I'm gonna keep calling the baby a bean until it actually looks like something else. The baby is the grayish thing inside the black blob. Bean is 7 weeks and 3 days in the picture so that is exactly what we are supposed to see. So far I love my doctor! She is part of a practice of 4 women (smaller than my previous practice which had 6!) so hopefully I'll get to know each doctor well enough so if any of them are on duty for delivery I'm comfortable.
With Bitty Boy, I ended up having to get a c-section cause he just wasn't wanting to come out the traditional way. My new doc is all for v-bacs so i'm excited she's going to let me have a "trial of labor". But boy doesn't it sound stressful?? A TRIAL of labor?? Am I going to be put on the stand? Is the prosecution going to bring up all my deep dark secrets? EEK! No, I kid.
But anyway, morning sickness is still not morning sickness around here. I wake up and feel great! As the day goes on I get sicker and sicker. By dinner time rolls around, I can't muster up the courage to eat anything, or do anything cause I feel sooooo bad. BTW, to the family I have been ditching over the past few weekends, its been because of how sick I am all the time. Being in the car for long periods of time and eating anything other than crackers when I feel sick, will pretty much guarantee I'll throw up. Let alone chasing around a 2 year old while socializing with family and friends. So, I'm sorry for being a bad sister/daughter.... but I really did have a good reason!!!
Seriously though, 2 weeks before the cat is out of the bag! AHH! It is soooo hard not saying anything. Especially because on Facebook, 4 of my friends are pregnant too! They are due much earlier than me, but it is sooooo hard not to say anything! Its really hard not to tell my family either, especially my MIL. I see her every week (sometimes twice) cause she watches Bitty Boy for me sometimes while I go to work/run errands. I've felt so crummy and out of steam. Whenever I go over there she's does all the crawling around on the floor, chasing after him, etc. I feel so bad. It would be sooo much easier if she knew.
Plus, she watches him for doctor's appointments (which she doesn't know). She watches Bitty Boy while we go on "dates". Technically they are dates because Hubs and I go out to lunch afterward. We are very careful to make sure that we fall under these technicalities! We actually chose our doctor for 2 reasons: 1- its an awesome practice that is connected with a great hospital (our previous hospital was a mess), and 2- its incredibly close to MIL's. Having a 2 year old running around a doctor's office while messing with "stuff" down there doesn't sound like a good idea to me. So off to Nana's house he goes (as long as after reading this she still wants to).
This morning sickness is really kicking my butt though. I'm so grateful to be pregnant, though, don't get me wrong. But, I never forget I'm pregnant because of how gross I feel. The best way to describe it is this: imagine you go to the movie theater on an empty stomach and down a large coke and a bag of buttery popcorn all by your onsies. That gross, nasty, over full feeling, yeah you know what I'm talking about. Well its like that, but never goes away! Luckily I work in the morning so my student's haven't had to see me rush off to hurl. (well one time I did, but to no relief).
Speaking of school, I am excited that my due date did get moved back later. School next year will start on the 9th, so if I do get rehired, I will have a week or 2 to work before Due Date! I really hope they rehire me. Working part time has been awesome and even if I only take a few weeks off, going back part time so early is really not a huge deal (as long as I can get my doc to sign off on it). Plus, looking for a job again over the summer when I'm huge is going to be very difficult. Who wants to hire a big preggo when she's going to ditch you for a few weeks of maternity leave? I have about 3 weeks of sick days saved up now, and if I do get hired next year, I will have 5 weeks. Thinking I'll just take off 3 or 4 then go back as long as its only the 1 class I will teach. Hopefully I'll know if I'm being hired back or not BEFORE I let them know I am pregnant. I also have to look at my teaching contract and make sure I have some kind of job protection since I am only going to be using my sick days (where my sub is paid out of my benefits), I still get paid cause I saved them and didn't use them last year or this year, and I'm not taking unpaid days leave.
So anyway, sorry this post is so long. I know you all are catching up because I haven't published this until I am 12 weeks along. But I really only have Hubs to talk to about this stuff, and you know as much as Hubs tries to understand, he's a guy, he really doesn't get it.