week 9 - our baby is the size of a green olive!
next minimilestone- 9 days- ultrasound #2 on 11/17

Wahooooo- we made it to week 9! If you read my blog- I would like to draw your attention to the little bubble ticker at the side that shows the fetus. Seriously- how different is it from just 2 weeks ago? let alone 5 weeks ago? It amazes me to look at that little globe of baby- our baby looks like a little mini person now, not a worm/tadpole/alien. I still feel great, really really great. I get random twinges/cramps, mild occasional (and I mean occasional like really really occasional and random) nausea, sore boobs, and constipation - but besides that, which is completely managable and not worth talking about much, I am great. Plus- the bathroom issues are my fault now- my ob/gyn gave me a prescription for Colace to help me out, but I have yet to fill it because I was doing ok for a bit- i will be picking it up today because now it has been a couple days. I used to laugh a little and just kind of shrug it off when people posted about pooping issues during pregnancy- now i get it, I really do- not fun :)

I will say that I am a bit worried about feeling great- I wasn't before because everyone is different, you ladies have reassured me, told me not to ask for trouble- I was (and still pretty much am) good with it. Then at the Dr. when I said I felt great and she told me that was genetic, I said how my mom was 'sick as a dog' (her words),- well then she made me make another appt. Feeling great was part of the reason she wanted me to get another u/s, 'to reassure myself that my lack of symptoms were not because they baby stopped growing'. Thanks for putting that thought in my head... I really should look into a new dr. (the heartrate thing, this, she just kind of stinks), but that idea scares me too because who knows who I would find. I just think it is bogus for her to say it is genetic. What about the people I know who have wonderful 1st pregnancies, and then are so sick they can barely function the next? where are the genes in that?... my dr. drives me nuts.

U/S decision- i decided to go earlier. I talked to Eric and he is ok with waiting until after thanksgiving to tell his family. At first it made me a little sad he is ok with it, like why are you not bursting with the news, but I realized that after seeing how i was after the chem. pregnancy- he is all about doing whatever I need to do to be comfortable about this. He is waiting for me, not because of lack of excitement. So we are going to go for our u./s on 11/17 (10 weeks 2 days). I will schedule the NT for Friday 12/5 (12 weeks 6 days), and then the next family GTG after that- which might be Hannukah, (at 15 weeks) will be the big tell.

So Eric and I were talking and I said we need a name to call the baby while I am pregnant. Some of my favorite ladies in the world call theirs 'The Goonie", "The Gummy", The Dude, The Kid... We are not going to find out the sex and I just want a name for him/her. I called him/her the MnM since our last name starts with an M... That is cute online, when typed, and all- but sounds funny speaking. So what does my brilliant husband suggest- Lester. And no joke- even though he was kidding, and I turned it down, he has now thought it was funny to call the baby Lester, and something that started as a haha joke to make Carly annoyed, has now caught on- and he is actually calling the baby Lester without premeditation. Help me, seriously :) I said what if it is a girl, how will we explain this- he said we could lie and say we called her Lesterette or Lesterina... My goofy husband makes me laugh- a lot.

In other news- 3 day weekend for me! I am meeting my mom and sister for our quarterly shopping binge at Woodbury Commons. We may all live in different states, but at least 3, usually 4 times a year, we go up to Woodbury Commons in upstate NY, and shop all day. It is an amazing outlet mall that is outdoors in the middle of the Catskills. They have outlets for regular stores- Gap, Banana, Nike, Ann Taylor, etc... but then they have outlets for stores like Michael Kors, Coach, Armani, Waterford, Crate & Barrel, etc. We have sooo much fun together, it is totally our girl thing, and I am hoping I get a great dent in on my xmas shopping!

TTYL my lovelies... signing out to spend a Saturday afternoon with my H