8 weeks

Size:  You are the size of a raspberry this week!  Even though I can't feel you yet, you are squirming all over the place! You should grow about a millimeter per day this week, making you a fast grower!!! You are already over 0.63 inches long. your fingers and toes no longer make you look like a duck and your little tadpole tail is gone!!  Good thing because I'm not up to raising a frog :)

Weight:  0.04 oz

Total weight gain so far:  Still none!  I am down about 10lbs!

Sleep:  Still sleeping pretty well except for when I wake up on my back. Then I gotta pee and my back hurts til I get back to sleep!

Symptoms:  Still about the same with the nausea, fatigue, and low tolerance for cold!!!  The nausea is bad almost all day and gets worse with the heartburn! Today I had some fresh pineapple. You must like fruit because that made me feel much better! Still cold all the time. Im under a down comforter right now and its almost 90 degrees outside!!!

Cravings:  Mainly fruit. Stocked up at the grocery store today on pineapple, peaches, and mandarin oranges.  I have a weird taste for soups too lately. Homemade chicken noodle for supper!!!

Aversions:  Just about everything.  I am hungry most of the time, but nothing seems to satisfy my appetite. I keep wheat thins on hand to help if I just can't find something.  Bleh! 

Best moment of the week:  Shopping for your big brother's kindergarten list!!! He is so excited about starting school and he was such a big help picking out the pencils, crayons, and glue!!! Even got his backpack and grandma found him a good pair of scissors. He is all ready to go! He will have so much to teach you when you get here. He is going to be a great brother!!!

Big brother's excitement level:  A little less than enthusiastic this week, but mainly because I have tried to focus on him this week. We went to dinner and a movie, which is one of his favorite things to do. He loves to take mommy on a date!

Movement:  Still too early for that!

Gender:  Still way too early for that, too!

Next doctor appointment:  June 26, 2013

7 weeks 5 days

So I miscalculated my dates by about a week and I am now due on 2/3/14 instead of 1/25/13.  I decided that I have seen a lot of pregnancy blogs through my massive searches of the internet and one thing that I wish I had done when I was pregnant with Hunter was document the entire thing.  This time around, I'm hoping to keep up!  I think it will be a neat way to look back once the baby is born and see just how far we have come.  I'm starting today about week 7, which I'm actually almost out of.  My weeks turn over on Monday, so I'm going to try to make all of my posts on Monday.  Here goes!






Size:  You are the size of a blueberry!  Your brain is growing by about 100 cells per minute and you're starting to get your arms and legs, not just those pesky little flippers!!  You are twice as big as you were last week :)





Weight:  0.8 grams

Total weight gain so far:  None!  I have actually lost 8 lbs!

Sleep:  Sleeping okay, except for having to get up a time or two overnight to pee! 

Symptoms:  Nausea, fatigue, and low tolerance for cold!!!  I'm pretty much nauseated much of the time and tired ALL the time.  I am cold ALL of the time now and have to stay under a blanket most of the time at home.  Daddy thinks I'm crazy!

Cravings:  None really.  I would rather not eat anything!  The other day I did crave some pineapple though!  So much that your uncle had to help me go around town trying to find a can opener so that I could eat it!

Aversions:  Fried foods.  Bleh!  The thought of fried foods make me even more nauseous than I am all the time anyway.

Best moment of the week:  Going to the doctor on Thursday and hearing your heart beat for the first time!!!  You have a strong heart beat of 157 bpm!  Way to go, blueberry! 

Big brother's excitement level:  He is excited some moments, and other moments I think he forgets.  Right now the world is still centered around him :)  I think it will become more real to him once you get bigger and he can feel you kick from inside my tummy.

Movement:  Way too early for that!

Gender:  Way too early for that, too!

Next doctor appointment:  June 26, 2013