Week 8 in review.

Today I am 9 weeks and for the most part last week was pretty uneventful. Our baby was the size of a raspberry, I had pretty constant nausea,extreme fatigue, and a craving for toast and jelly. But overall things were fine. All my 'symptoms' are manageable and I'm very thankful to be having them, it's a nice reassurance that our little one is growing and after 2 years of infertility and wishing for nothing more than to be pregnant, I am thankful to be experiencing something that many women will never get to.

While most of the week was uneventful, I did have my first prenatal appointment with my midwife yesterday. I am so thrilled to have found a midwife that both Eric and I LOVE and that is confident in my ability to give birth the way we want. I am also in love with the fact that Eric completely trusts my judgement and desire to have a natural birth. Most of the visit was just boring paperwork/ medical history etc. But then she checked to see if we could hear a heartbeat with her Doppler. She assured me before we started that she may not be able to find it, sometimes it can't be pick up on a Doppler this early (which i knew from extensive Googleing the night before). Well she didn't pick up much, but she heard about 4 beats before she lost it and couldn't find it again. I was bummed that I wasn't able to hear it, but knowing that she heard one made me relax just a  little. But I will be going for an ultrasound soon, either late this week or probably early next week so that they can get more accurate dating, since i'm not entirely sure when I Oed. I can't wait to see our little "olive" and Becca (our midwife) told me that the u/s tech should let me hear the heartbeat then, since it will be picked up better with the u/s. If not or if I just wanted to hear it again, she told me to stop by in 2 weeks because we should be able to hear it clearly by then. :)

So now I am 9 weeks and the baby is the size of a medium olive, and according to my Fertility Friend updates is no longer an embryo but has 'graduated' to being a fetus!! 4 weeks left until my second trimester!!

I'll update after we get to see the little "olive" next week!!