Week 9

Strange how this pregnancy is so different from the first.  This time around, it has been nausea 24/7  from the get go.  Ugh! And so much more tired now.  I can hardly stay awake past 8pm!  Every everning it’s the same battle. Me trying to coax Bryce to come upstairs to “mommy’s bed” to watch cartoons while I lay down! :s  Gonna be a long 9 months!

I read an interesting study about nausea/vomiting and pregnancy.  It suggests that the more sick a woman is in pregnancy correlates to a higher IQ in her child?!   Something about the hormone responsible for nausea, builds more neural pathways?!  Given that theory then, neither of my children may be genius’s  but given the nausea with this one, he/she is gonna be the brains of the family!  Sorry Brycey-Boo.  At least you have your good looks!

I did it! I bought a Baby Doppler. I hummed and hawed about it the first pregnancy, but think I may actually be more neurotic this time around. It’s a Sonoline B and medical grade.  Apparently you can detect a heartbeat as soon as 9 weeks.  It’s shipping from the States so may take awhile to arrive. Hopefully I’ll have an update for the next post.

I’ve been hesitant to purchase anything baby related....like desperately needed maternity clothes, for fear of jinxing this pregnany.  Same with telling people at work, even though I’m walking around with my uniform shirt untucked which  is THE tell tale sign of a Paramedic being preggers! I know that’s totally irrational but pregnant, hormonal, moody women ARE irrational.



Not our Ultrasound! But neat to see!!



What’s happening with baby this week” “Your fetus is now about one inch long, the size of a medium green olive (but no martinis, please). The head has straightened out and is more fully developed, the ears are much more prominent, and some new organs (the liver, spleen, and gallbladder) are forming. Your fetus is also making spontaneous movements of his or her arms and legs now that minuscule muscles are beginning to develop. Your baby's heart is developed enough — and grown large enough — so that its beats can be heard with a Doppler, a handheld ultrasound device that amplifies the lub-dub sound the heart makes.”

*Think I'll start posting baby bump photos next week.  It's just that I feel and look like a train wreck, and am hesitant to have that documented on film!! ;)