9 Weeks and 4 Days

Today I’m 9 weeks and 4 days along, and I finally was able to wake up early and do 30 minutes of yoga this morning.  I love how relaxing and meditative yoga is, but I haven’t done any since I’ve been pregnant.  This morning’s session energized me and has kept me feeling good all day!
 
This pregnancy is really kicking my butt this time around.  I’m sure it’s because all pregnancies are different, yadda, yadda, yadda, but this one has hit me hard on the morning sickness end and has constantly left me feeling exhausted.  For the past 2 or 3 weeks, I’ve been hit with random waves of nausea, luckily not to the point of actually vomiting, but there were many days when I would take a few minutes during the morning to plan out what to make for dinner only for dinner time to come and find that I felt sick at the thought of that carefully planned meal.  Often, the only thing I’d be able to stomach was fresh fruit or something “bad” for you (like canned chicken soup or Ramen noodles).  I’ve also felt so fatigued and exhausted every day, especially by the afternoon/early evening.  Some days, I would come home from work and have to take a nap just to get through the evening.  Luckily, Mike has been very understanding and accommodating J
 
Hopefully, as I near the end of my first trimester, things will get better!  I think the nausea is subsiding (somewhat), or at least has become less frequent.  And I think the yoga this morning really helped with my fatigue today (maybe the frozen yogurt this afternoon helped a little, too).  But now, 30 minutes later, I’m about to fall asleep at my desk.  Go figure.
 
I broke down and told my co-workers last week, and found out that many of them had already suspected I was preggers!  One of them noticed I was showing (which I knew, since my pants didn’t fit me anymore, but I tried to hold it in most of the day), and a few others noticed I wasn’t drinking as much coffee.  My boss has 4 kids, and he has some sort of baby radar or something.  He wasn’t surprised when I told him.

First Check-Up

We just had our first OB check-up yesterday morning, and they said everything looked great!  We saw the baby for the first time with the ultrasound, the little arm and leg nubs, the head and torso (although Mike thinks you can’t see much of anything in the printouts they gave us).  
 
Based on the baby’s size, yesterday they put me at 8 weeks exactly.  We told the boys together that night, and they seemed briefly excited.  They seemed more concerned about not being able to jump on Mommy’s belly for a while, though.  Both are hoping for a little sister.

Worries

I’m excited about a third child, but I feel a little nervous about this pregnancy.  We actively tried to get pregnant with our other two boys, so I was very much aware of my cycle and my nutrition.  I made sure to take my prenatal vitamins and I cut back on caffeine way before I even got pregnant.  This time, I had no idea, and I don’t think I ate so well, and I KNOW I had a few drinks on New Year’s Eve.  I just hope everything is okay, but I feel like I need to prepare myself for disappointment, just in case.  I don’t know why I think something might go wrong.  Maybe it’s because I just don’t feel that I was as careful in getting pregnant this time as I have been in the past?  
 
We haven’t told anyone on either side of our family yet (not even our boys…Tyler can be a blabbermouth at school!), although I think that there may be some suspicion, at least on Mike’s side.  Our first appointment with my OB for a check-up and our first ultrasound is on Monday morning.  If all is well, then we’ll tell the boys and have them tell our families via a picture or video.  
 
So, based on when I think my last period was, I’m 7 weeks and 5 days along.  The baby is about the size of a blueberry, and has doubled in size since last week!