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This week the baby is the size of a prune but I feel more like a watermelon. Not that I feel like I look like a watermelon but I want to EAT WATERMELONS ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
I can definitely classify this as my first food craving. I'm not sure what it means to be craving watermelon but I certainly am. There are moments in the day when I can just picture a huge juicy watermelon in front of me and I am holding a giant spoon. Yum. (Good thing I'm eating some right now, otherwise I'd be drooling all over the keyboard.)
In other news, after a few days of absolutely no pregnancy symptoms (which had me worried beyond belief) the nausea etc has returned full force. I have to say I am really happy about this. Until I can actually feel the baby move, I'd prefer to have as many pregnancy symptoms as possible just so I can "feel pregnant" every day.
Good news: this weekend, we get to tell our families. We are so excited and ready to let our loved ones know. This secret has been too hard to keep!
I'm feeling a bit of deja vu. I'm here in week 9 (again) and I am basically symptom-less (again). I was a little freaked out early in the week because my nausea had all but disappeared but, when I took an honest account of things, I had to admit that I do still have nausea but I'm just ignoring it better!
And, I have to say, those baby bump message boards are a lifesaver. I can go on a type a stupid question like, "Is it okay if I don't throw up?" and get 100 people assuring me that they, too, have had little to no morning sickness.
These message boards have been a lifesaver in lieu of actually being able to talk to my sister and mom. Just another weekish and I can tell everyone!
Ironically, I think my boss is going to figure it out before anyone else does. He keeps looking at me strangely and today he said that I looked different. I just shrugged and blamed it on the vacation!
UPDATE: Here's a fun symptom - my mind is shot! I'm supposed to be writing a paper right now but, every 3 minutes or so, I find myself just staring off into space. I hope this doesn't continue - otherwise my grades are going to plummet in the upcoming semester!
Baby had its first camping trip - in utero! I think that counts.
I have been feeling marvelous. Little to no nausea, some fatigue, some food aversions but nothing all that bad. I can't figure out if I'm feeling better because I'm on vacation or because I'm just somehow over all of that.
We are getting closer and closer to the day we get to tell everyone. I am so excited! Keeping this secret has been about the hardest thing I've ever done. I've even been avoiding talking to my parents and sister because I don't know what to talk about if I can't talk about my pregnancy.
Anyway, baby this week is: a raspberry!
We should have done a little post about how we were going to be absent from the blog-o-sphere for a while. But we didn't. Sorry if you were wondering.
We have been on vacation - not the entire time we've been absent from the blog - and now we are back to the real world.
At least, I am. Since Adam is a lucky ducky teacher, he has the summer off. Since I am a poor pathetic grad student, I have two classes and two jobs for the summer. Fun.
Our garden is going bananas. While we were out of town my parents watered and harvested. Here is what has been harvested so far:
zucchini
bell peppers (!)
herbs
lettuce (but it was bitter-y so we yanked it out)
one okra pod
Everything else is doing really well. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, onions, beans, watermelons, tomatoes and flowers.
Our only failure so far has been our cucumbers. They got the evil cucumber beetle and never recovered.
Pictures soon to come, I promise. Adam may be doing most of the posts for the next two months because of my aforementioned dreary summer plans.
Well, we went to our first doctor's appointment today and everything went really well. We were able to see the baby and hear the heartbeat - amazing!
The good news is that, in the doctor's words, I am as healthy as a horse.
The bad news is that we aren't quite as far along as we thought. We were about 2 weeks off - so instead of being 9 1/2 weeks today we are 7 1/2 weeks!
I guess that isn't really bad news - it is just anti-climactic because we've already progressed to the raspberry/olive stage and now we have to go back and do it all over again.
We will still tell our families at the same time (end of June) but they'll have to keep a lid on it for a few weeks until we are in the relative safety of the second trimester.
The other good news: we only have one baby. No Octomom for us!
This week the baby is the size of a prune but I feel more like a watermelon. Not that I feel like I look like a watermelon but I want to EAT WATERMELONS ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
