Week 10

Today we're 10 weeks pregnant. We're feeling relieved to have made it this far. We have just two weeks to go before our risk of miscarriage drops significantly. We're still trying to keep our little secret between ourselves and just a few other people, but we're finding it more and more difficult. Fortunately, our first ultrasound is scheduled just one and a half weeks away. I'm sure that as soon as we have a picture of our little peanut, we won't be able to contain ourselves anymore and we'll start calling up all the family and friends to share our news.

Week 10 was chalked full of ups and downs, but we made it through. At the beginning of the week I was feeling kind of icky, but the middle of Week 10 brought relief. In fact, I was feeling so much better that I started second guessing whether I'm actually pregnant. It's embarrassing to admit but I took another pregnancy test this week just to reassure me that we're still pregnant. Turns out we probably didn't need to waste the test because the next day the nausea, headache and persistent fatigue hit again. It's funny how I've grown so accustomed to feeling bad that it was almost a relief to feel nauseated again because it signifies to me that I am still pregnant. Well if things go for us as they do for most pregnancies and I start to feel much better in the second trimester, I'll have to find a way to reassure myself that things are still going well without emptying Walgreens' shelves of pregnancy tests. I suppose once I really start to show, my growing belly will be our reassuring sign that we're still pregnant.

Mom, two great friends and I went garage sale shopping yesterday. My shopping focus was, of course, baby stuff. I hit the jackpot on onsies and little baby caps. It was so much fun to find such cute (almost never warn) little clothes for our little peanut. I came home with about 15 onsies or different sizes and a few other select items. After garage sale shopping, Mom and I hit REI and I made our first big purchase... the stroller. We looked them up and down and finally settled on a BOB. I can't wait to take it out of the box a put the wheels on. But Eric, the voice of reason again, reminded that if we put it together now it will just gather dust downstairs in the many months before December. So we'll put it aside and save the joy of breaking out the new stroller for November.

We're headed down to Rochester today for a birthday lunch with my Grandpa. We're planning to share the news with my Grandparents over lunch. We're looking forward to their reaction. I think they'll be excited. Well better hit the road if we're going to make it there by lunch-time.

Here's a new look at the pregnancy symptom tracker to date.