Hang-over meets PMS

Hey everyone,
My boss has told me how much she appreciated keeping a journal about the updates of her pregnancy so I'm going to try to be a little better about keeping this updated -- expecially as more people have now found out and are asking me for updates.

So at this point, several of my friends know and the people I work with have all figured it out due to my morning sickness. On the other hand, I don't think David has yet told any of his friends (they don't call and ask "ARE YOU PREGNANT?" like some of mine... cough-cough-burke :) I'm fairly confident that neither of our families know yet either. I'm getting pretty excited about telling them.

We came up with a really fun way to tell my parents -- we are sending Mom and Dad each separate jumbles and they have to put their answers together to figure out the final clue, "News that will make you 'grand'" -- and the final answer is "We're Pregnant!" I think it will be really fun but I'm not sure if they will do the puzzles how they are supposed to or if they will cheat. Hopefully they won't because it will be more fun if they work all the clues -- I can't wait to get their histerical phone call! As for Dave's parents, I think we are just going to go visit them next weekend (after Halloween) and tell them in person. I wish we could tell my parents in person but it's just not reasonable to wait until Christmas... besides, our Christmas list might seem a little fishy if they don't know "uh, Bridget, why do you want a crib and nursing pads for Christmas?"

In other news, last week and this weekend I just felt horrible. Morning sickness is a b!tch. I am so jealous of the women who said they didn't get it. I also have to say that I can't even imagine going through this without David -- he has been absolutely wonderful. He gets me food, is sympathetic (but not abnoxiously so) to me being sick, and has been very considerate of all my quirks so far. Seriously, he's awesome. I was a little nervous -- and I guess still am -- about how all of this will change us, but seeing how he has been so far is a great confidence booster that all the changes, exhausting and comprehesive as they might be, will make us stronger and we'll get through everything together. I'm sure this is half my ultra-emotional preggo hormones and half my rosy-newlywed-glasses talking, but I feel better and more confident about our marriage now than I did 5 months ago when we actually said our vows. Is that weird? I don't know. Yesterday, I panicked a little about the reality that in less than a year we are going to have a little one or that someone might say some super upsetting comment like "I can't believe you're doing this all so fast," or "that was stupid to get pregnant." I think if someone does say that I'll lose it... or send Dave after them with a giant snowball or something.

Anyway, I got an E-mail update today that said it was likely that my nausea will lessen in the next couple of weeks. God I hope so. My bosses have been awesome about everything so far -- they have even let me change my schedule a bit so that I don't have to come in so early in the morning. I've found that if I just let myself wake up naturally, I seem to be able to get through the day ok; but if I wake up by my alarm clock when I'm still too tired, I barf. A lot. Ick. It's a really weird feeling -- morning sickness. I've never had motion sickness before, but I think it's pretty similar to that -- except all the motion it takes is waking up or standing up. It's like hang-over meets PMS.

As for other symptoms, here goes. Bbs are growning unreasonably. Too bad for Dave, they still hurt so no fun for him. They aren't as bad as they were a couple weeks ago, but they still aren't ready to come out and play. Sleeping is difficult because I wake up a lot to go to the bathroom -- they warn you about the constant peeing when the uterus presses against the bladder, but they don't tell you that peeing is no longer satisfying. This may be too much information for some of you, but basically, you feel like you have to go all the time because of the pressure, but your not actually full so despite going all the time, only a little comes out and the feeling that you have to go does not go away... until, as far as I can tell, you deliver. Once baby is out, you don't have the constant urge anymore. So I will feel like I have to go until June. I love bathrooms :)

A week from today, David and I will go to our first appointment. Election Day. Mostly, I think it will be typical annual exam stuff except that we get to hear the baby's heartbeat and find out a more accurate due-date. Granted, the date might change (and I'm unlikely to deliver the specific day they guess) but the doctor will check the growth and let us know if it's on track with the original June 4th estimate or not. I'm excited to hear the heartbeat and feel like all this sickness is actually producing something -- I'm actually generally feeling really happy, even though I'm sick.

Well, that's all for now, hope you are all doing well!