I'm a Fatty

How Mommy feels:

• Bloated
• Tired
• Constipated
• Fat
• Hungry

mornings sickness: nope! (hooray!)
Cravings: bananas and pickles

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WAhhhh!!!!
Who can explain to me why my dress pants aren't fitting?! I'm 10 weeks and I feel a cumbersome pooch already!

Here's the changes that the Mayo Clinic Guide To A Healthy Pregnancy said to expect through week 10:

• The baby has lost his/her embryonic tail and has fully separated fingers and toes.
• The vital organs have completely formed.
• The baby weighs about 4 grams (or 4 paper clips) and measures to about 1.30 inches.
• The baby's brain is producing over 250,000 neurons every minute!
• If I am having a boy, his testosterone begins pumping this week. (But I'm sticking to the feeling that I'm having a girl.)

Changes that the book tells me I'll experience directly are:

• The hormones my body is producing along with increased blood volume may give me a "pregnancy glow" (but I've yet to see one).
• The abdomen may begin to expand, you may see a diminishing waistline.

I like how they say the words "may" because it's obvious not every pregnant woman will begin to see the expanding waistline - nope, only some. Or in this case, just me. There's a huge difference of how my clothes feel this week than they did last week. For instance, the dress pants I chose to wear to work today are pre-pregnancy pants. I wore them last Monday and they were a little tight but I could easily button and zip them. Well, today I can't even button them! I'm not exaggerating - I wish I was. But it's the complete truth. I almost cried when I realized that the buttons weren't going to button without severely straining the pants - or kill the baby. But the pants stay up well enough without buttoning them (another consternation to add to my growing lists of troublesome changes.) So I wore them to work anyway.

So I have this pooch now. Granted I had a little one before my pregnancy, but this one's bigger and maddeningly enough I can't suck it in. However, I am glad to be seeing this change because it's exciting even if it is happening sooner than I thought. It makes the whole experience of being pregnant more real. But along with that I feel fat and unattractive. The books says it's normal to feel this way especially if this is the first pregnancy, but it's tough to cope with nonetheless.

I've added new thingy's on the blog too. Now, you can vote and say whether or not you think I'm having a boy or girl. You can also wait until I'm further into the pregnancy before voting, but the survey will be there whenever you're ready to vote. And there's also another little countdown I added.