12 Week Check Up
Can you believe it? I’m 12 weeks along! This is going so fast… can’t believe I’m in the second trimester already!
Unfortunately, I’m still sick. I thought it would go away, but nooooo. Of course not. I couldn’t even eat again this morning because I was so sick.
Anyway, I went in to the doctor on Monday for the 12 week exam… it was really neat in some ways, but not so neat in others. The best part (of course) was getting to listen to the baby’s heartbeat! 170 bpm the doctor said… a good healthy baby! I’m so glad to hear that, since I was afraid of miscarriage before. They say that at this point in pregnancy, the risk of miscarriage is below 5%. That’s so great! I can’t wait to find out the gender in a month and a half. So exciting!
Andrew, my DH, came along to the doctor as well… he was excited to hear the baby’s heartbeat also. Then we found out that I had to get a pap smear and a breast exam too…. Andrew stuck it out, comforting me as they stuck those metal things inside me and got some of my cells. Then the doctor made sure my uterus was the right size and that my ovaries were okay. They were, which was good. Then he poked my chest and made sure that was alright. That was too.
So I’m a healthy 21 year old. Yay me!
Poor Andrew. He probably would have rather not been there, but he was a good sport. He’s probably glad he’s not a woman. I don’t blame him. 
I found out one fantastic thing from the visit… I have only gained one pound since my six week visit! That is GREAT! I was so happy to hear that… maybe I am not doomed to gain 500 pounds from being pregnant after all! Maybe my metabolism will go back to normal! So many happy things it could mean! Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep the weight gain down.
My doctor’s advice was to just follow my appetite and eat when I’m hungry and don’t eat when I’m not. Don’t just “eat for the baby” he said, just follow the cravings. He said that at over 200 pounds, I could healthily not gain any weight over the whole pregancy and my body would be fine, but not to try and diet.
I’m so happy! I hope everything continues this way! 
Peace!
The Bowhunting Season
So I know some of you readers were following me or have come across me because I am a pregnant bowhunter. So, assuming that I have something of an audience there, I’ll tell you about my season this year.
Mostly it was great! I loved it. After my first disasterous experience with my guide, he took me and my husband to a much easier to get to spot with lots of elk. We would go up on Friday nights (because it’s hard to do it on weeknights when you’ve got work in the morning… and if you get something, you have to haul it out in the morning.) and sit at a quiet watering hole, up on a hill, behind some bushes and wait for the wildlife to come in.
The first time we went, nothing came through. But the second night, we had a herd of elk with a big six point bull come through. Since this is spike/cow only territory though, I had to leave him alone. He sure was pretty though, and having a great time splashing around in the mud. Anyway, so when they first came into the hole, I got excited and drew back… just waiting for a cow to go broadside so I could shoot (they were about 20 yards off, so easy). Buuut they were too busy bouncing in the mud, so I had to kind of let off… and let off a little quick and they heard. So the bull took off. Some of the cows stuck around though… and one came down to drink, so I took a shot.
I hit her high, but at a downward angle… and let her bound off. We waited for half an hour, then it started to get really dark, so we went to see if we could at least find the start of the blood trail… but there was nothing. We searched for an hour or two. And no blood, no arrow, nothing. We came back in the morning and searched for three or four more hours… scouring the hillside to see if we could find blood or the cow or anything… but there was not one drop of blood anywhere nearby. No arrow either. :/ I was so sad.
So we went up a few more nights… usually seeing some deer (I was too late to get a deer tag this year, sadly). And one night the same elk herd (with the six point) came back down, but there was something crunching on the hill behind where I was sitting, so that freaked them out and they took off without me getting a chance to take a shot. It was sad. No other sightings beyond that.
So it was a fun, but sadly elk-less year for me. Oh well, there’s always next year I guess!
So it’s been a while….
Well, it’s been a bit since I last posted on here. It’s been hard because I’m soooo sick all the time, and so mostly I feel like moping around all day. And my hubby’s laptop died again and it’s dead for good this time. So, since I can’t very well put a desktop on my lap, I have to make myself sit in the office chair and type type type.
I’m still sick. It’s worse than ever, and now I’ve tried vitamin b6 and unisom. And neither thing has helped. I still throw up in the morning, and I still feel sick all day long. Last night I ate some ñoquis (it’s Argentine food, apparently, that my friend’s brother made) and they were really good! But then I was sitting on the couch later and teasing my husband about synthesizers, and I started laughing so hard I threw them up all over myself. Oh it was so gross. Spaghetti sauce and potato noodles all over my shorts. 
I cry.
My hubby’s been really sweet though. My mom was telling me that my dad used to come rub her back while she would throw up, and so my hubby decided to do that to me. It’s really sweet, though I don’t know how he doesn’t throw up too. I would.
The foods that I seem to be able to hold down right now are chocolate milk, yogurt, Lay’s Potato chips (any of the sour cream varieties), and Hot Pockets or similar. I guess it’s a good thing that chocolate milk and yogurt are daily occurrences now, because they give me lots of calcium. And since I’m in my 10th week, I think I read that calcium is needed right now. But I can’t remember for sure.
I’ve got a dog show on Saturday, but I can’t help but wonder if I was out of my mind to sign up for it… my dog is not trainable right now… she is being a big butthead, really. She just came out of heat too, and I think she’s either pregnant (an accident!) or going through a false pregnancy (I sure hope so…). And her nipples are all saggy and she looks gross. We’re not going to do well, so I wonder if it’s even worth going… the show’s clear up in Farmington, which is an hour drive from here, and she shows at 9:10 am. So that means we have to leave at like 7. Bah. But I spent 25 dollars on it and 35 dollars next day express-ing a show lead to myself.
So I’m a little disgruntled. And work sucks too, because they don’t seem to understand how really sick I am, and so when I miss work they get upset with me and tell me I’m not getting the promotion they’ve been promising me for 5 months now. Stupid. I feel like quitting, but if I were going to, I’d want to work from home… so I need to find some sort of legit work from home job. And I don’t think they exist, because I can’t find one anywhere. Sigh. What will I do with myself?
Some one save me.
