Week 5: Sick as a dog!

5 Weeks

Baby is the size of: Pop Rocks Candy 

So this past week was NO FUN. AT ALL. Kinsleigh caught a nasty bug at school and brought it home to mommy, who of course is pregnant with a weakened immune system. I was sick all week, Wednesday and Thursday being the worst. Of course the little darling who got me sick was only affected for about 48 hours. I didn't get out much, but I did figure out our due date. Due date calculators that go by the first day of my last period are saying July 27th (pretty funny because Kinsleigh was June 27th...) but Glow's sister app Nuture which used the information that I imputed from Glow, says August 9th so only about a weeks difference. 

We got some REALLY exciting news this week that our neighbors across the street (who we are pretty close with) are also pregnant! We are only two weeks apart, they are two weeks ahead of us and it's their first child. I'm not sure who's more excited me or Amanda that we will get to waddle around together over the summer. I know her husband is relieved to have Zach to run to to ask questions and I know Zach is relieved to have someone to complain about me being a crazy person to. It's also going to be amazing to have babies so close in age who can grow up together :) 

Since Kinsleigh was much more of an unplanned surprise, I kept thinking that God was only going to give me what I could handle. So thoughts of issues, problems, etc. never really crossed my mind during her pregnancy because I knew that just wasn't a part of God's plan. This time around is a different story. ALL I can think about it everything that could go wrong: birth defects, miscarriage, etc. I'm also extremely paranoid, large crowds are making me nervous and the current state of world affairs has me on edge (since everyone will be reading this weeks past me writing, the Paris terrorists attacks just happened 2 weeks ago). 

It's weird being on the other side with this pregnancy which is partly why I wanted to do a blog. Our lives are COMPLETELY different than 4 years ago when I become pregnant. Zach was still in law school, we lived in a one bedroom apartment, we were not engaged or married, and I was the only steady source of income. Now, we are married, have a big beautiful home, Zach is a full fledged successful attorney and I'm currently getting to play stay-at-home-mom for a little but while I work on building my event planning business. I guess because I feel like everything in our life is going to great, that I'm waiting on the other shoe to drop and I'm praying nightly it isn't something with this pregnancy. I know this is just pregnancy paranoia but still. 

So off to my weekly report!

How far along? 5 weeks by the technical standards
Maternity clothes? I've lived in pajamas the past week because I was so sick!
Stretch marks? Still have those old ones hanging around...
Sleep: I slept all week and even now that I'm feeling better I am feeling the need for a daily nap. Of course Kinsleigh is getting to the age where she wants to skip her nap so it hasn't worked perfectly each day. Zach did let me get a few in over the weekend though so that was nice! 
Best moment(s) this week: Finding out our neighbors are also pregnant at the same time!!
Miss Anything? Coffee- the struggle is real
Movement: Nope
Food cravings: All food. Weird craving I had this weekend was olives but once I hate a bunch I was over it. Today I ate a ton of chicken and now I'm over that. 
Anything making you queasy or sick: I'm starting to have that tinge of queasiness when I wake up in the mornings. I know the 6 week mark is the tell tale sign of if you will have morning sickness. I'm taking the fact that I'm already having that nasty empty feeling in the morning as a sign of bad things to come. 
Gender: Nope, but we are already debating names, and the debate is not going well. 
Labor Signs: No
Symptoms: Tired and weak, but that may just be getting over this cold
Belly Button in or out? In. It never really popped with Kinsleigh it just got really stretched out and flat so fingers crossed it does that again. 
Wedding rings on or off? On. It's funny because this wasn't even a thought with Kins because we weren't married, so it will be interesting to answer this in those late months. I'm not looking forward to taking them off and will probably go buy a larger size fake ring. 
Happy or Moody most of the time: I'm still very moody. Kinsleigh is getting on my nerves a lot more than normal, especially when I'm trying to nap and she refuses. I'm also with her a lot more with my new SAHM status. 
Looking forward to: Still really can't wait to tell our family. We are working on the plans for telling them on Christmas day and I can't WAIT! Keeping this from my mom is pretty hard. I keep talking about us "trying to get pregnant" and "if we get pregnant" and "when we get pregnant" which I had been for months so I think the cover is going well.