| Monday, October 27, 2003 Eighth Week of Pregnancy I feel like there's so much to tell right now, but I have no idea if I even have the energy to write it all...energy is back down and my nausea threw me down and stomped all over my butt this past weekend. It didn't let up even for a family gathering in Decatur. I spent most of the time sleeping and/or being sick (as in nauseated, not vomiting). I also have to say that the whole pee-peeing a lot thing has started. Especially in the evening. I will also never complain again about not being able to...poop---nuff said. We'll move on... (Triumph the Insult Dog springs to mind: FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!) I'm taking the prenatal vitamin every other night now and taking folic acid on the mornings I don't take the vitamin. We have our next appointment with Dr. Dickens next Wednesday (Nov. 5) for the 9 week appointment and I will see about getting a different pre-natal vitamin then. Until then, I'm doing my own remedy. I had a dream about the baby this past week---this time, it was a baby girl who was very very pink. She screamed a lot. The Blankenships next door (Bammers) stole her from me and I remember walking around without my baby and everyone was "Where's the baby?" I said, "I don't know!" It was irritating and sad. On the name front, the three boy names we keep tossing around are: Jacob, Lucas, and Nick. The girl name we keep coming back to (or I keep coming back to is Aubrey. My father-in-law, Mike, is a music nut and brought out his Bread cd for me to listen to the song "Aubrey." I loved it. Here are some lyrics from the song: "And Aubrey was her name A not so ordinary girl or name" "And Aubrey was her name I never knew her, but I loved her all the same, I loved her name"- -BREAD (the name "Bread" makes me laff. Bread.) Inside me, the following things are going on with the little alien: the bones are ossifying (or, hardening!), elbows are appearing, the baby's gonads become testes or ovaries this week, toe rays become apparent, all major organs are nearly formed, amniotic sac fills two thirds of the uterus (which may explain why my belly has started pooching out), Boo's heart is beating 160/min, he/she has elbows, teeth are developing under the gums, and the tip of the nose has started to form. PS My uterus is the size of an orange now. Umm, oranges! I have never been so interested in food before. I went to Wal-mart this morning to buy some peaches and some Lean Pockets. I wanted them both and I wanted them RIGHT THEN! My students just shook their head as I ate my Lean Pocket at my desk and took roll. Rolls...ummm... last next |
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| LoBlowBaBabies in bubbles. What our son (Chris says) or daughter (I say) looks like now. |