Differences

3/21/13 - 11 weeks 3 days

Fun new development: I'm not really feeling "morning" sickness throughout the day anymore, just a little bit in the morning on the drive to work (maybe something about driving sets it off; it seems to more often than not, but only if I'm the one driving) and sometimes later at night. However, now I'm feeling sick AFTER I eat. Which is just as exciting as it was before, only now I feel sick with a full stomach. Awesome.

The baby is plum-sized now and my uterus has grown a fair bit; I've got rather a pooch going on. The midwife even remarked on it (the uterus, specifically, not the pooch, but yeah) at our last visit. We weren't scheduled to have one until toward the end of next week, but last time I lost the baby at 10.5 weeks and we didn't know until my 13 week visit. At the start of this week, I just wanted to go in and make sure everything was still fine. We couldn't find the heartbeat on the doppler, which made us very nervous. I just sort of clung to Matt while she went to get the ultrasound machine. There was the baby, kicking and flipping and twitching and waving hi! Its little face was looking at us! We could see the heartbeat and we printed another picture, which is now my phone wallpaper. <3 (Apparently the reason we couldn't hear the heartbeat with the doppler is because my abdomen was so full of gas! UGH. So unpleasant.) Matt actually printed the picture since the midwife was on the other side of me from the machine. She told him to push the freeze button, then the print button, and ta-da!

We'll still go to my regularly-scheduled appointment next week at about 12.5 weeks. My midwife will be out of town, so it's with another lady. My mom is going to come to that one, too, and she's SO EXCITED! Then she and I will go "fat pants shopping," i.e. maternity clothes shopping. My shirts are fine over my pooch for a while yet, but I have very few skirts and pants I can comfortably wear to work. I'm so glad I'll be telling work people after break so I can stop sucking in all day! Even when I wear loose shirts or dresses, if you're looking (and probably no one is but me, but still), there's something there.

Yes, one more day of work, and then SPRING BREAK! Woohoo! One of the goals is to start getting the guest room cleaned up and organized to make it easier to move furniture and stuff out when we start turning it into the nursery. Also: sleeping! My favorite thing. A couple nights ago I laid down in bed "just for a bit" around 6 and didn't wake up until 9! I got up for a little while, did the dishes, fussed around getting ready for work the next day, and then went right back to bed. Today I woke up blearily and stumbled around getting ready for work. I didn't feel like I was actually awake until about lunch time! It's hard work growing a person!