I have my first prenatal appointment on Monday. I'm going to be 6 weeks and 1 day pregnant at that point, and I'm kind of concerned that it's going to be too early for them to hear the heartbeat or find it or whatever.
Tim and I have also been discussing the risk of miscarriage, because the fact of the matter is that it is a real possibility and we need to be prepared should anything go awry in the coming weeks. Thinking about it as "nature's selection" is helping a lot. The fact that if my body decides to miscarry, it's because the pregnancy wasn't healthy anyway and it's what's ultimately best for me and the baby anyway. It doesn't seem so horrible when you look at it in that light.
I've been reading about baby milestones in pregnancy and Tim and I realized that we'll be able to find out the sex of the baby on his birthday. Granted his birthday is on a Sunday so we'll probably have to wait until sometime during the following week, but it'll be kind of a nice gift for his birthday. Every day I can tell he's getting more and more excited.
We finally agreed on a theme for the nursery. We're going to do "sleepy time". Lots of stars and moons and night time animals, primarily owls. I already found the baby blanket I want (at Walmart of all places) and it's only 15 dollars. I think once we're out of the danger zone I am going to order it, and once we find out the sex of the baby, I'm going to have his mom embroider the baby's name into it.
Being that I am only 5 weeks right now, I have been spared any serious pregnancy symptoms so far. All I've really had to battle with are occasional bouts of nausea, sore and swollen breasts, and fatigue. The fatigue though? It's a serious killer. Yesterday I woke up at 9 after sleeping for 9 hours, and I went back to bed at 11:30 and slept till 1. All I want to do is sleep, wake up and munch on something, and go back to bed. I'm ready for that portion to be over. My mother said she never had morning sickness with me or my brother, so I'm curious how it'll affect me. I'm willing to bet that because my Mother-in-Law had it so bad with my husband and her other 2 kids that I am going to suffer from it as well.
A girlfriend of mine is pregnant as well and the other morning we did the needle game to "find out" the gender of our babies. According to the pendulum, I'm having a boy and she is having a girl. Right now her doctors seem to think that she is due only a day before me, but she and I both think she is about a month farther along than me, which makes a lot of sense because her morning sickness has been terrible. I feel so bad. :( Even still, it is really nice to be going through this at the same time as someone else. A confidant, if you will. Compare and contrast our good days and our shitty days, we're even thinking of taking some pregnancy pictures together once we've got some sizable baby bumps. I'm just so floured by all of this still, it's crazy.
Well, enough rambling from me. I need to finish being all domesticated and making dinner for work. Take care, ya'll. :]
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