14 Weeks!

Yesterday I hit the "14 week" mark :) woot woot!

Unfortunately, the husband was sick all last weekend (and is still not feeling well), and I caught it. I was throwing up allll day yesterday. We went and got sushi for lunch, and right as soon as we got home, it was over :( Sushi doesn't taste so good coming back up! I don't think I'll be eating there for a while. :( I spent the rest of the day miserable on the couch, throwing up every so often.
I woke up quite often during the night last night, but mostly because my body hurt so bad. I haven't thrown up since right before bed last night, thank goodness, but my body is still very achy, and I've hardly moved from the couch :( I was able to get some pizza bites down for lunch. Now I'm craving Cheese Its like nobody's business. J said he'll bring me home some after work (luckily he gets off around 7 tonight!). I HATE feeling so...useless. I feel like a bum. I am definitely glad that our boat is still in Dry Dock, so I have the weekend off. I am praying I'm better by Monday. It's a big, busy day at work!

One of the things that worry me the most about all this throwing up and lack of appetite is that the baby isn't getting enough nourishment. :( I've been drinking gatorade all day, hoping the electrolytes are doing something to help. I'm hoping that since I've been overall pretty healthy everything will be okay...

I did go to the doctor on Wednesday for my check up. I met my new doctor! She's a younger lady (maybe mid-30s to 40s?), and has a 5 month old! She was SUPER nice, very professional, and gave me a MUCH better vibe than the last doctor did. She asked what gender I wanted to have, and I told her a girl. So when she found the baby's heartbeat (SUCH a neat thing to hear!!!!), she kept saying "hi princess!" :) It was awesome. I asked her what I had coming for me, in terms of doctor visits, and she laid it all out there. I felt so much more comfortable!


How big is baby?: The size of a lemon!
Stretch marks?: found another one this week :( I don't think I'm going to be one of those "blessed" pregnant girls who don't get any.
Maternity clothes?: Wearing the same few outfits. It hit me today that once we start having cruises again I'm going to have to get a few more outfits. Really sucks because money is tight right now..
Sleep: I have found that taking Tylenol PM before bed lets me sleep til 7 or so in the morning, which is great. Last night was rough, but that's not because of baby. I am starting to have more of a problem getting comfortable, because my belly is sticking out a little more. Thank goodness that we got a new bed in December that forms to your body...so I can lay on my side or back and nothing is being strained. Never thought of that as being something that would help during the pregnancy, but I am so thankful for it!
Best moment this week: That's a tough one. Actually, Tuesday was the one day J and I were both feeling okay. We went to my brother's house for dinner. His girlfriend is due Sept. 3rd, so it was fun talking about pregnancies (and seeing my brother squirm about the whole thing!). Wednesday was when J started his day of vomiting, and I tried to help him, but the sight/sound/smell made me nauseous. It's been a rough week...
Movement: none yet! I can feel where baby is, which is cool. but can't feel baby moving.
Food cravings: still nothing weird.
Gender: Have our appt scheduled for Feb 15th!! We wanted to do the 14th (J is usually off on Tuesdays), but they're closed every Tuesday for whatever reason. We're both taking the whole day off so we can find out, and soak in the news :) and start registering for more baby stuff! I keep getting this strong feeling that it's a girl, though...
Labor Signs: No thank you.
Belly Button in or out?: In and looking normal.
What I miss: Jimmy John's. That's mostly it! Oh, and feeling normal. I told J today that I wish we were both back to feeling 100%, and he kindly reminded me that I haven't felt 100% since we found out I was pregnant and my symptoms started :( meh.
What I am looking forward to: the gender u/s!!! I can. not. wait. I asked my doctor about whether or not it was an okay thing to do, and she said she couldn't really recommend it because "too many u/s's are not necessarily good for baby", but I'm only have two done at the doctors, and I know people who get them every week, so I'm sure it'll be fine. We don't plan on telling her, though. We'll have our anatomy scan about mid-March, where they'll confirm the gender and make sure baby is growing like it's supposed to. I'm also really looking forward to not feeling like death anymore. And for J to feel better. All he says is his "stomach hurts"...how am I supposed to make that feel better??

12w5d

Not much going on here in baby-land. At least, nothing new. I'm sure there are LOTS of things going on inside of me. But I can't see those! :( I haven't seen the baby in 4 weeks. And I don't get to go to the doctor for another 2 weeks :( I hate waiting! The husband and I have decided that we are going to get an "elective" gender scan around 16 weeks. Our doctor won't do them until 20 weeks, and we all know how impatient Marisa is. It'll be a 3D/4D ultrasound, and it's these techs' jobs to determine the gender of baby. So I have no doubt that it will be correct! You can't really go wrong with a 3D u/s anyway. For $100 they'll do the u/s, give us lots of pictures and a video on a disk, and tell us what our baby has between it's legs! We are trying to get an appt for Valentine's Day, and that will be our only gift to each other. We can't wait!! I am starting to have a gut feeling that it's a girl, but I'm not sure if my personal wishes have overrided my gut. So I'm trying not to get my hopes up!
J did let me buy my first thing for baby last weekend while I was visiting my sister:

How cute are these??? I think they're semi-gender neutral. The Mike one is my favorite :) If we have a boy, this will be one of the first outfits he wears!!! Pending he fits in to it...haha. Babies are such a funny thing! I keep hearing stories about babies who are too big and measure before their time (like wearing 3-6 month clothes when they're only 2 months old). This makes me cautious about buying anything. But sometimes you just can't help it!

I do have a registry now, on amazon.com, where I've put things that I've been researching since the beginning. It has all of the basics on there, and we'll add more once we know the sex. We also plan on making one at Babies R Us, but that one we want to do in the store, together, after the gender scan.

I told the husband yesterday that I'm 3 months pregnant. And he was surprised! I asked what he thought 12 weeks pregnant meant...haha. I guess when you think about it in months, it seems like there is less time left! I think it really put things in perspective for him, and made him realize that baby will be here before we know it!

How big is baby?: The size of a plum or wine cork! Almost a peach :)
Stretch marks?: nothing new.
Maternity clothes?: I wear the same few outfits every week. They're all that fit me. I tried to wear regular jeans to run to the store the other night, and the pressure of them on my abdomen was awful! I had to unbutton them and hide it under my sweatshirt :-/ The only bad thing about only having a few outfits is I think they are shrinking from being washed so much..I can't NOT put them in the dryer, because they come out all wrinkly when I don't. and I'm lazy, so there's that. oh well.... I'll wear these until I have to buy more.
Sleep: Having a VERY hard time falling asleep. By bedtime, for whatever reason, I can't stop burping, and my legs get SO restless. And when I'm burping nonstop I feel like I'm going to vomit. I had my second episode this weekend at my sister's house. It was not fun! I've had to take tylenol PM for the last few nights. I usually stay asleep, though, and only wake up a few minutes before my alarm.
Best moment this week: I went and visited my sister this past weekend. And met up with an old friend on my way down there. That was fun! Marin and I went and saw "Joyful Noise", and looked at tonssss of baby clothes :) It was nice having someone to look at baby stuff with that seemed as into it as I am! We kept picturing my baby in the different outfits and kept running to each other going "Oh! Look how CUTE this one is!!!" :) Then on Sunday I got to visit my old church I went to while in college. Man do I miss that place!! I would move back to that town JUST to go to that church. I hate that we haven't found anything like it around here.
Movement: none yet! I can feel where baby is, which is cool. but can't feel baby moving.
Food cravings: nothing weird. these ruffle chips and ranch dip have been ON POINT, though.
Gender: No idea yet. I'm feeling a girl, but a mini-J would be adorable, too :) We have agreed on a name for each, though! Hopefully we'll find out Feb 14th.
Labor Signs: No thank you.
Belly Button in or out?: In and looking normal. I hate that my bellybutton is off-center. John thinks I'm crazy and says it's normal. But it's totally off.
What I miss: Not being so constricted as to what I can/can't have! The caffeine doesn't bother me. But I found out last week that artificial sweetners are bad. No one ever told me that!!! I was drinking Crystal Light like it was my job. I figured too much sugar was bad for baby, too. UGH. So I've been drinking boring 'ol water. And the no lunch meat is killing me, too. Oh what I wouldn't do for some Jimmy John's!!
What I am looking forward to: the gender u/s! and my company christmas party this saturday. (we always do it a little late....haha) it's usually a semi-good time, and they give out some nice prizes. Last year I won $500 (and a nice "Shipmate of the Year" plaque)! I doubt that I'll get that again this year, but it's exciting seeing people win things!

Almost 11 Weeks: Popped!

So I have finally come to terms with the fact that I do, already, have a baby belly. For a while I was trying to convince myself it was just flub because I've always been chubby around the middle. But now, even when I *try* to suck in, there's still a bump! I know it's not baby yet, because she's still lower in my abdomen, but I have heard that before the baby goes up to the belly, the intestines and whatnot start pushing up to make room for baby. So my guess is that's what it is! The baby was measuring big at our first u/s, so I guess she just likes to grow! Which is okay by me. :) OH- and my boobs (although they're allllways sore) have gone up a whole cup size so far! woohoo! Although, you can see in these pictures, my belly is quickly outgrowing them...haha.

Hopefully these pics will work. Hubby took them today, I'm 10weeks 4days. This is me trying to suck in my belly (which is semi-painful):

this is me not sucking in:

Crazy, huh?? I am LOVING these maternity shirts I got at Motherhood last weekend. They make me feel cute, and not like a blimp. Before I went to Motherhood, I tried just getting larger regular shirts, but they made me feel fat and almost like a tent.

I wish there was a bigger market for maternity clothes...I hate that the only store I can get them from is Motherhood. I LOVE the store, and the staff has always been BEYOND amazing (every time they put my clothes in a dressing room for me and make sure i'm okay, this last time one of them actually walked around the store with me and showed me things I might like. and then they helped give me their opinion on certain outfits because I didn't have anyone shopping with me!). But their prices aren't the greatest. Even on sale, a shirt is around $20 and pants $20-30. But so far it's been worth it! I did discover yesterday, though, that Baby's R Us ALSO sells maternity clothes! I think they just carry the Motherhood line (so just about the same exact things as the store itself), but it's nice to know I don't always have to trek all the way inside the mall to buy/look at clothes. BRU also had this super cute shirt that said "Great things come from big bellies" or something like that. I might have to go back and get that one! Although it was a long sleeve one, and by the time my belly gets super big, it'll probably be warm out. But with the way we're going so far......who knows! haha :)

I wrote in my last blog about how my doctor was making me a little uneasy...well I called today and got switched to another doctor. This one is a lady, so I'm SUPER excited. Hopefully she'll be more professional and less "ok, ask questions, i have nothing for you, goodbye" like my last one. But we'll see! I am also hoping to talk her in to moving up my gender u/s. The last doctor didn't wanna do it until 20 weeks, but I know LOTS of people that find out around 15-16 weeks, and I wanna be one of them! :) Marisa is not known for her patience.

Speaking of patience, I need a doppler!!!!! I haven't convinced the husband yet :( But it would be SO nice to have peace of mind and be able to check on baby at home whenever I wanted to :) I HATE having to wait to go to the doctor's office! grr.

oh, and Happy New Year!! I'm gonna go stuff my face now.