12 weeks and 3 days -- and counting

How Mommy Feels:

• Fat


• Sleepy

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All in all, my symptoms aren't so bad today. I felt a little nausea this morning but after breakfast it went away. Which is really a funny thing because if I feel sick in the morning, I'll eat breakfast and one day I'll be fine and the nausea will pass or I'll completely lose my accounts via a trash can. It's downright aggrivating that every day is a guessing game of will I or will I not get sick today?

The good thing is I think it might be passing. I stress the work "think" because again - I just never know. But the pregnancy books say things may usually die down by the 12th week and that gives me hope that it will stop.

My 12th week exam is tomorrow. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. Excited for the normal reasons of wanting to see the baby again in another U/S and nervous because I'm afraid I've gained tons of weight since my last appointment a month ago. I feel like I have because I've had to think about buying maternity clothes already. And I've had to purchase the BellaBand (which I will swear by) to keep my pre-pregnancy pants on my waist where they belong and not around my ankles. (I'll explain that neat thing further down) Anyway, it's not so much that I feel constantly pregnant as much as I swing between feeling pregnant and feeling downright F-A-T. Since my dress slacks don't button or zip makes me feel like I must have gained 10 pounds, so we'll see tomorrow.

As for the BellaBand, this is what it looks like:

You can wear it folded over your pants or you can wear it completely over your belly and pants. Essentially, this allows prego ladies to wear their pre-pregnancy pants unbuttoned underneath the band and the band holds them up. Or, you can wear your too-big pregnancy pants and the band will still hold them up. So this band essentially extends the wearability (I've made that a word if it wasn't one before) of your clothes. It's also a money-saver. $20 bucks for this VS. buying a prego wardrobe now that would only last me a few months. I'll still end up having to buy a few maternity items, but not as much now that I've got this band. So when any of you get pregnant invest in a few of these babies!

Anyway, I'll have another update tomorrow after my exam. And I will (hopefully) have pictures to post of baby.