Week 9

Week 9!

Hey Family!

Life Update:
Firstly I'm so sorry for the delay this week. But honestly pregnancy has caught up with me. :/ Let me start by giving a review of the week though! So this last weekend was as my family calls it: Resurrection Sunday (Easter) and I got to go up to Phoenix to visit with the family. Along with me, my sister and her husband were also able to visit for the holiday so Mom and Dad had a full house! I can proudly say I didn't puke the whole 5 days I was there!.... ok well I did end up puking the day I left but I think that's because I overdid it on Easter dinner. I had been doing so well and then all the delicious food was presented to me and the old Bre came forward and said "EAT IT ALL!" I was pretty miserable the rest of the day but figured I'd be fine by the next day... well the next day the bump had its revenge..

So since Monday (the day I ended up heading back home) I've been miserable. Super nauceous and just feeling like all around crap. Since then I've been just trying to take it easy and not overdue it.

The Hubby: 4 more weeks!!
It has also been super tough without the hubby here. On the plus side, he has now finished week one of 5 and only has four more weeks. On the down side: I still haven't heard from him. It's kind of weird because he and I have gone way longer then five weeks without seeing each other,  however we have never gone this long without talking to each other. Even when he was in the original 5 month training for his job three years ago, he was still able to call me everyday. So this is kind of weird that it has been over a week and I haven't heard a thing from him. :( But as they say with this training: No news is good news. I also look forward to hearing from him sometime soon. I do know they he gets four days off at some point, what I don't know is when those days are. Or if they are all together or spread out. So for those who do, please continue to pray for him as he continues in this vigorous training process!!

Bump Progress:
At the time of this posting I am 9 weeks 5 days! The baby is now approximately the size of a grape or  about an inch to an inch and a quarter in length. Now all those body parts that were forming the last few weeks are now fine tuning. The arms and legs are lengthening, the fingers and toes are getting bigger. And because of this, the baby is now staring to gain mobility of the arms and legs! The baby's heart now has the four needed chambers to pump blood to all the body.  The best part of this fine tuning is that if I were to have a sonogram, the baby would look like a baby! My next Dr's appointment is next week and if I get to do a sonogram the baby just won't be a blob, it will actually look like a baby!!

Symtom check!
Hair: Ok so first off I just want to kick the person that lied and said that pregnant people don't loose their hair and end up having model hair. This is a lie! I still loose hair every time I brush my head and my hair isn't doing some crazy magic model type styling on its own. It is however growing pretty quickly. When my hair is down now, it almost hits the bottom of my back. I do plan on cutting it after it gets a little bit longer though. I really think it's time for the ombre to go away, but I don't want to cut off all the blond quite yet because if I do at this point my hair will be back at my shoulders. I've also had crazy hair growth not on my head! Honesty time! I've always waxed my eyebrows and occasionally my lip (don't judge too hard, I'm Italian and I've accepted my fait of needing to wax the lip) but usually I can go a couple month in-between eyebrow waxing. Now, its been maybe three weeks since my last wax and I'm having trouble keeping up making sure there are two brows instead of one!

Indigestion/ Heartburn: this one has been my big kick in the butt this last week. With the nausea I've been experiencing super bad heartburn where I have a burning metal taste in the back of my throat, and at this point I'd rather have the nausea. With the heartburn I can find anything to make it go away and at least with the nausea I know it would go away if I would stop trying the mind over matter and just go throw up. Indigestion has been a pain too. I feel like I've never burped this much in my whole life. haha I've started using the phrase "you can't take me anywhere" because I all have eaten HOURS ago and then I go to the store to buy something and end up burping up a storm!

Weight Gain: This one isn't too bad! I know I'll be gaining weight throughout the pregnancy so I'm ok with healthy weight gain. So far I've gained about 2 pounds from my pre pregnancy weight. However I did gain some weight before I got pregnant over the holidays (I like to tell myself some of it was muscle) so at my current weight this is the heaviest I've ever been. All but one of my pants need to be worn with a belly button band (I promise to actually do a post on it this week!) but only because I can't fully button them. All of my shirts still fit for the time being, but I have been slowly making a little stash of mom cloths for the future months. (this is the post I was supposed to do earlier this week but ended up not feeling well enough to do them, I have all the stuff and will post later I promise!)

Hormones: So I haven't yet had crazy hormonal mood swings (at least I don't think I have). But, I have reacted to sad movies or a sad book; these are things I really didn't have a problem with beforehand. BUT!! My hormones are totally against my skin!! I've been breaking out like crazy on my chin! I try no to wear makeup because of my allergies and reactions I usually have to wearing makeup. And this is how my skin looks right now! It looks like my pores are all clogged from wearing  bunch of makeup, but I haven't been!!

Crazy Dreams: I had heard rumors about pregnancy and "crazy vivid dreams" but thought it doesn't pertain to me because in my 26 years of life I woke up probably remembering may 5 of them. So, I thought oh, no I'll get to skip this crazy dream phase. BUT! In this last week I've had some pretty vivid ones that I can actually remember! And I've come to the conclusion that, my subconscious is angry lol. As for those who know me in person, you would all probably agree that I'm a pretty happy person and am pretty positive too. However, in my dreams lately I keep getting into horrible heated arguments with people; and the weird thing is, it's people I only know through my husband. Now this may just be a projection of me missing him but it totally sucks waking up angry and having to remind myself that I really didn't just have a fight with someone and everything is ok haha.

Sleep: So because of these crazy dreams I also wake up not feeling very rested. In turn I'm back to taking naps (more like I'm working on something and then wake up not realizing I passed out for an hour). And then, because I take these naps, when bed time rolls around, I have trouble falling asleep.

Out of Breath/Tiredness : This is more to do with my stamina. I would never describe myself as a super fit person (especially when you compare me to my super buff husband) but I've never had an issue going on hikes, or just doing daily chores. But lately just going upstairs in my house really winds me and I have to rest for a minute before I continue on with whatever I was going upstairs to do. Also, I used to be able to take the dogs on super long walks and now I have to do more short walks because I just get exhausted. Always being an active person makes me a little peeved at the moment that I just don't have the energy to do the things that I would otherwise normally be doing. This is a symptom I really look forward to going away in the second trimester!

Well that's it for this week!
Bre and the Bump