As Kramer Would Say...

I'm all puffed up! Not all, puffed up really (not quite to puffy shirt standards), but, am suddenly feeling it a bit.

Hopefully it is just the heat, although I have studiously avoided being in it for more than about 3 1/2 minutes. Or maybe it's the 200 pretzel sticks I ate last night. That's not bad for water retention is it?

My B.P. just taken at home is still perfect. I just kinda feel like my fingers are puffy and my face had turned into pumpkin/pie/water filled version of either. Oh well 35 1/2 weeks it's not like anyone feels normal at this point right?

Let the Games Begin

Up through yesterday's doctor appointment, I coudl truthfully tell her I was not feeling swelled or puffy.

And then yesterday and today happened. And my little cankles must have caught the buss over, wandered up the street, let themselves in and just plopped right down above my feet.

Oh Lord, just keep it manageable. I swear I cannot bring myself to wear flip flops to work.

I can wear the same preggo pants twice in the week, I can groan publicly when I stand up in meetings. I can annoy coworkers with a constant stream of "and then I have this appt and then this one and this one and then I gotta leave early AGAIN..."

But don't make me bust out the flip flops. My feet are far too ugly, and our interns wearning trendy pointy toed shoes are far too trendy, and my self image is far too shaky at month 7 and counting.

What Helps with Killer 2nd Trimester Heartburn AND Out-of-Town Husbands?

Ice cold milk and FIVE Chips Ahoy cookies.

Hey, you can't leave one guy alone in the jar.

A Real Update

We had a perfect healthy ultrasound on Monday - whoo hoo! Got a little 90 BPM heartbeat, which is normal for a couple more weeks. Matthew's was 160+ on his first ultrasound at 8 weeks, while Little Rice Krispie Muldrow was only 6 weeks so the doctor said that was normal.

And yes, our child is a Rice Krispie. Didn't even have the little arm/leg blobs - yet. Course that was 2 days ago ... who knows she s/he is up to in there now.

Well, actually, I know - making me SICK. I am having pretty strong nausea from the time I first wake up, until I get to work. I have to wait around eating crackers in bed for 1/2 hour before I dare stand up (or really even sit up) unless I want to cruise straight in to barf.

Not a big fan of barfing - and once I start, I don't stop. But my "moving slowly" in the morning unfortunately means sticking poor Mike with the sole child care/pet care in the morning, and also being a bit late to work.

But so be it; we knew another pregnancy would bring some inconvenience, and hopefully it only lasts another 6-7 weeks at the most. Moving slowly, by 7:30 I feel good enough to shower and get to work. By about 9, I feel like eating, and I'm really into fruit or fruit yogurt; bread is sadly out. Eating stops the cycle, I just can't stand the thought of it until I get to work.

And then really all day, my stomach is still "off" all day. Which is different than Matthew (GIRL????).

But not complaining. I know people who throw up all day, every day. Even once every day would be too much for me. If we can keep this to nausea in the mornings, I will not complain too much.

Besides that, I do get tired at night - but not exhausted, and I'm not noticing it at work. I'm busy, which really does help. God, last time, at GE, I was so bored I felt a physically overpowering need to crawl under my desk and nap - daily. At work now, I find my carefully planned second cup of coffee around 3 p.m. is all I need to get through.

Course night is another story. I'm going to sign off now, as I'm feeling a bit like the walking dead. My perkiness ends about 8 p.m. so I don't know what the heck I'm doing up at 10:45.

Two Words

Morning sickness.

Oh Yeah - I'm Tired

By about 3 p.m. it got worse. Right now, it's 9:15 p.m. but feels like midnight. Granted I did work 12 hours today - less than a half day tomorrow to complete my deadline, so had to make time today - but still, this is a different kind of tired. This is a physical T I R E D that I remember vividly from Matthew.

In the past year and half I have not once had the urge to crawl beneath my desk and nap. Today was the second day in a row I toyed with it. Yes, already! At five weeks!

Pregnant bodies are cwazy, cwazy things.

p.s. Was at Quest at 6:30 a.m. to give blood. She didn't have me make a fist - and just stuck it in - oweeee - it hurt the whole drive to work! But hopefully by tomorrow I'll be able to know my "levels" are fine.

Tired

Just realized that I am pretty darn tired. Walked to get lunch (which I don't really want anyway - strange loss of appetite going on with Baby so far?). Usually it perks me up but it didn't.

Were I not at work on a deadline ... I would be at home in my bed. Oh God - this is only day 5 since I've known/suspected, yet I feel I get more tired every day. At this rate, I'll be comatose by my first doctor appointment on Jan. 7.

I am hoping it's crazy preggo lady headgames. That would be preferable to knowing I really am this tired already.