9 months of hell?

I'm still pregnant. That's the best news I have today. I had to go off of my blood pressure medications because they were not pregnancy safe and since then my BP has sky rocketed again. I'm on yet another med to see if I can get it under control, but this still means that I fall under the category of High Risk. Great. That means many more tests. I get to do a lovely 24 hour urine after my first apt. A slight bonus? I get to have an early ultrasound done to verify everything is alright. That's always a good thing!

I am feeling nauseated most of the time but since I have lucked out and have not actually had to worry about throwing up I'm hoping this goes away after a short time. 

and the all time best-- a weekly questionnaire!

How far along?  4 weeks 6 days
Total weight gain/loss? 2 lbs. This might have a lot to do with the fact that its Thanksgiving week. LOL
Maternity clothes?  No wearing them but I have an awesome co worker who just gave me all hers and they fit perfectly so I cant wait to wear them!
Stretch marks? Lol, just the ones from me being overweight to begin with
Sleep? it all over the place. I want to go to bed early but then I'm getting up extra early. I don't like it.
Best moment last week? Getting to tell the families.
Movement?  Not even a little. Way to early!
Food cravings?  I had a serious KFC craving this week. No idea if it was pregnancy related or if it just sounded goo.
Gender? No clue, and I hope to not find out till delivery
Labor signs? No way... Not this soon I hope
Belly button in/out? In
What I miss:Mt Dew!
What I am looking forward to: My first OB appointment
Milestones:I talked with my OB doctor- totally helps that I work in her department :) And got my first appointments scheduled.

:)

The word PREGNANT appeared today. I'm grinning ear to ear let me tell ya...

If only the major cramping would go away so I felt better about this....

Meaning of words

How amazing how exactly four years ago I jumped up and down with excitement of the words not pregnant.

Today it makes me cry. Ugh. Bring on aunt flo so I can try again.

Thanking the above for a day on call

There is occasionally times in my job were if there is not enough patients for the number of nurses scheduled you get to sit home waiting for a patient to come in. It seems rarely that they do and you get a bonus day off. Since I live exactly 1 min too far away from the allotted time to come in if they call I cannot go a mile north but I can go south if I so choose. Most of the time I sit here in the house. A great excuse to get the house chores done for you can't really leave and its just plain boring otherwise. So here I sit.

This past weekend I worked the night shift again. It was so nice. We have a little baby in the isolette over the weekend, not really sick, just couldnt control his temperature, So I got to sit with a good book in the nursery and watch him while my labor pt did nothing. I hate that. Go home then man.

Between working on my weekends I do try to get some sleep in there once and a good while. This weekend it seemed all I wanted to do was sleep. It seems that nausea kept creeping over me and that my head cold was getting worse. Every one keeps saying that I'm pregnant. I don't think so. You know those instincts that some mothers say they have that they just KNOW when they are pregnant- yeah I'm having the opposite of that. I'm thinking its not happening this month. I can't test till the end of the week but I'm pretty sure this illness is just me being sick.

So with my day on call in place, I slept in for way too long, I really should get on to the laundry. Making meatloaf for supper tonight.

I think i might go bust out the christmas decorations. I heart christmas decorations. Like Crazy.

Car seats Car seats and even more flippin Car seats.

I'm sitting  in a hotel room about two hours from home. I'm here because I'm attending a training class to become a Car Passenger Safety Technician (CPST). Day one is complete of a four day training. Today we did get to touch a carseat in the last 50 min of class otherwise it was learning everything you could possibly not think there was to know about seatbelts in cars and the airbag systems. Ugh. Lets hope that tomorrow goes on by as fast as today did so this week can fly.


I miss my puppy and hubby. O well. Here is to a fabulous world of carseats.

Can I just say that they make a cowprint car seat. Consider it already purchased.

I <3 cows!

The big O times two

"OOOOO I like that." I think I said this about, eh, twelve dozen times since I got my wedding pictures back. Its been so exciting showing everyone all of the neat poses that my photographer was able to capture. I am sitting at work as I write this with only one patient on the whole unit, but I do not have any pictures that I can share at this time. I Promise to load some up when I get the chance!

The secod big O is the dang thing called ovulation. Why must it be so evasive. I was so hoping that I would be one of those moms that would be lucky to get pregnant on the first month off birth control. But not so much. I'm trying to not worry about it but come on, lets be real, I'm freaking. I'm testing. Its all I can do at this point. Hoping and Praying for good news.

In the mean time, I'm going to go swaddle me a bili baby!