8th Week Belly Pic and First Real Morning Sickness

At church the morning I got to experience my first (and I am hoping my last) real morning sickness. One minute I am standing there singing for worship - suddenly I feel really hot and sick to my stomach (worse than usual). At community time a go to the bathroom and am sick. Fortunately I actually felt much better for the rest of service as long as I was sitting down. I have lazed around for the past couple hours and think I am alright now - needing to eat something other than Ritz crackers though so we will see how that goes.

In the past week I am found that things are definitely changing. I am needing to do a bit of bra shopping and I am much happier without my pants buttoned. Luckily Target rocks and they now carry the BellaBand type thing which I picked up yesterday - great invention! I can't believe you can see a bit of belly already at 8 weeks! One more month before you want to let the cat out of the bag and tell everyone . . .

8th Week

Still the little grape but . . .

I was reading last night in my books it will be the size of a peach at the end of this 4 weeks -crazy!

Belly Shots and the First Baby Pictures

We have taken to calling the baby whatever size my books say it is, so at first it was the little tic-tac. Then the bean and now the grape.

So I finally got around to getting all the pictures I have taken in the past month off my camera and getting them uploaded. Here are the belly shots so far:

4 Weeks (the day we found out) -

Nothing to see here . . .

The tic-tac stage

5th Week - Still nothing . . .

The bean

Week 7 - Maybe a little something . . . or maybe just a big meal

The little grape

The picture doesn't really show it but Jesse and I could both tell that my stomach wasn't flat anymore by the 7th week. Monday my friend Heather says - your stomach is totally not flat anymore! Depending on the cloths I definitely think it is showing a little by the end of the 7th week but not enough that anyone would say anything yet . . .

First Baby Pictures

On Friday we got to go for our first ultrasound - first baby pictures - I am so excited!

So now I think it

looks more like an olive than a grape :)

The head is at the left side of the picture and the black circle is part of the brain.

The ultrasound was very neat. They measured the little grape and confirmed the March 20 due date. They also recorded the heartbeat and measured it - 158 beats per minute - just right. While they were doing the ultrasound you could actually see the heart beating . . . amazing! Jesse was interested in how the ultrasounds worked (in case anyone else is wondering the waves go right through liquid so all the black parts are liquid filled sections and the waves bounce off anything else).