The First Few Questions

A couple of the first questions I get asked is "how do I feel" and "do I get morning sickness".  Most days I feel pretty good.  At first I was a bit tired, now it comes and goes.  As for morning sickness, I've only had a few bouts of nausea, mostly triggered by stress.  It really doesn't surprise me, though.  Since at least high school, I've had a bad habit of working myself into a fit of anxiety, sometimes to the point of being physically ill.  The fact that I've always had issues with motion sickness hasn't helped either ("they" say both are related).  Luckily, the prenatal vitamins don't bother my stomach, but the DHA pill I take right before I go to sleep, they taste disgusting on their way back up.  ;o)

These days when somebody asks me how I feel, I pretty much always answer, "hungry."  I haven't had any real food aversions or cravings, but I LOVE me some Mexican food.  I could pretty much eat tacos 5 times a day (and that's mostly before 3 PM).  I am constantly hungry, which worries me a little, but the scale says I'm still doing pretty well.

Other than that, everything seems pretty good.  We'll see how the next 2 trimesters go...

A New Beginning

As you must have heard by now (or you wouldn't be reading this), Chad and I are expecting our first 2-legged child in April!  It's been an interesting road over the past 11 weeks and we couldn't be more excited to share the news with our family and friends.  We've decided to keep a separate blog to update those who would like to follow along voluntarily instead of my bombarding FB friends with all things pregnancy.

Until then, here is the first pic of our little alien.  The little arrowhead shaped blob next to the perfectly round circle is our soon-to-be munchkin. 

Please stay tuned as I hope to update again soon when I have some quiet time.  For now, its time to eat.... Again.