8 weeks, first appt tomorrow!

It has been a week, but not much in the pregnancy world has changed. No belly, still sick, just one week closer to hearing the little one's heart beat:)

What is up with Baby Babich?:

New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and
feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his
throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about
gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another,
forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

We go into the doctor for the first time tomorrow!! It seems like so long ago since we scheduled the appt. They will do blood work and take a urine sample, and then we get to fill out a lot of paperwork on family history, and have an information/ question session which will be nice. I am so greatful Dan is going with me. It will be nice to not have to repeat everything to him, in case I miss something. I will probably begin a notebook/ journal though so I have a place where I write down everything and wont lose it! One week from today we will hear the heartbeat for the first time!

Dan called me a little bit ago... we get to go skating at the xcel tomorrow, and I am really excited to!

Other big news.... another one of my best friends had a baby on Sunday morning!!! Amy welcomed Brooke Elaine Johnson into the world! I plan on meeting her tomorrow, and can't wait! It is her first. It is so fun because Amy and I have been friends since elementary school! We had sleep overs and played at eachothers houses all the time, so it is so fun to see her become a mom, and I KNOW she will be amazing at it, and help me out when it come to be my time!! :)

7 weeks along, 2 weeks from heartbeat!

Whether boy or girl.... we know they will be a Wild fan. This is the first outfit we bought!

Baby Babich is the size of a blueberry!

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last
week.

So exciting. So sick. The nausea is never ending! I had to spill the beans to just the core teachers (8th grade) that I work with because I needed to move the womens bathroom close to me.... it is now right outside my door. I couldn't run across the halls to the bathroom! We had to switch it last year for another co-worker and her pregnancy.

2 weeks from today, is the first doc appt. It still seems so far away. I just can't wait for it. Dan is sitting here asking the dogs if they are going to go after diapers... haha. They probably will. I bought my first outfit for the baby. Since we don't know what it is going to be yet, I felt like I can't buy anything.... however.... whether it is a boy or girl, they will be a wild fan! SO, I picked up the cutest outfit. I will post a pic on here.

Symptoms

I realized I hadn't put my symptoms in at all, and I want to have them here so in the event that we have another baby, I can remember from this pregnancy when I experienced everything!

Symptoms:
*Cramping (since I found out I was pregnant, and still cramping)
*Food Aversions... not much of anything sounds good, 2 weeks ago I couldn't get enough Mexican, today, the thought of it makes me want to vomit.
*Frequent Urination... I get up at least 3x a night to go to the bathroom...
*Morning Sickness... started last weekend (week 6) and have had it all week... some days worse than others.
*Heartburn/Indegestion... began yesterday at 6 weeks 4 days... very painful.
*Bloating

I really can't wait to hear the heartbeat. I mean, I know I am pregnant by the way I feel, and the Dr. confirming it.... but it doesn't seem real. On the agenda today: I need to clean the kitchen, and I get to see crazy E tonight!

Not Feeling Well

Me at 6weeks 4 days! No baby show... but very bloated!Baby Liam!! Look at that hair!

Nausea. All day. I know it is a good sign.... means my hormones are doing what they are supposed to, but I feel so yucky. I have been lucky to be at home since it was MEA, I don't know how I will handle getting sick when I have a class full of kids! It is not like I have a job where I can just sit at my desk and work, and go to the bathroom when I need to! I have to be on my game daily, standing in front of the class teaching.... I don't know what I am going to do when the time comes where I need a toilet!

My biggest food aversion is chicken. I can't stand to think about it.... food in general doesn't sound good. I am thinking a shake sounds good, so I might have Dan run to DQ after the 1st period of the Wild game. I had Mac and Cheese for lunch today.... and that tasted OK.

I met baby Liam today! What a doll. He has so much hair. Holding that baby in my arms just made me that more excited to be holding my own! Now Amy is up next!! She is due next Thursday. How cool that they are having babies so close to eachother?! Other than meeting Liam, I had another uneventful day. I layed on the couch, took a little nap, but my stomach was so upset all day I didn't want to do much. Tomorrow I get to see Erica! She was my goalie in college, my roomate for 2 years, and one of my best friends! I miss her a lot. She lives in Green Bay and coaches for UW Oshkosh. Yes. She is a huge Packers fan and Favre fan. Probably one of the biggest football fans I know. She knows her stuff. I really had to rub it in when we got Favre, and am enjoying it! All 3 of my roomates in college were from WI, so it is fun for payback!

Sweet Pea!

Baby is about 1/4 of an inch, size of a sweet pea! :)

Growing like crazy, baby is starting to sprout eyes, ears, nose,
cheeks and chin. Those little hands and feet- still webbed like paddles-
might wiggle by week's end, the heart is beating (almost twice as fast as yours!), and blood is starting to circulate!

Hard to believe all that is going on! Morning sickness is on full force. I am wondering how it is going to work teaching and needing to puke my brains out.... its not like I have a job where I can go to the bathroom whenever I want. Oh well. I will have to figure it out. Once I get sick.... I don't want to eat, even though I am hungry. Nothing sounds good, especially chicken. Just seeing the word typed there makes my tummy turn. I just hope this means all is going well and everything that is supposed to be happening is. I have today, tomorrow, and Friday off... and I am going to take complete advantage of that. Enjoy being able to sleep, since that is all I have wanted to do.

I am going to have Dan take a belly pic.... I will be posting them on here throughout my pregnancy... I think it will be fun to see how it changes. Right now I just look like I have packed on 5 lbs.... definitly don't look pregnant. If I get him to take it tonight, I may post it tonight, other wise I will tomorrow.

Congrats to Kelsey and Kevin on the birth of a very beautiful boy!! And Happy Birthday Sara Lee!! Ok.... nap time! Have a good Wednesday!

Sick, Tired, and Hungry...

Well, had my first bout of morning sickness this morning. I was glad my stomach was empty... but it started my day off in not the greatest way. I then went on to be rediculously hungry all day, and it still hasn't subsided. If I go on like this for the next 8 months... I am going to gain 50 lbs. My mom always said she gained a lot, but I was hoping I would be different since I am not built like her. Oh well... it will be worth it, right? :) This is still all weird, and doesn't feel real yet. I think it will feel more real when we hear the heartbeat.... which seems so far away! (3 weeks)

I know I am not.... but I feel huge! I am so bloated... ugh... and my hunger is not helping. I have not satisfied my hunger all day!! It is almost painful! I have Chicken Pot Pies in the oven... Dan asked if they were homemade.... HA. Frozen. They sounded good, but I hope they still sound good when they come out of the oven. A lot of times things sound good... but then I see it and it doesn't look good. It is weird how I feel...

Taylor Swift was amazing! It was so fun, we had great seats, and she was so cute! She played for 2 hours!

I think that is it for now.... hope everyone had a nice snowy day (yuck... not ready for that yet).

6 weeks!

Brrr. I woke up this morning with snow on the ground, and an inside temp of 64 degrees. A whopping 27 degrees outside! I finally turned on teh heat this morning. Kolby enjoyed playing in the snow the little bit she was outside.

I am officially 6 weeks today. Only 3 weeks until our first ultrasound. It seems so far away. I woke up this morning feeling a bit nauseated. I then came down stairs and made some waffles for breakfast. I need to clean today, I keep putting it off. That is what is on my agenda. My good friend Kelsey was due last Sunday, and she has still not had her little one, so I am anxiously waiting to hear if she goes in today or tomorrow. It is her second baby, and it is a boy. Liam. Another one of my good friends, Amy, is due Oct. 22 with her little girl, and that will be her first. It is nice that a lot of my friends have had babies already and have gone through all of this before, so they can help me out with any questions I have! :)

That is it for now I think! I have the Taylor Swift concert tomorrow, and I can't wait!

Tired!

Tired. That is how I have been the last couple of days. I went to bed really early last night. I was in bed at 8:15. It is almost 8 as I write this... and it is very hard for me to keep my eyes open. Dan has night class, and it is always hard to be home on these nights with him at class. I am glad I haven't been too nauseated, but I have read that happens more at week 6. I will be 6 weeks on Saturday, so we shall see!

I really need to stop reading birth boards I think... I read so much about people mis-carrying, and it makes me nervous. Especially because it doesn't feel very real yet. I am sure it will feel more real on Nov 2, that is when we will hear the heartbeat. I will be 9 weeks. I just worry about there being no heartbeat when we go in.... but I know I can't think that way. It is hard not to though.

It is funny... my mom has told pretty much everyone at work about our pregnancy, and no one really at my work really knows. I will not announce it until after that first doctors appt. A few people know.... but not many. It is cute to see our parents get excited about it

Dan called Grandma Babich and Grandma and Grandpa Nelson last night. Apparently, Grandma Nelson was not that surprised.... then again, no one really has been! More good news, Dan's Uncle David was appointed by President Obama and will be the US Ambassador in Uraguay! How amazing?! I really hope we can make a trip down there!

Well, that is all for tonight.... hopefully things stay uneventful :)

I just wanted to see how my countdown ticker looks... and when I re-read my post, I noticed I wrote HIS.... hmmm.... I have already had a dream it is a boy, and all my girlfriends from HS think I am going to have a boy....

5 weeks...

Well, now all of my family knows, and most of my closest friends. I have 2 more friends I need to tell, and hopefully that comes this week. It is all so overwhelming. Dan still needs to tell his grandparents... and hopefully will soon. I told mine today, and it is so awkward for me to spill it! I never thought it would be, I thought I would just shout it out, but it isn't like that.... maybe it is weird I feel like that.

So I am in my 5th week, and today the boobs hurt really really bad. I hope this doesn't last all of pregnancy. Hunger also comes on so fast! One second I am not hungry at all.... and then BAM, I have to eat something. So far, just a bit of nausea, nothing major... but I hear that usually hits hard at 6 weeks.

Baby is the size of an appleseed, and his organs and nervous system are beginning to develop this week. By next week, the heart will be beating! It is so amazing. I cannot wait until I hear the heartbeat and know everything is going to be OK. I am still nervous about that, since it is still so early. I know a lot of people wait a long time to tell, but I am not one of those people. Anyone who knows me well, knows I cannot keep secrets. I can't even handle holding onto a Christmas gift for anyone until Christmas, and always want to give it early! So, I just pray everynight for God to give us a health little one.

Telling Dan's Parents...

Well, all of our immediate family now officially know we are expecting. We told Dan's dad on Tuesday, and his mom this morning. Neither of them were suprised.... Suzie especially! She had been talking to people she said this week about how she thinks we have news to tell them! I swear, it must be motherly instinct.

We went to Betty's Pies for breakfast this morning in Mahtomedi. It typically is just as good as the one in Two Harbor's.... however, Dan and I were EXTREMELY disappointed! We always get Betty's Skillet, and it just was bad today. I was really bummed out. We are now at home, and I have a horrible headache, and feel super sick to my stomach. I am going to the Twins game today, and just don't feel like going. I am looking forward to seeing a few of my friends though that I haven't seen in a while, we are going for my friend Katija's bachelorette party. After the game, I am getting together with my best friends from high school, and I will be sharing the news with them! I am really looking forward to that! I will definitly be posting about how that goes... We still need to figure out when to talk to our grandparents... I just know when my Grandma finds out... the whole world will know because she will be so excited, so I was waiting until all immediate family knew first.

Well, I think that is it for today. It is a big weekend for MN Sports. Gophers are on right now, Twins start in a couple hours, Wild season opener tonight, and Packer- Vikings game Monday!