Baby Cylon

So, we found out that I'm pregnant on June 17 via pee on a stick (or sticks, we bought several and kept getting the plus or digital "pregnant"). While we were planning on this, we assumed it would take us at least 6 months or so to actually get pregnant. May 11 was when I stopped taking the pill, so that date set me with a February 15 due date.. valentines baby? really, us? Everyone who knows us knows that we're not really sappy so a Vday baby for us would be kind of strange. We went to a midwife July 1 and while they did not actually tell me that I was "officially" expecting, I guess the pee on a stick was sufficient for them. Greg asked if them saying congratulations a million times made it more real.. not really, because they didn't actually do anything other than take some blood, a yucky internal exam and made me pee in a cup. They did however set a first trimester ultrasound date for 2 weeks later when I should be 9 weeks along.



At that appointment it made it slightly more real because i could now see the blob growing inside me, or the Cylon as we call it (reference Battlestar Galactica if you're not aware..) it looks like a blob though.. a blob with a flicker that's its heart beat. The doctor assured me that there is only 1 in there no more (thankfully) and told me that you're super fertile when you first come off of birth control - that would have been nice to know! ;)
I think the main reason it doesn't really feel real is because I haven't had morning sickness.. I am hungrier than usual and more tired though, and if i don't eat i feel ill and if i eat too much i feel ill. I crave orange juice which supposedly means it's a boy.. who knows, silly old wives tales.. the more people i tell the more real it is I guess, or the more i hear my dad walk around saying that i'm "knocked up" thanks dad.. love you too... ;) The ultrasound determined that I was in fact 7 weeks not 9 weeks (thanks again first month off birth control) and put my due date at March 1, 2010!