The Big Sleep (that I wish I could get)

Sorry folks that I have not posted in a while. I have been super dee duper tired! Creating life apparently is an exhausting job! :) One of the reasons I think I have been so tired is because I have not been getting good sleep at night. I toss and turn and toss and turn and eventually go to sleep only to wake up a few hours later and then repeat the same process. I can't get comfortable lately, and its not just lying down, its sitting, standing really anything makes me uncomfortable. I think my back is changing and shifting and I know my organs are, all of which will make someone uncomfortable.

I also have had my first week of soybean being the culprit of my sickness. The vitamins still make me super queasy, but this week every morning I have been awakened by morning sickness. I think this is kind of odd considering we're getting so close to the end of the first trimester and usually that's when all the morning sickness goes away but mine is just starting. I have found a way to sort of combat it though, I drink a glass of ginger ale while I'm getting ready in the morning and that tends to help. So far I have still not thrown up! I thought it was going to happen the other morning though, I have never in my life been to the point of bending over the toilet with spit swelling up in my mouth and not thrown up, until this past Monday morning. And I was like "come on!!! don't do this to me and not go all the way!" lol mainly because I hate being nauseated. I would much rather just throw up, and because I know that I would feel better if it would just happen instead of just sitting wondering if its going to happen.

The vitamin sickness has gotten some better though, I have tried taking them at lunch so that there is more food in my stomach. I still feel a little queasy but its no where near as bad as it was before. So the plan now is to take them with lunch and right before bed and hopefully that will continue to work.

I am still loving being pregnant :). I'm getting a belly and it makes me feel sooooo cute! For the first time when I go shopping I think everything looks good on me because I look just like I should :) Its pretty great. I am really looking forward to it getting  bigger and definitely looking forward to that day I get to actually meet soybean!!!

One Big Fart Joke

Sooooooo 8 weeks yesterday!!! Whoo hoo!!! I have actually started forming a belly. I didn't know it would come this fast but I LOVE it! I can't wait until it gets bigger. Still no weight gain on the scale though (which is kind of weirding me out because I don't know where the belly is coming from if there is no weight being added). Oh well I'm sure the weight is just around the corner :).

Now for the title of the post, I am one big fart joke. My god the gas that comes from being pregnant! LOL it is absolutely indescribable. I feel so bad for the people I work with, even though I'm not sure they've noticed yet (at least not until now right? :)). The thing is I can't figure out why gas is a major symptom of pregnancy. I'm not really eating any different because we already ate pretty healthy so maybe its the vitamins??? I have no idea. It does get very humorous around our house though. Andy is pretty proud sometimes of how loud they are. (Can you tell we've been married long enough to be comfortable now? LOL). The funniest part is that I have no idea the fart is coming. It sneaks up on me just as much as the victim nearest me. Most of the time I laugh just because its so daggum funny but sometimes it can be embarrassing. I'm just waiting for it to happen during a tour of the lab by our supervisors LOL. Oh that will be a blog post for sure!

So far I am adapting to this pretty well. The only thing that has gotten me irritated has been taking the vitamins. A little back history, I have a severe problem swallowing pills. When I was in high school I got an Advil liquid gel stuck in my throat, and since then my brain thinks that is going to happen every time. I literally have to stand with my eyes close and head held back concentrating on swallowing this thing that feels like it is growing by the second. Anyway, because of my psychological issue with pills it is a daily battle to swallow two pills twice a day. More than once I have gagged and even dry heaved trying to get them down, and quite frankly its really getting on my nerves. Its the only thing thus far that has made me mad about my pregnancy and technically it has nothing to do with baby soybean. I'll get used to it I suppose or I'll just do it like I have been doing because its necessary for my child to be born healthy.

Only 32 weeks to go!! OOOOOH and only 7 weeks until our first ultrasound :) I can't wait to see little soybean moving around and hear his/her heart beating :)))

Weight Gain and Recap of How We Learned We Were Pregnant

Hi everyone!!! So, we are now at 7 weeks and 2 days. I have not gained any weight and am very happy to say so. I really don't want to gain way too much weight like alot of people do, that is not to say that I am starving myself or in anyway going hungry. This is my plan... to eat only when I'm hungry and to eat in between meal snacks that are healthy such as carrots, apples etc. I am trying my hardest to avoid desserts. Every once in a while I will eat something sweet but to be honest I don't have much of a sweet tooth anyway. My parents would only give me fruit as a snack when I was little, so to me fruit is more of a dessert than chocolate. I hope my plan works I really don't want to gain too much because that won't be healthy for me or baby soybean, and as I'm sure you know health is a huge deal to me :).

As requested earlier I will tell everyone how I found out I was pregnant. I don't know why I didn't think about writing it in my first post. So here is the story:

It was getting close for my period to be due and I had started feeling weird. I don't really know how to describe it but just not myself. I had said before that I didn't want to test early (before my missed period) because I didn't want to see another negative. To explain that comment I will say this, its AMAZING how hard we women try not to get pregnant to only discover how difficult it actually is. I mean obviously its not like impossible (at least not for us) but in the movies you know its like one time and BAM you're pregnant. Not the case in real life and as I've discovered not the case for the majority of couples. So anyway back to the story, we were sitting in the living room and I was on the computer and I just said to Andy "I kind of want to go buy a pregnancy test tonight". He was like "really? why?" I said "I don't know I just feel like we should because I've felt weird". He suggested I wait an hour and see if I still wanted to go buy one. I waited and when the hour was over I still wanted to go buy one. CVS is right beside our house so we just went over there and bought a test. We came home and I took it. You have to wait 3 minutes before you get the results so we set down the test and went into the kitchen to make a snack. We just stood around and talked and then I was like the 3 minutes are up. I walked over to pick up the test completely expecting it to be negative. Andy thought it would be negative too so we both were pretty nonchalant about looking at it. I picked it up and was like "OMG!!!!! OMG ANDY IT'S POSITIVE!!! IT'S POSITIVE!!!!". I started bouncing I got so excited about it. He ran up to me and hugged me and we just stood there for a few minutes hugging until it completely sunk in. I went and got it confirmed a week later and all my levels were good, which is when we decided to tell everyone.

I didn't surprise Andy with the news by hiding the fact that I was taking a test or anything like that because I wanted him to be with me. We had been trying for a while so it was nice to find out together and be surprised together. It was pretty surreal and I wouldn't trade it for the world.