"Morning" sickness

originally started 12/13/09 - So, I didn't start one last week after the "8 week" appointment but I figured I needed to write this out before the constant sickness takes over my brain and that's all I can remember.  Anyway, the appointment was interesting as usual. the doc just copied down notes from all the previous visits in the past year and then did his cooties check, as required by North Carolina State Law )and my blood work all came back normal and I don't have any of the tested-for cooties).  Then he started trying to look for pictures.  We saw a sac on the overhead but really couldn't see much else (tilted uterus - tripped us up with Beca a little too).  Upon the closer look, the baby only measures 6 weeks and 1 day (the size of a lentil bean), not 8 weeks.  My ability to sense things in my body is way too sensitive apparently and cycles are never well calculated - I'm good at math outside but not inside.  The baby had an awesome heartbeat, though.  Really strong.  But doc agrees that the constant sickness is a great sign - oh joy.  Steve is pinging off the walls that I had to go buy a new pair of sea bands because the others weren't tight enough.

Today was the worst it has been.  I am thankful for sierra mist, slightly flat, and cereal for dinner.  My mother saved the weekend by bringing me some mini Saltines.  Oh, they are just the best thing to eat - no mess crackers.  I'm so not interested in most sweet stuff and nothing seems very appealing.  But I am trying to eat to have energy.  Weight is annoying and frustrating right now.  No weight gain (except between the time I weigh myself at home and when the doctor weighed me 8 hours later and I gained 10 pounds on the retarded scale at the doctor, which probably has never been calibrated) but definite girth gain - I went from 7 pairs of jeans that fit to 2.  4 if i want to wear a band of fabric around my middle, which on a cold day is not a bad idea.  I think I need to add the calibration question to my list of questions.  I just don't trust scales.  I know doctors absolutely love it when an engineer walks in with a list of questions, most of which a normal patient wouldn't think to ask.

My new big U-shaped pillow arrived and I sleep better with it, except that I forget to move my arm out from under it before I try to flip over.  still getting used to that.

Next baby appointment is on the 29th - 2 weeks would have been Christmas Eve and the office isn't open.  So we're hoping for something larger than a blueberry to show up.  although, with the variation in sizes of blueberries, I'm not sure what that exactly means.  I don't think the pregnancy sites are really written for people who understand what target value, tolerance, mean, mode and median are for.  i bet the standard deviation is pretty big and the capability is probably horrible.