And Baby Makes 3!

That's right, Cameron and I are officially announcing that we are expecting our first child! I'm 9 weeks along, which means the baby is about the size of a medium green olive, on its way to the size of a prune. We love all the weekly size descriptions. After reading that it was a size of a raspberry at week 8 I craved them. We revealed this great news to most of our friends at our house warming on Halloween, and now feel we can go as public as we want with this news. Of course, our parents found out almost as soon as we did.

We're due in early June, so of course we wouldn't mind if the baby was a little early, so that it can be a May baby with us. We will find out the sex when given a chance. With the amount of morning sickness I have been experiencing, most people are guessing its a girl.

We had our first prenatal check-up last Tuesday, where we had an ultra-sound and saw our baby for the first time, along with the heart beat. The midwife said our baby had a strong heartbeat and that I was right on with were I thought I was in the pregnancy.

Besides the morning sickness, the biggest symptom I have experienced is fatigue. I definitely don't have the energy I used to, which resulted in boxes being piled in the old spare bedroom, now baby room or nursery, so we do have some work ahead for ourselves getting it cleared out and then decorated for baby. While I haven't had many cravings, minus Popsicles and bakery sugar cookies, I have had food aversions, mainly to meat. It has to smell good to me before I'll eat any meat, which usually means Cameron is heating something up for himself and surrenders his food to get me to eat.

Cameron is being as supportive as possible, given I am slacking on my household responsibilities - he's done a good job at picking up that slack. And he's been good at asking how I'm feeling and seeing what he can do to make me feel better, including driving to Safeway at 11:30 last night to get me Tylenol to kill a headache I had had all day. And with all the water I'm drinking, the Britta filter has a permanent place on the counter next to the sink for easy fill-up, which happens at least twice a day.

Tootles,
Sarah