A Growing Belly & Belly Bands

So the first picture you see is me today, at 7.5 weeks and the picture underneath is at 6 weeks. I was 'sucking in' in the first picture. . .that's a hrad habit to break after all of these years!!! ;) It sure looks like something is happening tho in my picture from tonight! :)

So I got a belly band. It is AMAZING. For the last two days I have worn pants that I can no longer zip or button up and it has held my pants up and is actually really comfortable. I've heard this will help me be able to wear my regular pants much longer into my pregnancy which will be nice.

It just seems like all of a sudden my belly has started to pop!!! It is much too early for it to be doing so. A lot of the books I am reading state that most people start showing around 16 weeks and if you are showing any earlier it is because you have a large uterus. . .or. . .are carrying MULTIPLES!!!!!!! OMG I don't know what we would do if we were carrying multpiles. LOL. It would certainly be interesting. I am 7 weeks and 6 days so pretty much 8 weeks. . . I would think I should look like this in 8 more weeks!

My friend at work Lisa, and I, were tossing around another idea about why this bump could be appearing so early. Since I'm so short and kind of smushed in the middle to begin with, it could be that the extra just has no where else to go but out at this point so that's what it's doing. My friend Emily told me to just not worry or get too excited, some ladies just show extremely early. :)

Multiples would certainly be intersting. There are no multiples on either side but according to my books approximately 1 in 100 births results in multiples. If there are multiples on the mother's side then you have a higher chance of having them yourself.

I have had two dreams now that we are having triplets. . . We go in for the first OB appt and the Dr listens for the fetal tones and starts to laugh and says "We need to do an ultrasound so I can confirm this" and sure enough there are three little peas bouncing around in there. In a little over a week we have the first appt and are hoping we will only hear one fetal tone. :)

Pregnancy Ticker

So you will notice a little ticker up at the top that is a countdown to my estimated due date, 04/23/10. I stumbled across this and thought it was cute so put it on here. :) This is just all so exciting. I can't wait until we go for our first appt in a couple weeks. We are really hoping the Dr will try to listen to the fetal heart tones. I think once we get to actually hear the heartbeat, all of this will feel a little more real. Well back to my healthy lunch!

Utter Exhaustion

Well we are in week 7. The baby is supposedly the size of a blueberry this week. Last week it was a nail head and this week a blueberry. I peeked ahead in my book and next week it is a raspberry. Its nice to have these little visuals to think of the baby as. This little blueberry is still kicking my ass in terms of keeping me tired. I am not a napper. I never have been. I hate taking naps. And I now take a lot of naps. I took a nap on Saturday and then again yesterday. Yesterday was bad. We got up at 8 and had breakfast with Mike's grandma and I was back in bed at noon. Mike woke me up at 1:00 and we went outside and gave the dogs a bath and I was ready to go back to bed. I stayed awake but all we ended up doing was sitting downstairs and doing nothing. We should have used the extra day off to get working on the house but I was just so tired it made me not want to do anything. Mike tried to get me to do something but I just couldn't get off the chair so finally he just joined me on the couch. :) And then of course I got a second wind about 9:00. :P But Mike made light outs at 10:00 and I slept hard. I only got up once to pee (usually I've been getting up 2 times) and I overslept ALL the alarms and woke up at 6:30. FANTASTIC. I have to leave for work at 7:00. But I was still too tired to be crabby about it. I put on my workout capris and a crap long sleeve t-shirt and Mike was like "what are you wearing?" and I just feel too tired to try to find something cute for today. My work is flexible and I'll stay in my office most of the day so it works. I've heard the tired feeling dissapates in the second trimester. I sure hope so. I hate not having much energy and just being so tired. I guess it is a good thing tho because its a sign that my body is hard at work providing for this little blueberry.