12 weeks 3 days - My Wriggly Little Bean!

This morning was the longest morning of my LIFE!!

My scan was scheduled for 2:30 pm.  I was SO anxious!

What if something was wrong... what if nothing was there and I had been imagining it all??

I just couldn't fathom that a tiny little human bean was actually inside me...

EVENTUALLY the time finally rolled around and I was lying on the doctors bed with jelly on my anxiety-makingly flat tummy.

A couple of days ago I thought I felt a movement... it was way down low near my pubic bone and felt like a little "flip"...

... the doctor put the probe right on the exact spot where I had felt the sensation and there was my baby!!

It was in an awkward position at first, so it considerately did a complete flip so we could see it better :-)

Little arms and legs all moving around, nice strong heartrate of 154 bpm.  We saw the brain and stomach and bladder - and the risk of Downs is ridiculously small at 1:13700!

Even the doctor said "that is an excellent scan, congrats" :-)

It felt so surreal seeing it on the screen... there is actually a baby inside my abdomen!  Now that I am not feeling sick anymore but my tummy is still barely showing, it has felt so unreal... now I look down at my tummy and have the images of that little bean in my head and know it's really in there!

Judging by the size of baby, the doctor put me at 12 weeks 3 days - which is only 2 days off the original estimate, making my due date around August 8th.

12 week belly - there's a baby in there, honest!!

And a little backwards mathematics teaches us all an important lesson... copious quantities of beer, pizza and playstation are not a contraceptive.  Consider yourself warned!

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Weeks 6 to 12 - Nausea

Weeks 6 to 12 of my pregnancy can be summed up in one word:

Nausea.

 

No vomiting.  Vomiting would almost have been a relief sometimes.  Just constant, all-day, background nausea.  Ironically, it got worse when my stomach was empty - so just when I felt worst, was exactly when I should eat.  Managing such nausea is a subtle art to learn.

Somedays all you want is vegemite on English muffins.  The next day the very thought makes you feel sick, and only salt and vinegar potato chips will do.

And whoever decided to call it "morning" sickness must have been a man! :-P

Just like my book said, the nausea set in just before 6 weeks... and then a few days before 12 weeks, I realised that it was abating.  I was hungry again.  I didn't feel a constant state of being mildly ill.  And I didn't feel so deathly tired all the time.

During this period was also when we decided we would stay in Melbourne, and started on the house hunting.

I don't know why this house has a gun... but it pretty much sums up how I feel about house hunting.  Look at those square, slightly desperate eyes...

 

 

One bedroom apartment ain't quite gonna cut it anymore.  Maybe it's my nesting instincts, but I just want a it all sorted, and to be settled.  Right NOW!!

11 week belly... there's a baby in there... I haven't just been eating all the pies, honest!