Week five was very uneventful. In fact the only reason we knew I am pregnant was the multiple pregnancy tests I took. After periodically re-reading three positive tests, I think we now believe the news. Once in a while I had hot flashes at night and I had to throw off the covers. But I really can't complain.
We enjoyed sharing our news with our immediate family and a few friends who happen to be pretty good detectives. The Grandparents and Fairy Godparents are all very excited. Both friends and family have offered plenty of helpful advice about pregnancy and how our lives will soon be changing. We also received our first gifts for the baby. They're so cute and so tiny!
Week six has been a little more of a challenge, but overall not too bad. We took a trip to the doctor this morning in the hopes of discovering the cause of the back pain I have been experiencing. The pain has been progressively worsening over the last couple of weeks and most recently has been waking me up throughout the night. Good news from the doctor though, it's probably not a disc problem. He sent me home with a prescription for physical therapy and told me I should take frequent light walks as studies have show activity helps to heal back pain more than taking it easy.
Mom and I spent a little time shopping the clearance racks on Wednesday night. We found some really great deals! I bought a few cute maternity shirts and a pair of pants. Of course, we also checked out the newborn clearance racks. We picked up a few little outfits and Eric also found a great Minnesota Gopher onesie and hat.
We're slowly trying to figure out all of the things we are going to need for the pregnancy and for the baby. It's a little overwhelming at first, especially because we're trying to identify the things that we will really "need" and weed out all of the things advertisers like to say you need but we can really live without. Fortunately, we have some time.
We had our first experiencing of trying to "hide" my pregnancy from my work colleagues (at least until we are into our second trimester and the risk of a miscarriage decreases). We went out to celebrate a Happy Hour with a few colleagues while one was in town from The Netherlands. Eric knew exactly what to do. We arrived before anyone else and Eric asked the waiter to get me a root beer in a pint size beer glass. It worked! At least no one hinted they were thinking something. There was that challenge at the end when the bill came with "root beet" as the first item. But fortunately, everyone seemed to just look at the total. We'll share our little secret with them in about six weeks.
I have started to chart my pregnancy symptoms (graph below). I'm charting by week so there's not much there yet, but it should be interested to see how things change week to week.
Well, we're off to dinner with some friends. I am thinking salad. Since I don't have any aversions to food yet, maybe I'll just pick what ever strikes me when I read the menu.
