I'm so thrifty

A woman was selling all her maternity clothes on Craigslist and I snapped them right up. 12 tops, 9 bottoms, and 1 dress all for the bargain price of $30. SWEET!

Our Sweet Pea - 6w4d

thebump.com:
Growing like crazy, baby is starting to sprout eyes, ears, nose, cheeks and chin. Those little hands and feet- still webbed like paddles- might wiggle by week's end, the heart is beating (almost twice as fast as yours!), and blood is starting to circulate.

fitpregnancy.com:
Your baby enters its second month of development, weighing no more than a chocolate chip or a berry. It's about five to thirteen millimeters long (less than half an inch), and weighs less than a gram (0.8g), or less than one-twentieth of an ounce. The human blueprints are already visible. Your child still has a tail but is also beginning to form a digestive tract, lungs, nostrils, hands and feet, and a bump of a mouth. The liver, tongue, and lenses of your baby's eyes are forming. There are beds for your baby's fingernails, and the buds of teeth are forming in the gums. If you could take a picture, your baby would look more like a baby and less like a reptile. The baby's nerve channels and muscles are connecting, and the body can wiggle when the cells communicate. In just two days, from days thirty-one to thirty-three, the brain becomes one-quarter larger. If you were to have an ultrasound, it would be able to detect the beating heart, which shows up looking like a tiny flashing light.

Double Whammy Weekend

OMG --- Nausea + Allergies (major sinus headache & stuffiness) = Couch is my best friend

Both Friday and Saturday, I wanted to die. I hope days like those don't happen again....!

Food Aversions

This is so weird and occurs all day long. While nausea tends to just be during the morning, my body changes it's mind on what it wants to eat every single hour.

I baked a ton of cheddar scones the other day to make sure I had enough for the whole week and now I can't even look at the container they're in. The guacamole I made is no longer something I crave. I went to Genuardi's yesterday and almost simultaneously fainted and was sick in the aisles. Looking at the foods was incredibly disgusting.

The problem with this is that I don't always seem to have anything I want to eat in the house (I don't even know what I want to eat) and so I'm hungry all the time. And I don't want to spend extra money. The only time I seem ok is on the weekend when my slave, er, I mean dh, is home with me.

He bought me bagels last weekend so I didn't miss breakfast and whatever I seemed to want, he took me to go get. I loves him.

I'm being very good about portions, so no big worries there. I'm pretty strict with myself so I don't overeat. But the pickiness is driving me nuts!

Back pain

Still a problem for me but at least it's not as bad as the week of my BFP. I feel like I want to BREAK my back in order to make it feel better. Yet another thing I have to try and ignore.

In a completely unrelated note, I'm off to make some delicious guacamole! :-p

Our Appleseed - 5w2d

Week 5, but 6th week...confused yet?

thebump.com:
Your embryo (looking kind of like a tadpole) is starting to form major organs (heart, kidney, liver, stomach) and systems (nervous, circulatory, digestive). Baby's presence in your uterus triggers production of hCG (the hormone detected by pregnancy tests)... which triggers production of other hormones like estrogen and progesterone... which trigger all those great symptoms you've probably been noticing!

fitpregnancy.com:
Your baby and the yolk sac are about the size of an M&M's candy. A month after conception, your embryo looks something like a newt or a tadpole, and it has gills like a fish! Right now, the embryo of your future baby looks much like the embryo of any other animal—a bird, rabbit, or monkey. It has two tiny cups of pigment on the side of its head that will develop into eyes. Tiny buds that will form the lungs have appeared. The neural tube has closed. One end is flattening and expanding to become the brain, and the other end will become the spine. It's already 10,000 times larger than the fertilized egg. The embryo doesn't have gender characteristics yet, but has little dots where the nipples will be, whether it's a boy or a girl. The heart, a tiny U-shaped tube, will start beating between days twenty-one and twenty-four and is circulating the embryo's own blood. It has a small mouth and lips and fingernails are forming.

YAY

Blood test came back and my hCG levels were 3109 mIU/ml. The woman telling me the results said they were "very good, right where they should be". So I am very very happy right now.

Here's a table I looked up just to make sure I heard her correctly cause I thought it sounded high; from wikipedia:

The following is a list of serum hCG levels. Note that these are merely typical values--a given woman's values may not fall within these ranges. (LMP = since last menstrual period).

• 3 weeks LMP: 5 - 50 mIU/ml
• 4 weeks LMP: 5 - 426 mIU/ml
• 5 weeks LMP: 18 - 7,340 mIU/ml
• 6 weeks LMP: 1,080 - 56,500 mIU/ml
• 7 - 8 weeks LMP: 7, 650 - 229,000 mIU/ml
• 9 - 12 weeks LMP: 25,700 - 288,000 mIU/ml
• 13 - 16 weeks LMP: 13,300 - 254,000 mIU/ml
• 17 - 24 weeks LMP: 4,060 - 165,400 mIU/ml
• 25 - 40 weeks LMP: 3,640 - 117,000 mIU/ml
• Non-pregnant females: <5.0>
• Postmenopausal females: <9.5>

First OB appt is scheduled for May 18th, so 4 more weeks before we get to see and possibly hear our baby. Gotta keep busy!!

I got laughed at

By the women in the OB's office. They heard me cursing as I dropped things while filling out my forms. I told one I was clumsy today and she said "I know, I heard you out there."

At least I'll have the blood test results when I call first thing in the morning...

Time to share

Hi everyone! I've begun to share this blog with friends and family to keep them up to date on what's happening with Little Kob! I kept two posts from my ttc portion so they could read my excitement (and so I didn't have to re-type) ;-)

I have my blood test tomorrow and I'm excited/nervous. I'm wondering when I can make the first appt...I'm very impatient!

To keep you all informed, I'm 4 weeks 5 days along but I am in my 5th week. So when I post the size and information for Little Kob's development, it might be a little confusing since different websites say different things.

fitpregnancy.com: Your embryo is about two millimeters long, about the size of a grain of sand. Your baby transforms into a bundle of cells organized in a C-shape with a top, bottom, front, and back. A groove has developed on the embryo's back, which will seal and develop into the neural tube (which later will become the spinal cord). At this point, the tube already has a wider, flatter top that will grow into your baby's brain. A bulge has developed in the center of the embryo, which will soon become a tiny U-Shaped tube which will form the heart. Your embryo is encased in protective membranes and attached to a yolk sac, which manufactures the embryo's unique blood cells.

AHHHHH BFP

Yesterday morning at 5 am I couldn't stop myself and tested with 4 different tests. All positive!!!

I go back into the bedroom where dh is laying on his stomach but when I say his name, his head quickly pops up and he has an expectant smile on his face. And I just grin hugely and nod my head. The whole morning was spent talking and grinning at each other.

We knew we were seeing some close friends last night, so we visited another wonderful couple of our friends who also happen to be expecting (you may know her as 4realyo). Her husband made me a tshirt that said baby with an arrow pointing to my stomach. She also was so generous to lend me the book Belly Laughs.

Soon after our friends (Sheila and Shannon) came and expected me to test while they were there (I may have fibbed a bit hehe) but when Sheila saw my shirt she screamed so loudly and we started celebrating. Later that night some other friends we haven't seen in a while ended up coming over so we decided to just tell them too. I still had the shirt on and we got to surprise them one by one. It was an extremely fun night.

We plan on telling our parents this weekend. I know it's early and I had wanted to wait, but we were just too excited. We're cautiously excited. :-D