Small Scare

Right now I am a little over 12 weeks along...

and I had a little scare last night.....

While walking my dogs after work, I slipped and fell on some ice.  It was dark out and hard to see the icy patches, so no more walking the dogs at night for me!! As I fell, I felt a strong pulling sensation in my lower abdomen, which continued after the fall and had me totally freaking out! I called the on call OB-GYN and was told to go to the hospital for evaluation just to make sure baby was doing ok.

It actually turned into a cool experience because I got to hear baby’s heart beat – a whopping 162 beats per minute. While the midwife was listening there were some distorted sounds coming through on the Doppler and she told me “This is the baby kicking,” “This is the baby rolling around.”  She said I should start feeling all of these sensation in another month when I am about 16 weeks along.  It was also funny because it seemed like baby was playing hide and seek with us. Every time she found the heartbeat, it would only last for about 5-10 seconds and then disappear. She would find it again in a totally different part of my abdomen.  She said “Your baby is already being naughty! Looks like you are going to have your hands full!!!” So, although I can’t feel it yet – I seem to have a VERY ACTIVE nugget in there. This should be fun when I’m further along and can really feel the kicks and squirming that was going on last night!!!!

The midwife told me that the pulling sensation I felt was likely a ligament attached to my uterus stretching, and should be fine. She also thought everything would be fine with baby as the heartbeat was strong and baby was active.  Obviously, I got a whole list of things to call back for, like bleeding or leaking fluid, but so far so good!!

So other than being sore and tired today, everything seems to be back to normal (including my ever persistent nausea!!!!!!).

Until next time...

Week 10 and the First Bump Photo!!!

Mark and I celebrated by taking the little nugget to see the National Tour of Wicked.  It was amazing (Plus it cured my nausea for a while – if only I could go see Wicked every night!!!). I was definitely getting excited and teary eyed thinking about Mark and I bringing our child to the theater and sharing this love with him/her.  I grew up acting, and going to see live musicals was literally my favorite thing to do.  I was fortunate enough to have a supportive family who were constantly carting me around to play practice, performances, and forking out some serious dough so that I could see shows as often as I wanted to.  I can’t wait to do this with my own little nugget. 

This that are happening this week...

1)  Baby is now a fetus (instead of an embryo) because are of the major internal organs are formed and starting to function.

2)  Baby is the size of a prune.

3)  My all day every Day sickness still comes and goes, but it definitely seems to be getting better.  I learned that this normal happens around this week because the baby’s placenta is fully formed and has taken over hormone production for the baby giving me a MUCH needed break. YEY YEY YEY YEY

4)  Baby has formed arms and legs, and they are approximately the size of this number 1.

5)  None of my pants fit (YEY for belly bands to help hold my unbuttoned and unzipped pants up!!!) and I am going maternity clothes shopping this weekend.

6)  Baby’s brain is producing approximately 25,000 new neurons a minute this week.

7)  I am continuing to have RIDICULOUS, CRAZY dreams..  I’ll be posting some of my favorites in the near future.

8)  I am still tired all the time.  I am pretty sure I could sleep, anywhere, at any time, in any position.

9)  My face looks like a pepperoni pizza and foundation – which I have NEVER used before – is my new best friend.

10) People who don’t know are starting to question if I am pregnant.


Until next time....

Christmas Came Early

Yesterday was the first day in weeks that I did not throw up once. Of course, I'm back to my usual nauseated and sick self today... but I got to see the light at the end of this long tunnel, even if it was just a glimpse... looking forward to when I feel good every day!!!!!!

Another Update

So,  I still haven’t felt up to doing much of anything. The Zofran works some days and other days it doesn’t. The last week has been pretty rough.  I have lost three pounds (but don’t worry – I’m still 2-3 pounds up from my starting weight so this is ok), and have barely been able to keep a drop of food or drink down.  After a particularly bad weekend, I wound up going to triage on Monday night and getting IV hydration and IV anti-nausea medication.  I felt pretty good after this, but it unfortunately only lasted about a day.   My doctor says I should start feeling better soon.   I’m about 9 ½ weeks along and your hormones are at their highest sometime between week 8 and 10, so once those pesky hormones start to calm down, I should feel better.  I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!  I haven’t felt like myself now in about 4 or 5 weeks and it is getting pretty old (but obviously totally worth it in the end).

I also have to give a major shout out to my wonderful, amazing, adoring, stupendous husband, Mark.  I literally don’t think I could do this without him.  He has really stepped up to the plate and been a huge help to me.  He has taken over cleaning the house, cooking all meals, helping with the shopping and laundry, caring for the dogs (because even the smell of their dog food makes me throw up), basically anything and everything that I can’t do right now because I’m either too tired or too nauseated to get it done.  I love you Mark and am soooooo thankful to have you!!!!

Hope to write again soon… until next time…