Week 10

Life:

I'm starting to feel a little more pregnant... like it has finally "sunk in" that I'm carrying around this little person! I think I was in disbelief for a little while and didn't really want to get too attached just in case anything happened but now that I have all these signs that things are going really well with my little one, I'm starting to really plan and dream and hope and become connected to my baby. I can't *wait* to feel the baby kick as a little "hello mom, I'm here!" and I really did think I felt the baby move a wee bit last week, but it might have just been a muscle contraction or something. Soon enough I'll have a "without a doubt" baby movement! :)

Speaking of little kickers, we got to meet a little one who's now kicking her mama from the *outside* instead of inside! Our friends Karen and John welcomed their baby girl Aili Margaret into the world on Oct. 16th, and we got to go and meet her when she was only 4 and a half days old! We brought Karen and John some homecooked food, cards and gifts and of course our promise to help them out! Harmony seemed to think Aili was really cute so hopefully she won't mind when we babysit the baby. :) I was really surprised that Karen had a girl (I was so sure she was having a boy!), and since then I've been wondering if maybe that means I'm having a boy (since I am so sure I'm having a girl and I was wrong about Karen...) lol! I am happy either way, no matter what the sex of my baby... but I am still eager to find out! ;)

Emotional:

The hormone roller-coaster continues, and I'm as always grateful for my patient spouse who puts up with it all. lol. He has learnt the hard way not to tell a pregnant women that her hormones are "imabalanced" or "abnormal", and has made up for it with Girl Guide chocolate cookies and white hot chocolate that I've been craving for the past few weeks. :)

The preggie brain continues (as the milk on my plate tonight can attest to, among all the other little forgetful blunders of a pregnant woman's doing...), and it seems my friends are all catching it too. ;) So does the sappiness... and another odd emotional quirk has returned!!! I remember clearly being pregnant with Harmony and hearing a funny story that made me laugh so hard I was crying and then sad! Well, that happened again for the first time this pregnancy... I was chatting with Tina and Abby and I laughed so hard I started crying and for some reason the crying just made me feel sad! I felt like crying for real I just got such feelings of sadness all of a sudden... sheesh. That was one pregnancy symptom that I found weird 4 years ago and *still* don't understand when feeling it the 2nd time around! I'll have to forwarn all my friends about this odd little quirk of mine...

Physical:

Although my belly hasn't increased that much in *size* (still only 10 toilet paper squares like it was around 5 weeks when I was starting to not fit my jeans!), it is becoming really different! It's getting a bit of a "heavier" feeling, and getting more solid... it feels like it's starting to get in the way of everyday things, like this morning when I dropped by highlighter (note to self, from now on, squat to pick things up off the floor...).

My morning sickness is getting a little worse, which makes me glad I am on the medication! because I know it would be much much worse without it! I still would prefer not to move to a higher dose though, because I only wanted to get on the meds to get back to a normal level of functioning! I'm not miserably sick, just getting more nausea in the evenings and afternoons when the meds have worn off, and getting a bit more nausea in the mornings despite the meds. I'm just glad I'm nearing the end of the first trimester (wow, it goes so quick!!) so that hopefully soon I can feel better without taking anything.

Another physical symptom I've started to notice is increasingly bad headaches. I am the type of person that has headaches once in a while, and migraines once in a blue moon (they run in the family for all the women on my mother's side...), but I've had headaches a lot more often in the past couple weeks. When we were at the mall this weekend, I had a really bad migraine too, and had about 30% vision loss. It's the same kind of bad migraines that run in the family, I've had them a few times while not pregnant, so it might just be coincidence. I hope it is, because I would hate for the headaches to be worsened by pregnancy! especially since I can't take anything very strong, and regular tylenols (i.e. all that I can safely take these days...) have been like candy to me after the car accident I was in a couple years ago when I had to be on very strong painkillers for quite some time after. Hopefully it's not related to the pregnancy and I'm just getting a few stress headaches these days...

Good news, my acne isn't nearly as bad as it was at the beginning! I am wondering if the bad skin was part of the nausea/allergy type reaction to pregnancy and that maybe the medication is countering that side effect as well? In any case, I'm happy to have my nice skin back, if only for a little while. :)

Next week...

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