If Morning Sickness= Healthy Baby ours is a champ.

I made a big mistake early in my pregnancy. I said the words "No, I am not feeling sick at all. Maybe I won't get sick", and proceed to have a mild fear that I wasn't really pregnant or that something was wrong because I wasn't feeling too sick. I think that is the equivalent to praying for patience because God answered.

My morning sickness really started to kick in on Sunday, aka Mother's Day. God gave me the gift of reassuring me that I really was pregnant and on my way to being a Mommy. While I had nausea here and there when a wrong smell hit me, this was this fist day I felt yucky ALL DAY, and it seems to have gone down hill from there.

I finally told my one female boss on Tuesday, just because I had to mute myself and sneak out of 2 meetings to go throw up, and I didn't think I would be able to hide it well. I had originally planned to tell my whole team when I went up there in June, right after my first Dr.'s Appt.

I have decided that they call it "Morning sickness" is because it seems like the only respite you have is approximately between the hours of 1-4pm, and the rest of the time (mostly "AM" hours) you are sick. I threw up no less than 6 times between the hours of 12am and 3am this morning, and at 7:45 when I woke up again, I literally started crying because I knew that consciousness equaled throwing up and I couldn't handle throwing up anymore because my head and throat still hurt from the last round.  

Since I had the day off work anyway, because my awesome hubby is remodeling our bathroom this weekend, so I can finally have a bathtub (YAY!!!). I just took two 2-hour naps where I forced down a couple swallows of food in between them. That seemed to work alright.

While I still feel a little nauseated, it isn't so bad, since I am on my 1-4pm break right now, and I slept through the morning round.

One bit of information that I forgot to mention in my earlier posts: You know how I wrote a whole blog post about worrying about giving up Dr. Pepper? All for naught. Two days after implantation, I no longer liked it. I never had a caffeine withdrawal headache, or anything. Since I stopped liking it over a week before I knew I was pregnant, I actually thought they may have changed the formula a little or that maybe our area had a new bottler, because it just tasted weird. So that was one weird first symptom, that made my life a little easier, and took a worry away.

Oh! Here is the first belly picture I promised you. All future ones should be with our new nice camera that the fedex man is supposed to be bringing today! This was taken May 4, at 4.5 weeks.

We made it a week and a half...

FYI- The previous post was written the night we found out (May 1), but I stopped and planned to write more..and didn't. In the future I just need to learn to post it once it's written.

As proof of how good we are at keeping secrets, I made it 12 hours without telling anyone, 24 without telling my parents, and a week and a half without telling the rest of the family. I was just too excited. My logic is, I should tell anyone who we would tell if I miscarried, that way they would still be able to experience the joy first, just in case something did happen. It was pretty sound logic in my opinion (sound enough that I was able to convince my hubby :-) )

So to update on my pregnancy symptoms. I had my first puking session today when Adam made coffee. It was terrible. I was feeling a little queasy this morning, but nothing bad...until he made coffee... and I immediately ran to the bathroom and got rid of the crackers I had just eaten to settle my stomach.

Outside of that my only symptoms so far has been moodiness. It is like PMS on steroids. I go from wanting to kill someone, to wanting to cry, to deliriously happy in the course of 15 minutes. (You can ask my husband, I literally did all of those in that order in about an hour time span today). So this next 9 months is going to be fun....

On another note my boobs are HUGE (for me), but they hurt if I look at them funny. I think I am going to like this part of pregnancy. After 26 years I can finally get cleavage. Yay!

My first doctor's appointment is June 1. I am super excited to see my little sesame seed (that is the size he/she is right now). I am torn because I have to wait so long, but the fact that I get an ultrasound when I go makes up for it a bit.

Well I am going to go eat the hotdog (with cheese...right now I want everything with cheese on it... this is definitely my husband's baby) and veggies (I also can't get enough veggies right now- this baby is definitely mine). 

I will put my first "belly pic"  and pics of the test up soon for people to see. I think I will finally make this public since we have told enough people that will want to follow it.

Two Pink Lines!!!

So obviously this idea of "getting in the habit of blogging before I got pregnant" didn't work out so well. But the good new is... IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!! I took the test tonight and (shockingly) saw two pink lines. I didn't think I was because I got a negative a couple days earlier, and I have convinced myself that I was so many times when I wasn't, I began treating myself like the boy who cried wolf.

After wanting this for my whole life, my first reaction is fear. After a few minutes it was excitement, but fear and shock definitely came first.

The big task now is keeping the secret. Adam says I have to wait til 12 weeks to tell anyone... I am not sure I can wait that long. Hopefully blogging will help.

Why Caffeine?

So in beginning to think about pregnancy, I have been thinking about all the eating/drinking things I need to change. The biggie for me is caffeine... (and sushi)... but mostly caffeine.

I have been going back and forth over whether or not to completely cut it out, and if I do should I start now? I really don't drink THAT much... it is mostly just Dr. Pepper. I LOVE Dr. Pepper, and unlike coffee, I cannot just switch to decaf.

I actually found out a few months ago that caffeine-free Dr. Pepper does exist.. and I got super excited... until I realized that the closest store that sold them was in a different state.

Which begs the question of why? Why is there caffeine in soda?

I love my Dr. Pepper (DP from now on), but I don't want to HAVE to have it everyday. It is not good for my health, it is not good for my teeth, and it is not cheap like water or sweet tea (my second favorite drink). But because I drink it as frequently as I do, if I don't have a DP by 11am, I have a migraine.


When did it become ok to add addicting drugs with full on withdrawal symptoms to our beverages? I have quit caffeine 2-3 times over the past 10 years, and it usually lasts about 2-3 weeks (well a month if you consider the week of miserable migraines while I quit) until I want a soda, usually a DP, and as soon as I have one, I have to go through the whole withdrawal process all over again.It is frustrating.

Is it too much to ask to have soda without extra drugs readily available?

At a restaurant the only caffeine-free soda ever available is Sprite.. which really isn't soda. You can get diet everywhere, but not decaf.

In the stores, you can usually find regular coke in decaf, but anything else you find in decaf is also diet, and I HATE diet.

This caffeine addiction is soo epidemic that "The Headache Medicine"- Excederine, has caffeine in it. (There are many days when I am out of DP when I will just pop an Excederine to get rid of the headache). It is frustrating.

I am not saying we should ban the use of caffeine or anything like that, but I think it is a little shady of the soda companies to put a flavorless, unneeded addictive substance in their drinks and not give you a choice.

So my plan is to start special ordering Caff free DP, and stocking up on it... and then try quitting once again. Maybe once I start special ordering it, it will be more readily available in my grocery store and I can stick to my quitting.

We will see...

In the Battle of Crochet vs. Knitting: Crochet Wins

So I started this post a week and a half ago, and stopped because I wanted to add photos... and never did. So I am going to add photos and updates before I post this. (this is why I am practicing a blog so I can get in the habit.)
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Last year I decided I wanted to learn how to create things with yarn. I wanted to be able to have a hand-made blanket for my children that I put love and effort into and made with thought just of them that they can keep forever. I still have blankets and quilts made by grandmothers and great grandmothers for my parents and grandparents. I feel as this got a little lost in the last few generations, and want to bring it back for my kids. I honestly didn't (and in some ways still don't) know the difference between knitting and crocheting, except that one uses one needle and one uses two. So I decided to learn how to knit (since that is what they all did in that one episode of Grey's Anatomy)... I made it halfway through a scarf before giving up, and had decided that I have my mother's crafting ability and there was a reason this skill was lost.

This weekend we visited my in-laws house and my mother-in-law (who is much craftier than my mother) taught me how to crochet... OMG... it is a MILLION times easier. The funny thing is they aren't all that different. I still cannot tell by looking at something if it is crocheted or knitted. The main difference in my mind is one uses one helpful hook for making stitches, and helps you keep the stitches on and grab the right stitch, and one has 2 needles that are difficult to manage, and the main concentration is making sure they do not fall off of said needle. In the 4 days week and a half I have been crocheting so far, I am almost done with have finished a scarf (it started out as a blanket, because that is what my husband wanted me to make, but I decided that it is more important that I feel as if I can finish a project, so I changed it into a scarf.)

The Pink scarf is my knitted scarf. I worked on it on and off for about 6 months before giving up. I will say, I taught myself how to knit, and not knowing that tight stitches are not best, I made very tight stitched, so it took a long time and was difficult.

The multicolored scarf is crocheted, I once again made very tight stitches which makes it harder, (apparently I like it hard....). This took me 2.5 weeks (working on and off).

So that being said I put my 2 cents into the knitting vs. crochet debate, LEARN CROCHET! It is sooo much easier.

First Blog Entry....

So this is my first blog post...ever. I am not really the blogging type. I have never had a blog before, but I wanted to have one when I had a baby, especially since I am so far away from all of my family and friends, so I started this one.

I have made the blog private, at this point,  so that I can practice posting without anyone being able to see anything yet (the problem is going to be not posting TOO private of thoughts now, because they will be public later).

Adam and I have recently started "family planning". We are in no rush to get pregnant (well, he isn't I would be OK being pregnant at any time.) We have decided to not not tell anyone we are even really talking about kids yet, and even when I do get pregnant we are going to wait until 12 weeks before we tell anyone. We will see how well I do at that, because I can't keep a secret to save my life (although that may not be true, as I have never had a life or death secret).

Part of the reason I have started this blog so early is I want to document every bit of my pregnancy. I don't want to miss anything, so I figured starting a private blog now, it will already be in place and I can post thoughts without telling people anything too early. It will also help get me in the habit of blogging, and I can let people see it later.

I know I am setting myself up for a little bit of disappointment by starting this before I am even CLOSE to pregnant (not that pregnancy has a 'closeness' scale), but it is really the only way to get in the habit, and make sure I don't miss a minute. (And I think people may enjoy reading about this part).

So here goes nothing....