7 Weeks

Forgot to post last week. HCG increased to 19,000+. Estrogen was ... I can't remember. Progesterone increased from 24.something to 26.something which apparently wasn't enough (though I'd only been taking it for 4 days) so the pregnancy nurse had me increase to 3x/day. So yay, I get to do you-know-what with a greasy suppository three times a day. I have to lay down after inserting it too, or else either the whole thing slips out, or slowly leaks out. Even with laying down for 30 minutes I still have significant leakage. I have to wear liners all the time which still don't manage to protect everything, so my panties are getting grease stains. But I can't complain about being proactive, and getting to lay down for a half hour twice a day is no hardship.

I feel really well for the most part. I occasionally feel a little queasy, sort of a motion-sick feeling. If I'm hungry eating something usually takes care of it. Sometimes though it happens after I eat. If it's really noticeable I'll take 50 mg(?) of B6 and that helps. But overall it's very, very minor "morning" sickness. I really think it's the best I've felt early on in any pregnancy.

I get tired, especially in the afternoon. Sometimes after lunch I just have to lay down and close my eyes for thirty minutes. Other days I inexplicably have more energy. The heat definitely plays a part, though. I get wiped out more quickly when it's hot. The weather has been pretty nice lately, and when it gets really warm/muggy I turn on the a/c in the living room.

My breasts aren't terribly sore. I don't remember how sore they got when I was pg with Phoebe, but I do remember they hurt terribly early on with Dena. I guess 4 total years of breastfeeding probably helps in that department. Eric asks from time to time when they are going to get bigger. They increased a bit but not much. I hope they do, that is one major perk of being pregnant. Ha!

I have horrible, awful acne that keeps getting worse. I'm sure the extra progesterone is not helping. According to the journal I kept while pg with Phoebe I had the same issue then, and got the okay from Dr. Siefring to use Proactiv. This time I've been trying to treat it myself more naturally with witch hazel and tea tree oil but it's just not cutting it, so I broke down last night and bought the Target generic version of Proactiv. I hope it works because this is ridiculous and it's actually painful. Once it clears up I should be able to go back to the witch hazel and TTO and only use the acne stuff as necessary. I think by the second trimester it gets better on its own anyway. I know when I'm EBF I have beautifully clear skin! So there's that to look forward to!

So, overall, I feel so well and have so few pregnancy symptoms that it sometimes worries me a little. But in the past couple of weeks this has been happening:

so I probably don't need to be worried! At least not worried about whether things are coming along as they should. I'm definitely worried about being enormous early on. :/ I got pretty big at the end with Phoebe. I don't want to be huge the whole time!

We told our parents last weekend. Mom's birthday was Saturday and then Sunday was Father's Day, so we sent an email to the Washington parents Friday night with this picture:

They were super-excited so that was neat. Then we had Chuck and Joyce over for lunch on Sunday and after we ate Eric texted them the picture while we were all sitting around the table. That was funny.

We haven't told anyone else yet, with a few exceptions. I'm part of a private TTC group on Facebook and told them right away -- they knew we were trying, and that I had ovulated. In fact I got a very faint positive at 9DPO and wasn't going to say anything but one of the ladies on there asked me, so I blabbed. Then because they knew, I told Eric I didn't mind if he told one coworker, who told Eric in return that his wife was also barely pregnant! I think she's a week ahead of me. Then oddly he told another coworker yesterday -- I'm not sure why he did that. I keep wondering if we had talked about it and I agreed that he could tell her ... he seemed a little defensive when I said I didn't understand why he told her, so I left it alone for the moment but will bring it up tonight because I'm kind of confused about the whole thing.

Anyway! I have an ultrasound tomorrow afternoon and we should be able to see/hear a heartbeat -- once that happens we will tell everyone else. We're going to have to, I'm not going to be able to hide this belly much longer. I'm so excited to tell the girls!

5 Weeks

Bloodwork done 5/30 (4w1d): hcg 388, progesterone 26.1, estrogen 190

Bloodwork done 6/5 (5w): hcg 6099, progesterone 24.4, estrogen 357
Prolactin went up from March. Can't remember what it was then, now it's 49.

At 5 weeks I'm still not having any real symptoms aside from getting very tired in the afternoon/evening. No sore boobs, no nausea. This week I've felt "thick" in the middle, like I just can't hold my stomach in. I couldn't possibly be showing this early, yet I feel as if I am. It's probably some water retention. My weight is 136 -- I'm not terribly happy with it, but I'm trying to eat well and exercise to keep from putting any weight on for as long as possible.