Six weeks today :]
10:11 AM Posted In babies , preggo , pregnancy , six weeks Edit This 0 Comments »
Here I am, six week's pregnant and man... the symptoms are starting to come.. almost overwhelming, but then I think about my baby and I know I can go through anything.
I have had a rough past couple of days, I'm hoping that my life will start to look up soon.
I'm scared to have this baby and I'm scared about taking care of my child. I want to be the best mother, friend, wife, Christian.. and sometimes I wonder about myself. I wonder if I'm am making the right decisions in life, if I am doing the right thing and I often doubt myself.
I DO know that my hormones are just raging right now and my body is very confused on how to handle all of these changes I'm going through. It seems like the first few weeks of pregnancy are the hardest because, (especially for me, being my first pregnancy) I don't know if what I am feeling is normal, or if I'm supposed to be acting this way, or if I'm supposed to eat this or what! It's just a whole new experience.
I'm not showing at all and from what I've read, I probably won't start showing until around 4 months or 16 weeks. So I have a few more weeks to go. I have been having some nausea.. no actual sickness, but this morning, I felt SICK.. I can't even get out of bed until Brandon makes me some toast or anything... I just have to have something going into my stomach and I will feel loads better.
Another symptom I am having is really crazy blood sugar ups and downs. I am going to have to talk to my doctor about this on Monday. Yesterday I didn't have anything sweet in the morning and by noon, I was feeling very out of it and feeling very sleepy. I couldn't hardly keep my eyes open and I felt like I was about to pass out, very weak feeling. As soon as I drank some Sprite and ate a couple bites of a hamburger, I woke right up. I felt a lot better. I'm hoping and praying that I will not have gestational diabetes or any problems during this pregnancy. I'm trying to eat healthy and be healthier. I'm trying to eat foods that are full of folic acid and calcium, and iron, all of the vitamins and nutrients that my baby needs right now.
Folic acid is very important at the beginning of pregnancy because that is when the nervous system and spinal cord form... it helps prevent a lot of things. And I discovered that I love asparagus and that it has the most folic acid of all the vegetables that I could eat. So I'm happy about that.
I have my first doctor appointment on Monday, well it's really a prenatal visit and then I will get my 3 hour check-up with the doctor at the next visit following. But I'll have my blood test and all of that done on Monday, so they can check my blood sugar and stuff
One thing I was happy about is I got my iron checked a few days ago, they like a pregnant woman's iron to be at least 33 and mine was 41, very healthy, so I'm thrilled about that.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I put this babystrology thing up on my myspace last Friday. It shows how your baby progresses each week or month or something, but right now, my baby looks like a jelly dinosaur :) Made me laugh.
I'm leaving you with a conversation I had at the pregnancy resource center when I was having my pregnancy test done there:
Nurse: So you have already taken a pregnancy test at home?
Me: I've taken four, so I'm pretty positive that I'm pregnant!
[I have to pee in the cup (joy!) and take it back to the nurse so she can do the test]
N: Okay, now this test takes about three minutes to work. [she dots the test with a little pee and instantly,] oh, wait, no, it's already coming up pregnant... I guess you're very pregnant!
It cracked me up that it didn't even take three seconds for the test to return positive :)
I have had a rough past couple of days, I'm hoping that my life will start to look up soon.
I'm scared to have this baby and I'm scared about taking care of my child. I want to be the best mother, friend, wife, Christian.. and sometimes I wonder about myself. I wonder if I'm am making the right decisions in life, if I am doing the right thing and I often doubt myself.
I DO know that my hormones are just raging right now and my body is very confused on how to handle all of these changes I'm going through. It seems like the first few weeks of pregnancy are the hardest because, (especially for me, being my first pregnancy) I don't know if what I am feeling is normal, or if I'm supposed to be acting this way, or if I'm supposed to eat this or what! It's just a whole new experience.
I'm not showing at all and from what I've read, I probably won't start showing until around 4 months or 16 weeks. So I have a few more weeks to go. I have been having some nausea.. no actual sickness, but this morning, I felt SICK.. I can't even get out of bed until Brandon makes me some toast or anything... I just have to have something going into my stomach and I will feel loads better.
Another symptom I am having is really crazy blood sugar ups and downs. I am going to have to talk to my doctor about this on Monday. Yesterday I didn't have anything sweet in the morning and by noon, I was feeling very out of it and feeling very sleepy. I couldn't hardly keep my eyes open and I felt like I was about to pass out, very weak feeling. As soon as I drank some Sprite and ate a couple bites of a hamburger, I woke right up. I felt a lot better. I'm hoping and praying that I will not have gestational diabetes or any problems during this pregnancy. I'm trying to eat healthy and be healthier. I'm trying to eat foods that are full of folic acid and calcium, and iron, all of the vitamins and nutrients that my baby needs right now.
Folic acid is very important at the beginning of pregnancy because that is when the nervous system and spinal cord form... it helps prevent a lot of things. And I discovered that I love asparagus and that it has the most folic acid of all the vegetables that I could eat. So I'm happy about that.
I have my first doctor appointment on Monday, well it's really a prenatal visit and then I will get my 3 hour check-up with the doctor at the next visit following. But I'll have my blood test and all of that done on Monday, so they can check my blood sugar and stuff
One thing I was happy about is I got my iron checked a few days ago, they like a pregnant woman's iron to be at least 33 and mine was 41, very healthy, so I'm thrilled about that.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I put this babystrology thing up on my myspace last Friday. It shows how your baby progresses each week or month or something, but right now, my baby looks like a jelly dinosaur :) Made me laugh.
I'm leaving you with a conversation I had at the pregnancy resource center when I was having my pregnancy test done there:
Nurse: So you have already taken a pregnancy test at home?
Me: I've taken four, so I'm pretty positive that I'm pregnant!
[I have to pee in the cup (joy!) and take it back to the nurse so she can do the test]
N: Okay, now this test takes about three minutes to work. [she dots the test with a little pee and instantly,] oh, wait, no, it's already coming up pregnant... I guess you're very pregnant!
It cracked me up that it didn't even take three seconds for the test to return positive :)
