fun weekend

The slight dizziness that I was experiencing earlier in the week has now turned into a weekend of extreme hunger, dizziness, nausea, & headaches. I feel starved when I wake up but in the brief minutes it takes to get something to eat I am nauseous and have a hard time swallowing. No more skipping meals on occasion or having just a piece of toast in the morning.

Feeling Better and Not Better

Yesterday things seemed better, the boobie symptom reemerged along with very sensitive nipples that seem to jump to attention at the slightest contact. Because work is so quiet John & I were both home early enough to head over to the gym & I was very excited because they had a kickboxing class I wanted to take. I was doing some light weightlifting before class and I noticed I felt a bit lightheaded and out of breath. I went up to kickboxing & was a bit leery, but I made it through and actually felt better afterwards. However on our way to our favorite Thai restaurant in Arlington afterwards I felt lightheaded and even a bit nauseous, but we ate dinner & went home to bed without incident. Waking up this morning I felt pretty crappy but glad that my symptoms are still here.

Small Concern

After being in wonderment of my distended mammaries I was a bit shocked & worried when I discovered them to be nearly back to normal size & feeling on Sunday. As the day went on they did get a bit bigger & tender but not nearly what they were the day before.
Generally, loss of pregnancy symptoms is an potential sign of miscarriage, so I found myself scouring the internet to see if anyone else had the same symptom & did not miscarry. However the internet was not much help so I will just have to wait this out. So far I have had a few cramps but nothing more intense than what I've been feeling for the past few weeks. I also haven't seen any spotting yet which is a more definite sign that something might not be right.

Buy 38 weeks get two free!

In the weird scheme of things pregnancy is on average 40 weeks which some how fits into 9 months, but really doesn't, and for the first two weeks you aren't even pregnant.

Now into my 5th week (how time flies when you can count pre-ovulation toward pregnancy weeks) I am definitely aware that something is going on. For almost 2 weeks I've been feeling cramps, which at first I thought was a sign that I was not pregnant, but actually is a sign of pregnancy & my uterus getting ready to expand from the size of a pear to a watermelon.

My more appealing change is the fact that wow, I might actually rise up to a B-cup! Except for the tenderness & the fact that I will have no control over the expansion of my abdomen I could be one luscious pregnant lady at the beach this summer!

Our little one is now officially an embryo & is starting to form its brain & spinal cord & it's rudimentary cardiovascular system is actually starting to pump blood on it's own.

As the embryo grows, my body is going to be pushed harder to take care of it, i.e. my body is going to make nearly 45% more blood to circulate throughout my body than before... thus the exhaustion, the thirst, the hunger, frequent bathroom trips & my newest symptom: dizziness I felt first thing this morning when I got out of bed and almost fell over.

I fear the nausea, I am acquainted with motion sickness quite well and the occasional spell of headaches that would make me vomit, so I definitely see potential for some pretty awesome nausea, however I'm crossing my fingers.

TTC, BBT, POAS and more...

When a person is not thinking about having a family, pregnancy is something we try to avoid and sometimes fear, something that can happen to us if we're not careful. However, when you are ready to have a family & you learn about what it takes to bring a life into this world - it becomes amazing that it happens at all.

I highly recommend watching PBS's "Life's Greatest Miracle" it makes you realize how special each newborn baby is.


In my research of & understanding my own fertility I gained a sense of a lot of new lingo "TTC" Trying to Conceive, POAS - Pee On a Stick (go figure). BBT's - your Basal Body Temperature are taken close to the same time each morning , just as you wake up - and it can help you track your own fertility cycle, and you can actually see when your body ovulates even though you cannot feel it. Why didn't we ever learn about this before!?



The month we did conceive I did not think it was "the" month & I was already preparing myself for my game plan for the next month.


Two symptoms (even though some people will argue that you cannot feel anything early on) that made me suspect that maybe something did in fact happen, the day before my positive test I felt a slight but long-lasting twinge in my lower abdomen that didn't move around, didn't hurt, and I definitely never felt a sensation like that before. That night while exercising, I was proud of myself for finally getting myself back up to my previous level of strength, however in the cardio portion - I couldn't even finish I was so out of breath I felt like I was going to pass out.



The next morning when I took my temperature it was a full .4 degrees higher than any of my previous temperatures - I took a CVS pregnancy test and saw the faintest blue line. Due to inclement weather I stayed home & waited 4 hours, drove to CVS bought 2 more better quality brands of tests (Answer & First Response) and got 2 much clearer positives! Totally amazed and ... totally in denial.


3 days later I took yet another test which was much darker due to the increase in HCG .