Week 6

Turns out that Dr. Chrisomalis miscalculated my estimated due date (EDD) -- next year is leap year so there is an extra day; my original EDD was correct: May 24, 2008!! Thus, I was 6 weeks yesterday, Saturday, September 29th. Not that this makes much difference - most women don't give birth on their EDD anyways! And the doctor could change my EDD once they do my ultra sound.

I have set up my appointment for my first ultra sound. Unfortunately, they are not able to get me in this week like I was hoping. My 1st u/s appointment will be Tuesday, October 16th! I will 8 weeks 3 days pregnant. Although we were hoping to see the heartbeat sooner, at 8 weeks, our baby will have more features that are recognizable plus the heartbeat should be going strong at that point! We're looking forward to that day.

By the end of this week, our baby should be the size of a BB pellet -- still pretty small. He/she is hidden behind my pelvic bone right now so any "bulge" you see in me is all bloat! :) Around 13 weeks, my uterus should be out from under the bone and thus, baby belly starts!

Luckily I still don't have morning sickness but on average it starts around the 6th week -- we'll see if I'm one of the lucky few who don't get hit hard with it.

Week 5

Today I am 5 weeks pregnant. As you can see, there is no change in how I look. I'm not expecting to see much difference until about 8 weeks or later.





I thought I'd add a poll to see whether everyone thinks we're having a boy or a girl. The poll is on the right side of our blog -- you just have to select whether you think we're having a boy or a girl! I'm sure everyone already has thoughts on this! :)

We're Having a Baby!

Emile and I discovered I was pregnant on Thursday, September 13, 2007! We're super excited! I started to get an inkling that something was up because I was getting lower abdominal achiness that was not going away and I had this major metallic taste in my mouth -- my mocha and diet coke that day tasted horrible! I've since given up caffeine with surprisingly no withdrawal symptoms -- unlike other times I've tried to give it up. My body must know I don't need it right now!

I told Emile that I was pregnant by coming out of the bathroom with two onesies in hand -- one that says "Daddy's Little Girl" and another that says "I love Daddy" in blue and red. I asked him, while shaking uncontrollably, which one he thought we'd need more! I believe is response was "Are you serious?" with a big smile!

We told our parents via webcam. Because I'm not that creative, I used the onesie idea again. This time I held up two onesies that said "I love NY". One was blue and one was pink. I asked them which color they liked better. To say the least, our families were both extremely excited!!

Today was my first doctor appointment which Emile came to. Dr. Chrisomalis reconfirmed I'm pregnant (yay!!), checked my blood pressure and checked that my tubes didn't feel tender (which could indicate a tubal prgenancy). All was good! She changed my due date to May 25, 2008 so instead of being 5 weeks today like I thought, I'm back to 4 weeks 6 days. Tomorrow I'll be excited again that it's now 5 weeks :) She referred me to a doctor to get an ultrasound. It will most likely be in a week and a half. I'll be about 6.5 weeks and thus, we should be able to hear the heart beat! I'm looking forward to that day!

Dr. Chrisomalis want's me to keep my asthma in check and let her know if my bronchitis doesn't clear up in a week. I'm sure it will be then. Other than bronchitis (unrelated to pregnancy), my only symptoms right now are the achy abdomin pain and I'm starting to get a little emotional (Emile may have a different view of how emotional I'm being) and tired. We'll see if morning sickness kicks in.

We also found out that Dr. Chrisomalis only cares for women through their frist trimester so at 12 weeks, I'll need to find another doctor. The problem with this is that I'll also need to find another doctor when we move in January/February. So instead of only looking once for a doctor, I'm going to have to look twice. Oh well, we'll figure it out!

So far we're only telling our immediate family and closests friends! I'm looking forward to the day we tell everyone!