6 Weeks and Exhausted!

Six weeks today.  I'm so exhausted though, anytime is a good nap time in my book.  Otherwise I'm still not having many symptoms.  This constant nighttime urination I've heard so much about in the first trimester?  Not happening with me...yet.  Ha, now that I wrote it out I'll probably be up hourly tonight.  Also thankful that I haven't had any morning sickness or many food aversions.  A few foods have sounded disgusting to me but that's it.  Obviously not showing yet and I haven't taken any photos of myself yet.  I'm not sure if I will, at least not until I'm obviously pregnant.  I'm already chubby, no need to take more pictures to prove it!   

I'm having my first ultrasound on Friday.  Just praying to hear that little heartbeat!  I'll write a separate post on that on Friday.

Tom and I told my mom and stepdad this past weekend.  It was my mom's birthday on Monday so we went out to dinner on Sunday and then went back to her house to watch the Academy Awards.  We had a card to give her that was signed "Baby Anderson, coming October 2013!"  I think she was surprised. :0)

Last week Tom and I toured a free-standing birth center in St. Paul since we decided we'd like to avoid a hospital birth if at all possible.  Obviously we'll end up doing what's best for me and baby but for right now I want to pursue a natural, med-free birth outside a hospital.  However, now I'm going to end up trying to convince my insurance company to cover my care at the birth center as an in-network provider.  I plan on writing a letter with a cost comparison of births in a birth center compared to those in a hospital.  We'll see what happens. 

Last night Tom and I went to Buy Buy Baby in Woodbury because we have a giftcard to Bed Bath and Beyond which is a sister store to Buy Buy Baby.  So we went.  And it was HUGE and filled with so much stuff we sort of just walked around in awe and I ended up feeling overwhelmed and intimidated by so many options so we didn't get anything that time.  I plan on looking up consumer reports reviews on important things like car seats.  Yep, I'm going to be a safety. 

Until Friday,

Lisette

5 Weeks!

So as of yesterday I'm 5 weeks along!  Feeling great other than some pretty intense fatigue, I'm always in the mood for a nap lately.  I feel great, so why can't I stop the constant worry?  I worry about this baby all the time, is he/she developing ok?  What is something goes wrong?  I also worry constantly (probably needlessly) about a possible ectopic pregnancy, having only 1 tube I worry about something happening to it.  I had what I'll consider my first pregnancy meltdown yesterday, I was having a lot of discomfort on my right side (the side where my tube is) and it was freaking me out.  And when I say freaking out I mean I had a complete breakdown after work and nearly went to the ER.  I resisted because what little sanity I feel like I had left told me the discomfort was probably too much in the hip area.  After talking with a good friend I decided it was most likely round ligament pain and went home to relax and it felt much better last night and today.  So, yes, I felt like a complete psycho.  But I think I won't chill out and relax until after than first ultrasound (happening soon hopefully!)

In other news, Tom and I toured a freestanding birth center tonight and loved it!  I would love to deliver my child during a water birth, pain med and intervention free.  Now here's hoping I can convince my insurance company to cover them as an in network provider.  I'll update more on that after I talk with them. 

It's Official! We're Expecting!

Well if you're reading this it means Tom and I have officially announced that we're expecting!  Brief overview on how two of us are becoming a family:

 Tom and I met in 2006 the summer after my freshman year of college and began dating that August.  After dating through the next several years of my college education Tom proposed the weekend I graduated from school with my BAN (Bachelor of Arts in Nursing).  After living for a year after my graduation in South Dakota we moved back to Minnesota and set the date for our wedding!  Tom and I were married September 30, 2011, honeymooned in St. Lucia in March 2012 and bought our first home in June 2012.  In July 2012 I was informed I would need surgery for an ovarian cyst that would not resolve on it's own.  I had hoped the doctor would be able to save my ovary, but alas, I got out of surgery cyst free but it cost me my ovary (surgery preformed in September 2012).  Tom and I decided to start trying to start our family in October 2012 trusting that God's timing would make it happen when the time was right.

Fast forward to February 12, 2013, I took a home pregnancy test and surprise!  It was positive!  I told Tom shortly after I found out myself, even though I had already been suspecting I might be.  Tom and I are both extremely excited and can't wait to be parents!  Based on dating and whatnot, my due date should be around October 23, 2013.  I'm just so nervous and just want to have my first ultrasound and hear that little heartbeat.

I'm still up in the air about what sort of provider I want but I really want to avoid a hospital birth.  After watching documentaries like "The Business of Being Born" and "Pregnant in America" and along with my own research, I've decided I'd like to avoid a hospital birth if at all possible (probably sounds weird coming from a nurse that works in a hospital!)  I'll include more on this later, along with my other crazy hope to encapsulate my placenta.

Anyways that's all I got for now!