13 weeks, 6 days...

Originally written: March 19, 2009

Interesting week. The weekend was good and I had a good amount of energy. But Sunday night around 8pm I was on the phone with my friend Liz and suddenly got this intense wave of nausea. I got off the phone with her and tried to lay down, but it made it worse. I tried to focus on the TV and not pay attention, but it just wouldn't go away. Drank some water and still nothing. I couldn't even brush my teeth before bed because I just knew I'd gag on the toothbrush. I was surprised that I could even stand mouth wash! That entire night I felt nauseous on and off. It seemed to have dissipated the following morning but around 9am came back again. It was on and off throughout the day, despite what I ate and my preggie pop drops. Never before have the preggie pops not helped - they've been magic! But Tuesday morning I felt a lot better and haven't felt that way since. People at work are like "are you feeling okay?" and I tell them I'm nauseous or whatever and they say "well you're through your first trimester, so it shouldn't be happening anymore." Well I'm not lying! Some women get it a lot longer, geeeez!

My hunger has stayed about the same. If I eat breakfast, then a snack, then lunch, then a snack and then dinner, I'm fine. That equals out to food about every 2 - 3 hours. No new cravings, though I did tell Jeff that pancakes with M&M's in them would be good.

Speaking of M&M's did I already speak about the access saliva incident? Yeah, so pregnant women experience an increased amount of saliva and apparently I am not prone to that symptom because I feel like a freakin' camel spitting all of the time (I only do it at home when no one's around haha), but it's becoming an issue at work. Last week I was standing at Vanessa's desk talking to her and Kara and I picked up some M&M's from Vanessa's candy jar. I was talking and chewing on them and all of a sudden a rainbow waterfall of drool (saliva) comes sliding out of my mouth and down onto my shirt. I mean.......really???? Was I born in a barn? Awesome impression on my new employees too. And it's completely uncontrollable! It's not like I can do anything about it, I didn't know it was happening until it was halfway between my bottom lip and my shirt.

Been looking at baby stuff online. Even though we're finding out the sex ahead of time we're still getting all gender neutral "gear." Only because the gear will carry onto the next child so I don't want them to be stuck with a specific color. The nursery itself will be gender specific including the bedding and paint color. We're also going to have to get two bases for the snap in car seat because we'll need a base in each car. These are all of my realizations this week haha.

So I think my mom has decided on a July 25th shower date. We had to decide early because I have friends and family coming from out of town and some of them are looking to extend their stay and are asking now so they can block off vacation time at work and watch flights for good deals. It's hard with everyone living an hour away or more. I don't want to be the bitch who went against all etiquette and planned her own shower but my mom has kind of thrown that back on me a bit. We're hoping to have most of the nursery done by then so people who attend can come up and take a look. We'll probably start working on the nursery in June. We have to install a fan, donate and get rid of some furniture, clean out the closets, paint, and I have to find some way to get my childhood toy chest from my parents so I can re-finish it for the nursery. I think April will be the quietest month for us until the baby comes!

Think I'll move this blog over to blogspot with the rest of my blog entries from this year and last. That way it's all in one place! For any readers you will now be able to find my blogs at: http://sweetpeameg.blogspot.com/ - bookmark my journey!