Today I am officially considered 8 weeks! Woo! Since I was going off of an online due date calculator, which ended up not being 100% accurate for me, I ended up having to live through week 7 twice! That was a long second week!
So far my symptoms are pretty sporadic, other than being tired, which is constant and overwhelming. Every now and then I am nauseated from breakfast to bed time. I have realized that milk and milk-like products are a huge no-no. We made some tetrazzini the other night, which contains whipping cream and mushrooms. Not sure whether it was the whipping cream or the mushrooms or both, but needless to say I will be staying away from both of those items. I’ve also been eating cheese and crackers for a mid-day snack, but not I’m just down to crackers. It’s all totally worth it though! Also, my breasts are huge, my nipples are tender and getting up even slightly quickly makes me dizzy. So, nothing really new besides the nausea being really nasty when it decides to visit. Still haven’t thrown up yet though! Woo!
Last time I mentioned that my doctor said I could stop progesterone the day of my appointment. That would have been 7 weeks 2 days, so after some super Googling, I realized that almost everyone who has gone through this has been on the suppositories until at least week 10. So I decided that I would self medicate… ha! On 7 weeks 2 days I started weaning myself off. I didn’t want to go from 300 units (forget how they are measured) to nothing so early in the pregnancy before the placenta had even taken over! So now I’m doing 200 a day. One suppository every 12 hours. So far I feel exactly the same, except my boobs hurt a little more and the nausea has stepped up it’s game, but I’m not sure if it’s related to decreasing my dosage, or getting closer to 8 weeks. I guess we’ll see how it goes when I get down to 1 a day. I’m going to start 1 a day this Friday and go until the following Friday. That way when I go into my first OB appointment on Monday and they check my progesterone, if it turns out my body isn’t making enough, i’ll know right away instead of 2 weeks later! I think that seems like a logical plan, right? RIGHT?!
In other news, I went to a party on Saturday (one my of most nauseated days so far) and I was sitting down to eat with the hostess (one of my most favorite people). She knows that I’m pregnant, so when I was only eating a piece of cornbread and some mashed potatoes, she understood that I had eaten dinner before arriving. No way I can wait until 8:00 to eat dinner anymore! So as we were sitting there, and I was eating slowly to make sure everything was going to settle, I noticed that she wasn’t eating a lot, and when she did eat she was making this “ugh” noise. So I looked at her and said, “is there something you need to tell me?” So we went upstairs to have a little chat. Turns out she got a positive HPT on Friday! That is SO exciting! She’s only 3 weeks and a day behind me too, so that’s even more exciting. I’m wishing the best for us both so that we can get big and pregnant together and then have little ones super close together. Amazing! And it only took her three months of trying, which makes me so happy for her. Sticky vibes!!
I know my updating has been lacking, but I think I’m going to stick with updating each week and after appointments. It makes me feel more confident that things are progressing. 🙂
Next appointment: November 26th! (2 weeks to go!)
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