9 Weeks

How far along? 9 weeks
 

Maternity clothes? I caved in this week and bought 2 pairs of dress pants and then a few days later a pair of jeans.  My works pants were getting pretty tight even pre-preggers, so as soon as the bloating hit, my pants were unbuttoned non-stop!  So enough of that madness.  Maternity dress pants are the best thing that has ever happened to me!  They are seriously like sweatpants.  I will probably never go back to normal pants!!
 

Exercising: Still in Zumba for one more week.  Still doing yoga once a week.  Trying to take lots of walks with hubby especially after eating when the dreaded bloat sets in.  And TRYING to get to the gym for some elliptical time and light weight lifting.

Stretch marks? Not yet.
 

Sleep: Sporadic.  Some nights I'm out cold all night, other nights I'm up a million times.  Of course the 2-5 trips to the potty most nights doesn't help.
 

Best moment this week: I'm currently writing this about 2 weeks later, so I don't recall :(
 

Have you told family and friends: Most family and a few friends.
 

Miss Anything? Sadly, it's been harder to give up drinking than I thought it would be.  It must be because summer is coming and all everyone is doing is drinking beers on patios!  And oddly the smell or thought of it is not making me sick yet, so that makes it harder.  But I will survive!  Baby is way more important than a glass of wine, and once summer is over I probably won't even notice.
 

Movement: Not yet.
 

Food cravings: Gummy Bears and anything sweet!!  Which is very out of the ordinary for this "salt-tooth" girl.  I would take a bag of chips over candy any day before.  In fact I never bought candy before, and only ate it if it was put in front of me.  Now I actually went out on a special trip to the grocery store for gummy bears!!
 

Anything making you queasy or sick: Tuna, coffee, cold cuts/subs...pretty much 3 of my favorite things! :(
 

Have you started to show yet: I'm not sure...I definitely already had a bit of a pooch before, so by the end of the day and eating all my gummy bears, I can easily make my tummy look like I'm about 6 months!!  But I decided if I can still suck it all in, it's not baby yet...which I still can right now.
 

Gender prediction: Back and forth...I was for sure boy for the past few weeks, but now I started some of the old wives tale things and Chinese gender predictor; which have all said girl so far!
 

Labor Signs: Nope
 

Belly Button in or out? In and it better stay that way!  I HATE belly buttons!!
 

Wedding rings on or off? On
 

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy, I personally think all these hormones have leveled me out somewhat...hubby will disagree, but I feel more sane than I usually do with the ups and downs of PMS.  I do have my moments, and have really been laying into the hubby lately for small things :/  Whoops!
 

Looking forward to: Having a more definite BUMP and not just bloat/fat pooch!

Not loving: Still feeling pretty nauseous a lot, major nasal congestion especially when I first wake up, and lots of headaches.

First Doctor Appointment

So I'm backtracking a little to let you know what's been going on.  Baby P and I had our first doctor appointment at what we thought was 7 weeks 1 day along.

We went through all the do's and don't, urine sample, exam (ICK!), and then came the fun part!  First ultrasound!!  Since we thought I was over 7 weeks, we figured we'd be able to see something and maybe even a heartbeat.  Well the doc did an internal ultrasound and at first was finding only an empty pregnancy sac.  All I could hear was her saying "something might be wrong" over and over.

Finally after searching forever, she finally found what she THOUGHT was a TINY tadpole of baby, definitely not 7 weeks along.  You can see the little guy below; way up in the top left corner, inside the big black circle, that TINY tadpole.

She told us she felt better about that but that she "wasn't doing her happy dance yet".  She told us that we could come back in 2 weeks to see if baby was developing or not.  I left feeling completely depressed.  What started out so fun and exciting suddenly turned into what could be a tragedy.

Needless to say, the next 2 weeks were probably the longest 2 weeks of my life!!  All I was doing was researching, crying, freaking out, reading about miscarriages, driving hubby crazy!  The good news (if you want to call it that) was that I was starting to feel A LOT sicker, morning/all day nausea and just feeling downright crappy.

Finally the 2 week wait was over!  We went to the doctor again, she used the internal ultrasound again and within seconds, saw a much larger baby, a yolk sac, AND....a HEARTBEAT!!!!  I burst into tears immediately!  That was, so far, the happiest, most relieving moment of my life!  Below is this ultrasound, what the doctor determined was 8 weeks along.  It's just the big blob inside the big black circle; so technical I know!

So I went from a Christmas Day due date, all the way back to a January 2nd due date!  I was behind almost 2 weeks!!  But that's ok!  We're back on track now, baby is growing, mommy is sick and all is well!!