As Cory observantly noticed, I posted the last post in ‘being sick’ and for good reason.  The last couple days have actually been pretty good.  Last I weighed in, I was down six pounds.  Nausea, vomiting, extreme sensitivity to food smells, food aversions, aversions to chewing…the first trimester isn’t my friend!  I’ve thrown up less (knock on wood) than I did at this point with E but I’m WAY more sensitive to food smells.

A few weeks ago I started having weird dreams, thinking food smelled off and threw up twice (on different days).  I didn’t really think much about it.  Jim jokingly asked if I was pregnant.  Since we’d been trying for almost a year without anything happening, I thought he was nuts.  So to prove him wrong, I took the test.  He had come home early that day and was taking a shower, so i went upstairs and handed him the test (in the shower).  And then I sat down in utter shock.   When I’m not busy being sick, I’m still in that state.

Due date is up in the air.  According to my LMP, I’m due at the end of December.  But my cycles are rather funky and I think I had more like a 60-day cycle, not a 28-day cycle.  So that would put me at the end of January.  They’ll date it at our 20-week ultrasound.

Elizabeth is ecstatic.  She is SUCH a baby lover & nurturer.  She talks about the baby non-stop.  She has plans to nurse the baby (oh, how helpful that’d be!), change the diapers (she wants to do dirty ones, not wet ones) and for the baby to sleep in her bed.

Instead of waiting until after the first trimester again, we decided to go ahead and tell the news.  Last time I was about 14 weeks before we told.  Our families are, of course, thrilled.

I have a lot of concerns that I’m not really ready to go into right now.  A lot.  But right now I’m trying to focus on staying out of the bathroom, staying awake through the day (not easy w/E’s night sleep) and getting through the next few weeks.

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