Today marks 10 weeks and 4 days pregnant. So far this pregnancy has been a total breeze! I’ve had very little morning sickness, especially since I discovered that if I eat half an hour before I take meds, that really, really helps. If I forget and take the meds first I get super nauseated. Some evenings I am a bit nauseous too, but most days I am totally fine, all day long. I barely even feel pregnant. It’s a nice change from my pregnancies with my own kids, when I had terrible, all day sickness, that lasted most of the whole 9 months! I am still cautious – my doctor thought that the reason I was so sick last time was actually from the heartburn, so there is still plenty of time for it to come on. But so far I’ve barely noticed any heart burn either, which is amazing too, because it started at 8 weeks with Braeden and 6 weeks with Caitlyn. The biggest pregnancy symptom I am having these days is HUNGER! I feel like a hobbit – I could happily eat breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, etc. I can go from being full to being insanely hungry in about 5 seconds flat. The intense exhaustion I was feeling for the last few weeks has started to fade. I’m still tired, and would be thrilled to get a daily nap lol, but the bone-crushing exhaustion has stayed away for a few days.
My belly is starting to grow – insanely fast, actually! But of course, it’s still mostly flab. Here I am looking insanely huge after eating too much supper!
I’ve got my own fetal Doppler now, for both my own and IM’s reassurance. I’ve been able to reliably pick up the heartbeat every day since 9 weeks, although sometimes it takes some hunting. Most of the time I can hear my own heartbeat loud and clear, but have a hard time hearing the baby’s heartbeat, although the numbers on the display show that the machine is picking it up. My heartbeat should be between 60-90, and baby’s should be 120-180. Most of the time the Doppler seems to pick up a mix of the two beats and reads between 100-125, but you can clearly hear my heart. Then for a few seconds I’ll get a reading between 140-165, and I know that even though I still hear my slower heartbeat, the machine is reading the baby. Tonight I could clearly hear the much faster pulsing of the baby’s heartbeat, although the monitor still mostly showed a mix of the heartbeats between 110-135, or sometimes showed nothing at all. Here’s a quick little video!
Oh, and the last bit of exciting news, we are almost done meds! I have 4 doses left of the Crinone and estrace, which is a 2 day supply, and then I am off meds! The placenta should be nice and well developed enough now to take over producing the hormones needed to sustain the pregnancy now.
So that’s my update. 10 and a half weeks down, 29-30 left to go! We are already a quarter of the way there!
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