We’re Havin’ a BABY!

I’m 7 weeks and one day, and I already miss sushi so much.  I think I’ll go to my favorite place, and just have the non-raw fish ones.  They’re my favorites anyway.  Now to rope someone into taking me…

In other news, I am bloated and getting fat around my waist.  I wonder if people are starting to think I should lay off the chocolate.  Haha!

babybabybabybabybabybabybaby…..

ooooh baby, i’ve got baby on the brain!

I read somewhere that most women will either get huge from the beginning, or they won’t really show until like 6 months.  I’m afraid I will be in the former category.  My pants are already tight, and the ones that ‘barely’ fit before I don’t even bother with right now.  It’s like having a fat day that’s lasted about a month now.

In other news… apparently this is the time that the baby’s heart starts to beat.  I find that quite amazing and beautiful.  To think that little bean’s heart is already beating and yet he/she’s only like the size of a pea!  Wow!

I haven’t had too much in the way of pregnancy “symptoms” (not that pregnancy is an illness or something), except for a stuffy nose (a lesser known one), and being uber-tired.  I mean WIPED!  Like, get 9 hours of sleep and then wake up feeling like a truck ran over you in the night.

Fun.

Still (im)patiently waiting and keeping my lips zipped on my big news.

It’s gonna be a loooooonnng 6 weeks until I can tell the world!

We’re doing the whole “not making the pregnancy public knowledge until around 3 months” thing, and I am BURSTING at the seams (figuratively, not literally… yet).  I’m not very good at holding these things in!!!

This blog is my outlet… it’s totally public, but no one’s going to find it until I link it because it’s lost in the blogosphere of a gazillion other blogs.

So: ATTENTION WORLD: I’m pregnant, and I’m excited!

So I went to the doctor yesterday to get a blood test to confirm everything and get an obstetrician referral.  Everything is so new and unknown.  I’m loving the internet right now – there are so many sites out there with more information than you could possibly imagine on everything related to pregnancy and childbirth.

I’ve also been reading through my handy “100,000+ Baby Names” book.  I started with the boys names, and here’s what I like so far (some more than others, and some I would only use as middle names).

Aidan, Connor, Egan, Elliot, Ethan, Ezekiel, Ezra, Isaac, Jeremiah, Josiah, Karsten, Keagan, Liam, Nathanael, Noah

Some possible combinations may be… Isaac Nathanael Ricci, Aidan Noah Ricci,

… and as you can see I’ve only made it to the “n” names so far.  More from o-z to come, as well as girls’ names, which I find much easier to choose.

We’re pregnant!  4 and a half weeks to be exact.  We’re not telling many people yet, since it’s still so early, which is REALLY difficult!  We are so happy and excited!

We found out 3 days ago with a home pregnancy test.  It felt totally surreal for the first few days, and it feels slightly less surreal now that we’ve told our parents (who were the most excited I’ve ever seen them, which is another story unto itself)… but still I wonder if I’m going to wake up and it was all a dream.  I guess when I start to get the baby belly it will feel more real!

I’ve been reading like crazy on the internet about the development of the baby day by day, and according the one online pregnancy calendar, today the baby’s neural tube forms, the heart begins to form, and blood begins to circulate!  That’s so  amazing!  I only found out 3 days ago that I am pregnant, and already all of this is happening inside of me.   They call it the miracle of life for a reason I guess!

I haven’t had any morning sickness yet or anything like that… but I’m mentally preparing myself for it.  I’m kind of freaked out about that.  I hate throwing up.  Although maybe I won’t have any at all! That would be great!

One more thing – baby names… of course I’ve been thinking about them since I was like 10.  Currently we really like Isaac for a boy, and Evelyn for a girl.  I also really like Beatrice and Isabella for girls, but I have to work on getting Chris to like those ones too.