Ch-Ch-Changes

Well, I can definitely tell that I pregnant. Take for instance, I am writing this at 5:00 in the morning, and no, I'm not at all a morning person. But I've been waking up around 4:30 everyday hungry. And not just normal hunger that you can put off until later. No, this is like I'm starving and my stomach is about to collapse in on itself. Which is really annoying because I love sleep and hate to be interrupted. So usually the stomach wins and I trot down to the kitchen for a snack. But then it's a little harder to go back to bed right away so here I am. Not that I'm complaining. It's actually really nice to feel these changes and know that I'm growing a wee littl' one. It's reassuring in a way because the first 2 weeks I didn't really have any symptoms and I was wondering if it was really true or just some crazy fantasy. But I know that it is real. I think that I can classify my symptoms into 4 main categories:

1. Constant Hunger

2. Constant Nausea

3. Constant Gassiness

4. Constant Tiredness

Now I usually have at least two of these at once if not all. I never though you could feel nauseous, hungry and gassy at the same time. Interesting. I have to admit that I've been neglecting my blog. There are just some day where I don't feel well at all. At first, I was only really tired and thought, "Well at least I'm not sick" Then I started getting a little queasy, which then developed into all day nausea, then I thought "Well, at least I'm not throwing up". Then I threw up. It's not pleasant, but I am still really happy and nothing could ever not make me happy about being pregnant. I got my first ultrasound on Friday and got to hear the heartbeat. It was amazing, and any thoughts of discomfort and illness went right out the window. My sweet little one. It's only around the size of a blueberry and only looked like a little blob on the ultrasound, but I only can think of it as a baby and feel connected already. It really is amazing. Well, I think I'm off to bed again. I post a pic of the ultrasound later and give a little more details.

Later...

So here's the pic! There's only one little nugget in there. I was half expecting to see two little ones in there, but I made my mind up that whatever it was going to be, it would be the best for my family. I am really happy and even now I know this won't be the only child for our family. Well, since waking up for the second time this morning, I actually felt pretty good. Good enough to clean the kitchen anyway. Seems like I most days I feel like I can't do anything, so I've got to take advantage of feeling up to doing something while I can.

I have a question for anyone who has gone through fertility treatments. The nurse practitioner that gave my my ultrasound and performed the IUI told me to be on progesterone until 9 weeks, but I've been doing some research and thought that it was better to do it until 12 weeks. I asked her about it at the ultrasound and she said that the placenta is developed enough at 9 weeks, I was under the impression that it wasn't until 12 weeks. I told her about having low progesterone in the past and thought it might be better to keep on it until 12 weeks. She said that I could, and it wouldn't hurt any to do it. I just wondered if anyone was on progesterone until 9 weeks or 12 weeks and wondered if anyone had an opinion about it. Anyway, thanks!