No appetite, good appetite, no appetite

Well last Thursday I got my appetite back, and food didn't seem so awful. I was good until Sunday night. Then I had issues again. Sometimes food just won't go down. It's not even like I have nausea, Food just won't go down. Today I feel better. I have so far lost weight, but I am not too worried about that. It is just weird because it's not like I am not eating, I actually don't get sick all that often. I am trying to keep up with walking. Of course a few months ago (before I was pregnant) I was watching what I ate exercising everyday, drinking 8 glasses of water and never lost weight. I gained some but never really lost. Now I am not trying at all to lose, still trying to eat healthy and I am losing a little everyday. Oh well I am sure it will all catch up to me eventually:-)Chad has been doing good with getting his own meals together on nights I am not that hungry and don't want to cook. Maybe by the end of this he will be quite the gourmet:-)

Back at work

Man it is hard to be back at work after a nice long vacation. However usually when I get back from somewhere I don't have something to look forward to, so I just do work. About a week before I leave I am thinking about the vacation, making last minute plans, checking out everything and not thinking about work. When I am on vacation I don't think about work at all. So a week vacation is more like 2. Of course this time I do have something bigger to think about.
I have been trying to do some research on what I can and shouldn't drink. I do like a cup of coffee every once in a while, and that is fine. However I was wondering if tea would be more beneficial. Of course if you read any kind of authoritative guide it will tell you a cup or two of coffee a day is fine. However since no decent study has been done on any kind of tea stay away from it at all costs. I think those guides are just trying to cover their butts. So I have doing some more research I suspect there have been decent studies done but since they weren't funded by Lipton or some other big company that can pay for a big press release.
I have found a few bits of information that says raspberry leaf tea is good to drink throughout your pregnancy....1 cup a day the first trimester, 2 cups during the second, and 3 the third(?). Then there are warnings that this tea isn't good for you at all. The reasoning all basically contradicts each other.
I started this search because I have mint tea at my desk and wanted to know if it is ok. Most "authoritative guides" say don't make tea from ANY herb in your backyard unless you are SURE it is ok. Well I have mint in my backyard, which is a common backyard tea herb. So I went looking and it turns out, mint tea appears to be fine and good for calming your stomach. Which is good because so far all I have found for calming a stomach is ginger which has made my stomach turn at the thought of it since I babysat a couple of kids a long time ago, and all they had in their house to eat was ginersnap cookies. I was so ill the next day I have never wanted ginger again.
So the verdict for now, Mint Tea = OK, Lipton decaffeinated tea = GREAT, Coffee = Under 3 cups perfectly fine, Any other kind of tea= evil!!!!!!!! So I will do some more research for now, I will break this chockhold Lipton has on woman everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!

Back from the Doctor

Well it is officially official. We got to see an ultrasound and saw a little heartbear in a wee little thing inside of me. We both feel just more relieved. There was just something about having it confirmed by a doctor. Everything looks healthy and normal so far. Chad was there. Afterwards we drove to the hospital to see where it was. It is kind of far for us, but with our health care plan we only have so many choices, and I wanted to go to a birthing center. And the due date is March 4.

Back from vacation

We just got back from an amazing vacation all over Nothern Michigan. We did a canoe trip in the UP, went to Sault Ste. Marie and LSSU. Did lots of geocaching. Belle had a great time too. We are all very tired. We rested most of the day yesterday (Which was Friday we got home on Thursday night). Right now we are trying to get a start on organizing the computer room and spare room. We will eventually have to move the computer stuff into the spare room so the computer room can be a nursery. We will need to get rid of a lot of stuff that we don't need and Chad will have to do some work in the crawl space to get the cable all hooked up. The doctors appointment is on Monday!

Morning sickness? Yeah all day sickness

I don't know if I experience morning sickness, nerves, or just regular sickness...maybe a combination of all of the above. Anyways I came home from work on Tuesday with a headache. It was small, but at home it started to get worse. I made dinner and ate. My head started to hurt worse after dinner. I had a Stephen's Ministry meeting to go to, so I went to take a 20 minute nap. Just as I started to relax Chad and Belle came in to wake me up in time for my meeting. I hesitated going, but it was just a headache....right? Well I forgot but with my really bad headache I get nauseous. Since I don't know what I can take for a headache I took nothing. I debated going to the meeting, but decided to go. During the meeting the headache got worse and worse, and so did the nausea. I finally got home (after a quick trip to CVS for prenatal vitamins) and before I could even get close to the bathroom I began to throw up. I was all over me....the bathroom....everywhere. I put my clothes in the washer right away, clean the bathroom, and went to bed. I throw up again that night. Yesterday morning I didn't feel any better. I tried to eat a little bit of cantaloupe and nope.....that came up too. I stayed home all day, working from home, and trying to sleep the headache away. The headache finally started to go away after dinner time I made plain white rice and was able to keep it down. I had another meeting to go to last night, it only lasted for an hour or so. I started to feel better.
Later Chad and I went shopping to get some items for our canoe trip next week. We also made a stop at Borders to get some baby books. Of course at Borders we had to do a quick check to make sure no one we knew was there, since we are still trying to keep everything a secret. We got two books "what to expect when you are expecting" and a book for Chad for expectant fathers (don't remember the title). We must have looked so silly holding those books and looking around and just being silly. Also it took us a while to find the section they are in.....and we didn't dare ask anyone!
By the time we were done spending way to much money for the night, I was actually feeling hungry and headache free. So I suggested ice cream. It stayed down!
Today my head is fine, I am trying to stay hydrated. I even had a chicken sandwich from Burger King for lunch.
Maybe tonight I will actually start to read the book!

We are expecting

So Chad and I have been married now for 6 years. When we were first married Chad was still in college, so one bugged us much about having kids. Of course around the 4th year that is about all people would ask us. Like nothing else matters unless you procreate. It wasn't "how is your job?" "Do you like your new house?".....it was "so when are you going to have kids?". Our answer was generally the same "We will start thinking about it at 5 years".....of course no one ever seemed to hear that answer. After 5 years we changed the answer to "We don't want to discuss it".....no one ever seemed to hear that answer as well. Actually that answer seem to make things worse because it sounded like we were anti-kids....It wasn't that at all, we just don't discuss that. I cringe when I hear people announce "We're trying".....I honestly don't care, do they want me to respond "ohhh how often are you trying what positions?" I don't care about other peoples lives in the bedroom, and I also don't discuss mine with others. So that is what we were trying to avoid. However no matter how hard we tried to explain that, it appears no one actually listened to us.
Anyhoo, the next hurdle we know we have to cross is the wait to tell people. We both want to wait until after the first trimester to begin to tell everyone. This helps us get used to the idea and ready to answer all of your questions, and just to make sure everything is good. Of course waiting until you are 3 months along could upset some people. But that is why I have created this blog. It will cover that time so you can read what happened before you knew. It will be a way to still share what you might have missed:-)
So how did we find out we were expecting? Well it was actually kind of simple. I missed a period, we had to do some shopping at Meijer. So we bought a test kit there. Of course we looked around to make sure no one we knew was nearby. Can't you just imagine it deep in discussion about which one to get an you turn to see someone from church? I've run into my sister-in at that Meijer before....although I am sure she would keep our secret;-) I did the test why Chad put away groceries, and tada it was positive.
I have since found an OBGYN, my first appointment is on the 18th of July. I was fortunate to be able to stay home a little later than normal, because it should be a slow week (GM is off), and no one was expecting me in early as usual.
I figured I would go to my primary doctor first than pick a OBGYN, well my primary doctor refused to take me (well refuse it a little harsh but still kind of weird) they recommended that I go to an OBGYN in Dearborn. This was to far and I had seen him before and disliked him and the office immensely so I said I would find one on my own. Then I called an office located in Livonia, the woman making the appointment was soooo nice which for me is a good sign of a nice office. What I neglect to mention is that I was having issues with both places in regards to the phone. Each time I called the first time they couldn't hear me. So I would have to call back and say "Please tell me you can hear me". But I got the appointment and headed off to work. So now I am here starting this blog.....which won't be made public until......well I guess you will know when.