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I’m 8 weeks pregnant

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My first scan isn’t for another two weeks, so it still doesn’t feel real that I’m actually pregnant yet. Of course I know that I am, but sometimes I still doubt that it’s real. Perhaps I entered menopause early and that’s why I don’t have my period (but then why would both the pregnancy tests I took be positive?) Ahh it messes with your head.

It still seems to be going so slowly. I’m only 2 months pregnant. I can’t even tell people yet. It seems like forever until I can tell my friends. Of course both my mum and my partner’s parents know – they were told straight away, but we are keeping hush to everyone else.

I’m craving lots of yummy healthy food. Yesterday we had a BBQ for Father’s Day and all I wanted was fruit salad. After steak and a lovely garden salad with delicious olive oil/balsamic vinegar dressing I made a huge bowl of fruit salad that had strawberries, banana’s, rockmelon, blueberries, kiwi fruit, passionfruit, and grapes in it. I was in heaven. It tasted sublime.

God I’m drooling again just thinking about it. I’ll have to buy some more berries and make it up again.

I can’t remember what size my bub is meant to be this week. An olive? Something like that. That’s of course if there is only one in there. I keep thinking I’m having two. I don’t know why I think that. I’m probably wrong of course – but everywhere I go I keep hearing ‘twins this, twins that’. hmmm.

I’m certainly not showing for twins so there probably is really only one in there. I guess I won’t find out for another two weeks yet.

And to make matters worse my partner is going away then for work. I’ll have to go to the scan by myself and take my 3 year old with me. That’s going to be hassle for sure.

I’m not really looking forward to him being away for a whole week. I’m already exhausted as it is. If he isn’t there to take over when he gets home from work (while I collapse on the bed) then I don’t think my 3 year old will ever go to bed.

I’m 7 weeks pregnant

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It sometimes seems if time is going so slowly and I’m so early into the pregnancy that nothing seems to be happening at all, and other times it seems if time is going by in a blur and all of a sudden it’s next week and I’m another week pregnant.

According to the books, this week my baby is the size of a tic-tac or a small kidney bean. Not that it means much at this stage. I don’t even think it has hands or feet yet – just little buds. Seems surreal that something that small and blobbish can turn into a real life thinking feeling human being. Life sure is a miracle.

Well this week I seemed to go to bed skinny and wake up fat. Already I’m looking all bloated and pregnant. Of course I can’t be showing yet, the bub is the size of a pencil head so it must be hormonal – or maybe there is more than one in there – yikes! Won’t be able to find that out for a few more weeks when I have my first scan at 10 1/2 weeks pregnant.

I also got quite a bad cold this week and was really worried about what I could and couldn’t take. I had the worst cold and cough. The cough was bad enough to keep me sleepless for about three nights in a row. That can’t be good for the baby. Fortunately it seems to be going now, but it’s taken over a week to start feeling better.

In the end I went to the pharmacy and she recommended a cough mixture that was safe to take while pregnant. It didn’t do much for my cough though – I’m guessing it was pretty mild, but at least it made me feel like I was doing something about it.

I’m still really tired and when I can, I try to have a nap in the afternoon. Although that’s only possible if my 3 year old decides to take a nap – and that isn’t very often these days. Weekends are much better when DH is home.

Other than that, I don’t feel like there is much else I can do at the moment. I guess I should try and enjoy the moment. Ahh isn’t waiting fun.

6 Weeks Pregnant

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Last week went by in a blur of emotion after finding out I was pregnant, and so now I am very happily 6 weeks pregnant.

I seem to have quite a lot of bloating though because it looks like I’m already at 3 months with my little pot belly! I’ve heard that you show much earlier with your second pregnancy but at 6 weeks? I’m fairly sure I couldn’t really be showing so early, it must be bloating.

Last week I went on the hunt for some pregnancy magazines and I couldn’t find anything that I liked. I also wanted to have a look at some maternity fashion since I’m now allowed to look at it, and again everything I saw sucked.

Yes I know I don’t need maternity clothes yet, but I’m excited about the pregnancy so just wanted to see what my options were – don’t tell me you didn’t do the same when you found out your were going to have a baby too.

I did buy some belly bands though, one white and one black to put under my tops for when I do start showing. I couldn’t help myself – I had to buy something!

I also went through my entire wardrobe to determine what I could still wear over the next few months. All the tight fitting tops and g-strings were thrown out, and I kept all those big floppy tops and Brigette Jones underwear. Hey a girl’s gotta be comfortable.

Now according to the pregnancy books the baby is now about the size of a chocolate sprinkle. Why is it that all these books compare your baby to food? As if pregnancy cravings weren’t bad enough I now have to imagine a little chocolate sprinkle growing inside me. Mmm I’m hungry now.

I’m also going through all the usual pregnancy fears, especially because I don’t think I was taking enough folate before I conceived. I seriously didn’t think I could get pregnant so was only taking the multi vitamin every now and then. Of course as soon as I saw those two lines on the HPT I immediately went and purchased a good quality pregnancy vitamin supplement and have been taking it everyday, but I’m still worried I wasn’t taking enough before.

I’m sure I’m worrying for nothing, but it doesn’t help when everywhere you turn you get the message that your baby could have spina bifida unless you’ve been taking folate at least three months before you conceived. Yikes.

Anyway, not much else to report yet but still excited even though it doesn’t feel real. I guess it won’t really feel ‘real’ until I hear bub’s heartbeat or see him/her on the ultrasound for the first time, but that’s not until I’m 11 weeks. Ahh the waiting.

5 weeks pregnant

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Yes, I’ve just found out that I’m five weeks pregnant after trying to have my second child for over two years.  I was (and still am) in shock because to be honest I thought I couldn’t get pregnant again.  So I had to stare at those two lines on the pregnancy test to make sure I wasn’t seeing things.

And of course I had to take another test the next day ‘just to be sure’. 

So it looks like this really is it.

Right now I’m feeling quite good.  I was feeling a bit queasy over the past few days but today I’m doing well.  All the pregnancy books that I’m reading are saying that the baby is about 2mm in length at 5 weeks pregnant.  Of course I had to get the ruler out so I could see that for myself. 

My first child (who I also had trouble conceiving) is very demanding so it will be interesting to see how he copes with the new arrival in 35 weeks.  35 weeks. Wow, that sounds so close. 

Surprisingly I can’t remember much about my first pregnancy so writing in this blog should be a good way to keep track of how I’m feeling and the changes in my life being pregnant.

We are in the middle of renovating as well as we had planned to fix this place up and find somewhere else to live.  So now I’m not sure whether we should continue or wait until after the baby is born.  I really don’t want to be amongst paint fumes and cleaning products while I’m pregnant, but this place is very tiny so on the other hand I don’t know where we are going to put the baby.

I’ve booked my obstetrician (you have to get in early here) and the hospital as well.  My first appt isn’t until 11 weeks though.