Another week down!

We went on vacation with some friends over the weekend and it was so FUN! It was so hard to come home. :) It was so beautiful and relaxing. The picture in my previous post was taken when us girls were on a walk one night. I got a lot of great photos of flowers and the beautiful scenery.

I felt so great the entire weekend! Well, I did get hot and tired quickly on our hikes/walks but I didn't get sick. I think it was because I was constantly eating. lol! I swear I am addicted to Otter Pops now. Otter Pops, Slurpees, apparently I like cold icy things. Fine by me. Now that we are back I'm feeling a bit nauseated again (I think that has a lot to do with my prenatal also). I haven't started getting a belly yet, I just have the one I started with, but I feel really bloated most of the time.

Week 10 of Pregnancy: Baby's Bones Develop

Your baby's nearly an inch and a half long and the size of a prune, but not nearly as shriveled. In fact, your baby is really taking a human shape now. Though your baby's arms are developing, each one is only about the size of this number 1.

Your baby's growth is fast and furious when you are 10 weeks pregnant. He or she is nearly an inch and a half long and the size of a prune, but not nearly as shriveled (even with all the time it spends in water). In fact, your baby is really taking a human shape now. Bones and cartilage are forming, and small indentations on the legs are developing into knees and ankles. The arms (complete with elbows) can flex already, but don't run to the store for a baseball bat just yet. Though your baby's arms are taking shape and getting stronger, each one is only about the size of this number 1.
 
The tooth bud fairy is making her appearance this week, heralding the arrival of your baby's little choppers, which are forming under the gums. (Those pearly whites won't break through the gums until your baby is close to six months old). Other systems are go, too. Your baby's stomach is producing digestive juices, the kidneys are producing larger quantities of urine, and, if your baby's a boy, he's already producing testosterone (yikes!).
 

Sneak Peek!

Baby's first picture!!

We had our first doctors appointment on Tuesday! When I called to make the appointment it seemed so far away but now it's here and gone and it went a bit faster than I thought it would. Good thing. I just hope things continue to go fairly quickly, at least until this first trimester is over. So we got to the doctors and filled out the required forms and waited. They actually got us in pretty quickly, into the Dr. Later's office anyway, and then we waited some more. lol! Andrew was a little more excited when he saw all of the Harley Davidson and motorcycle stuff in the office. The doc finally came in and took my medical history, not much to report since this is my first pregnancy, and then we went to the exam room. I didn't need an exam since I had one last September so that was nice. I didn't even have to take off my clothes! I layed on the table and Dr. Later put jelly stuff on my belly and put the little wand on there (reminds me of a hammerhead shark) and there it was! Our little peanut right in the middle of the screen!! We could see it's heart beating and the doc said everything looked good. The baby measured just a couple of days ahead of our due date so he said we'll keep it at February 28. After we were done we went over to the lab and they took 6 vials of blood!! Holy cow! I haven't heard anything about the blood work but I don't anticipate any problems. I'm most interested in how my synthroid levels look. But since the baby was a little bit ahead of schedule I am assuming everything is fine, since synthroid levels affect the baby's growth.

 

Here is Baby Herbst! The baby is the little peanut shaped thing in the middle of the ear shaped thing (my uterus I think?) Cute huh?! lol! Anyway... that's it for now. More updates later.

Who has the fast forward button?

I am officially eight weeks along today... yay? I feel like I should be so much farther along. This is taking FOREVER! Lol. I have my first doctors appointment on Tuesday and I am super excited... and nervous... and anxious... I'm not sure what to expect and I just really hope that everything is okay. In my heart I feel like it will be but, I'm still nervous. I have been so tired lately. I swear the only thing my body wants is sleep, okay and food, but mostly sleep. I feel so lazy. My house needs to be cleaned, I have a ton of scrapbooking that I need to get finished, my poor puppies are bored out of their minds. And my poor husband, he has a wife that lays around all day. How sad is that? He's been really good so far but I still feel really bad. I need to start doing my yoga but I don't even have the energy to walk up the stairs, I don't know how that's gonna work out. They say that in the second trimester you get a burst of energy and you feel somewhat back to normal. I can't wait. Can someone just please hit the fast forward button for me please? I seem to have lost mine. I still have 5 weeks left until then. Ugh. At least we're past the half way point, right?

Week 9 of Pregnancy

Your baby is busy building muscle, but all you may want to do these days is take a nice long nap.

Your Baby in Week 9 of Pregnancy

Your baby, now the size of a green olive, has grown about an inch since last week. Tiny muscles are beginning to form, so while he might not be ready to pump iron, he's gearing up to move his arms and legs. It's still too soon to feel anything in your belly, but you might be able to hear something at your next checkup. Try listening for your baby's heartbeat via a Doppler device — that welcome sound should be audible anytime now.

Your Body in Week 9 of Pregnancy

Chances are you've never felt so tired in your life and for good reason: Your body is working overtime preparing for motherhood as it develops the placenta, your baby's lifeline. At the same time, your metabolism and hormone levels are surging, which triggers a decrease in blood sugar and blood pressure. The result of all this: pregnancy fatigue. Relief is around the corner as your energy level increases (and morning sickness decreases) over the next few weeks once placenta construction is completed.

6 Weeks

So I'm six weeks along, almost 7. It took me a while to figure out this whole week thing but I finally got it. So it's like birthdays, you don't say you're 20 until you have completed 20 year of life, so when someone asks I tell them how many weeks I've completed, not the week that the baby is developing at. Glad that's straightened out. I've actually been pretty lucky and haven't had major morning sickness, but it still sucks. :( I have crazy heartburn, I'm nauseous for most of the day, I have bad headaches, and I'm really dizzy. Oh, and I'm still getting cramps, normal, but still scary. I've only actually thrown up a couple of times, which is a lot less then some of the poor girls on the What To Expect When You're Expecting website. Oh, and did I mention, I've been REALLY tired. Last night I decided to try taking my prenatal at night instead of in the morning, and today has been the best day so far. :) I still have bad food aversion, cramps, and I'm hungry every two hours, but other than that I'm good. I'm still nervous about what the next few weeks will bring, from what I've read and hear m/s is the worst during weeks six to eight-ish. I can't wait until I'm in my second trimester.

Week 7 of Pregnancy

Right now, the only things growing faster than your baby's brain may be your tingly, achy breasts.

Your Baby in Week 7 of Pregnancy

Your baby is now about the size of a blueberry (and about 10,000 times bigger than he was at conception). Most of that growth is concentrated in the head as new brain cells are generated at the rate of 100 per minute. Your baby's mouth and tongue are forming as arm and leg buds sprout, and those little kidneys are getting ready to do their job (pee production and excretion).

Your Body in Week 7 of Pregnancy

Your baby might be the size of a blueberry, but your breasts probably look more like melons. By this point, some expectant moms have grown a full cup size, which might be welcome news if those boobs weren't so darn tender. The culprits? Those naughty (though necessary) pregnancy hormones again, along with an increase in blood flow and a buildup of fat — all essential to the task your body can perform in about eight months: breastfeeding your newborn!

Excited!

I've been wanting to start a blog for a long time but I've never really been that great at blogging so I keep procrastinating. Well, here we are! :) On June 23rd we found out that we are expecting our first baby!! Yay! We are so excited.

The weekend before Aunt Flow was supposed to visit I started having some minor cramping and some not so minor heartburn (more than normal) so instantly I was suspicious that I was pregnant... but I didn't want to get to excited. We had only been trying for 2 months, and no one gets pregnant that fast, so I kept telling myself that I was just dreaming things. So Monday comes around and... No period. I kept calm and waited. Tuesday came and again, no period. So I'm still trying not to get excited but it just wasn't working. I've never one to have a lot of patience, when I want something I want it NOW! Anyway, so finally it's Wednesday, three days late, and I just can't stand it anymore. During my lunch break at work I sped to the dollar store, I don't want to spend ten bucks on a pregnancy test for it just to tell me not pregnant, and I run in and find the tests. There were only three on the shelf so I decided I better buy all three. Why not? They're only a dollar and I'll probably need more for next time I have a freak out. So I rush back to work and run to the restroom. As I'm sitting there staring at the test Andrew calls, I'm the only one in the restroom so I decided I might as well answer...

Me: "Hello?"
Andrew: "Hey, what are you doing?"
Me: "Nothing..."
Andrew: "Are you in the bathroom?!"
Me: "Yeah.... babe, we have two lines..."
Andrew: "Oh, wait, what does that mean?"
Me: "I think it's a positive...."

and then began the freak out. My hands started shaking and my heart started pounding. Andrew is telling me not to get too excited yet and I'm trying to take his advice but It's not working so well. I think he finally decided that I wouldn't be very good at conversation for a bit and we hang up. I ran back to my desk and drank the rest of my drink as fast as I could. I needed to take another test, just to be sure. So about half an hour later I'm trying not to pee my pants as I run to the bathroom. Again, another positive!! Oh my god! What do I do now?! Doctor, I need to call my doctor. So I run out to my car, so I can have some privacy, and called my doctor. The girl that answered the phone was so cute and helpful. She congratulated me and told me that she could hear me shaking, and when I asked her "How do I know it's real?" she laughs and tells me that she's pretty sure it's real. She helped me make my first appointment for July 20... seriously, I have to wait that long?... then she transfered me over to the nurse so I could ask some questions. Wow, this is real..

Skip to the next week. Andrew finally decides that we can tell our parents, I've been begging all week, he wanted to wait until we were 12 weeks and past the really iffy part but there was no way I could wait that long. So we went over to my mom's house (there was nothing at home for dinner anyway) and told them the good news. Mom started crying, gave me a hug, and then ran straight for the phone to call my aunt. Lol! Andrew so predicted that would happen. :) Then we went up to Andrew's mom's house and told her, and she cried. It was great. Everyone is so excited and happy. This baby is going to be spoiled rotten! This will be the first grandchild on both sides, and as the first grandchild (mostly) in my family I know just how spoiled the kid will be. So that's the story. And now we wait... eight more months to go.