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So, what is new in Week 8? Nothing really. Still the same o’ same o’ stuff. Feeling nauseous whenever I eat too much or when I’ve gone a long period without a snack. The Rhinitis crap has been a bit easier to manage lately although I do still have a congested and runny nose on a daily basis. My fatigue is just as bad as before. I’ve had good days where I can survive on one nap alone and then days where I can take 2 to 3 naps.

Sleeping at night has become increasingly difficult. I’ll wake up sweating or freezing, unable to breathe through my nose or having to pee – almost every single night! There has been nights where I wake up and can’t get comfortable so I end up sleeping on our Papasan chair (GREAT for your posture. Hah. NOT.) and then making my way back to the bed after a few hours. Here is how my Friday night went:

10:00 PM: Get in bed. Extremely tired and having a hard time falling asleep because I’m SO TIRED.

11:00 PM: Get up to pee

2:00 AM: Get up to pee

5:00 AM: Gene gets in bed (FINALLY!) and I get up to pee

5:30 AM: Toss and turn, finally get up to go sit in the Holy Papasan chair

6:00 AM: Moaning due to extreme nausea

6:20 AM: Running back and forth to the bathroom. Still no vomit. Just nausea.

6:30 AM: Heat up Lean Pockets. They are GROSS and DOUGHY. EW. Make PB&J Instead.

7:00 AM: Feel better. Go back to sleep in Papasan Chair.

9:00 AM: Wake up from back hurting from Papasan Chair. Call Pest Guy to tell him not to come this morning. Go back to my warm bed with my warm hubby and sleep AWESOMELY for an hour.

10:15 AM: Pest Guy calls. He bought magical non-odor spray and is coming at 11 AM to spray. Get dressed & up for the day.

so that was fun. Hah. And I want to put this here just for the record but I got up 7, count ‘em, SEVEN times to go pee on Sunday night. Not cool at all! Last night I didn’t nap after work so I got in bed around 10 or 10:30 and slept through the entire night without having to get up one single time! It was amazing and I’d love to do it again ;)

I do have some big news to share that no one will probably know or care about but my Mom called me yesterday with some great news! My Aunt (her sister) is pregnant with their third child!! And guess what? Her due date is May 10th.. Only 1 day before ours! Hah. I am so excited for her. Her two children (Caleb & Jocelyn) are the two ADORABLE kids that were in my wedding, ring bearer & flower girl. I’ve posted pictures of them and I have pictures of them on my Flickr too. I am so excited for them to be adding another little one to their family. I am also happy because that means our little one will have someone at the same age to play with!

I know the word Aunt has old lady connotations written all over it. But this aunt is actually only 10 years older than me and I’ve always absolutely adored her. She used to spend a lot of time with me when I was younger and I totally idolized her. I love her a lot and I am just so excited for her it is beyond words!

Candy :: Sep.30.2008 :: Family, Pregnancy :: 2 Comments »

This morning we had our second ultrasound where we happily learned that the heart rate was up to 153 beats per minute. However, we measured a day behind from what we were measuring two weeks ago, at 7 weeks 4 days. Gene and I both think the lady doing the ultrasound didn’t click her little mouse correctly and maybe made us lose a day or so in our weeks. I know a day is a day, but c’mon, don’t steal our day! I am excited to meet our OBGYN on October 8th for the first time. I have questions to be answered and I’m looking forward to just meeting her. The first thing I’m going to ask is if we can find a new place to get ultrasounds at.

See, the place I currently have my ultrasounds at is called the Renaissance. Now, it is a pretty new facility. I wanna say it has been there for the last 10 years or so. But after having two ultrasounds done there, I am in great belief that they are actually using equipment from THE RENAISSANCE TIMES.

Gene is still taking awesome care of me. I’m still sleeping a ridiculous amount. I’m still trying not to let my head explode from the ridiculousness of the political debates. I’m trying to remain calm and not worry too much about this pregnancy. I’m still trying to eat healthy. I’m still having some problems with Rhinitis but not nearly as bad. Same o, same o.

Yesterday was Gene and I’s 123rd Monthiversary :) Being the great husband that he is, he got me an ADORABLE card. I haven’t yet experienced the crazy emotions that I see so many talk about in relation to pregnancy. I have had some moments of SUPER annoyance with things but have yet to get really emotional over sensitive subjects. But I’m not ruling it out all together.. I know there is PLENTY of time for me to lose my shit in the upcoming months!

I know I get ridiculous when I talk about how much I love my husband.. but I just want to say one more time that I really freakin’ love that guy. He cleaned the kitchen, does dishes, does laundry, buys me a card, kisses me, hugs me, supports me. He is really just the greatest person ever. I am so thankful for having such a WONDERFUL person in my life. I just can’t get over that. I feel ridiculously lucky. And the thing is, I am still in AWE over the fact that I am carrying his child. Just knowing that we have created another life together completely astounds me. I don’t really have words for it. But the joy and happiness it brings me is beyond words. I look forward to being a Mommy to a little boy or a little girl and I look forward to seeing Gene be a wonderful Daddy as well. I think as a team, we are going to be great parents and I can’t imagine going through this amazing experience with anyone else but him :)

Ok I lied.. maybe I am experiencing the emotional thing now…

Candy :: Sep.26.2008 :: Love, Pregnancy :: 2 Comments »

So I thought I would write a quick little update on how I’ve been feeling. So far, I’ve only really experienced some extra mild nausea that is pretty much only showing it’s ugly face here and there. My main symptom has been unrelenting exhaustion. I can sleep a good 10-11 hours per night and that includes a nap in the day time or in the evening after work. Sleeping this much is VERY uncharacteristic of me. However, if I get less than 9 hours of sleep at night, I feel like a walking zombie the next day. So getting in bed by 8 PM is pretty much how it goes with me these days.

Today? The nausea is what I would call mild to hot. I know we aren’t discussing salsa varieties here but just work with me on this one. I have been nauseated since I woke up this morning and it has only appeared to have gotten worse over the course of the day. I’ve had the feeling of Almost Puking all day but have never actually puked. I’ve run to the bathroom a few times, I’ve grabbed a trash can in fleeting desperation, I’ve even stuck my head out the car window while driving. Have I puked? Of course not! My body just wants me to feel that miserable Almost Puking feeling all the livelong day.

So I would very much like this Almost Puking thing to go ahead and stop now, please and thank you. I’d like to get on with my work. At this rate I can barely keep my head in a vertical position without feeling like This Might Be It to only be disappointed that in fact, No It Is Not It. I’ve never actually wanted to puke so bad in all of my life.

Friday is our 2nd ultrsound at 7 weeks 5 days. I’ll update afterwards. Crossing our fingers that the heart rate has increased since last time and that things are going smoothely. I always KNEW there were things that could possibly go wrong in pregnancy and I always KNEW how high the miscarriage rate was but I guess I never really understood exactly how much a woman could worry about all of the bad things that could happen. It scares me to think I’ll be this worried for the next 7 months. I will admit though, I am pretty good at finding a balance and just enjoying this whole experience.

Candy :: Sep.24.2008 :: Pregnancy :: Comments Off

So after I got home from work yesterday evening, Gene and I watched a few episodes of Arrested Development (which by the way, is becoming a quick favorite in this household) and then I hit the sack. I was so tired and my energy was shot. So I got up around 3:00 AM and here it is 4:30 and I’m still awake. It started with some nausea.. which I drank some milk to settle my stomach a little (Milk does it for me these days, believe it or not) and then came the heart burn, and then the congestion and then the coughing. So I decided to get out of bed and ever since I’ve been sitting up, I’ve been feeling quite a bit better.

I’ve been really lucky so far because I haven’t been extremely ill. I’ve decided that I need to start eating a lot of really small meals throughout the day, though. If I eat enough to fill myself up, I end up with an hour or two of pretty bad nausea. However, I’ve never actually vomited yet. So yay for that! The two biggest symptoms of this pregnant is the ridiculous exhaustion and tiredness and the Pregnancy Rhinitis that decided to rear it’s ugly head in the last few days. I’ve used a netty pot and a humidifier and also going to start using saline nose spray. We’ll see if I can get it under control, I hope so at least. Not getting a lot of sleep because I’ve been sleeping with my mouth open at night (can’t breathe out of my nose, at all!) and my mouth dries out so bad that I end up waking up every 20 minutes to drink water.

I think once the tiredness subsides, I will feel SO much better. Lately I just feel like a walking zombie. Sometimes I can’t even barely remember what I did throughout the entire day because it just seems like a blur to me. It’s actually kind of freaky sometimes, because I’m wondering if I even existed haha. Crazy times.

Well, I should go do something productive while I’m actually feeling AWAKE for once. Maybe do some laundry or something. I think we are going to try to make it out to The Great State Fair of Oklahhhhhomaaaa this evening. I hate to go on the Saturday before it closes but I haven’t had a chance to go before now.

Oh and when I got home the kitchen smelled sooo disgusting. I think from all the dirty dishes in the sink. So my sweet, awesome, fantastic, great, amazing, wonderful husband did all of the dishes and announced at 3:30 AM when he finally got into bed that the kitchen no longer smelled gross. How awesome is that?? I am so thankful because when I came home and smelled it, I felt like I would vomit and was worried that I wouldn’t be able to stomach the smell while I did the dishes.

Candy :: Sep.20.2008 :: Daily, Pregnancy, The Great Hubby :: Comments Off

My doctor called me yesterday evening to tell me that she wanted me to have another ultrasound due to the heart rate being a little low on the first one. The heart rate was 90 BPM at 5 weeks 5 days. I thought this was actually pretty good considering how EARLY it was and I didn’t even expect to see a heart beat that early. So now I’m being a worry wart and wondering if everything is okay. She is going to try to schedule it for next Friday so that we can see if it has increased at all since last Friday. I guess if everyone would pray for us or keep us in your thoughts that would be nice. I’m going to try to stay as confident as possible and keep my hopes up on this.

Yesterday at work my computer died after I did a Windows Update to Service Pack 3. I tried any and everything for a good 2 hours and was still unable to fix it. I even cried a little, I think. I was so exhausted at 3 PM (like usual) and at 5:30 I just couldn’t take it anymore. I threw in the towel and went home!

My energy levels suck lately. I can’t get anything done around the house. Dishes? Laundry? Cleaning? Sweeping? Mopping? Bathrooms? FORGET IT ALL! There is no way. I can just barely make it through a normal 8 hour work day. Exactly at 3 PM on the dot, every single day, I get this huge wave of exhaustion and all I want to do is go home and go to sleep. Last night I went to bed at 8 PM And I woke up at 7 AM this morning.

Candy :: Sep.17.2008 :: Baby, Pregnancy :: Comments Off

This morning the Hubby and I went in to have our very first ultrasound done. My doctor wanted to get a good idea of when we were due because my last period being kind of.. weird. So, we had to have a transvaginal ultrasound done since it is still so early. My doctor told me to drink 40oz of water 1 hour before the ultrasound, so this morning I sat at the kitchen table, trying my hardest to swallow that much water.

I’ve been stricken with some very mild nausea over the last couple of days so that made it extra hard to get the water down this morning. I nibbled on some crackers and a granola bar and was finally able to get it all down. We dropped the doggies off at the Vet on our way to the ultrasound because we’re leaving for Dallas this evening.

I get into the office and she tells me they are doing a transvaginal ultrasound and to go empty my bladder. I don’t think I even hesitated for a second because I had to go soooooo bad. When I got done, I realized that I had just suffered through 45 minutes of drinking water and trying with all of my might to NOT VOMIT EVERYWHERE.

Anyway, so I can now introduce you to our little baby in the making:

We saw the little flicker of the heartbeat on the screen. She showed us the yolk sac and the gestational sack (the big black circle). She said there is a cyst on my right ovary, which is perfectly normal. My left ovary was nowhere to be found but we weren’t really concerned about that right now. She said my bladder was quickly filling back up and getting in the way. Well, I certainly wouldn’t have gone through TORTUROUS WATER DRINKING if I wasn’t told to!!

So the Hubs and I are gleaming :) We’re both SO relieved and happy that we got to see the heartbeat today. Gives me a GIGANTIC sigh of relief! Now I’m off to work and then go to Dallas for the weekend. Gonna try to snag some cute baby stuff from Ikea :)

Still due May 11, 2009!

Candy :: Sep.12.2008 :: Pregnancy :: 1 Comment »

At least I hope it’s the only one to come, anyway. I am so exhausted from this cold that I’ve had. Or Sinus Infection. Whatever stupid name they want to give it. The fact is that I am exhausted from it and I haven’t been able to breathe out of my nose in at least 3 full days now. I’ve been waking up constantly through the night, sipping on a bottle of water because my mouth is so darn dry. After breathing out of my mouth for a couple hours at night, it is this disgusting dry that I can’t even describe!! I actually moved my tongue the other morning before I drank water and I felt my tongue CRACK and I actually bled a little. What!!?

So anyway, right now I’m trying really hard to get through this by drinking lots of fluids and getting a lot of sleep. My first mission was to blow my nose every 10 seconds and hope that the snot would eventually have to STOP BUILDING UP. But it doesn’t. Apparently I have an endless supply and now I’m to the point where I know I have a bunch of crud up inside my sinuses and I can actually FEEL it all up there, but when I blow nothing comes out. It’s like the congestion is staging some kind of “sit down” against me and has permanently planted itself in there. As if to say, Woman you’ve taken enough of our brethren already and we will not stand for this nonsense!

So I’m fighting that. Which is causing me to sleep alot. More than usual. And it doesn’t help that over the last week my tiredness has increased ten fold. I’d say that is one of my biggest symptoms of this pregnancy so far, is my tiredness. Usually after being awake for a good 4 hours, I feel like taking a nap already. Which means getting through the second half of the day at work is like hardcore painful for me. I am exhausted and just want to go home and sleep. By 4 PM I am struggling hard to stay focused and be productive. I hate that!!

Of all these things, I am thankful for my symptoms. Friday is our ultrasound so I am hoping we will find out some good news there. I realize there is nothing you can control as far as bad things happening so I’ve been trying to keep a positive mind through this. Having The Greatest Husband Ever has helped tremendously because he always has some positive words for me if I start worrying too much. He also puts up with my ever increasing lazy ass and takes care of things like dishes, dog food, dog water, etc. Love, love, loooove him :) Can’t say it enough!

Candy :: Sep.10.2008 :: Health, Pregnancy :: Comments Off