When it Rains it Pours

My head is spinning. Stuff is coming at me fast and furious. Still nauseous and feeling pretty crappy and I'm flying to the States tonight. I don't know how that happened, I booked the trip right before I got pregnant and then I've been too distracted with feeling like ass to realize that it was soon to be upon me. To say I'm nervous about flying for 12 hours straight while not feeling great is an understatement. My OB took pity on me and prescribed me an anti-nausea medication but I haven't tried it yet and I don't want to try it for the first time when I'm alone on an airplane. So, the medicine will come with me and I might try it while at my parent's house. Also, my absolutely wonderful travel agent switched all of my seats to aisle seats so now I can puke and pee as much as I need without disturbing my seatmates. I have to say that is a huge relief. I will feel much better once I get there.

I got a new job. I'm excited about moving on, just stressed about the transition process. It's hard trying to make two bosses happy. Wish me luck.

And lastly, E and I went to check out some plots of land in a Moshav expansion that is in progress in a nearby Moshav. There weren't a lot of plots left to choose from but we managed to find one that we love, and dude I think we're going to buy it. It's about ten minutes further from Jerusalem but it's within our budget, a really nice Moshav (kept nicely, lots of playgrounds, nice people), and hopefully the new people moving in as well sound like they are the type of community we are looking for. It's definitely a leap but when is buying a house not? I was so excited last night I couldn't even sleep (a real feat while pregnant).

That's the news kids. I'm a bit buzzy from all of the excitement. Hopefully I'll update Stateside.

Ultrasound #1

We have one hearbeat and one embryo measuring exactly 8 weeks, exactly what it should be. Woo hoo!

Wow. A big weight has been lifted off my shoulders, I didn't realize how stressed I was about it, but apparently I was.

The only wierd thing was that they saw two areas that could be indicative of bleeding, except I'm not bleeding. So... I'll just have to wait and see. Even if I do start bleeding I guess the important part is that the baby is alive and growing correctly. I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday so I can see what she says, the u/s tech said it's usually nothing to worry about, I'll go with that.

Besides that, I still feel pretty crappy. In addition to being nauseous most of the time my stomach also hurts because I can't get myself to eat much more than starches and my body is not happy. I really feel like I'm fighting my body now. The end of the first trimester really can't come fast enough.

You know how you are supposed to have really vivid dreams when you are pregnant? Well I definetely have those. They even started out as great sex dreams, but now the sex has been replaced with food! One part of my brain apparently really wants food while the other half won't let me eat it. Really, does this make sense? Nature really messed up somewhere here.

Pukey

Nausea is now puking. No fun at all. Very happy to be pregnant, not so happy to be puking. Feel like shit. Blech. Passover is finally over, can now eat crackers, house guest is gone. Hopefully I will feel better soon or at least be able to cope better.

Passover

Passover totally took me by suprise this year. We were still burned out from last year so we really did the absolute minimum to get ready and as a result put it off until the very last minute. Plus, still being in shock over actually being pregnant did not help us get motivated at all, we've really been way to distracted to do much of anything.

So, this year we went to Tel Aviv for the Seder to be with E's family (plus we have my cousin as a house guest for the whole 8 days). And wouldn't you know it that the day before the holiday started my nausea finally kicked in. It's still not extreme by any means but a general sense of blech has settled upon me. I feel constantly hungry but constantly feel like eating something would just be the wrong thing to do. And easily accessible food is just not available on Passover, everything requires preperation and pre-planning. I'm really relying on E to get food into me now.

Passover is just kicking my butt this year. Hopefully I'll feel a little better when it's over and I can take better care of myself.