They should rename Cool Water to Stagnant Sewer Water

Eric’s cologne makes me want to vomit.
Actually, it offended my nostrils even pre-pregnancy, but now it brings me close to tears. Any way to say that delicately to a 20-year-old?
And why put on cologne just to go to the skate park?

Now with pics (warning– belly pic)

posted by Mel
Yesterday’s ultrasound with baby measuring at approximately 7 weeks, 3 days. If you look closely, the white dot in the middle of the blob is the heart. I think the 4 peripheral white-ish protrusions might be limbs. The u/s tech is such a doll. She wrote “Hi Momma Vanessa” above it since Vanessa [...]

It’s all good

posted by Mel
Will post a pic later, but I wanted to do a quick post to let everyone know that it’s OK. Baby is measuring 7.4 weeks (11.4 mm) and gestational sac is measuring 6.4 weeks (16.8 mm)– within safe range. It grew a mm/day for the past week, which is exactly what it should [...]

The u/s pic that’s giving me fits until Friday afternoon

posted by Mel
See for yourself. No precise measurement on the gestational sac. The embryo (doesn’t say on the u/s and sorry for the crappy pic. Best I could do) is measuring 4.4 mm at what should have been 6 weeks, 6 days according to the last scan, which was already about 3 days behind where [...]

A Minor Inconvenience

Posted by v.
I’ve uploaded the photos from the minor accident I had on Saturday. Can anyone guess what happened? My car’s the red one.

When does this get fun?

We made it through another scan. First, the good, which I know is what I should be concentrating on– there is a still a good strong heartbeat.
The doctor put the gestational age at just shy of 7 weeks when we were in the u/s room, but then he marked 6++ on my chart. Of course [...]

Being pregnant so far

I am bloated up to at least a size higher than usual, which was already a size higher than I was comfortable being. I didn’t expect to look 5 months pregnant at 6 ½ weeks. I wonder if my body remembers being 90 lbs heavier than this and is just settling back in.
 
I am kind [...]

Indy Pride

We went to Pride on Saturday. Last year at Pride we ran into one of Vanessa’s exes at the festival, and she had a 2-year-old in tow. We told her that we’d been trying at various doctors for over a year, and she replied that she’d gotten knocked up at home on the first try [...]

So this may come as a shock

posted by Mel
 
I’m about 6 weeks pregnant. I haven’t blogged it before now for lots of reasons, but the number one reason is that it has been so tenuous and scary and hard to believe in.
 
I’ll give you all the details you want, but first thing—it’s there. It’s in my uterus. It has a heartbeat. [...]