Words of Wisdom

In my 6 1/2 weeks of pregnancy, I have certainly not gained the title of "Pregnancy Expert." 

However, I have learned a very important lesson this week, that I feel compelled to pass on to all of you (or to myself for future pregnancies).

When the nausea of pregnancy starts to set in, and at times completely take over, some shows are just meant to not be watched.

One such show would be Andrew Zimmerman's "Weird Eats International."

Particularly the episode where he visits a small tribe in Africa and decides to eat the placenta of a birth that had taken place the week prior.  And then he drank the cord blood of another birth.  And then drank blood from a goat, a cow, and some other animal I couldn't hear over all my gagging!

And really, at that point you'd think the channel would have been changed.  But I was mesmerized.

Yup, that was me, sitting on my couch, gagging relentlessly, not being able to peel my eyes off of the man downing jugs of blood as it trickled down his chin and all over his white button down shirt, right in front of me!

So note to self in the future: perhaps shows about eating weird food and non-food items should be avoided for about, oh at least several more months until gagging with normal foods goes away!

*Source* YES, that is a placenta...and for an entire website of placenta recipes, click on the link! 

6 weeks!

With everything we've gone through in the past, I can't even tell you how exciting it is to reach another "week" mark...even if it is only 6 weeks, and there's technically 34 more to go! 

No belly picture today, b/c really it looks no different than last week. 

And now for the 6 Week Pregnancy Progress:

How Far Along? 6 weeks, boo-ya (we've never been here before!)

How Big is Baby? The size of a lentil

Weight Gain? still +5 overall since stims, none this week

 

Maternity Clothes? No change from last week, still rocking my stretch pants and Bears sweats 24/7 when I'm at home...and making the stretch pants look cute when I go out : )

Belly Button (in or out)? In

Sleep:  Really, really tired this week, with no energy at all.  Falling asleep early, but also waking up at weird hours of the night not able to go back to sleep for an hour or two at a time...stinkin' pee trips waking me up!

Cravings: Indian food (particularly chicken makhni, basmati rice and naan!), cottage cheese with tomatoes and himalayan pink salt, green veggie juice. *the cravings seemed to be really specific this week..but they were strong!*

 

Aversions: Still red meat, chocolate, really anything sweet (its starting to weird me out how much I seriously do not want sweets!?!?)

What I Miss: Sushi, dirty martini, red wine

Symptoms: There were 2 days this week that I was really nauseous pretty much from the time I woke up til I went to sleep, otherwise just being tired and still the sore boobs (although wearing a bra at night has really helped this week!).

Movement: Definitely not, too early!

Best Moment of the Week: Getting a sweet little package in the mail from some of our very best friends! Thank you Megs & Eric! Now we just wait to find out which one we can use : )

Worst Moment of the Week: Working  the 4pm to midnight shift and getting home at 2 am.  It certainly beats the 16 hour 4pm til 8am shift, but man it's still rough!

 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Seeing the little one again in one week, and hopefully hearing it's heart beat (although it was super cool seeing it flicker today)!  I was so nervous today focusing on whether one or both made it, I didn't get to fully take it all in and enjoy it.  So I am looking forward to soaking it all in next week.

The Ultrasound

We've been anxiously awaiting our Ultrasound...and today was the day! 

From the moment we saw our 2 littles on the first ultrasound we both felt bonded, and have thoroughly enjoyed talking and singing to them (yes, we are that couple) almost every night.

So, once again I was nervous, but mostly excited about seeing whether one or both made it to this point. 

I have to say that last night at work I had this "feeling" that I can't really explain that it was one baby.  If you've ever read my other blog about work, you'll know that I have gotten weird feelings or thoughts before, and they are almost always right. 

And then, I had a dream last night that someone gave me a baby announcement that said "Congratulations...it's Twins!"  I asked who that was for, and the lady told me it was for me.  I looked at her, gave the announcement back, and said "Oh no, that's not for me...we're having one baby." 

So when I woke up this morning, I had a slightly disappointed feeling, because I knew that just one had made it.  But don't get me wrong...we are thrilled that we are here, at this point, pregnant!

So off to the ultrasound we went!

And sure enough, there on the screen was one big yolk sac, and one teeny, tiny little white blip that they are calling my baby : )  It was amazing to see the little blip flicker pretty quickly, which is the heart beating already!!!

Sorry for the poor picture quality...its a camera phone pic of the glossy printout!  See the little black hole in the middle with the white circle attached at the upper right?? That's our Little Lerma!

We couldn't hear the heartbeat yet because it's still too early, but the technician was very confident that all the flickering going on she felt was strong.

That's our baby...nice and strong!

So while I am sad about the loss of the second, we couldn't be happier with how well this one little Lerma is doing so far.  We will continue to pray and hope that things go as well as they have been up until this point...just 34 more weeks of hoping and praying, until we can have the sweet little one in our arms!