Week 9

Well, 9 down, 31 to go! This little life inside of me is only about an inch long, but is already wreaking havoc on my body! I have been terribly sick for the past two weeks, not to mention exhausted. You know the perverbial "brick wall" that you hit every once in a while? Well, I feel like i'm permanently etched into it. I just want to sleep all the time. My 'bedtime' is usually around 9:30, and I don't drag my self out of bed until 7:30 if I can manage it, but I still feel tired! I just have to keep reminding myself that in 6 months and 3 weeks I will have a beautiful little baby to show for it....who will inevitably grow up to think that I'm an idiot, and will swear up and down that it will never be so cruel to it's children....until it has it's own children and then it will realize "wow....my parent's weren't so crazy after all..."

Trust me. I know from experience! ;)

Aside from feeling queasy and tired all the time, everything seems to be fine. I haven't had my first ultrasound yet, that will be the first week of January. At my last prenatal the doctor couldn't find a heartbeat with his doppler instrument, but he said not to worry, that at 9 weeks it was very difficult to find the heartbeat (it's literally a matter of luck) and that I'll get to hear it at my ultrasound...so I just keep reminding myself that worrying will only make things worse, and that everything is probably fine, and that in 2 weeks I will be seeing my baby for the first time!

We've been discussing names a fair bit too. We know what we'll name a boy, but we can't decide on what to name a girl. A boy will get his father's first name, Michael, but go by his middle name, Connor. We love the name Kathryn for a girl (in fact I'm pretty sure we've decided on that for a first name) but we can't decide on a middle name. I would like for her to have a special middle name, but there are no names in my family that go well with Kathryn!

*sigh* It's tough, this baby stuff!