10 week appt

I am really starting to suck at these updates.  This first trimester is flying by, and I really haven't kept much record of much of it. 

Here's what's been going on....

Still feeling nauseous most days.  I've found that if I eat quickly in the morning, snack by 10, lunch by 12, and keep going on the snacking every 2-3 hours, I can keep it semi under control.  I don't take anything for it normal day to day, but if we have an overload of appts and stuff where I know that I stand a chance of getting too hungry feeling, that triggers the barfy feelings and I will take half of a zofran.  The zofran does help a lot, and was the magic pill to be able to drink water again.  But, on the days the nausea and gagging was exceptionally bad and I took 2 in 1 day, I would get a migraine.  So, cutting in half and just being very careful about eating and drinking seems to be the answer.  This time around, I've only thrown up 2 times.  Both triggered by stressful situations.  With Kristopher's pregnancy, I was horribly sick daily, vomitting multiple times and losing 18lbs before getting medication to help me through the days.  My chart says I stopped meds at 26 weeks.  I feel thankful that this time around it's less stressful, and that I can stop at the gagging. 

I'm down about 10lb from March, prior to finding out.  That was lost within the first week of finding out, and I think a lot of that has to do with the changing in what I drink.  I was drinking a lot of coke prior to finding out, and now soda makes me feel worse.  Plus, I'm only able to eat small amounts with the nausea.  I have not gained any weight since the first appts, but no one is concerned.  I have outgrown all my jeans, they can not be fully zipped and I've done the hair band trick for now to keep them up.  I bought one pair of maternity jeans and they are pretty comfortable. 

Monday I had my 10 week appt, which was technically the first appt at the OB.  This is a new practice for me, so I'm going to see each of the doctors first, but am told that I really will have no choice in which one will deliver, so it's no point in picking a favorite I guess.  This appt I had the midwife, and she is pretty nice.  Since I was overdue for the breast exam fun, she did that.  And then it's apparently standard procedure to do some STD swabs on new OB patients, so they did that.  And, I'm told that now that I'm 30, they only do a pap every 3 years, so I'm good till next year on that.  Then, she tried to get the heart beat by doppler, and was unable to find it.  For a very brief second, she picked up very slight whooshing of a heartbeat but said it was so short of a catch of it that she didn't know if it was the baby or mine.  She did an exam and determined that I have a very tilted uterus, and it was tipped back too far to get the heartbeat by doppler till the uterus grows some more and the baby is bigger.  So, she left me in the room alone freaking out, still half naked in stirrups, while she searched down an ultrasound machine.  15 minutes later, she came back and did the belly u/s and detected the baby.  It was very blurry that way, but I could tell that it has definitely doubled in size.  I could see arms this time and it looked more like a baby than a blob.  Because of how blurry it was, I couldn't truly make out the heartbeat, but she claims she saw it and was smiling and seemed satisfied. She made me touch the screen and directed me in which way to move my finger till I was over top the spot where she claims it was at.  It was a little different coloring on the blur, so I'll trust them on that. 
Since I've had multiple ultrasounds now, and my test results all come back perfect, she wrote down to come back in 5-6 weeks.  That way by next time, the uterus should have grown enough to do the doppler check, and then I'll be more on schedule for their 4 week schedules.  I go back June 3rd, and then every 4 weeks till August 26th, then I guess I'll start on the 2-3 week schedule.  Yippie. 
The big u/s will be around the first to 2nd week in July due to the holiday falling then, and we do plan to find out the sex if this kid will cooperate. 

We're leaving on Friday for the beach for 5 days, and after that vacation is over, I'll gladly have the next month or 2 speed up some more.  I think I'll start to feel better and more relaxed with this pregnancy once I can feel this kid moving.  I was originally planning to buy my own doppler to listen to the heartbeat, but it seems by the time that will be possible, it will be about time that I'll feel it regularly so no point.