7 Weeks

Seven Weeks

This weeks marks my seventh week of pregnancy. By the end of this month the circulatory system with a heart will be fully formed and we could hear the babies heartbeat if our doctor’s appointment coincided with July 30th but it probably won’t. I find it so odd to imagine that at one moment the circulatory system and heart are finishing their creation process and then the next instance the heart just starts beating. To imagine it all starts with one heartbeat. Amazing.

Symptoms

My symptoms are getting a little stronger. My breasts are still tender. I feel a little tired all of the time, but not like the exhaustion that I imagined. I just kind of feel like I don’t really feel like doing much. My routine now is that I work during the day in cube “heaven” and then after work my husband and I eat dinner and then we take a 2 mile walk and then we watch Netflix. I LOVE NETFLIX. we stream movies via our XBox 360 and we receive blu-ray or DVDs in the mail. It is great.

Nausea

While I do a lot of relaxing and walking my husband is set with the task of getting everything ready for our move. He is doing a great job, in fact he is just great period. Did I mention the nausea yet? Yea, well it arrived this week. It is not as intense as I imagined. I have read a few blogs and books and I envisioned myself throwing up all of the time. Luckily it is not like that. I may have spoke written too soon on the nausea. Now it feels like I constantly feel queasy. I can’t eat that large of a meal so I eat a lot of small meals. Sucking on hard candy helps a lot. But then my mouth starts to feel yucky and dirty like I have been eating sugary kid cereals all day. Saltines also help a great deal but there are only so many saltines that you can eat.

BM

Now I am going to write about bowl movements so you may want skip this paragraph. I used to have a BM every day or so. Now due to my digestion being slowed down by some hormone so my body can assure absorption even more nutrients, those BMs have slowed. And coinciding with the nausea I feel every move my food makes through the digestive track. Well I think it is more the gas that I feel. Sometimes I think it is the gas that is causing me to feel nauseous. So now I have a BM every other day and I pass gas a lot. I try to blame it on the baby and my husband is really nice and accepts that answer but I myself wonder why a baby would need to pass so much gas.

Worried?

All in all it is pretty good. The symptoms are things I can put up with. The only thing I am certain of is that everything will change. I find myself not as worried as I always thought I would be upon finding out I was pregnant. As it turns out there is not much you or doctors can actually do once the mechanism of pregnancy gets started. The only options as far doctors are concerned with as far as when there is a problem is induce pregnancy and hope for a viable fetus (28 weeks is considered viable) or they can eliminate the pregnancy. It is not like they can actually fix anything even though they want to do a lot of tests. I wonder what for? Preparation? I have a feeling that for the first child, whatever happens, even the easiest healthiest baby in the world, you are not actually prepared.

So all you can do is take care of yourself. Eat you fruits and vegetable. Get some exercise. Don’t take any drugs (recreational, prescription or OTC), sleep when you can and hope for the best. It is so simple. There is nothing to worry about because you know from the beginning that you have no control and you will never be prepared for what it feels like to hold you baby in your arms. At least that is what I think now at 7 weeks pregnant.