Week 11 Bumpdate

Woot Woot - only one more week left in the first trimester!  My next doctor appointment is July 10th and I can't wait to hear that little heartbeat again.  I thought I was out of the woods with feeling kinda crummy, but Sunday was a rough day (after a weekend of camping) and it took me hours to get my headache and stomach issues to go away.

• How far along? 11 weeks and 2 days
• How big is baby? According to my What to Expect App, the baby is as big as a large plum and about 2.5 inches long.
• Weight gain? At this point, I'd say a few pounds.  I will get weighed again at the doctor on July 10th.  I have been able to feel a "bump" that is harder than my fat starting so I imagine that it won't be long before I start to show.  You'll just have to trust me until I post a photo, maybe for week 12.
• Stretch Marks: No more than the ones I had before.
• Maternity Clothes: I'm still living on the belly band since I can't seem to find dress pants.  I have some maternity shorts and capris that I wear on the weekends. Most of my jeans still fit just fine.
• Sleep: I am still sleeping really well once I fall asleep but I'm often very cold at night and it takes me a while to get to the right temperature so I can pass out.  I've heard cold hands and feet mean boy!
• Cravings: Cheese pizza, cheese, biscuits and gravy, steak, mexican food is still my biggest craving along with anything involving cheese.  I've heard craving meat and cheese can mean boy too!
• Food Aversions: Eggs, no matter how they are cooked, chicken, hot dogs and pork. 
• What do I miss: My boobs being their normal size, being able to wear my favorite button down shirts and coffee (it gives me terrible heartburn, even decaf)
• Symptoms: Exhaustion, mood swings, heartburn at night as well as night time stomach aches, boob pain/sensitivity, a little night time nausea/belly aches.
• Anything else? I have been in a pretty bad mood for the last two weeks and have had several meltdowns, which I'm sure is amazing for Andrew.  It seems as though it takes a while for my brain to wake up these days.  Some mornings it takes me HOURS to get going and finally feel like I'm accomplishing something.   

I  have two doctor appointments this month, my end of the first trimester check up on July 10th and the Downs Syndrome screening (which I decided to do after much deliberation) on July 17th.  I honestly mostly wanted to do it for the extra ultrasound, but it didn't hurt that my insurance fully covers this test.  Speaking of insurance, have I mentioned how AMAZING pregnancy care is where I work?!  Well it is, since I work for a medical school we have awesome insurance and I even get a free breast pump as well as a discount on child birth classes and a mega discount for having the baby at the hospital where I work.  The cost for all of my care plus the hospital stay is next to nothing, which makes me very happy!

What's going on

This past week and a half has been one for the record books and so much has been going on.....

1. Last Thursday our dog got really sick.  On Wednesday, Andrew noticed that her hind end was swollen up and she wasn't acting like herself.  She did want to play and she could hardly hop down the two steps to get outside.  By Thursday morning, she couldn't even walk and both of us called off work to take her to the vet.  She also wasn't eating, which is not like her at all.  I was so scared we would have to put her down and I cried the entire morning.  At 10:45 we rolled into the parking lot at the vet's office and they quickly discovered she had an abscessed and infected anal gland.  They drained everything out and put her on antibiotics.  Andrew's mom offered to keep her until she healed up since we both work all day.
   
   By Friday, she was bad again and was running a high fever, close to 104 so it was back to the vet I went after leaving work at noon for our impending camping trip.  She was given a shot to break her fever, cortisone for her swelling and put on pain pills.  Andrew's mom said she would still keep her so we could go on our trip (more on that later) and finally got her eating and moving around again.  She was in really rough shape for a few days but is almost back to 100% now.
   
   

   

   Laying in her basket at grandma and grandpas.

   
   
2. We went camping over the weekend and pretty much got rained out.  We didn't arrive until late Friday night because of taking the dog back to the vet.  Saturday morning the weather was great and we got the boats in the water, only for it to start raining 20 minutes later.  Every time we got out on the boat it seemed, it started to rain and by Saturday night we were sick of the weather and packed it up to come home.  I was disappointed but happy to sleep in my dry bed.
3. One of the walls of Andrew's parents barn caved in because of all the rain but thankfully none of the 110 year old barn structure above was damaged.  Andrew's dad is working hard to get everything repaired before the next big rain storm comes.
4. We've had 3 inches of rain in the last four days....CRAZY!
5. I have one week left in the first trimester - I'll post a bumpdate tomorrow.
6. I've been receiving so many compliments about what a good job I'm doing at work and it's making me feel wonderful.  I love my boss, I get along well with all of my coworkers and best of all is that I love what I do!  I can't imagine not coming back to work after I have the baby because I find my work so rewarding. 

Week 10 bumpdate!

I feel like time is really dragging at this point and I feel very thankful that I am not 30 weeks pregnant right now since it's been so hot in Ohio.  We are going camping this weekend and it's supposed to cool down before we go and I'm super excited to go swimming since I haven't been once this year!  

• How far along? 10 weeks and 2 days
• How big is baby? According to my What to Expect App, the baby is as big as a lime and about 2 inches long.
• Weight Gain: At this point, I'd say a few pounds.  I will get weighed again at the doctor on July 10th.
• Stretch Marks: No more than the ones I had before.
• Maternity Clothes: I'm wearing a maternity dress today, though it doesn't look like one.  I feel really bloated some mornings and it's hard to get my dress pants on, but the belly band really helps.  I bought some maternity shorts for our camping trip this weekend but I am having one hell of a time finding maternity dress pants that are CHEAP.  I'm not willing to spend $60 on a pair of maternity pants, cut that in half and maybe you could talk me into it.  I also finally caved and bought bigger bras this weekend......I imagine that won't be the first time.
• Sleep: I can't get enough, though it's getting hard to be comfortable with my boobs hurting so bad.
• Cravings: None really this week, I still crave Mexican food and Chipotle and I've been really thirsty.  I consider that a good thing since I'm supposed to be drinking a lot more water these days. 
• Food Aversions: I'm back to being grossed out by chicken again as well as touching raw meat.  Once it's cooked, I'm okay.  
• What do I miss: Jimmy Johns and keilbasi, avoiding nitrates is hard but I know that I'm doing what's best for baby and for myself because all those foods have so much salt too.  I had someone tell me the other day that it was okay to have one beer once a week, uh I don't thinks so, no matter how much I miss my beer!
• Symptoms: Exhaustion, night time nausea, boob pain/swelling, round ligament pain (mostly at night as well), headaches/sinus headaches and big time mood swings!
• Anything else? I'm really annoyed already with the unsolicited advice from people who are telling me what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right.  I have a feeling that everyone does things differently when they are pregnant and I'm not really going to take advice from people who I know didn't take good care of themselves when they were pregnant.  Sorry for that biotchy rant, but I'm a little fussy these days.  

I can't decide if I'm showing a little or I'm just bloated, but once I figure it out, I'll take a belly pic and post for week 11 :)

Weekend Wrap-Up

Every other week I have to work till 6pm on Fridays to take minutes at a meeting and this Friday was one of them.  Andrew was up at his parents house working on a project, so I went over and had dinner with my brother and his wife and hung out with them until Andrew came home.

Saturday we had tickets to the Dayton Air Show and we were supposed to go with Andrew's sister and her husband but she was sick, so Andrew, myself and his brother-in-law all headed out to Dayton.  We started out at the Air Force Museum, which much to my surprise was FREE and really amazing.  There were four hangers (or more) filled with planes, engines, military wear, photos and different artifact starting in the 1800's with the Wright brothers and going all the way to the modern day drones and stealth bombers.  We headed to the air show around 11am and we could not have expected how they day was about to end up.

We walked around and looked at the planes as well as the different booths for the military branches.  Due to the sequester/budget cuts none of the military planes were able to fly this year.  We sat down to eat our lunch just as the planes started flying for the air show, we saw two jets and then the third act, a wing walker, got started.  Her act was pretty amazing and dangerous but really neat to watch.  She started out on the top wing of the biplane and would move around as the plane did dips and twisted upside down.   As they neared the last stunt, the plane took a dip and was in front of the crowd towards the front of the field when all of a sudden we saw a huge explosion.  The plane had crashed and instantly ignited.  The entire crowd gasped collectively and no one knew what to do.  I think my heart, as well as Andrew and Clarks, stopped beating for a minute.  The pilot and the wing walker both died upon impact and it was so incredibly sad.  The air show was shut down for the remainder of the day.  In shock, but not ready to go home, we headed back to the museum to walk around and see the rest of the planes.  We came home, grabbed some take-out and relaxed for the remainder of the night.  Seeing the crash several more times on the local and national news was even more depressing.

Sunday was a day of errands for me and more work for Andrew.  I've found that I have been growing increasingly annoyed with people in general and I'm going to blame it on the pregnancy. My trip to the grocery store involved a lady giving me the finger, for no reason other than her being impatient.  After my lovely trip to the store, I came home to attempt to finish up the laundry but of course my evening nausea had to kick in and I didn't get much accomplished.  We relaxed for the night when Andrew got home and then headed to bed early.

I'm going to be really busy at work this week, but we are going back to Salt Fork State Park to camp this weekend so I have that to look forward to.  I can't wait to spend some time in the sun and on the boat!

Week 9 bumpdate

I'm having a hard time believing that I only have three weeks left in the first trimester and let me tell you I CANNOT WAIT for those weeks to be over!  People are not kidding when they say the beginning and the end are the hardest part. I have been feeling the worst I have in this whole pregnancy this week and I know that this is the peak of the first trimester and the midwife warned me it would be really rough weeks 9 and 10. 

• How far along? 9 weeks and 2 days
• How big is baby? According to my What to Expect App, the baby is as big as a prune and about 1.5 inches long!
• Weight Gain: I have not been wanting to get on a scale but I imagine I've maybe gained a little since my appetite came back. 
• Stretch Marks: No more than the ones I had before.
• Maternity Clothes: I have a few pairs of pants with the low elastic waist and I've been wearing them on days when I feel a little 'bloated' and I got a belly band at a garage sale which I've come to find is a life saver!  I can still wear my work pants which is amazing!
• Sleep: I can't get enough; I haven't slept this well since high school!
• Cravings: Red meat, cheese, sour cream and onion pringles, mint chocolate chip ice cream, Mexican food (especially Chipotle) and baked potatoes.
• Food Aversions: It's odd but this week I haven't had too many.  I still don't want to drink coffee and I'm attempting a chicken dish for dinner tonight and chicken has been a major food aversion for me. 
• What do I miss: I still really miss my booze, does that make me sound like an alcoholic?  That's really the only thing that I miss at this point, and maybe my boobs feeling normal. 
• Symptoms: Exhaustion, night time nausea, boob pain/swelling, round ligament pain (mostly at night as well), terrible headaches and big time mood swings!
• Anything else? I know I already mentioned that I can't wait for this first trimester to be over.  I am planning a few weekends for us to get away and go camping and I can't wait to have some fun.  I hope that I start to feel better soon so that I can enjoy the pregnancy a little more.