Week 7!

This courtesy of Baby Gaga:
"Our baby is really beginning to develop more physical definition this week – their oversized head isn’t just large and oblong anymore, it’s actually a little bit pointy. The tiny receding tail bud is now starting to be overshadowed by the growth of their legs, which are now complete with knees and the beginnings of toes. Their eyes and ears are the most visible features on their head and their miniature bones are starting to harden throughout their body. You also have some variation on a boy or a girl at this point, although their genitals won’t be visible enough to determine which color cigars you’re going to buy until around the 16th week."

I'll write more about my own symptoms later.

So when IS my due date??

In reality, I just have a hunch that it's mid-February. I don't know the EXACT date mainly because my menstrual cycle fluctuates between 28-31 days. So I would have to say, the EARLIEST due date I have at the moment is February 17th, which is cool. The latest one I have is February 21st. So mid-February is the safest thing to say. Of course, it mainly depends on when the baby wants to be born, which could be whenever!

I have an appointment with the midwife on July 8th and I hope to get something a little more finalized. I also hope to have the first pictures of our new baby! I'm very excited because this baby doesn't "quite" seem real till I see the baby or at least hear the heartbeat. James is going with me and we'll be in there together, looking at the baby!

More things

Just thought of a couple more things that I miss..

6) Oysters - Raw oysters to be exact. James and I went to Hooters a couple weeks ago to get some but they didn't have any. And then about 5 days later, I found out that I was pregnant... Oh well.

7) Over Easy Eggs - I love them. LOVE LOVE LOVE them. But I can't eat them.. Sad.

In fact, today James and I went to Denny's after church. I could only eat a couple spoonfuls of grits and barely any of my scramble eggs.. I was grossed out.. James got fried over easy eggs, and I had to leave the restaurant because the smell grossed me out..

Some things I'm really starting to miss...

So of course when you're pregnant, you have to make sacrifices which include your body and your mentality... I've been extremely tired lately, sleeping for good chunks of the day. When I first found out I was pregnant, I let out a sigh, knowing that I have to be more picky about what I eat and what I put into my body... This is just a list for right now of the things I miss eating:

1) Sushi - I'm a sushi-aholic, heck, I even get the grocery sushi if I see a chef actually making it!
2) COFFEE - I use to work at Starbucks, I love coffee, I love the smell, the taste and the euphoria I get when I drink it.
3) Soda - If you know me, there isn't a time where you'd run into me and I wouldn't have a soda in my hand.. Screw caffeine free stuff, doesn't taste the same.
4) Salt - If I want to suffer from water retention, I have to keep the sodium (like soy sauce) to a minimum.
5) Tea - I can't have a lot, but it still sucks to have so little. Oh well, it's all for a good reason.


This is just a beginning of a list of things I'm starting to miss. I won't regret sticking to a great health plan and I'm excited about things to come. I need to give it time to try my patience.

Woke up cuz I got hungry

And I made this! Hee hee

Nausea

So this is a mild part of pregnancy. I'm not sure how bad my morning sickness will be, but it's getting to the point to where I make myself eat. I know I need nutrition for the baby, so I don't try to skip out on the essentials. But the nausea isn't fun. I feel queasy at times. It hits in the morning most of the time but there are some evenings that aren't easy either. Actually, this is the major symptom I had that made me realize that I needed to take a pregnancy test. Either way, it sucks. My tummy just hates me.

So I'm Pregnant..

Let's start from the beginning. My husband, James, and I have talked a lot about having children. But our biggest fear was having one before we finished school. The option to having children is something we both wanted, so I stopped taking birth control back in January 2008. Well, we both graduated in May 2008, and decided to cease preventing the making the children. We didn't think that we'd get a baby right away!

We found out on Friday, June 13th. Granted, it was a bit early for us to find out, but a lot of the symptoms were already there. I couldn't even get out of bed in the morning because I felt so nauseous. I decided to take a pregnancy test that night and James and I both found a very faint line. Well, not so long ago, I bought the book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. And in the book, there is a section talking about the faint line. All pregnancy tests have a control line, and a line that shows it detects the hCg hormone. This is the hormone that all women get when they are pregnant. In fact, there is almost no case in which the line shows up and the woman is NOT pregnant. No matter what, no matter how faint the line is, you're pregnant.

See, I KNEW this. But I really didn't want to believe it. Seriously, I didn't accept the fact that I'm pregnant. I'm a very visual person, and I still can't grasp the idea that I'm pregnant. I think it'll become more real to me when I hear the heartbeat and I see the ultrasound. So when I saw my faint line, I didn't want to believe that I was pregnant. But James was already excited. We started talking about the baby and what we need to do. James already felt bad for calling the baby "it" and so we dubbed it "Baby Byerly" or Baby B. So it will be Baby B till we know the sex of the baby.

We decided to wait to tell people. We told a few folks at first, but I couldn't contain myself as I got use to the idea of me being pregnant. So now, it's public knowledge that we're with child and I am between 4-5 weeks along. I haven't set up an appointment yet with a doctor, which I will do soon. But according to Baby Center, I may be due between February 16th-23rd. We're both very happy and very excited. And I plan on blogging more about how I'm doing and any pictures that we accumulate.