Rewind

Tonight is the first time I’ve felt good in ooh about 2 weeks. Not sick, actually energetic, positive. I’ve had morning sickness pretty much continuously. Not vomiting, just a low level of continuous nausea that has just zapped me. It’s got so that I can’t look at a baby book without feeling sick. I think I must finally be getting a handle on what to eat and when to counteract it.  Anyway, I don’t want to speak too soon because I know it could be a gazillion times worse, and at least I can function. Also, it turns out I’m only 7 turning 8 weeks along so I could have another month of this at least.

I went to my first obstetrician appointment on Friday. The doc was nice and so was the midwife. The appointment took a while and the doc did a scan to determine age. He had a bit of trouble measuring the peanut but he got it at 7 weeks 2 days. This means the peanut is 5.2 weeks old and that I probably ovulated when I thought I did – 3 weeks after my period finished. Stupid irregular cycle. It also means the peanut is due Nov 12, not Oct 29.  Anyway we saw the peanut and it’s little heart beat and got a print out of the piccy. I’m all booked in for the 12 week scan and associated blood tests and have appointments all the way through set up with the obstetrician.

Pregnancy so far – first few weeks, good, aside from sore boobs, wondering if I was pregnant etc. Then I got really hungry one day and then morning sickness hit. Morning sickness has been a bitch and I got rather depressed about it the Thursday night before Easter because nothing was fun anymore just nauseating and there was soo much to do and I didn’t feel like doing any of it.  But some time off over easter spent with the family cheered me up even though this week has been worse MS wise. I have to have milk in the morning, I’ve discovered and eat early. A proper lunch seems to help too.

Apart from that, my breasts are still tender and I get tired easily. Oh and I get emotional over weird things. Like bumper stickers.

ETA: just read over my old posts – my ovulation was even later than I thought it was – must have been when I was having the cramps in the morning. Or possibly I had conceived then? Interesting to see what age they give the peanut at the next scan.

waiting

So – after doing a bit more research I am crossing my fingers that the ovulation-esque discharge I had earlier in the week was actually due to the cervical plug forming or other random discharge.

Of course I woke up last night at about 2 am with cramps – so my first thought was, crap my period is coming, but then I remembered that cramps could be due to the uterus shifting and also, they didn’t feel exactly like period cramps and also went away a lot easier. However I couldn’t get to sleep after that and was awake for at least 2 hours. Still – if it was a menstrual cramp I should get my period in a few days (or not – sigh). I’ve decided to test on either Monday or Tuesday (depending on what my body’s doing). I could test now but if it’s too early I’ll get a negative result and I’d rather be sure my negative is really a negative.

I guess I’m concerned that I’m just reading too much into my body and if I give myself the excuse that I tested too early then I’m just going to prolong the agony.

Maybe I’ve just had a virus and now I’m getting my period? Or maybe I’ve just had a virus, then ovulated and my period won’t show for another week and a bit.

PS: I am sure the aeola circle around the nipples look bigger – on one breast more than the other too…hmm…lopsided.

Now I’m ovulating??

The mucous is here. So what the heck’s been wrong with me then? I’m tired and have a temperature most days, feel a little nauseous in the tum in the mornings…if I’m not pregnant, then ack!

You’d think I’d be bonking like a crazy person. Except NOW of course we can’t for other reasons.  #$%#$# Hold on little egg!