weeks before my first midwife appointment, and then about another month before we "officially" start telling people. After the appointment with the midwife, we will tell our parents (I'll be 8 weeks then). DH had mentioned that he would like to wait as long as possible before telling our parents primarily because he doesn't want his mother to tell his sisters, and he does not think that she will be able to keep this secret. There is a little bit of tension amongst his siblings, mainly due to the fact that his sisters have a touch of the crazy. Finding out that we will be having the first grandchild (one sis is not married and the other is 42 and married with no children) might cause some . . . interesting behavior. But I can't be worried about all that, and they don't live here anyway. I told DH that I really want to tell the parents at 8 weeks because between his mom, my mom, and my grandmothers, there are 8 pregnancy experiences, and I would like to tap into any first trimester wisdom they might have. He does agree with me, but I think that the idea of his sisters' reactions make him a bit nervous (and based on some of their previous behavior, I don't blame him!)
Um, let's see. Is there anything else? Oh, I sent the person an email about my schedule next semester. It was a simple, "Sorry, can't do it" email. I did not get a response, and I have not seen this person, so I'm going to assume all is cool (there are really no ramifications if it is not, but I wanted to be as professional as possible).
On the work front, I met my first batch of students today. They were great! They all had this eager beaver look about them, and they laughed at my jokes, which bodes well especially since the class meets at 8:00am! One of them even had a folder with a kitten on it, which was really cute because--well, you know--this is college. I was thinking, "Bless your little heart with your kitten folder!" I meet the next group tomorrow, and I hope they are all as alert as this group was today!
Ok, I wrote a novel. Back to answering "Where can I get the book?" and "I can't log into Blackboard so what do I do?" emails!