Week 11

             Hormones anyone? Cause I have plenty to spare…. My poor amazing husband deserves a pat on the back, and a beer with a lime; which the baby is the size of (I know I said no fruit references). When I think of baby at lime size I actually think of 007 for N64, and he has these little motions sensor bombs that stuck to the wall…and they were about the size of... a lime….but guessing the size of an animated bomb isn’t a very accurate measurement/visual of the baby’s size. If I had a craving at this point, I would have to say it’s watermelon; I have eaten a ton of watermelon in the last week. Still tired, but then again I still have a couple of weeks until I am out of the first trimester.

 

Another thing that is slightly new this week, sleep has escaped me. Whether is be weird dreams, horrible leg cramps, peeing, sweating, or the inability to get comfortable because I can't sleep on my stomach...something has had me tossing and turning all week.

In the good new department, I invested in two belly bands, or more like belly sleeves. so I am able to wear pants, and pants are awesome!

 

Week 10

I might as well keep all (all two) of you informed on my progress. I'm thinking of turning it into some quasi messed up pregnancy calendar. Maybe sometime in the far away future someone will discover it for a good chuckle. Well, on to Week 10:

MHL (miniature humanoid life form) will be considered a fetus by the end of the week, and weighs as much as two 22 Win Mag TNT Green ammo, and is about as long as one and a half bullets. These particular bullets are also lead free… for baby’s safety. While MHL is relatively small, it is growing rather rapidly. It's growing eyelids and getting less "webby" and more baby. It's also starting to form boy or girl parts, though we wont know which until 20 weeks.

 I am starting to look more actually pregnant and less suspiciously fat. I am still tired, ALL THE TIME. Three more weeks and hopefully magical energy will appear… I am skeptical… Most of my other symptoms are gone... for now *knock on wood*.....

Everyone Poops.... Air

It's one of those symptoms you don't find many preggos sharing out loud...constipation.... Hormones are making everything all loosey goosey down there, which you would think would mean massive diarrhea. No...because it actually takes a good amount of muscle work to move your...*ahem*.. stool, out your bottom. So loosey goosey muscles= no movement of your bowels. But you’re still eating, because Lord are you hungry. At least I am. Right around every two hour mark, my stomach is playing me the song of its people. So loudly that people miles away are wondering what that whale like sound is... it's my stomach. So all that food + lack of bowel movement = righteous preggo lady gas.

So the other evening, as the Sergeant and I are getting tucked in for the night, I meekly apologize for any gas I might have

Me: I am really sorry, I have been soo gassy all day
Sarg: That's ok sweetheart...everyone poops
Me: *Silent* (thinking I said gassy...not pooping...I mean, I am not planning to poop the bed...)
Sarg: ..Everyone poops..Air...It's like pooping air...(very serious voice mind you)
Me: giggling and gassing for several minutes

Progress Updated

Week nine... miniature humanoid life form is still inhabiting my body....I am exhausted, a little barfy, and waiting for the magical mystical energy increase that supposedly comes with the second trimester. Baby Trott is roughly the size of a .22 caliber bullet. Sorry, there will be no fruit references from me...

Special Blend

  


               I've been meaning to post, but I have been stuck in this sleeping beauty like coma, minus the beauty part. Man! This growing a human being business is exhausting. The crummy part right now is I just look fat and not pregnant yet so the whole sympathy from strangers when I look sick, exhausted, starving, gassy, ditsy or delirious is rather minimal. One of my co workers jokes we need to get  me a shirt that says :I'm not just fat, I'm pregnant!"

During my pre pregnancy obsession, I did so much reading on "What to Expect" and all of the "Signs and Symptoms" of pregnancy. There ARE SO MANY!

• Morning sickness (or all days sickness as most prior preggos know it)
• Exhaustion, varying from a little sleepy to out cold
• Extra hungry, cravings
• Aversions to foods and smells
• Heightened sense of smell
• Acne
• Rashes, skin discoloration (not including your nips, cause that happens anyway), skin tags
• Constipation
• Lethal farts
• The where am I? Who is that? and how did I get here? Pregnancy brain.
• Loss of coordination
• Cramping that scares the hell out of you
• Swelling up like a balloon if you are taking in too much salty goodness
• And that is just the short list.....

Am I glad I read all of the articles about these different symptoms? Yes, because at least I knew what could happen. But I took it with a grain of salt, and so should you. Every woman's pregnancy symptoms are her own special blend, and from what I have read, that blend varies from pregnancy to pregnancy with the same woman. You may be like me, who can hardly keep her eyes open,everything smells like it is right up my nose, and I am also beginning to "lose it" a little with what is going on around me. But I have to say, the sickness has been pretty minimal.

What is or was your special blend of pregnancy? (Just a note: If you say you had loads of energy and felt soooooo amazing all the time I will judo chop you in the throat. Just saying...)

No, No Mama!

So Guess what?!! It finally happened! The Sarg and I are expecting a baby! We are both beyond excited and I am so exited to document my experience here for the very few readers I have collected =)

Right away, when I told a few people, I got a slew of No No's thrown back at me.
No caffeine, No carbonated beverages, No fish, No lunch meat, No paddle boarding, NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

So feeling overwhelmed about what is safe for me and baby T, I consulted the very wise Preggo Chicken and her list of what I can do and can't do. She seems to have a very realistic view.

So for every one's safety I will be having a minimal amount of caffeine every day, carbonated beverages every once in a while, very cooked low mercury fish every once in a while, no cold meats, and flat water paddle boarding only.

I am currently craving nothing but sleep, although I was craving that before. Feeling a little queasy, but nothing crazy.

Telling the Space Invader she was going to be a sister was quite interesting, I couldn't work up the right words to tell her so I wrote it down on her doodle paper while we were out to dinner. I wrote down "You're going to be a big sister" She read it slowly out loud, cocked her head to the side and looked at me.

SI: How?!

NM: Daddy and I are going to have a baby

SI: How do you know?

NM: I took a test.

SI: You too THE test? (in disbelief that I took thee test as if she knew what test I was talking about)

NM: Yep, and it said I am going to have a baby!

SI: Well, then where is it??

NM: Well... it's not ready yet, it will be here in nine months.

Disappointed, she went back to coloring and munching fries.

Equip not enable

Just finished this amazing book about equipping instead of enabling children. It's amazing, witty, and full of true insightful wisdom on how to equip children to grow up to be better adults and for them to learn to shift focus from themselves and onto how it's important to serve others.

I have started implementing at home... I and the Sarg love it..... The space invader not so much. It's a hard thing to do, but we love her so we will make her work work work.