From embryo to fetus...

Ok...here is my belly at week 8. I will admit...most of that is fat, but there is a little bit of harder roundness there at the bottom. And fat or not, I figure I needed a "starting point" photo...so here we go. I guess pregnancy really does change your mindset about your body....I NEVER would have posted a picture like this on a public website before!! But I guess being able to say "my uterus has grown to the size of a grapefruit and that's why my belly sticks out" makes it easier to accept that my fat jeans are getting tight! I actually was happy to see the scale go up a pound today...who would have thunk??

I went to the doctor again last week. This time I met with the head OB nurse and went over my family medical history. Luckily most of what they asked didn't apply so they feel good that between that and my bloodwork coming back clean that I am not high risk. Of course there is that thing about being 35 when the baby is born. It seems this is the magic age where everything goes down hill. I have to go see a specialist at 13 weeks to make sure everything is going ok. They'll do a sonogram and can determine with 80+% accuracy if the baby is at risk for Down's Syndrome. Luckily they can do this with just the sonogram and not have to do an amnio...I am not sure how I feel about that right now.

After meeting with that nurse I was sent the mean nurse I saw last time. I assured her that I was ready to pee this time...she didn't seem to care. Whatever. Then it came time to weigh me. I told her my scale at home had gone down 2 lbs. She looked at her scale and said "well you're still 170." BITCH! Ok...sorry...my scale said 164. I obviously like mine better (I guess that negates everything I said in the first paragraph about not caring, huh?). Anywho, I finished with her and she sent me off with a "Bye Sweetie!" I'll show her sweetie!!

Ok...enough about her! The doctor then came and they did another vaginal ultrasound. I didn't get a printout this time, but the baby blob was about 3x the size it was before and the little heart was fluttering away so that was good. Then the doctor and I talked about how I was feeling and I said my main symptom was fatigue (boy do I miss my Red Bulls!!). He said that was normal and it was God's way of signaling it was time to rest. I told him that shopping with my mom for an afternoon wouldn't normally make me tired, but it exhausts me now. His reply was that God was a man and men don't like shopping so that's why it effects me so much! Such a comedian he is!!

Well now I am in my 9th week which means we have graduated to the fetus stage. According to most websites I am now having a grape! They sure keep me feeling hungry with all the food references!

I am off to have lunch now with my mom and her neighbor Tina. Tina just had a baby in August so I am going to go practice! :)