Week 6 Almost Over

Oh, how I hate week 6.  The beginning of symptoms - lots of symptoms. 

--Am tossing and turning and not sleeping great.  I have busted out all the pillows and my husband has to dig around to find me through them all.
--I am sick to my stomach or have indigestion all the time.  Before I eat, after eat and everything in between.  The only time I feel truly good is while I am eating.  So I try to eat all the time.  I burp and fart, it is terrible.
--I drop everything.  My dexterity is terrible. Very clumsy, but for right now it is just my hands, I haven't fallen down or anything.
--Exhaustion comes and goes.  Mostly it comes. 
--Crabbiness and plain "I don't care about anything" ness.  My friend equated it to depression, it really is.

Oh the joys of pregnancy.  Jac keeps asking me why I don't feel good, we are seriously needing to tell these children.  (Just so I can complain more openly.)

I go to the doctor on Thursday for the first time. 

Symptoms Here - Week 6

Today I got some real symptoms, darn it.  So in general things have been smooth, no issues.  I basically think that all of the symptoms I have had were just my head messing with me.  But today, wow, nausea.  Yuk.  I was doing okay, maybe a little fatigued and this afternoon after doing some chores I HAD to eat an orange.  So I ate an orange and it helped the nausea a little, but then I laid down for about 30 minutes and that helped me a lot.  I was pretty good after an hour or so. 

So now I am worried I am going to have this happen every afternoon.  It is going to get rough. 

I also am starting to have some dreams and not sleep so great.  Just sort of tossing and turning, which generally doesn't happen to me.  I usually sleep like a log whenever my kids are up in the middle of the night.  So we'll see.

My sister is here this week and she is wanting me to stop drinking caffeine.  Which I think is a good idea in theory, it just may hurt which I am not prepared for.  But tomorrow would be the day to do it as I don't have anything at all going on and the kids are at school all day.  So we'll see, I think I already said that.

Prego - Week 5

You heard it!  I am pregnant.  I totally didn't think I was last week.  I was convinced because I started!  I wouldn't I think that I wasn't.  Well, I did the same thing that I did with my daughter, I had implantation bleeding for 3 days.  This mimicked my standard period as I generally spot early.  But one thing was different, I stopped.  I completely quit bleeding on day 4.  That was strange.  I had some constipation also on that day which is highly unusual for me. The next day, day 5 of my supposed period there was nothing, no blood again.  So I took a test, and bam, I am prego.  No doubt about it.

So, my due date according to my calculation is November 17, although I will definitely let the doctor give me an official one.  I am so excited that I will have an October or November baby.  I tend to go early, 1 week early with my son and 4 weeks early with my daughter, so it isn't unrealistic to think that I will have an October baby.   Although of course I want to go full term, both babies were perfect with great Apgar's even though they were early.

So here we go.  So far at the end of week four, tomorrow is Day 1 of week 5, I have no other symptoms.  Maybe a little more hunger and I was a little naseaus the other day when I ate too quickly, really no other symptoms. 

Day 21 - Third Day with Elevated Temp

I am actually not sure if it is day 21 or day 18.  I am now beginning to wonder if my spotting actually counted as day 1 of my cycle or not.  I didn't ovulate until day 16, and with a short cycle that seems odd.  But if it was actually day 13, that totally makes sense.  Regardless, I ovulated.  I believe it was Friday, could have been Saturday.  I have had an elevated temp since Sunday, so for three days. 

I just have to wait 15 more days to officially declare I am prego - or not.  I should start in 7 to 10 days depending on the whole starting date of cycle issue.  We'll see. (Honestly, don't feel like I am.  But it would be only four days post conception.)

Day 13 of Cycle - Gearing Up

Over the weekend I got to sleep in and I had a temperature that was higher than usual.  It came in at 98 degrees, whereas normally I am around 97.6 degrees.  I thought, holy cow, I am ovulating early.  But it was just because I slept in.  That extra two hours of sleep let my body temp rise .4 degrees.  So I went ahead and looked online at how big of a jump to expect when ovulating.

So the shift actually happens after ovulation by a day or two although it should start climbing immediately after.  And the shift is only .4 to .6 degrees.  I am also looking for the cervical mucus to indicate that I am in a fertile time period. 

So over the next couple of days, I should begin to see an increase in mucus and then by Friday I should see an increase in temperature. 

Day 8 of Cycle - Same old, Same old

Which is fine, there should be nothing exciting happening on day 8 of your cycle.  Just come off of my period and gearing up for the midmonth "work".  I am taking my temperature every morning.  I have been running at 97.8 or 97.9 degrees.  I should be up .4 to .5 degrees when I ovulate. 

We were talking tonight about how the kids still aren't quite sure about the whole "baby in the belly" thing and how all that works.  Jac at one point this summer said something to the effect of Mommy was in Daddy's belly, Jac was in my belly and Mia was in his belly.  Sort of psuedo Russian dolls.  Of one thing he is sure, he definitely came out of my belly.  How the rest of us got here, well we may never know.

Day 5 of Cycle - Started Basal Temp Readings

Yesterday was a good day.  I finally was fully convinced that I was not pregnant.  I started my period more fully, no more just spotting so of course that helped.  I also got some cramps, also a good sign.  I began to feel normal as the day wore on, very good.

This morning I started taking my basal temperature.  It was 97.9 degrees.  I run very cool during the first part of my cycle.  I started taking my temperature, maybe,  a year before I wanted to get pregnant the first time.  I had it in my head that it would be very difficult and I wanted to set myself up for success.

I tracked my temperature for a long time and it really helped me get to know my body.  It is good that I am doing this again.  I will get a better feel for my cycle as it stands now, because it has definitely changed since my first pregnancy. It is shorter and less predictable.  I will have a  little more assurance that I am ovulating because of the temperature swing.  All very good things.