Hello friends.  Wow, what a week.  I’m SO incredibly glad it’s the weekend. 

 Last week, I had a couple of days where I thought, “Huh? I wasn’t expecting morning sickness to back off this soon…”  Well, morning sickness taught me.  Friday afternoon I was exhausted – I even almost fell asleep while I was taking a donor’s BP!  Needless to say, I went to bed that night without passing GO, and certainly without collecting $200.  Unfortunately, I was up again in three hours, wide awake and dry-heaving until I had to get up at 5:30am for work – (the only moderate upside to this was catching a fascinating episode of NOVA about the latest in genetic research/gene therapy).  I got to work, and within an hour I was puking.  Fun fun.  Saturday was rough. 

Since then, I can hardly keep anything down.  I knew I was supposed to be eating smaller, more frequent meals, but this is getting rediculous.  I can only eat about a fist-full’s worth of food at a time or I’m running for the bathroom.  What this means: I’m hungry, a lot.  Because my schedule doesn’t allow me to just graze all stinking day long.  I’ve actually lost about 3 pounds since I discovered I was pregnant, thanks to this oh-so-yummy roller coaster.  By the end of this month, I should have gained at least 3.  Augh.  I hope I’m fortunate enough to have this yucky stuff for just a few more weeks rather than my whole pregnancy. 

So, now that I’ve gotten all the cons of being prego off my rather swollen and uncomfortable chest, some awesome things have happened as well:

1. My husband is AWESOME.  I may have to keep moving at work, but when I get home if I just need to stop moving, Matt is all over getting stuff done that needs to get done.  If the smell of the animal cages is bothering me, he gets right up and cleans the cages.  If the dishes are over-flowing and I can’t stand and move around without puking, he jumps right in and does a load of dishes or laundry so we have work clothes in the morning.  He’s my hero.  And he puts up with my crap.

2.  My  friends at work find me funnier.  They say I’m a little edgier, Matt says I’m a little mean.  I’m just trying to keep a good sense of humor when I’m not comfortable (though I’m concious of my ability to be difficult so I’m trying to be gentle).  But, if it makes work easier to manage, I’ll take it.

3.  It’s neat knowing that there’s something growing inside me that doesn’t need to be oblitterated with antibiotics (like most foreign growths…)  I like reading the week-by-week plays on WebMD that tell me what my baby’s growing is doing this week – this week, for example, arms and legs are getting longer and fingerprints are forming!  Pretty neat stuff!

4.  Stuff I might otherwise stay away from, I can eat – red meat, cheeses, nearly exorbitant amounts of fresh fruit and potatoes in pretty much any form…  Of course this is great so long as I can keep them down, but those are the foods I crave almost constantly lately.  When I was dieting I had cut red meat and cheese almost completely out.  French fries, not a chance.  Now, not only to I have the assurance that “if baby wants it, baby needs it for something”, but most of the pregnancy nutrition articles say too that lean red meat, and cheeses pack some of the best nutrition specific to building a healthy baby.  Very cool.

5.  Cats and dogs aren’t the only species that enjoy a good belly-rub.  My lower abdomen, with all it’s growing, really enjoys a good rub now and then.  Very satisfying.

 Well, that’s that for now.    I love you all.  Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.