Seven Weeks

This week, 3BB is the size of a blueberry! 

The video on the What to Expect app said that the baby has grown 10,000 times bigger than the day it was implanted. That’s crazy to me, since it is still so small!

I feel like my belly shots are going to be like this for several more weeks. And any growth from week to week, is just bloating and all the carbs I’m eating. 

On Monday I had another ultrasound and 3BB is looking good. The heartbeat was 161 beats per minute, according to the ultrasound tech, and that’s really good. I could definitely see the heartbeat this time.

Look how much bigger 3BB is!

This is actually super zoomed in, but still, you can see it taking the shape of a little person even when on normal, with no zoom.

This week the nausea and morning sickness kicked in at full speed. All the books say that most people don’t feel any kind of nausea or have morning sickness until after week 6. I was about halfway through week 6 and was thinking I was going to be spared this, and nope! It came in like a wrecking ball.

Thankfully I haven’t puked (KNOCK ON WOOD). It’s just the all-day nausea, which I’m not sure is any better. But I really, really hate puking, so I will take it so far.

A friend of mine recently had a baby and she puked for like 7 months, so she’s given me lots of tips and tricks to try. 

The biggest thing for me is to eat. Like don’t let yourself get hungry, just eat small meals/snacks throughout the day, every few hours. This has been SO HARD for me. I’ve lived 30-plus years in the diet culture of our world and it has been oddly hard to re-train my brain to just eat, even if I’m not starving, or it isn’t meal time. It’s really hard to get out of that mindset and worrying about calories and thinking about food in a negative way. I hope this helps me get out of that detrimental head space for good when this is all over.

Other than that, I stay hydrated, wear my Sea Bands for a few hours at a time, take vitamin B6 and suck on these candies that help with the nausea (which they oddly do). 

The food aversions are still around and nothing remotely sounds good. I eat cereal, bagels and cream cheese, quesadillas and ice cream. I will never stop being amazed at how weird pregnancy is and how it messes with everything. Hopefully this is temporary and after the first trimester, things get a bit back to normal. That’s August 14, not that I’m counting down the days or anything.

Next week I have my final ultrasound with my fertility clinic and then they release me to the hounds! Not really, just to my OB/midwife. I have my first prenatal appointment with my doctor on July 14. It will be really odd, since you’re not seen every week at an OB in the beginning. The fertility clinic has spoiled me with these weekly ultrasounds.

But after all the tears and headaches this clinic has caused me, I will be MORE than happy to leave them behind and never see them again!