10 weeks 4 days

Well, now that it's been over a month since my last post, let me just tell you my reasoning behind not posting. Morning Sickness. Plain and simple. It's not fun. It's worse than I ever could have imagined. I always knew m/s would be a possibility upon getting pregnant, but for some reason I just always thought that maybe I'd get lucky and get skipped over since I've prayed and prayed and prayed that I wouldn't have morning sickness ever since I knew I wanted to become a mom (and found out that morning sickness is a real thing).

Most of you probably don't know but I have this huge irrational fear of vomit. I know 99% of the world think it's gross but my fears just go way beyond that. I want no part of it. It's so bad that when I go into the bathroom at work I have to quickly glance under all the stalls to see which way the feet are pointed before I fully walk into the bathroom. So anyway, I thought that with this huge aversion to vomit, I'd get lucky and not suffer through morning sickness. No such luck.

I will say weeks 6, 7, and 8 were the absolute worse. I even cried to my boss so she'd let me work from home for one measly day. I don't cry at work. Ever. I think I'm slowly starting to feel better but I do still have my off days. I'm really looking forward to finally getting past this so I can fully enjoy pregnancy.

I had an appointment back on 4/1 and we got to see our little one's heartbeat which was such a relief. We ended up telling our friends/immediate family at that point at well. I was 8w2d at the time and we felt that they should know just in case we ended up having to cancel plans at the last minute if I wasn't feeling well.

My next appointment is on 4/29, I'll be 12w2d and we actually have the NT Scan first and then immediately after we head to my doctor's office where we will get to hear the heartbeat. I actually ordered an Angelsounds Fetal Doppler from Amazon and got it yesterday. We searched for about an hour to find the heartbeat with no success. We thought we found it but it seemed really low so after some research we discovered that was actually my own heartbeat in an artery near my uterus. :) I tried it again today after work and finally found that quick beating heart! It made it feel so much more real to be able to hear the heartbeat of the little baby that's growing inside of me! I'm definitely excited for the hubs to get home to try and find it again!

I'll hopefully be starting my chalkboard weekly updates soon but each time I think I'm ready to get creative with it I start feeling sick and lounging on the couch just seems so much better. There's no bump right now anyway, just a little bloat. Maybe week 11 or 12 will be a good start!

Thanks for listening to my long update today! Hopefully it won't be so long in between posts next time! :)