Bring It On, Pregnancy!!

I can't believe that I'm not even 5 weeks yet and I'm getting all kinds of crazy pregnancy symptoms already! All of them suck, but I say, BRING IT ON! To me the pregnancy symptoms just mean that everything is alright. (Do I really have 7 more weeks to worry about miscarriages?? Ugh..)

Since I will be 5 weeks on Monday and I've been through almost a whole week of knowing about my pregnancy let's see what I've been through:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Dizziness
• Lower abdominal cramps (just my uterus starting to make room)
• Cravings (!!! Sourdough bread, licorice and In N Out!)
• Fatigue
• Emotional outbursts (crying over nothing, getting snappy with Ronnie)
• EXTREME HUNGER!
• Outbreak of pimples (Ew!)
• Darkening of nipples. (TMI, I know, but pregnancy is a TMI kinda subject... Just wait til I get to tell the birth story later on!)

Doesn't pregnancy sound like so much fun??? It's even more fun when you also have a husband and toddler to take care of. It's just a good thing that women do all the childbearing. If it were left up to my husband he'd be laying on the couch for 9 months eating everything in the house while complaining that his tummy hurts.

I love my hubby, but he could never handle what I do... He says he'd like me to try his job and he'd do mine for a day and we'll see who does better. I keep telling him to bring it on! He swears all I do all day long is sit on the computer while Camron plays nicely on the floor next to me. HA! Wouldn't that be nice? Just once I'd like to see him try out my job as a Stay At Home Mom... I'd like to see him do it for a WHOLE MONTH! (Just for good measure...)

I'M HUNGRY!

Holy moly, I've never been so hungry in my whole life! I don't even remember being THIS hungry when I was pregnant with Camron. I'm taking it as a good sign that the teeny little bean in my belly is growing at a good pace. I think I should really go out and buy some fruits and veggies for me to snack on throughout the day though. The last thing I need is to be gaining 20 pounds in the first trimester!!

Let's see, so far today I've had:
Toast and Chocolate Milk
Bowl of Left-over Beef Stroganoff
Spaghetti-Os w/Franks
Sourdough Jack & Curly Fries from Jack in the Box(I was craving sourdough bread today!!)
....and now I'm probably gonna go raid the cupboards once more because I'm STARVING!

I have a feeling that this baby is going to be nothing like Camron. So far this pregnancy is the complete opposite! With Camron I was 3 weeks late before I got a positive test. With Baby #2 I tested a day before my missed period and that second line showed up right away. With Camron I wasn't nauseous in the beginning. Obviously with this one I was nauseous WAY before my missed period. With Camron I had cravings in the beginning, but I don't remember being super hungry ALL THE TIME! With this one I feel like I haven't eaten all day an hour or two after I ate a meal. Maybe all of this means that I won't have problems with this baby. Maybe my pregnancy and labor will go fast and smooth with this one.... Here's hoping. So far, so good! =)

Pregnant?? Or just going crazy?

I'm so confused right now!!

May 2nd - Friday night I was out with Lizz at Denny's when I started feeling waves of dizzyness. It would come and go and only last about 15 seconds each. I kept mentioning it to Lizz, but I just brushed it off. Later that night when I got home I just felt generally icky, but chaulked it up to the big bowl of ice cream I had just finished off. :P

May 3rd - Saturday morning my mom calls me to let me know that Sam's water broke. I felt ok when I got up, but by 10am I felt COMPLETELY nauseous.... I laid on the couch feeling that way all day long watching tv while Ronnie took care of Camron. I only managed to eat some crackers and drink some 7up. That evening I threw up out of no where and felt so much better! BTW, I bawled my eyes out watching Trading Spaces. Cried again when Ronnie was playing with Camron because they are so cute together. Cried again that night when I told Ronnie I was sorry for being sick all day.

May 4th - Sunday morning I was determined to visit Sam in the hospital who just had her first baby! I ate a few crackers before I got out of bed. That whole day I was ok, but felt underlying nausea all day long... i just kinda pushed past it so I could see my new niece in person. On this day I cried while picking out my sister's card I was going to bring her. Like literally bawling my eyes out in the middle of Target... by myself... while reading "Congratulations!" cards. I also started crying at the hospital when I saw Summer and once again while watching CNN's Morgage Crisis.... a lady was losing her house.

May 5th - Monday morning I woke up at 5am feeling like I needed to rush to the bathroom... The nausea was so overwhelming! It didn't go away until 7pm that night. At that time I felt fine... just really hungry, so I ate a bowl of cereal.

May 6th - Today I woke up feeling fine. A little achy from laying down for 3 days, but over all I feel fine. Every now and then I'll feel a wave of nausea come over me, but nothing like the past 3 days!

Anyway, I'm pretty sure everyone is gonna tell me I'm pregnant, but would there be ANY other reason to be feeling like this?! AM I GOING CRAZY?! I have no other symptoms of anything like the flu.... And there's a possibility that I COULD be preggo, but I just don't want to get my hopes up just yet.

Just a little background:
The first day of my LMP was March 28th, but I usually have 35 - 40 day cycles. (Today is day 39 in this cycle.) AND with Camron a pregnancy test didn't show positive until I was almost 4 weeks late! I guess I'll just see what happens in the new few weeks. I'm really hoping that I am pregnant this time. If I am it would make Camron just over 2 years old when a new baby arrived. I think that's pretty good spacing.

**CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOR US !**