8 weeks 1 day

This week, your little tadpole is starting to look a little bit more human. Other exciting developments include:

Your baby's eyelids, ears, upper lip and the tip of his soon-to-be adorable button nose are forming.

The little one will also sprout webbed fingers and toes this week—which you'll be well aware of in a few months, as baby starts early gymnastics classes inside you.

Baby's tiny heart has separated into four distinct chambers and is really ticking now—at a rate of 150 beats per minute. That's more than twice your resting heart rate.

I am still feeling pretty good. The bloat is still there and when I wear a tight shirt it does look like I have a little bump. My face has decided to break out. I look like I am 15 again. LOL. Still no naucousness but the food aversions are still there. All I want to eat is junk but I have been trying to eat some fruits and veggies because I need to keep up with the healthy eating habits.

Joey and I have been slowly letting the cat out of the bag. I spilled the beans to the rest of my family over the weekend and a couple of other close friends. But I think I am going to keep it to those choice people until after I get good bill of health on 11/20. I just want everything to be ok before the rest of the world knows. I am counting down the days.

7 Weeks 1 Day

This week your baby's brain is growing at a mind-boggling 100 cells per minute within a see-through skull. If you could peer inside, you'd see those tiny brain cells growing and growing and growing.

Your baby's face is becoming more defined this week. A tiny mouth hole, tongue, nostrils and ear indentations are visible. His or her eyes are wide open, but he doesn't have irises yet.

Baby's arm buds are growing. At this point they look more like microscopic ping-pong paddles than arms. Baby's leg buds are also forming and will look like tiny paddles by the end of the week.

The umbilical cord—the connection between your baby and the placenta—is now visible.

He or she is approximately 10,000 times bigger than at conception. Crazy, huh?

(parentsconnect.com)

This week I feel ok. I have a little more of the exhausted feeling this week but its nothing I can't handle. I don't really have any nauseousness yet (knock on wood) but I do have some food aversions. I won't eat meat of any kind. The smell of it just makes me want to gag. But Saturday I had some orange chicken from our favorite Chinese place. At least it was some protein. I also won't eat plain veggies. They have to be dipped in something or spiced up with a tiny bit of salt or butter for me to be able to eat them. At least I am eating them though. I also have super bloat that started this week. It looks like I have a tiny belly sprouting up but I haven't gained a pound so I chart it up to some major bloat which is normal. My clothes still fit good. I lost 15 pounds before I got pregnant so I have some growing room in my current clothes which is always a plus.

This adventure of Joey and I's is still a secret. I want to tell more people but I need to tell the rest of my family before I can tell anyone else. Hopefully this weekend we can all go out to the dinner that my dad owes us and we can get this little secret off our chests. Then we will tell a few more choice friends and then after Thanksgiving (I will be in the 2nd trimester) the rest of the world will know. It can't come soon enough. I can't wait for everyone to know.

6 weeks 1 day Pregnant

This week starts a period of rapid cellular development for your baby-to-be, who looks like a mini tadpole, with a tiny head and tail. His or her eyes, ears and mouth have begun to form.

Other exciting milestones include:

Your baby's heart is now beating to a regular beat, although it's still too faint to hear.

His or her arm buds are just beginning to bud. They look like teensy swollen bumps at this point. In a few days, they'll resemble itsy-bitsy flippers.

Your baby has grown to ⅛ inch long—about the size of one of the chocolate sprinkles on your last cupcake.

I am still feeling pretty good other than the exhaustion. Yesterday Joey and I went to the Seahawks game and by the end of the day I was beat. It probably didn't help that we walked from our friends Arnold and Jamie's place all the way from Capital Hill to the Stadium (about 3.5 miles each way)& back or the fact that are seats were way up there and I had to climb lots of stairs every time I went pee (which was quite often LOL). But we had a great time and I slept really good last night.

Nothing much else new except that we both told our parents the news last night after we got back from the game. I was trying to hold out a little longer BUT it is such great news so we finally spilled. And boy, I am glad we did. My dad and Paulette are super excited. This will be the 6th grandchild for Paulette and the 2nd for my dad.

Until next time....

mommy journal

So, I decided that this blog will ultimatley be my mommy journal for this whole pregnancy and then will be the family blog where I can chronical our life as an expanding family. I would like to paste the posts from this blog into a scrapbook so I keep it for forever so I will try to be diligent with it.

So, I got a call on Monday from the nurse at my OBGYN's office and I am offically pregnant!! The HCG levels keep rising at the appropriate levels that indicates a viable pregnancy. YEA!!! We now have an appointment on November 4th at about 9.5 weeks along do the appropriate paperwork, discuss family history, etc and then at almost 11.5 weeks I go in for my first prenatal appointment/ultra sound. We are so excited we cannot wait. But in the meantime I am going to go stir crazy because that seems so far away considering right now I estimate me being about 5.5 weeks along. I am kinda nervous to wait that long for an appointment but I guess that is how my doctor's office does things so there is nothing I can do. I will probably call to try to get an earlier appointment for the ultrasound but we'll see.

But in the meantime I will just have continue taking my prenatal vitamins, eat healthy, exercise (moderatly of course), and not stress (easier said than done).

Today I am 5weeks 3 days along (according to my calculations):


Your baby's microscopic heart begins to beat this week—although it won't be detectable with one of those cool Dopplers for a few weeks, so you'll have to wait a little longer to hear that satisfying "whoosh-whoosh" you're so anxious for. Here's what else is under construction:

With the beating of the heart, blood will begin to circulate throughout the body. Your baby's first organ system will be up and running!

The beginnings of the brain; the cardiovascular, nervous and reproductive systems; as well as all other major systems are under way.

The amniotic sac and the placenta are still forming at this point.

All that high-speed development and your baby is only 2 millimeters long—about the size of a sesame seed.

(parentsconnect.com)

I have always like reading these weekly development updates from other pregnancy blogs that I thought I would do one for my mommy journey/scrapbook.

I feel pretty good this week. Besides the sore boobs, little bouts of nausea, & the fact that I have to pee every hour on the hour I feel fantastic. I know that the these symptons will only increase but I am totally ok with it and welcome it with open arms. I am ready for it and I will not complain because being able to caring our child is a blessing.

Joey and I haven't announced our pregnancy to the world yet. Only a select few people know. We will tell our families as soon as we can get everyone together. Hopefully with in the next couple weeks. The rest of the world will probably not know until after our 1st prenatal appointment/ultra sound. The reason being is that we want to make sure everything checks out A -OK!

After 16 LONG months of trying………..

WE ARE FINALLY PREGNANT!!! Words cannot express how excited and thrilled Joey and I are. To be honest, I think we are still in a bit of shock.

We started this journey in May of 2008. It was frustrating and there were some tears but we finally conceived our 1st child and we couldn’t be happier.

How I told Joey:
The weekend before I tested, I kind of had a feeling that I was pregnant but didn’t want to lead on to Joey just in case that I was not right. His birthday was the Tuesday 9/29 and if I was pregnant then I wanted to give him a birthday surprise. We were away at Erin’s cabin and just enjoyed relaxing & hanging out all weekend. I credit that to me not saying anything to him on what I thought was finally happening. I didn’t get my period and my basal body temp was still high throughout the whole weekend so I had the feeling. So on Monday after work I tested and all 3 tests I took came back positive (I was a little OCD about it).

Joey was at work and would not get home till about 10:30pm. So, I ran out to get some supplies to make him a huge birthday card that said “Happy Birthday Daddy” that included a baby bib, baby scrapbook stickers, and taped two of the pregnancy tests to it (see picture). When he walked in the door from work, there I was standing there holding the card. He read the card and looked at me (at this point I was balling my eyes out) and he said “Are you serious??” and he started to cry. And all I could do was nod my head yes because I was crying so hard. We hugged and kissed for a long while and just had a great moment. The next day was his birthday so we both took the day off and just relished in the moment that we were finally pregnant after 16 long months.