Well, now that I've spilled the beans, I can start telling you all the wonderful details you may or may not want to hear. It's been weeks and weeks since I wrote that post (See "Spill the Beans"), and now I'm finally emerging from the first trimester. YAY! I threw up for a solid month and lost 7lbs. I'm slowly gaining weight, but I've only gained a pound or two so far. My midwife recommended Unisom and vitamin B6 for the nausea and it worked like magic. Today is my first day off it; we'll see how it goes!
School is almost over! Ironically, the day of my last final is also the day of my 14 week checkup and also the official end of my first trimester. I'll be 3 months along next week! Cool! Our little baby (affectionately called "Ponyo" for its stumpy arms and legs) is about 3 inches long and it grew eyelids and fingernails this week. Its vocal organ is finished developing, so it can cry lots and lots when its born and get back at our neighbors! I mean... teach us how to live on very little sleep! Yeah.
Christmas is right around the corner and I'm so getting into the Christmas spirit! Besides wanting to cry every time I hear a really good Christmas song or story, I've been a pretty decent master of my emotions. I've had only a couple cravings, but they were both unhealthy! (Up until now I've only had an appetite for really healthy foods.) The loaded baked potato was the first. That was a real crisis. It was 10:30 at night and almost everything was closed! In the end, it was not Denny's nor IHOP that won the Feed-The-Pregnant-Lady Contest, but Chili's! More recently, I gave in to a pizza craving. I had dreamed of eating pizza the night before and during the day time, it pestered me until I ate half a Hot-n-Ready pizza at 5pm! Mmmmm, that hit the spot!
Keeping things under wraps has been pretty tricky. Besides the fact that my belly seems to have decided to pop out like I'm five months along, and I just can't eat most of the time, people are just so nosey! It's amazing to me that people are presumptuous enough to outright ask me (or my mom) whether I'm pregnant, or when I will be, or any of that. I guess I'm just extra sensitive about it because a) it took some effort to get this way, and b) I don't like to lie about it, directly or indirectly. Actually, most people who have straight-up asked have gotten the honest answer because they're not linked to enough people for me to care about. But when my cousin asked me, well... I had to lie. :( Besides all that though, I have to laugh at people when I tell them that I didn't come to such-and-such activity or meeting because I didn't feel well, and they get all ick looking until I tell them, "Don't worry; I'm not contagious."
Well, this is it. Bring on the finals. And then the 2nd trimester. And Christmas! All is well in the Reed home.
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