Journey with You

I am 7 weeks and 2 days pregnant today, getting really nervous about the spotting starting yesterday. I found my panty stained in the morning, not seeing much on toilet paper after wiping though. It seemed to stop in the afternoon but noticed more stains in the evening. I went to lie in the bed right after dinner, hoping it will stop it. This morning, I still noticed a little light light pink/brown CM on toilet paper but not as obvious as yesterday. I was and am not having any cramping so I hope it’s a good sign that everything is okay.

My bbs are not as sore as they were but I still can see the blue veins under the skin. Nauseous comes and goes. I felt pretty good yesterday but felt a little queasy whole morning today. I talked to a nurse yesterday about my spotting. She said if I can come in for a sonogram on Friday and I said I can’t. (I’ll be out of the town.) She then said just wait and see what happen over the weekend. If it doesn’t get better then they will get me an u/s sometime next week. She told me either way we’re not going to change the outcome but she did say it’s good that I was not cramping.

DH broke the news to my father-in-law over the Christmas. He was so happy and excited. His eyes even looked a little wet to me. I got caught off guard because I didn’t expect hubby to say anything but I am happy he did now. Just so I feel I am not the only one in the show.

Anyway, I am really nervous about the spotting right now. I am also worried about Toxoplasmosis. I am worried that I somehow got it from not washing my hands and cutting board well enough after I handled the raw meat. Oh, I sincerely pray to God to bless me and my little one. I hope everything will work out just fine and prove my worry unnecessary.

Ya! I am 5 weeks and 6 days along now. I love being pregnant!! I went to the mall Saturday morning to get two pair of maternity pants and a belly band. I think and hope they will be enough for me to go through the whole winter. My winter tops are all quite loose and long. I am not planning on buying any maternity winter tops.

I called the OTIS service in Toronto this morning because the local one has not returned my phone call. I’ve already called 3 times!! I tried to call the service in MA and they said they only service New England states and wouldn’t help me. What’s the big deal!! I am paying the phone call!! Canadians are more easy-going. They gathered some personal information from me, listened to my concern, and answered my question in 3 minutes!! I am so relieved to hear her telling me everything is fine.

I checked one baby gender prediction chart. According to my lunar age on the conception date and the lunar month of conception, It says I am going to have a girl. But this site says I am having a boy!!! DH’s intuition told him it’s a girl. I am not sure what I feel about this. Because I feel I am biased after DH mentioned about statistics showing single moms tend to have daughters and I may have a girl because I am emotionally unsecured. The same statistics actually also says that if a woman thinks her spouse is attractive she would tend to have boys. Thus, I feel it can go either way for me. Time will tell, I guess.

My stomach was feeling funny this morning and I felt a little bit queasy after having my breakfast. Wondering if morning sickness is on its way…

My temp this morning was 98.4 F, which made me really nervous. I know there won’t be anything I can do about it if m/s really happens. But I just can’t help it. I used my FMU on an Equater and it’s POSITIVE. The line is darker than last time as well. I hope my temp will go up tomorrow morning. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I’ve also been worried a lot about Vitamin D. I had been taking 1000IU of D for 45 days 5 weeks ago. I have reduced my intake to 400IU since then. Some articles say excessive D may cause possible birth defects. I encountered Organization of Teratology’s website on Internet and called them. I am still waiting for them to call me back. I also checked with my doc’s nurse this morning. She said I wouldn’t need to worry about birth defects.

I was so eager to get a professional opinion that I called my brother-in-law and told him my concern. I was planning to tell him the news on Christmas. Oh, well. He was really excited. As for my questions, he said I wouldn’t need to worry about with that kind of dosage. He also said I should take 1500 mg of Calcium daily from supplement.

I pray and I pray. I pray God bless me a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby!!

Ya! I am now five weeks pregnant. How amazing! I can do absolutely nothing but at the same time are doing the most wonderful and important thing in a woman’s life.

I went to the church for Sunday Mass and it made me feel great. It snowed really badly on that day but I wanted to show my gratitude to God and pray for my baby’s health. After church, I started debating if I should drive to my mother-in-law’s to tell her the news because I felt exhausted and the driving seemed pretty bad at the time. I finally went around 4pm. She was so happy and excited to hear the news. We exchanged some thoughts and they gave me some comfort. I addressed my concern of taking too much vitamin D and beta carotene 1 month ago and 2 weeks ago. She told me not to worry. She is going to have her surgery on the same day as my sonogram. I hope both will go well.

I called a nurse at the doc’s office yesterday and she called the pharmacist to prescribe me a prenatal. When I picked it up, I asked them to show me the bottle so I know what I am getting. The bottle says to take two tablets daily while the pharmacist told me to take one. She said that’s doc’s office’s instruction. That seems so odd though. I will then only get 0.5 mg of folic acid. Also, two tablets contain 54 mg of iron, which sounds high to me. I ended up coming home with another brand of prenatal. I called a nurse again this morning and she said she’s never heard of two tablets daily prenatal. I am going to go to the pharmacy during lunch and try to get it resolved there. The whole thing is stressing me out a little.

Oh, something weird happened in the past few days. DH was talking to his friend in Rochester on the phone over the weekend. His friend came totally out of the blue and asked “Is there a baby on the way?” My co-worker JP at work came to me yesterday and said “I dreamt last night that you are pregnant.” So odd, isn’t it? Anyway, they became the first two people outside the family member that know about the news. I hope those two incidents are good signs!!

I went to see U2’s concert last night with my co-workers. It was great. Excatly like what’s shown on TV: people jump up and down. Lighting and stage design was awsome. This was my first concert and I loved it. The only thing I didn’t like was it started so late and I didn’t get home until 12:30am and I was tired as a dog. I usually don’t drink too much liquid but I’ve noticed that I drunk 2 bottles of water during the concert.

I started reading the What to Expect book today and it suggests to buy the prenatal vitamin with Vitamin A less than 4,000 IU and says it can be toxic over 10,000 IU. Large dose of Vitamin A could also cause birth defects. I looked at my prenatal vitamin, it says Total 8,000 IU of Vitamin, includes 4,800 IU of retinyl palmitate and 3,200 IU of beta carotene. I was so confused. Have I been having too much Vitamin A or ? I decided to take that one back to the supermarket and get another brand. I found another brand with the same amount of total Vitamin A and the same percentage of both ingredients. I finally found one prenatal vitamin with only beta-carotene and I bought it.

There was some controversy over whether taking Vitamin A supplements increase the possibility of birth defects. I just want to be safe. I don’t want to take any risk on my precious.