When life gives you lemons...

Celebrate! We have a lemon! Well, more accurately, our baby is the size of a lemon (I’m 14 weeks today).

I still feel as if I don’t have many ‘real’ symptoms of pregnancy, which might make each day seem like a walk in the park. But that’s not entirely true. Everyday I feel as though I’m starving, on the brink of death starving! Unless I feed my hunger every 2 hours or so, my body goes from normal to awful in 5 minutes flat. I also noticed early on, the dizziness that can accompany getting up too quickly or standing after kneeling. Evidently that’s caused by a lower-than-normal blood pressure when you’re pregnant. Also, after sitting for long periods or getting up too quickly from any sitting position, I’ll have sharp pains in my tummy. Applying pressure or rubbing the pain helps, but it happens almost everyday. According to my books, that symptom is caused by stretching muscles and ligaments. So everything I’m experiencing has an explanation, and it’s not constant, so it doesn’t seem so bad. I can’t think of the last time I slept through the night though…that is one thing I miss immensely (that’s a bi-product of getting up for restroom runs throughout the night now).

Other than that, there have only been emotional changes, like crying at mushy commercials or when I’m happy. And crying A LOT when I’m sad or upset. And Phil gets the worst of it…if I’m lazy or whiny he gets to deal with it. Or when I’m moody and irrational, he gets to deal with it. But I keep checking in with him to make sure I’m not making him too crazy and he assures me I’m ok (and more importantly, WE’RE ok).