Showing posts with label first trimester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first trimester. Show all posts
13 Weeks
This 13 week post is coming to you from Naples, FL. We are on a little baby moon / birthday vacation!
12 Weeks
The Baby is the Size of a Large Plum
I am still "sort of" wearing regular clothes, using the BellaBand to keep my old jeans up and wearing sweatpants to sleep. We are going on vacation in two weeks so I just ordered some stuff from Old Navy and Gap.
10 Week Appointment
I had my 10 week appointment today. The day started off pretty badly with me rushing to a meeting downtown, which required me to get on a way too full Metro train. I started to get hot and feel really, really nauseous. It got so bad that I couldn't make it to my destination, I had to get off (run off) and sit down for a few minutes before I could continue. So I'm going to try to avoid crowded Metros for a while.
10 Weeks
Baby is the Size of a Prune
This week feels like a pretty big milestone to me. Ten weeks seems like a long time and I feel like we've done a pretty good job of keeping our secret.
We have decided to wait until the traditional twelve weeks to spread the news openly. This will coincide nicely with the week right before we go on vacation to Florida. I can tell my boss right before we head out so he will have some time to let it sink in. I plan to take 4 months off and hopefully they are OK with that.
We have told a couple of people in the past two weeks:
We have decided to wait until the traditional twelve weeks to spread the news openly. This will coincide nicely with the week right before we go on vacation to Florida. I can tell my boss right before we head out so he will have some time to let it sink in. I plan to take 4 months off and hopefully they are OK with that.
We have told a couple of people in the past two weeks:
- My cousin and her husband, whose baby is going to be exactly one year older than our baby!
- Our friends in Richmond while we were visiting with them last week.
9 Weeks
Baby is the size of an olive!
This 9 weeks update is coming to you from downtown Savannah. We are on a little family vacation for the weekend :-)
This 9 weeks update is coming to you from downtown Savannah. We are on a little family vacation for the weekend :-)
Heartbeat
Yesterday we sat in a small exam room and watched out baby's heartbeat on a screen for the first time. It was a completely surreal experience. Even now I can't stop thinking that there is another heart beating inside of me. Crazy!
Everything is good, I've got tons of pregnancy hormones (hCG) chugging through my blood and the baby is exactly the size it should be for my approximate due date of NOVEMBER 15th. The hCG is making me a little nauseous in the morning and my low blood pressure gives me a little bit of light headedness if I get up too quickly, but I'm learning to live with these things.
The doctor said that I am unique and have Type A negative blood so I'll have to get a special shot later on in the pregnancy to make sure that my body doesn't reject the baby's blood.
On Sunday we will be telling our parents, grandma, siblings and niece and nephew. I'm SO ready to share the news with them already!
Everything is good, I've got tons of pregnancy hormones (hCG) chugging through my blood and the baby is exactly the size it should be for my approximate due date of NOVEMBER 15th. The hCG is making me a little nauseous in the morning and my low blood pressure gives me a little bit of light headedness if I get up too quickly, but I'm learning to live with these things.
The doctor said that I am unique and have Type A negative blood so I'll have to get a special shot later on in the pregnancy to make sure that my body doesn't reject the baby's blood.
On Sunday we will be telling our parents, grandma, siblings and niece and nephew. I'm SO ready to share the news with them already!
Sharing the News (Part 2)
Keeping secrets is hard. Especially when it is a HUGE secret. And you are trying to keep it from friends you see all the time, who are very suspicious of the secret you may be keeping; and who you really want to tell your secret to!
So... it happened to be that right when I was about 6 weeks, my friend Heather was going to be in town. Whenever she is town my group of girl friends always gets together and drinks wine and catches up. Problem #1- I can't drink wine. Problem #2- I'm a terrible liar. Problem #3- I have very suspicious friends. So I decided that I wouldn't be able to hide my pregnancy from them, and I realized I didn't want to.
Having big news isn't as exciting when you can't share it with the ones you love. And since Mike and I had already come to an agreement that the families would be finding out on Easter, I just HAD to tell my beloved girl friends, my bridal party, my confidants. Who could resist giving good news to these smiling faces?
So... it happened to be that right when I was about 6 weeks, my friend Heather was going to be in town. Whenever she is town my group of girl friends always gets together and drinks wine and catches up. Problem #1- I can't drink wine. Problem #2- I'm a terrible liar. Problem #3- I have very suspicious friends. So I decided that I wouldn't be able to hide my pregnancy from them, and I realized I didn't want to.
Having big news isn't as exciting when you can't share it with the ones you love. And since Mike and I had already come to an agreement that the families would be finding out on Easter, I just HAD to tell my beloved girl friends, my bridal party, my confidants. Who could resist giving good news to these smiling faces?
Shopping
I couldn't resist doing a little shopping... bought my first maternity dress! I think my baby bump will look great sporting this dress in sunny Florida in a few weeks.
Sharing the News (Part 1)
I shared the news with my sister last weekend, I held out as long as possible (one and a half weeks). She was very excited and sent me this amazing package of pregnancy survival items. Check it out!
3 (and a half) Weeks
Baby is the Size of a Poppy Seed
Hopefully you can't tell I am pregnant yet, but let's see how this belly grows!
Here are the first pictures...
Hopefully you can't tell I am pregnant yet, but let's see how this belly grows!
Here are the first pictures...
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