Today is Week 4, Day 4 of our first pregnancy. Woohoo! Aside from fighting off a head cold, I've been feeling pretty normal. I had some morning sickness on Tuesday (was super nauseous on the way home from school) and some stomach gurgling (gas maybe?) but other than that, I think I'm too early to have much more than that.
I managed to change medical groups completely after getting a weird feeling from my family practioner, so on October 13th we'll be going in for our first prenatal appointment. According to the super nice receptionist, this visit will include an ultrasound (yay!!!) so we can see what there is to see, and possibly hear the fetal heartbeat (yay again!!!). Then we'll meet with the nurse practitioner to get all the details on upcoming visits and whatnot.
I have to say, and hopefully I'm not jinxing anything, but today I'm feeling more confident that the baby is going to stick with us for the long haul. One of the caveats about finding your pregnant so early is that miscarriage is still a high possibility, so it puts a bit of a damper on the current feelings of joy and surprise. I had never really believed I could get pregnant in the first place, so already I feel like we've won the lottery.
I'm trying to be super careful about my diet already since I know being overweight and getting pregnant is not the "ideal" situation, but it's the situation we're in , and I refuse to let it get in the way of anything. Most of our diet is baby-friendly anyway: lots of lean meats, whole grains, fresh veggies, etc. The crap that was getting in the way pre-pregnancy (haha, to say pre-pregnancy feels like it was ages ago!) is no longer an issue.
Into the unknown we go!
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