7 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 7 weeks, as of yesterday.

Size of baby: About 1/2 of an inch, the size of a blueberry. Uterus has doubled in size in the past 5 weeks.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I haven't actually weighed, but I'm still not showing. I doubt I've gained any baby weight yet.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet.

Gender: We should be able to find out sometime in May. I can't wait. :-)

Movement: Not yet, its still too early.

Food Cravings: None so far.

What I miss: Being able to feel normal, without always feeling nauseous.

Sleep: Sleeping just fine, in fact I can't seem to get enough sleep, no matter how much I sleep. 

Symptoms: I feel nauseous pretty much all day long. I have a heightened sense of smell and most smells make the nauseous feeling even worse. I feel super tired all the time.

Best Moment this week: Nothing really.

What I am looking forward to: My first Dr. appt. on March 11th and not feeling nauseous anymore.

Morning Sickness Sucks!!!

I was really hoping I would be one of those lucky pregnant women who never got Morning Sickness.... unfortunately I wasn't. It started this past Wednesday, a day after I hit the six week mark, and it hasn't stopped since then. Its not only morning sickness, but more like "all day" sickness. Ugh. Fortunately for me, it hasn't been bad enough to where I've thrown up, but I pretty much feel nauseous off and on all day long. Nothing really seems to help either. I've tried, peanut butter crackers, toast, sprite and ginger root capsules. I've also tried mints, but they really only help while I have the mint in my mouth. Once its gone the sickness comes right back. I'm really praying this is short lived.   

Baby Names and Nursery Themes

As young girls growing up, my sister and I often talked about what we'd name our kids and how we'd decorate their rooms and all the fun stuff that goes along with having a baby. Of course its all changed since then and the names and nursery themes I liked back then aren't the same as now, but I always had fun thinking about it and planning.

Jake and I have decided on a definite boy name, and have been pretty set on this name for quite some time now. Our boy name is, Jackson Thomas Smith (we're thinking we'll sometimes call him J.T. for short). :-) I love the name Jackson and Thomas was my Great-Grandfather's name. Jake also likes this name because his favorite Civil War General was Thomas Jackson, so its kind of a play on his name. Jake's initials are J.T.S. so they would have the same initials. "J.T." was what they sometimes called Jake's Grandfather (his name was John Testrake), so thats part of the reason we're thinking about using that as a nickname. Plus we have a nephew named Jack on Jake's side, and at family gatherings it might be kind of confusing to have a Jack and a Jackson.

When my sister was pregnant with Landon, 4 years ago, we spent many days baby shopping. While we were looking for bedding for Landon, I ran across a couple I liked. This is the one I really liked for a boy and I still love it and plan to use it if we have a boy.

If we have a girl, the names that we have picked out are... Rylee Elaine Smith and/or Haylee Renee Smith. If at some point we end up having 2 girls, these will be their names, but we haven't decided which one we'll use if this baby is a girl. We are spelling both names with the "lee" because Lee is my dad's middle name. Elaine is my Mother-in-Law's middle name and Renee is mine and my Mom's middle name. Haylee is what Jake's name was going to be if he would have been a girl, but probably spelled different :-)

I'm going back and forth on baby girl bedding. Back when we were shopping for Landon, I fell in love with this bedding...

However, I ran across this set a little while ago and I really like it too...

I just love the girly feel to this room. Pink and brown is one of my favorite color combinations and I absolutely LOVE the chandelier. So I think I'm leaning more towards this second nursery, but I haven't totally made up my mind yet.

So these are the names and nursery themes we have picked out, whether its a boy or a girl. We're looking forward to finding out the gender, hopefully sometime in May. I can't wait to start buying stuff and decorating their room.

6 Weeks

I'm 6 weeks pregnant today and still feeling great. I've been able to do all my normal activities with no problems. Natalie, over at Sweet Notes from the Stickles Family, is 19 weeks pregnant with her third child and she's posting these pregnancy highlights each week on her blog. I thought I'd borrow them from her and add my highlights to document how my pregnancy is progressing each week. So far its a little boring because its still so early. But it will get exciting soon enough. :-)

6 week "baby bump" picture, even though I'm not really showing yet. It will be fun to look back on these early pictures and see how I've grown.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 6 weeks, 239 days to go.

Size of baby: About 1/4 of an inch, the size of a lentil.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I haven't actually weighed, but I'm still not showing. I doubt I've gained any baby weight yet.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet.

Gender: ??? We should be able to find out sometime in May. I can't wait. :-)

Movement: Not yet, its still too early.

Food Cravings: None so far.

What I miss: Being able to eat fish and drink caffeine.

Sleep: I have been pretty sleepy in the afternoon and evenings and have been sleeping pretty well other than having to get up about once a night to go to the bathroom.

Symptoms: Just a couple little symptoms, but no morning sickness or anything like that yet, and I'm hoping it stays that way. :-)

Best Moment this week: I haven't had anything exciting happen since we found out a little over a week ago.

What I am looking forward to: My first Dr. appt. on March 11th.

TGIF!!!

Its finally Friday!! And to top it all off its another 3 day weekend... thanks to Presidents Day on Monday!!

We don't have a lot of plans this weekend, thankfully. However, we do have our Bible Study group getting together at our house tonight. We're on chapter three of the book, "The Next Christians", which is very interesting so far.

We are also helping my parents move tomorrow. Which is never really very fun, and they're having to downsize which I know they aren't happy about, but one good thing about it is they are moving closer to Jake and I, which we're happy about. Them living closer will be nice for when the baby comes too. We are planning on having my Mom watch the baby while we're at work and it will be so much easier for her to be able to come to our house to watch him/her rather than me having to drive 40 minutes out of my way to take the baby to where they live now. So this move has its pros and cons.

We also have church on Sunday morning, but other than that I don't have anything else going on. Of couse this can always change at any time. The weekends always seem to fill up quickly, but thats what we have on the agenda so far.

In other news, week 5 of my pregnancy is still

going very well. One new thing is, I'm having to go to the bathroom a lot more. I even had to get up in the middle of the night to go last night, which is unusual for me. I'm sure this will only get worse as the weeks go by, but I'm not complaining. I am so excited about this baby and can't wait to hear its heart beat, get my first ultrasound,  feel him/her move, find out whether our baby is a boy or girl, decorate the nursery and ultimately meet our precious addition. It still doesn't really feel real yet, but its starting to kind of sink in that I'm finally going to be a mom. I can't wait!!!

                                                                    
So do you have any fun plans for this weekend?

Wednesday Update...

I don't really have a whole lot to say today, but I thought I'd give you a little update on how things are going.

As of yesterday I'm 5 weeks pregnant and everything is going great. I have been feeling pretty good, just a little tired in the afternoon and evenings. No real morning sickness, but I did feel a little nauseous late last night... however, a Tums helped and I was able to go right back to sleep. Otherwise everything is going fine.

Heres a picture of what a baby looks like at 5 weeks, inside the womb. Its interesting to me to see how they grow.

The baby is apparently the size of a sesame seed. As you can see below, he/she is still very tiny.

I'm also excited because the weather has been great this week. Today its supposed to be in the 60's and tomorrow it may possibly get into the 70's!!! The snow is almost all melted and may be all melted after today!!! The only down side to this is my back yard is pretty muddy, so 12 muddy dog paws is never very fun. But regardless of the muddy paws, I'm hoping this weather sticks around for a while. I love it!

Look what I just got...

My husband had these delivered to me at work today for Valentines Day!!! He's such a sweety. :-) They made my day.