8 weeks

There is a special circle in hell for whoever created the term "Morning sickness." How about "All day feeling like crap?" Sigh. It is really starting to wear me down. I am tired and nauseous. I haven't thrown up at all, but I might as well with as bad as I've felt!

But there are some great things to share this week, too! I had my first visit on Tuesday, and everything looks great. I had mu ultrasound yesterday, which dated you 7 weeks, 6 days - with a due date of January 6th, 2012! I pegged it exactly, and all of the baby center emails I've gotten are perfectly on track. Baby's heartbeat was 169 BPM, nice and strong - and everything looks perfect and healthy! Couldn't ask for better news! We shared the news with the world yesterday, also!

From baby center: 8 weeks

How your baby's growing:

New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

May 20

Feeling REALLY bad. This pregnancy is so different from Geoffrey's! I feel nautious pretty much all day, and soooo tired.

From Baby Center:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.

May 13

Geoffrey says:"Is the baby in your tummy? We need to open it up!"

I'm feeling: Blah. Tired. Smells really bother me. I've had some periods of just feeling nauseous - but not throwing up, just yucky queasiness.

How your baby's growing:

This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil.

May 11

"There's a baby in Mommy's tummy!"

Geoffrey lifts up my shirt and starts touching my belly. He pokes near the belly button, "We need to get it out."

Also written May 2

So I am pregnant! Whaaaaaat? I am really, truly, shocked. I took a pregnancy test on May 1st. I had just decided to take a test every month since my periods are so irregular - and surprise surprise - there were two pink lines! I took two more, just to be sure.

I took the last test on March 28th. Other than that, I don't really have any clues as to how far along I am. If I were to guess, I would say that I am due around january 6th, and that I am very recently pregnant - although that could be wishful thinking - I didn't want to have a baby too close to Christmas - poor kid getting their birthday and Christmas lumped together - although in our family the kid will be spoiled anyway so it probably isn't much of a concern. If I got pregnant earlier - closer to the last pregnancy test, the due date could be right around December 25th.

I made an appointment today for May 24 - three weeks away! I am really eager for an ultrasound to date the pregnancy. (They actually offered me May 17th but I pushed it off a week - again, hopeful thinking that I am only a few weeks pregnant at this point!)

Mamma Mia - Here I go again!

Written on May 1

Dear Baby #2,
I just found out yesterday that you were on your way. I took, I kid you not, three pregnancy tests (and a fourth one this morning!). I pretty much can't believe it. Just like with your brother, it doesn't feel real. I am excited, nervous, and in disbelief. One thing I am focused on is your due date - I have no idea when it is yet, but I am afraid that it is going to be pretty close to Christmas. I didn't want to do that to my future child - have a birthday so close to Christmas - but if that happens - then I'm happy - because you wouldn't be YOU if you were made on any other day! This morning, I sang you your first song. I was listening to Glee and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," by the Beatles, came on, and I thought of you, my new little one, and sang to you. I am so excited to meet you! We have a long way to go - but I promise I will do my best to make sure that you are safe, happy, and healthy.
Love,
Mommy

Geoffrey says the funniest things!

"Where's my present?"
"The present is for Mommy. Say Happy Mother's Day!"
"Happy Mother's Day. . .

"Where's my Happy Mother's Day?"

Written Mid-April

 

Wow! 2 years old is such a fun age! Geoff is so cute and funny and clever, and it is so much fun watching him learn and grow!

He is such a good speaker! The other day he said a six word sentence: "No, Belle, that is my waffle." he is really doing an amazing job string words together and identifying things. 

He also has a good memory. He picks out the song he wants us to sing, and sometimes he pull one out of his memory - like puff the magic dragon- that I haven't sung to him for many weeks! He is also getting better telling me about his day - what he had for breakfast, what he helped daddy with, etc. 

The other night, during our nightly snuggles ritual, he pointed to my finger and said, "is that an owie?" I said yes, and he said." can I kiss it?" he kissed it, "mmm-ah" and then traveled up my arms and kissed every freckle along the way! So adorable!

He is funny and silly. When you tickle him, he says "mercy" to get you to stop! Sometimes, when it is bed time, I will ask him what song he wants, and he will say, "ummmmmm" and look around like he is thinking for as long as he can get away with!