9 Weeks

9 Weeks

How Far Along: 9 weeks today

Size of baby: Baby is already the size of a prune

Weight Gain: 126lbs, which is about a pound gained
Waist: 33.75inches

What I Love: Watching my weeks go by (really fast!!)

What I Miss: My wine

Cravings: Grilled Cheese, but still struggling to find food thats appeling.

Symptoms: Its all came back full force this week! Morning sickness, bloating, tender breasts, headaches, and constant fatigue. I'm also having issues remebering anything including my dogs names and postal code.

Sleep: Been pretty good this week, 10hrs a night with a nap most evenings.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet wearing my maternity clothes, but defnitely making good use of my belly band.

Movement: Not yet

Gender: Planning to not find out

Favourite Moment this Week: Seeing my belly starting to form, Its definitely popping out a bit now.

8 Weeks

How Far Along: I am 8 weeks Pregnant.

Size of baby: An olive.

Weight Gain: I am 125 and have not gained anything yet.

Waist: 33.25 inches

What I Love: Knowing there is a life growing inside of me.

What I Miss: My nightly glass of wine, but its totally worth it

Cravings: Maybe Mac n' Cheese but thats more because I can stomach it and it doesn't seem gross to me. Definitely struggling trying to find food that is appealing to eat.

Symptoms: I feel really good, I had a lot of breast tenderness and big size increas (2 cup sizes already and I did not want anymore!), but thats already improving and does not bother me anymore. I was sleeping 12hrs a day and exhausted all the time and thats improved a lot. I have bloating and belly issues but no worse than with PMS. My nose is either stuffy or runny and sometimes both at the same time. 

Sleep: I am not tired 24/7 as much anymore and actually am having some troubles sleeping through the night.

Maternity Clothes: went shopping and bought a bunch while in the states. I am starting to not fit in my clothes already due to bust increase and bloating. 

Movement: None, just lots of bubbles in my belly.

Favorite Moment this Week: Seeing the baby and it's heartbeat! Incredible!!

The Last 8 weeks

Just wanted to make a list of some of the things that have happened over the last 8 Weeks.

Jan 18- Got our first positive pregnancy test, about 20 later I believed that I was indeed pregnant. (3 weeks 5 days)
Jan 24- Ended up going to the walk-in clinc. Had the pregnancy confirmed via doctor test and was diagnosed with bronchitis. Was also sent to get a dating ultrasound done due to having Mirena and no normal cycle.
Jan 25- Went for ultrasound and didn't see the screen or get any news, was told to wait for my doctor to call me. I was crushed and really sad and upset. I thought the worst was happening.
Jan 26- I finally heard back from my doctor and found out that they did see something just not enough to confirm if it was a viable pregnancy. Felt better but was still very scared.
Jan 27- Started spotting and thought the worst again, almost went to ER. But every time I was going to go it stopped.
Jan 28- Spotting continued but was very light, eventually stopping by afternoon. We were going to tell his parents but were weary with the spotting. We decided that we would tell them no matter the outcome. Told them and they were ecstatic
Feb 2- Had to take our dogs to my Mom's as we were going on vacation on the 3rd. Told her our news and she was excited.
Feb 3-16- Left for Phoenix, AZ. First plane ride pregnant, I normally have a few drinks to relax but obivously could not. It was okay. I bought a box of 2 digital tests as they are way cheaper than in Canada (really, its way to fun to pee on things). Went shopping for lots of baby stuff and maternity clothes, as its cheaper and with more selection. We attented our first PGA tour event, the waste amnagement open, and had a blast. Also went to a Coyotes/Avalanch hockey game (Feb 7) and a Suns/Golden State Warriors game (Feb 10). We also played 10 rounds of golf, very tiring but worth it. My food aversions and tiredness really kicked in while were there and ended up telling the friends we were staying with. It wasn't much of a secret as just when we told them we had something to share, they jumped up and yelled "shes pregnant". Guess sleeping all the time , not drinking and not wanting food gives it away pretty quick.
Feb 17- Went for follow up ultrasound, seen baby and its heartbeat. Such a relief, happiest moment in my life so far for sure. I thought for sure something was wrong and was so relieved to see that everything was fine.

8 Weeks, 1 day

I went to an ultrasound yesterday and got to see our little bean and it's heartbeat (168bpm). I am 8 weeks and 1 day amd will be doing weekly updates (hopefully). I am feeling way better than I thought I would and it already improves on a daily basis. It was the most amazing thing ever to see his/her heartbeat flickering away, it immediately brought tears to my eyes to actually see what is growing in my belly!
Here is a pic of a digital test that I took for the fun of it, I was actually still scared it would say not pregnant. Following are the pictures of our teeny tiny bean.

A line is a line!

I got 90 new OPK's and 10 HPT's in the mail today. I just had to test them out and to my complete shock I got a positive HPT!!!! Really cool but still surreal!! We are due for our first child on October 1, 2011. We will keep the sex a surprise until the moment s/he is born. We have names picked out but will not be sharing them either until d-day.

First Two Week Wait

So we told ourselves that we were just going to try this cycle and have fun with it, that lasted all of 2 days. Prior to TTC I had purchased 10 HPT tests and 25 OPK's (pregnancy and ovulation tests) from early-pregnancy-test.com for like $20.  We were not planning on using the OPK's this cycle as we were not going to be "trying", but when I thought my body was hinting at the big "O" (means ovulation when trying to conceive) my want to be in control of my body took over. I just had to pee on a stick (POAS) to see if I was actually Oing. Well that first test was a definite negative, and here starts my love of POAS. My other half just laughs at me, but PEEING ON THINGS IS REALLY EXCITING!!! I loved being able to take a peep inside my body and know whats going on. After about 6 negatives and CD 21 passing, I was beginning to think that I either didn't O, or missed it. so boy was I shocked when on CD 22 a line appeared. Not a positive but the closet thing I had to one. The next day it got darker and darker, and trying to catch that egg began.

It goes from left to right far left being CD 16 to far right being CD25. The dark line on CD24 is the positive LH surge.

 I am so happy that I decided to use OPK's, I definitely would not of thought that I'd O on CD 24 and would of been anxiously awaiting AF shortly. I guess the mirena is still messing with my cycles. Instead I am now very aware that we have 2 weeks now to see if we made a little one. TWO WHOLE WEEKS, YIKES!

OFFICIALLY TTCing!!

It's been a long wait but are officially trying to make a mini us! No more preventative measures of any kind! Now we continue to do what we did before and wait......some more. I'm realizing this whole trying to conceive thing is not designed for the people of this world who lack patients. I tried really hard to not get my hopes up at all for actually conceiving this cycle, but that was short lived. We've been trying now for 5 days (we couldn't hold out) and even though I'm not expecting to become preggos this cycle, I'm still going to cry if I have to deal with AF again.
I was kind of expecting babymaking to somehow be more romantic or something, but the truth is that it's very much like before only with an expected outcome. Don't get me wrong, it's been very passionate and romantic and awesome. But it was as well before. I'm really loving though not constantly worrying about ensuring birth control is doing its job and we feel more free!
So heres hoping that this part of the journey is not too long of one!