2nd appt yesterday [9w2d]

Yesterday was our first real appointment. Well, not even a real one because there was no doctor there, but still cool. Had to go through the whole girl exam thing, but we also got a lot of information and answers to any questions. Not that we had to ask any questions though because the nurse and nurse practitioner both had huge scripts of info to give us. I was a little worried that they would not be able to find a heartbeat because it's still a little early for that (from what I've read, 10w is generally the minimum for hearing it). And it did take the np quite a bit of time and positioning before she found it. Glorious sound when we did hear it! Brian thought it was very funny that there were three instances of medical staff referring to me as "tiny," "skinny," or "little." The nurse said something about almost needing a child blood pressure cuff (100/62 btw), the np suggested that she might be able to still find the heartbeat because I'm "so skinny," and the lab tech who took my blood commented that it was a good thing they had pediatric needles. Oy! I get it! I'm a small person! My veins are little! (and they still took 5 vials of my blood!!)
I have a job interview this Friday in the middle of the day for a teaching position, so I'll keep you updated on that.
Here's the next belly pic, taken on Sunday at 9 weeks even. (Look! Not even any bloating!)

Feeling Better [8w4d]

I knock on wood as I think and type that! The past two days I have been feeling much better. It's amazing how you never notice how great it is to feel alive and healthy when you are so, but when you feel rotten, you know you feel rotten! I've been pretty busy at work so I haven't had as much time to obsess snowpea development, and with this feeling better of course comes the obsessive worrying that there is something wrong. Seriously, I was a paranoid enough person before this all came about!!
Brian was a dear and scanned the ultrasound pictures from last week for me and also took a picture of my still nonexistant belly. Bloating aside, I still look the same. But gosh do I hate bloating!!
An interesting development has occured...I got a phone call from a school principal today about a prospective teaching job for this fall. There are actually two open positions - one for 7th/8th grade English and one that will focus more on American Lit. They are going to be calling back next week about an interview and mini-lesson, but now that snowpea is in the picture, it makes this whole idea a little trickier. Brian and I discussed and decided that it would be most fair to tell the school that I'm pregnant before (if) I would be hired. I would just feel terrible surprising them in August and saying, oh yeah, and by the way, I'm going to need to leave before the semester's out and I should probably be back by January. Yikes. Anyways. I'll keep you updated on the job prospects along with snowpea news. Here are the pictures.

The foretold belly pic at 8w2d:

Ultrasound pics from 7w3d: Snowpea's still pretty tiny at this point and all the pictures look basically the same.

Morning Sickness [8w]

My lovely friend, morning sickness, decided to rear it's ugly head this evening. (Because really, it is early morning and all evening sickness.) I guess salad just wasn't the right choice for dinner tonight. Amazingly, despite tales that throwing up doesn't make the nausea any better, I'm feeling a lot better than I was beforehand. Hopefully, I'll be able to eat one of those cookies that Brian just made before I fall asleep again. In other news of the day, since I have been craving a BK ham croissan'which since Tuesday, Brian and I played frogger to get across the highway this morning and had a hugely wasteful (they use way too much packaging!) breakfast at the new burger king. Then we went over to Lafayette for some shopping - a planter for our balcony herb garden, socks for Brian, craisins, and some cards for our mommies. Yes, we bought the cards already but won't be mailing them for another 2 weeks or so. Gotta wait til mother's day moms!
Anyway, when we got back, Brian made himself a lunch and I realized I wasn't hungry at all. I managed to get down an entire yogurt cup before I crashed. I slept the entire time Brian worked on a paper (from about 1 to 4:30). It was crazy. I thought this unbearable exhaustion had left me when morning sickness started...weird.
For the rest of the night, I'll probably just remain a part of the couch. Brian's being a sweetheart and cleaning the bathroom, because that's all I mentioned when he came to hold my hair, and then he might go hang out with some friends. It is the Grand Prix weekend here at Purdue, which is a go-cart race and basically a giant party weekend. Yay. Well, that's all for snowpea news. Just me, sick as a ... sick person... and Brian taking care of me.

Welcome! [7w3d]

Well, we still haven't told anyone about little snowpea yet, but after today's ultrasound, I felt confident enough to start the blog. So here it is! I guess I have to tell the background now... I took a home preg. test on Saturday, March 22 (the day before Easter) but the second line showed up so faintly, I didn't quite believe it. We spent the next few days kind of joking about "if" I were pregnant and then nervously laughing. Well, I took a second test on Tuesday, March 25, and that plus sign (different brand) was anything but faint!
Skip ahead! Sunday, April 6 - Morning sickness begins. As of this time, I'm still considering myself pretty lucky since I have not thrown up at all and only feel icky in the mornings and evenings. I try to remember that this means snowpea is growing and becoming a healthy little one, but seriously! I can't stand the thought of steak, burgers, any kind of sausage, mexican food, nothing!! I have become friends with bran muffins, cheerios, and fruit of all sorts though.
Skip ahead again! Our first ultrasound was originally scheduled for yesterday but the ultrasound tech called in sick. Needless to say, I cried about my wasted half hour of medical time at work all the way to work. Oy! So they rescheduled us for this morning. It was great. Bri was relieved to see only one little pea in there and we were both so happy to see (and hear!!) a nice heartbeat (rate=140bpm) and know that little one is measuring right on time according to our calculations. I took a picture of one of the pictures with my cell and it's kind of blurry but better than nothing. We'll try to get them scanned so they show up more clear and hopefully (crossing my fingers!) we can upload the video too. Seriously, who uses tapes nowadays?
Anyway! That's all for now. Oh, and p.s. - for morning sickness, I find varying the menu (cheerios, honey nut cheerios, plain goldfish crackers, granola) and some extra B6 are the best I can do to stop the queesies!