Procrastinating

I need to be cleaning right now, but I am having a hard time getting moving today.  My dad and his wife are on their way to town for a quick over night visit.  They were in Houston for a wedding and are driving up to Austin to say hi.  I’m excited to see them, but I wish I had managed to clean the house yesterday.  I was pretty worthless yesterday.  I had a fun vodka drinking night with one of my BFFs on Friday and thus Saturday was a waste of sleeping and being lazy.

In other news, S and I both also have Monday and Tuesday off together.  S has an appointment with our new OB that we graduated to Monday morning.  They should be doing an ultrasound so I’ll get to see the little baby for the first time. I’m really excited!  Luckily the appointment is early the morning so hopefully my Dad and his wife just sleep right though it and then we can spend the day together.

On Tuesday S and I have big plans to make some headway on the nursery.  We had previously started cleaning the room out (it was a unused office before) and on Tuesday we are going to finish that task, buy a new ceiling fan/light and get a few paint samples to put on the wall.  I know it’s a bit early to really do much of anything to the room, but I’m just too excited not to.  Also, we don’t know if its going to be a boy or a girl yet, so I’m going to keep everything neutral for now.  The color I’m leaning towards right now is a light sort of aqua.  For a boy it can be paired with greens and browns and for a girl I want to pair it with corals and yellows.  Pretty either way.  Any of you other January due mamas started working on your nursery yet?
Happy Sunday!  I’d better get cleaning!
-Liz

Melt Down #2

S had her second melt down last night.  It was pretty intense, to say the least, but with how terrible she has been feeling for the past two weeks, I can’t say I wasn’t expecting it.  S went to the doctor on Wednesday and they were supposed to do another ultrasound but the machine was broken (lame!) and so they just took some blood.  And she got the call on Thursday that her progesterone levels went down, from a 1900 to a 1300 and so they wanted to put her on two week proscription for progesterone to balance it back out.  And I know that a lot of you have done the progesterone thing during TTC and some of you during early pregnancy, but S doesn’t have the time that I do to follow all of your lovely blogs (she reads a few and knows from me what most of you are up to J), so she doesn’t know anything about it and felt like a failure over the whole thing.   Any words of wisdom you can give her or just a “Hey, I’ve had to take that stuff too and it sucks” message would be really helpful for her right now. 

So the melt down was over having to take this stuff along with her thyroid med, her prenatal,  the fish oil stuff the RE recommended, and the two anti-nausea meds is just making her crazy.  If you recall, S is the sort of person who I normally have to coerce into taking an ibuprofen when she has a headache, so to her all of these meds make her feel like her body can’t do this whole grown a baby thing on it’s own and so maybe it isn’t meant to be.  Plus yesterday she didn’t feel as pregnant as usual (and by pregnant I mean totally terrible feeling and exhausted) so she convinced herself that she wasn’t pregnant anymore.  Also she doesn’t think that she has her tiny little baby bump anymore, which wasn’t much of anything to begin with.  Poor lady, getting herself so worked up over all of this.  

I guess what it all boils down to is that neither of us really understood just how hard the first trimester would be and how constant the sickness and exhaustion and whatnot would be.  And I know that if you are reading this and have had/are having TTC troubles that it seems like we should be just thanking our lucky stars that S gets to be this miserable, that some of you are desperate to feel this miserable, and I totally get that and we are very grateful and happy.  But when you are puking everyday and dragging yourself though life and really hungry but everything sound disgusting, I can understand how it’s hard to see past that.  I think I’d melt down too.  Hopefully things will get better soon and before we know it, S will be in that mythical second trimester where all of her sickness will magically disappear.

Fingers crossed.

-Liz

Happy Anniversary!

Today is our 3 year wedding anniversary.  Happy anniversary baby! It’s hard to believe that so much time has passed.  It’s been a great 3 years, and an even better 8, almost 9 (in August it will be 9) years that we have been together.  I can’t imagine not having S at my side.  And 3 years later, as we grow our little family from two to three, I love her even more today than I did that day 3 years ago, which I didn’t think was even possible.  

Thank you baby for being my comrade in mischief all these years!  I love you!

-Liz

Proper nutrition= eat something

Today was not a great feeling day for me and baby.  All kinds of things seem inedible to me today.  I mostly ate toast all day and then finally got something else in my stomach later on only to throw it up again.  This baby seems to be able to only handle toast, pizza and red meat at this time.  Weird.  Not really nutritious, but at least I am keeping something down.  I am hoping the next trimester brings better feelings back and I get to shower my baby with fruits and veggies and swim in the heated lap pool after work.  Right now, I am just eating what doesn’t offend me just thinking about it and sleeping every chance I get!  The things that are constant no thank yous are eggs and milk.  However at any given moment, I can be offended by all things except one choice item.  For part of the day today it was blueberry muffins.  Even crackers made me turn away, but blueberry muffin, de-lish!  It is so strange!
On a happier note we had a great time with our visitors.  It was not a very adventurous trip, but we had a very awesome, delicious and relaxing trip.  We mostly ate yummy things and played on the Wii.  It was a blast.  Liz and I decided that for our 3 year wedding anniversary tomorrow we will purchase Mario Party and hang out at the house.  She is going to overcook some little pieces of steak for me and we will play on the Wii.  Once again, not adventurous, but it sounds really nice right now!
-S

So very pregnant!

I threw up for the first time today.  I woke up and felt great.  Ate some breakfast and started to feel nauseous, but nothing major.  Then it attacked me and I went into the bathroom and threw up.  I felt better once I did, but then felt nauseous later too.   Sheesh!  I went ahead and filled the prescriptions that the Dr. gave me yesterday for nausea.  I was very happy to have them today after yesterday being so skeptical:)  We also went and bought some maternity clothes today.  I know it is a little early, but my work pants are already a little tight and I want to start rotating them in so that it is not obvious when I start to show and am trying to hide it from work.  I showed Liz my baby bump and she said that it may be hard to hide since it is higher than if I was gaining weight.  We shall see!  I feel extra preggie today since I got some clothes and have felt both sick and moody all day.  Fortunately our visitors are very accommodating and we plan stuff around how I am feeling.
Liz thinks all the sickness is so great!  It’s kinda cute and kinda annoying when I don’t feel great.  Either way, she is being sweet and taking good care of me.  I am very excited to feel so pregnant, but sometimes it doesn’t feel so great!:)
-S

Ultrasound Number 2!

S went this morning to the RE for her second ultrasound this morning.  Unfortunately due to work, I couldn't go.  But according to our doc, everything is progressing perfectly.  They were able to see the baby this time and not just the sack!  The baby is what is being measured with the blueish/greenish dotted line in the picture below and then the rest is the gestational sack.  They were able to see the heart beat and it won't be long before we can hear it too!  Also, according to our doc, now that we have seen that the heart is beating we have a 95% chance of the pregnancy going to term, which is such a relief!  So, may I present to you the baby's second picture:

Isn't it the cutest little bean you ever did see?
-Liz

Meltdown #1

I had my first meltdown last night.  I have been feeling moody, but no major meltdowns until last night.  I was changing clothes and feel like I am already showing!  I freaked out.  Liz was talking about taking pictures of my belly earlier in the evening.  My body is already changing.  I know I am not really showing, but I am bloated and my whole front torso is softer than usual.  I just started crying hysterically in frustration.  Liz on the other hand thinks it’s great.  I kept repeating that I look pregnant and she kept saying, well you are pregnant!  I should not look like it yet!  I have been eating healthy, but I have not been exercising.  I am hoping that the second trimester gives me my energy back and I can start walking or swimming again.  I have a luscious heated (not too hot) lap pool that I was swimming in after work for a while.  I bet once I really do start showing, it will feel really nice to feel weightless in the water.   I am not really upset about it today, but was dramatically upset about my changing body last night.  Liz pulled up message boards about all kinds of people on week 7 that feel like they are already showing or that their work clothes feel different.
On another note, I have felt slightly nauseous all day.  I have been feeling sick a little here and there, but today I have not felt that great all day.  I am so thankful for ginger ale:)  I am still exhausted but have the next 7 days off work!!!!!  My best friend is coming in from Oklahoma with her fiance.  I am so excited!!  Only day 1 of vacation and I am enjoying it.  I got up at 7 and then napped for a few hours in the afternoon.  It was very nice.  I have a drs. appointment tomorrow where I should be able to see the glimmer of the baby’s heartbeat.  So exciting!!  I will post pics tomorrow.
-S