Incase you're keeping track...

Our FIRST ultrasound is on October 7th at 3:30pm...one week from today! A week from now we will have seen our little baby and hopefully a nice, strong heartbeat. Keep sending us your good thoughts and/or healthy baby prayers!!!!

I went for a walk!!

The weather has FINALLY cooled off (thanks to a few days of constant rain) and my neighbor, Carrie, and I went on our first walk with the dogs in MONTHS. I'm not sure who was more excited, the two of us or our dogs who are so over the heat!

We went on our normal route....through a neighborhood and around a big pond. After carefully avoiding some massive "puddles" we made our way around the pond and back home again. It was a nice 90 minute walk--JUST what the doctor ordered (well, not really because I have not even seen her yet!) Regardless, it's just what I ordered! I have been so inactive (aside from all of the walking around at do at work) and my body is so thankful that I got moving!

I love walking because it's easy to take it easy or push myself. I also love walking because I love walking with people are passing the time withe some great conversation! It was funny today to talk for so long with Carrie and not mention the baby/pregnancy! Soon enough I'm sure the pregnancy topic will take over our conversations, so it was great to get to catch up about everything else in our lives :)

Keep your fingers crossed that the temps in NC stay below the 80s. I think I can handle a walk in the mid-70s, but I get uncomfortable in anything too much higher!

ALWAYS hungry!!!

The newest development......I eat and then about 40 minutes later (or less) I am SO hungry! If I wait too long to eat I feel sick, so it's a tricky spot to be in sometimes. I feel guilty at school because around 11am I need a snack so I eat something. My kids are saying how hungry they are and when is lunch and here I am eating right in front of them!

Another bothersome thing about being hungry all the time is working out! I planned to go to the gym after school today but I was SO hungry and had to come home to eat, so I couldn't workout! One of these days I'll be able to get back to some mild working out....once I figure out what kinds of snacks to bring with me.

Packing snacks is also hard because I have a hard time thinking of an entire day of food in the morning when I'm not wanting any food and I'm making myself eat some breakfast!

I had no idea being pregnant would be like this! Haha!

(Oh....unrelated but....our first appointment and ultrasound is in less than 2 weeks!!! FINALLY!)

Enter heartburn...

Nobody tells you about all the craziness that happens during the first trimester of pregnancy! Sure, I'd heard about morning sickness (but I actually believed that it was JUST in the morning). Aside from morning sickness I don't think I knew about much else that would happen to me.

Newest symptom...heartburn! I prefer this over vomiting but it is SO uncomfortable! I think I probably need to get some TUMS because there's very little else I can take!

I'll keep you all up on any other random pregnancy symptoms I come across! I'm also happy to hear about others I should be on the lookout for...any heads up is helpful! :)

Feeling alive again!

So, Saturday was a terrible, awful, no good, very bad day for me! I am so thankful that my super sick day happened on a weekend and I didn't have to muddle through the school day. (I'm also hoping this won't happen again of course!).

Fast forward to today...I feel like a person again! I'm not 100% of course (does that even happen during pregnancy?), but I was able to get dressed, go to a meeting, teach all day AND go to the gym!! I have not done more than a short walk or pilates in over two weeks! My stomach felt settled enough that I wasn't afraid to lift weights or walk on the treadmill...I'm not claiming to have lifted hard, run fast or even sweat much at all, but I'm focusing on the small victories. I felt pretty victorious to actually USE my gym membership!

I'm still taking it easy and very cautious of anything I do, but I'm thankful for today!

Week by week blog!

Shortly after sharing the news with the Horwich grandparents I received an e-mail with a link to an awesome blog! It's really well written and gives a nice week by week of what's happening with the baby and with me. Of course, it's not 100% accurate for me (that's why you can read MY blog :))

Check it out...maybe even bookmark it! You can read it once a week and get a nice dose of information!

http://alphamom.com/pregnancy-calendar-overview/

**Thanks Mommy!**

THIS is morning sickness...

Not to go into too much detail but....this morning was BAD! I woke up with a migraine (I had one yesterday afternoon too but it didn't last long and I was able to get home and have a nice long nap).

So this morning was a terrible migraine and it was even worse I think because I'm not supposed to take any medication! I will be calling the doctor on Tuesday (not open on Mondays) to see what I can do if I get them again. After a while I started feeling a bit odd and decided that maybe I'd get sick....alas, I was correct. I then continued to get sick 4 more times (yes, 5 times). Every 25 minutes. It was NOT a fun couple of hours.

After I thought I might be feeling a bit better but not 100% sure I decided that a nap on the bathroom floor would be a good idea....and it was! Strange as it sounds, I think I actually slept on the floor for close to an hour! Cameron thought I was a bit odd, but I think that nothing is off limits when you're pregnant. I'm learning that I have to do what my body says...even if that IS sleeping on the bathroom floor!

The strangest thing about this morning is that I never really felt nauseous (I suppose I can be "thankful" about that!). I would start to feel clammy and hot and then a couple minutes later I'd get sick. After I got sick I got SO cold for a while. It was a very strange feeling to go back and forth.

I'm praying that this will be a one time thing because I have NO idea how I will handle this if it happens at school. I can't be worrying about getting sick every 25 minutes for 2 hours!!!

Now I'm taking it easy for the rest of the day and still nursing the headache. My focus is re-hydrating right now!

Feeling antisocial

I feel very antisocial right now. Even when I'm feeling okay I'm afraid to commit to anything because I may end up not feeling good and I won't know how to excuse myself and go home. This is yet another drawback of waiting until after the first ultra sound to tell people outside of the family. (Although, at this point most of our family doesn't even know yet!).

I'm hoping that my lack of social activities will be excused once people do know that I'm pregnant!

I hope the icky feelings pass though so that I can start hanging out with my friends again!

What to eat.....????

I have an interesting relationship with food...as in, I never want to be hungry and I can ALWAYS find something to eat, no matter what. All of these hormones have changed that though! I'm thankfully not repulsed by any foods, but I'm also not interested in things I used to love!

For example, I have no desire to eat fresh fruits or veggies! This is an huge change for me, especially since I have been eating more fruits and veggies in the months leading up to this pregnancy.

Over the past week, this is what has interested me (and some of these interests last a day, some a bit longer).
*Mac & Cheese (from the box)

*Grits with butter flavor (I've had two packages today!)

*Crispy veggie chips (they're natural and have iron and niacin!!)---I DID eat the entire bag (7 servings) between 10:30 and 1:30 today...

*Campbell's Healthy Request Italian Wedding Soup (I had it for dinner 3 times last week and bought 4 more cans today!)

*WATER--I really don't even crave anything else to drink

*Multigrain Cheerios

*Eggs (if I can manage to stand at the stove long enough without feeling sick to cook them)

Speaking of eggs...I do need to eat plenty of eggs before the end of the month because I bought some that have extra vitamin D and Omega-3s. Omega-3s are very important for baby brain development and since the idea of eating ANY fish is just gross, I'm hoping to get a bit of what I need from these eggs (they expire on the 24th though).

I also take a prenatal vitamin and calcium supplement twice a day, so even though I might not be eating the ideal diet, I should still be getting the vitamins and nutrients I need!


If you're interested in more about Omega 3s and pregnancy, here is just one of the many articles you can read! (copy and paste)-->
http://www.early-pregnancy-tests.com/omega-3.html

Our Baby's Growth!

Below are three "tickers" that will track the progress and growth of our baby!

The first one shows how many days and weeks I am.
The second one shows the fetal development and tells you what the baby is developing during that week.
The third one shows a fruit/vegetable size comparison. (This is where the title of the blog came from too!)
*The due date is May 4th!! (The due date may change after we go to the doctor on October 7th and get the official date from her).

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"Morning" sickness....

So it's called morning sickness but that's a big lie! Thankfully I've been able to keep my food down, but I feel nauseous ALL the time! It makes me feel pretty useless sometimes because it's really all I can do to get dressed and get to work in the morning! I have to make myself eat something many mornings. I'm hungry, but there is just nothing that I want to eat. It's very frustrating!

Once I get to work the nausea comes in waves, so one minute I can be animated and engaged and the next minute I need to sit down! I'm not a sit and teach kind of teacher, so this is an interesting change for me. It's also tough because at this point, nobody at school knows I'm pregnant, so I feel like it looks like I'm just being lazy!! I suppose I need to do what my body tells me to do and make sure I'm teaching the kids at the same time....easier said than done!

In addition to struggling through the school day, I have not been able to really workout in a week! The idea of jumping around, being hot, etc...is just too much for me to handle. I've managed to take Ramsey for 2 nice 40 minute walks, but that's the extent of my physical activity!

I'm basically hoping that this "morning" sickness won't last past the end of the first trimester so I can enjoy food and working out again!!

We are PREGNANT!!!

It was Thursday, August 27th that we decided to take our first pregnancy test. I had been feeling just fine, so I figured it would be negative and we'd just try again. Well, 3 minutes later we walked back into the bathroom and saw 2 lines. Two lines means pregnant. We looked, and looked again and could still hardly believe that we are PREGNANT! We decided that we would take another test in the morning, just to be SURE. Well, two even darker lines made us realize that yes, we are pregnant!

I called the doctor that Friday morning and scheduled the first appointment (which includes an ultrasound). The appointment isn't until October 7th and the days are going SO slowly! I'm very anxious to see this little baby and hear a heartbeat!