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Talk About a Pregnant Brain! (Part II)
Speaking of the sex of the baby, I also remember one other thing I have yet to record here. Someone told me about the old wives' tale where you can determine the sex of your baby (and future babies!) using a needle on a piece of string and letting it swing over your hand - circles mean girls, back and forth mean boys. Well, I don't put much stock in old wives' tales, but this thing is still pretty eerie. I've probably done it at least 20 times, and EVERY TIME it tells me I'm going to have a girl, then 2 boys, then another girl. How weird is that? (Especially since Nate and I always talk about having 4 kids.) I also find it extra eerie b/c the needle won't swing if Nate tries it. I've also heard it won't swing for non-pregnant women. While I doubt the predictive quality of the test in terms of sex, it's honestly made me wonder if pregnant women develop a stronger magnetic field or something that makes the needle swing. Something to ponder. :) We're still not sure if we want to find out the sex or not (well, I'm not sure - Nate is dying to know!), but either in a few months or come November, I guess we'll know how accurate the needle test is!
OK, I'm really going this time...
Quick Update
Well, I really don't have any other pregnancy related news that I can think of. I begin my 11th week tomorrow, and I have my first real OB appt on Tuesday, so I'm very excited about that. Only 3 weeks left in the first trimester, and then I can breathe a little easier! Hopefully, I'll stop being so tired, too. I'm sleeping literally 10 to 10 1/2 hours EVERY NIGHT. Sure, I've slept that long for one or two nights straight before, but after that I always fall into a 7-9 hour per night rhythm. (I know, I know - I sleep a lot. But I just don't feel rested without a good night's sleep!) And the horrible thing is, most days I still feel like I could use a nap just a few hours after I wake up! Oh well, hopefully this will pass very soon.
I'll check in again after my doctor's appt on Tuesday!
First Real OB Visit
I had a doctor's appt at 10:45. The visit started out well, with the discovery that I lost 3 pounds since my visit on 4/19! (Actually, I had just eaten before that visit, and I think that was the main difference, but whatever...I'll take it!) Since it was the first real pg appt, I had to have a pap and a breast exam. Thanks to my little infection and my super sore chest, both were fairly torturous. It was worth it in the end though. After all the tests were done, the doctor tried to hear the heartbeat via doppler, but at only 10w1d, she couldn't get one. In light of last week's scare, however, she offered to let me have a second ultrasound for reassurance, which I of course gladly took. There was the heartbeat, pumping just as fast as last time! And in the 19 days since my last u/s, he/she had tripled in size, from just over 1cm to something like 3.3cm. In fact, he/she is now measuring one day ahead instead of one day behind. It was so much cooler this time - I could actually make the head out from the body, which I couldn't do last time. (Click here to see my ultrasound pictures.)
So anyway, I was totally on a high after my appt, but I had to rush to school for my office hours, which last until 2, so I never got lunch. By the end of my office hours, I was starving and desperately in need of lunch, so I headed to this little restaurant with awesome sandwiches that I knew was open until 3. But when I got there at 2:15, everything was packed up except for a few pre-packaged items like fruit and grain bars - nothing with any protein at all! They told me they only serve lunch until 2. How stupid - how much money can you possibly lose in an hour?? Anyway, I just about died. I was so hungry and I needed to eat because my next meal wouldn't be until after 5. The next nearest restaurant was quite a ways away, and I had a ton of books in my backpack and was too exhausted to walk that far, so I didn't know what to do. I actually sat down and started to cry! Tell a hungry pregnant woman that she can't have her food, and it doesn't matter how great a day she is having otherwise - you're bound to end up with a hormonal wreck on your hands. :) Fortunately, I found another little shop nearby that had some pre-made sandwiches, so I eventually got some food without a long trek. It was a really lousy sandwich, but at least it was food!
Now I'm just waiting for Nate to come home to have dinner. I'm starving again, big surprise! Still, in spite of the lunch snafu, it was really a GREAT day. I was so relieved to see that little heartbeat flickering away, nice and steady!