Week Nine - Already! Happy Easter!

So our little black dot has very quickly become the size of a grape!  We had our first appointment with our Nurse Practitioner on Tuesday and she went through our medical histories and what we can expect moving forward.  She was actually very sweet when I expressed my concern over my current nutrition and she said it's her job to tell me to eat well with plenty of lean protein once I'm feeling better.  Also, we now have a due date!  Baby Devereux is set to arrive somewhere around November 12, 2009.

The morning sickness (by the way, whoever names it that is full of crap!  It should totally be called ALL DAY sickness) that kicked in right at week 6 hasn't let up and I go from ridiculously nauseously hungry to ridiculously nauseously full all day long.  Sometimes I can't even tell the difference until it's too late.   Also, my always sensitive gag reflex is on steroids and I can gag really way too easily, even at the thought of saying the word 'gag'!  The good news everyone keeps telling me this is all a good thing and signifies my crazy pregnancy hormones are doing just as they should.  The bad news is, all I eat is carbs, can hardly tolerate water, have a strong aversion to all protein and somehow I'm sure that our little grape does not weigh five pounds!!!

Rick has been wonderful, supportive and understanding, even if I'm scaring the crap out of him. Ripken has been awfully snuggly and chill with me, so we're pretty sure he's caught on to the whole thing too.  Bad news is, the moment Rick comes home, Ripken's off for the races and ready to expend all the energy he conserves with me from midnight until 2am or so.   Poor, tired Rick!

I'm looking forward to having the next three days off to sleep, sleep, sleep and anxiously awaiting week 13.  My hope is that just like the morning sickness kicked in the day before Week 6, it'll be gone just like that at Week 13 and I can enter the 'honeymoon phase' of pregnancy - for my sake and Rick's!   

Happy Easter everyone!