3 Days to Go!

It's my last day of work today until September! I'm looking forward to doing things on my own time and when the mood strikes me. We are also looking forward to Vegas in the next few weeks.

Luke's 30th birthday is on Saturday and that's the baby's three month birthday as well. With each passing day the baby becomes more and more real to me.

I've gained four pounds since becoming pregnant and it seemed to all pile on at once. I'm also showing already!! There is a definite protruding belly where there was a much smaller belly before. Reading up on this shows that everyone is different and that my belly may not be as much baby as it is distended bowels and movement for baby to grow up and out. Needless to say I am excited that tight t-shirts reveal a baby bump! It's still easy to hide if I wear something more roomy though so I've got it good ;)

Looking forward to Saturday...

10 weeks 5 days

I'm feeling more and more confident about the fact that this baby is going to make it to three months. Three months pregnant! Wow. That's a mouthful.

It has both flown by and has seemed to take a lifetime. I have been waiting for the end of the first trimester!

My symptoms are definitely reducing. I have had more energy during the day and the ill feeling (without throwing up) only visits at times. Yesterday was great. I had very little gas during the day and then only felt ill after dinner, around 8:00 pm. Today was great as well. Minimal gas, a little tired in the afternoon but overall I'm feeling good.

Sleeping has been off and on. Some nights I am able to sleep through the night without getting up to go to the bathroom and some nights I'm up to go to the bathroom and can't get back to sleep again for awhile. This probably doesn't help with that tired feeling during the day!

I told one person at work today that I'm pregnant. We were going for a walk at lunch and she asked what was new. When I told her she said she knew already! Either my baby bump is a lot bigger than I thought or she really does have "a gift" for identifying pregnant women, as she claimed. There were a few clues for her: my usual tailored blouses and pants have been replaced by baggy tops and pants, I'm eating kale and lots of vegetables and she said I have a pregnant glow and a sense of calm about me. I wonder who else has noticed???

9 Weeks 4 Days

It is getting more and more exciting to think about whether we are having a boy or a girl baby. Fairly soon our baby will be a fetus and take on more of the features of a 'real baby' versus a tadpole. I wonder if it will have Luke's eyes, my sticky-outie ears or a whole new combination of features. The baby can now move around in my stomach and virtually swims around in there! I can't feel anything yet but apparently there's a lot going on.

Soon we will be telling all sorts of people we're pregnant and I'm so excited! Luke doesn't enjoy telling creatively so when we're together we just blurt it out which is fun too! When I'm alone, however, I think of all sorts of funny and amusing ways to do the big reveal. My Mom already has five grandchildren so I bought a dozen eggs and drew the baby faces of four boys and one girl on all but one. On the sixth egg I put a big question mark and our baby's due date: January 15th, 2011. It was a lot of fun watching her try to figure out what all of the eggs meant.

Today is a more energetic day for me...less exhausted and ready to tackle all of the work that has been shoved to the side for now.

9 Weeks Tomorrow

Feeling exhausted. Craving hamburgers and fries and gravy, but mostly hamburgers. If this baby grows up to be vegetarian it will be because of all the (mostly) lean red meat Mom consumed in utero. It's more likely baby will be a strapping football player.

I can't wait until June 30th as it marks the end of the work year which is really putting a dent in the amount of time I can spend napping, but also marks the end of my first trimester which, I hear, also ends the most tenuous time of pregnancy.

Feeling great as long as I can eat on a whim and nap every few hours :)

Stay tuned for an update on my doctors' appointments next week!

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