Urgh... Stomache Stuff

I'm fine. It's just that whole "I feel fine as long as I'm eating or sleeping" thing... my body won't let me sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time, and my stomach doesn't want me to eat anything else. Nothing looks good right now and I feel I've stuffed myself full most of the afternoon/evening even though I know I haven't.
I never realized the definition of nauseous was "that ickey feeling, and not actually throwing up." Because now that I know that that's what it means, then yes, yes I am nauseous all day most days. I just have little-to-no urge to actually puke.
Sorry for the graphics. Just a bit unsure what to do at this point.
Advice is always welcome at this point. It's a weird stomache feeling, but I know it can't be as bad as some of the women out there who can't leave the bathroom due to it. My feelings go out to you past, present, and future mothers who endure that. I can only imagine how bad this gets, because I don't want to get that bad. I hate puking.

Sonogram Print Out

The Sonogram paperwork:

The Heartbeat (was good and healthy):

The baby!:

Facebook Update

Okay, so the details: The doctor and I thought we were 8 weeks, but the computer says only 7 (that was last week). So we're two months along.
That put our due date right around the first week of February.
It's healthy and doing well. The heartbeat was good and strong.
We don't know if we want to know the sex or not. We won't get the choice of deciding to know or not for another month or so. There are good reasons behind each choice.

• Emotionally: It's cool to not know until the doctor says: "Hey folks, it's a...!"
• Logically: It makes sense to know when you can because then you can prepare for it. Get the right clothing, set ups, decorations, etc.

Chris is excited and happy that he can finally tell everyone.
I'm doing well. Morning sickness isn't bad (knock on wood). I'm slightly nauseous all day, more so at evening, but not vomiting or anything... just kind of "ugh". If I eat something (even when I don't want to see food) I'm good. Problem is eating something at all times can cause major weight gain, so I'm really trying to watch it. It really surprises me how calm it is compared to the horror stories I hear from everyone.

Thank you, all, for you well wishes! We appreciate it.

Milk

Okay, for as much as I have been craving specific meats, I know my first craving was milk. Cold, creamy, milk.
I didn't realize it at the time (and I didn't know you could get cravings as early as the 2nd and 3rd week, which you can) but I had massive milk (calcium) cravings. I bought ice-cream in so many different capacities, 3 different cereals, and even cool whip. I didn't realize this is what was going on (I didn't even suspect I was pregnant).

Apparently, according to some doctors, you can get cravings as early as the second week, though they usually start the third. This is because you're body is requiring those nutrients for the new being inside. The weird cravings don't happen for a while, but the average everyday items already have.

With cravings I'm supposed to try and decipher why I'm craving certain things: like I want ice-cream, why? Because it's cold? Milk? sweetness? or a certain flavor (fruits)? Mostly it's the milk factor, so I try to not eat all that much ice-cream... but at the begining I didn't know, so I was just eating ice-cream. Yes, I'm pregnant, but I'm not that far along! I shouldn't have gained all that much weight. Oops.

Spicy Spicy Spicy

Spicy foods! I want spicy food! I've tried to figure out why, because you're supposed to decipher hose types of things, but... I can't figure it out. I just want spicy stuff.

Ear, Nose, Throat Dr. Apt

Okay, so I found a doctor that was supposed to be the best in his field, locally. I was in need of an Ear, Nose, Throat doc because of my suspected sinusitis. Dr. Webb, my neurologist, said I might have it due to the results from my last MRI.
My ENT doc, Dr. Leuhr, came highly recommended... on the internet. And the office staff was great, a bit absentminded, but great. When I got with the nurse I had to report the pregnancy, and they wrote it in big letters on the top of the page so that when Dr. L came in he was aware of it.
The problem was he was aware of it and nothing else. He kept saying that pregnant women often get major sinus problems like I was reporting. I kept trying to explain that I'd been having problems since September, but he kept just ignoring that. I mean the MRI even said APRIL on it, which I'm not that far along. Anyway, he finally begrudgingly came around.
When he did, he just said that he couldn't do anything to confirm or treat it because of the pregnancy. Well, he could have just said that earlier. Grrr...

And that's not the worst part, the above just made me frustraited. The part that really pissed me off was when I was leaving he said, "Okay, I'll see you in about six weeks, unless something happens then I'll see you earlier. Hopefully I'll get to see you sooner." Hopefully?! Hopefully?! Basically he's saying that he hopes something happens to the baby so that he can run a stupid CT scan on me! That threw me overboard! As well reccomended as he comes, I don't think I want to return in six weeks. I still can't believe he said that.

Chicken Cravings

Craving chicken... and not fried, unfortunately. I don't want that yuckie aftertaste that I'm now noticing.

So far I've done good at subsiding it with chicken wraps (no buns please!) for lunch. I tried nuggets because the picture of the white meat looked really really good, but there was a fried aftertaste. I had to throw them away.
For dinner I still wanted more chicken, so I decided to get a side salad (because I was wanting veggies, too) and got grilled chicken on it. Side salad because I didn't want any particular flavoring.

So chicken is a not weird craving.