Kaitlin scanned the picture of our little embryo ultrasound
for me last night, so I can finally post it. The pic shows the whole gestational sac (the teardrop shaped dark space) with the yolk sac (the round white outline) and the fetal pole (the sort of vertical white mass on the left of the yolk sac). Right now it's so early that the yolk sac is sustaining the baby... in fact, my pregnancy book entry for yesterday informed us that the baby's future sperm or eggs will actually be formed in the yolk sac and pass to the baby's body a little later - so weird! Anyway, eventually the yolk sac and gestational sac end up turning into the placenta as the little shrimp grows bigger.
Here's what BabyCenter says a six-week embryo looks like. See what I mean about being a little shrimp?
Maybe it’s just the high after getting to see that tiny
heartbeat yesterday, but I kind of feel like all that anxiety and worry I was
dealing with has melted away. I feel calm and certain that things are going
to be okay. I know there’s still risk and that it’s still
very early, but somehow I just feel a million times better.
Yetserday was the first day of truly serious nausea. I’d say
on a scale of 1-10, about a 5… but it was persistent and would NOT go away for
pretty much the entire day. I finished my entire stash of Saltines at work, and
had a huge craving for red meat by the time I got home (I usually don’t like
red meat very much) so we went out for a celebratory dinner and I had
steak. Thankfully the nausea wasn’t so
bad that I couldn’t keep food down (it has to be really, really bad, because my
stomach is stubborn about holding on to its contents) but the driving and
walking and such really were not fun. Also, the smell of my dog’s litter box
and the cats’ litter boxes was driving me nuts last night.
This morning, I bought a decaf coffee and a chocolate muffin
at the little cafeteria at work… but the muffin tastes fishy. Like, literally,
it tastes like fish. I’m hungry so I’m trying to eat small bits at least, but I
don’t think I’m going to get through much of it because chocolate fish tasting
muffin is so not delicious. I have no idea if this is because of the pregnancy,
or because the café downstairs isn’t the classiest of joints. SIGH. I’ll need to spend my lunch break at the
store getting more work groceries. So far it appears that what my body wants is
red meat and greens. Lots and lots of greens. I actually sat on the couch the
other night just stuffing salad leaves straight from the bag into my face. O.o
At least it’s healthy, I guess??
Let’s see, what else… my lower back was aching last night
after we took a shower. Still having some blood pressure issues, but they weren’t
as bad yesterday because the weather was cooler. Boobs still sore, still getting up in the
middle of the night to pee. Super tired
today, but that’s mostly because I didn’t sleep well last night (Kaitlin kept
tossing and turning, which kept me from being able to sleep, which is probably
also the reason why I feel irritable this morning…)
My name’s been changed at work, and in our state systems now,
so there’s really only a few things left to update – bank accounts, the house
title, my passport, and various other bits. I’ll need to order more work
business cards and have them redo the sign outside my office. But otherwise I
am well on the way to starting a whole different kind of life. Kaitlin and I
are starting to talk about our Vegas elopement, too, which looks like it will
probably be November-ish.
It’s shaping up to be a very busy next few months, with an
SCA project I’ve been asked to complete by mid-November and Kaitlin switching
to a new teaching position and a ton of other projects, big and small, that are
going to need attention. But it’s exciting, too, because now that our little
one is really and truly in existence and on the way, life is going to start
snowballing forward over the next few months. So excited!
Kaitlin shared this hilarious little video with me on Facebook yesterday and I thought other pregnant cat-lovers out there would appreciate it:
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