15 weeks and 2 days

I was 15 weeks on Friday.
I am feeling better but have the occasional spew every now and then. I an go for a week feeling good and then it hits me in the morning, after breakfast the unpleasant feeling of something wrong in my body and then it comes up like yellow clearish liquid. Very acidic and makes my teeth feel soft as it hits them. Not very nice to think about, to write about, but all part of being pregnant.

Belly
My belly has started to pop out and I should get a photo, as I have a photo of being 15 weeks with Joaquin. It would be interesting to note the difference.
I already at times feel I have a heavy belly and it is unconfortable.
How will I be when I am ready to pop?

Food
I am eating most foods, but am not into meats at all. I eat small meals at dinner as I feel bloated easily.
For breakfast I have 2 wheetbix and bran and some honey. No coffee or tea.
For lunch usually a sandwich sometimes a salad. In the early pregnancy end of first trimester I craved salads. Now I am not sure. I love the salads that they make at the University. But i am not sure if I should even eat them. I also had a cooked tuna and avocado sushi roll on Friday. I hope that is ok.

Hormones
My hormones are back with a vengance. This means I get upset easily. But not too upset. I was not upset or did not really even cry during the first semester. Now I can get upset easier over simple things, but it is not too common.

Energy Levels
My energy levels have increased dramatically in the last few weeks. From week 7 to week 12 I felt so tired and could not really walk around and just stayed on the lounge all night and was in bed by 9pm.
Now i am gradually walking, to the beach, to the park, to Joaquin's daycare, to Uni. I have more energy, it is still hard walking up hills here in Coogee.
I have more energy to cook, clean the house and look after Joaquin and do my own things.
Going to Uni Mondays and Friday trying to finish paper. Have finished application for CONICET, yeahhh, it was worse than having morning sickness for 3 months. Terrible agony for myself and my family. Glad it has been sent and is now in the hands of the CONICET people.


Dreams
At the end of first semester and now I have been having weird dreams.
I had a dream that I was in bath or big pool with 2 snakes, and I knew I had to lie still so it would not bite me. In the end one did bite me on the ankle and there were 2 holes pierced into my skin like vampire bites. I had to go to hospital, I was worried about the baby, being pregnant. At first nothing happened but my leg started to indent and go bumpy and they put me on a drip. I do not know if i made it I think I was ok. Then I woke up.
I dreamt a lot in the first trimester with my grandmother Abuela Sara and sometimes with my Abuela Maida. It was nice and so real.
I dream about Jason.
I have dreamt about Joaquin.
Some are so vivid when I wake up I think they were real, and I did experience them. But now I can not remember them.

How I am feeling
I am feeling more energized and want to clean and organise my life and home.
I do not know what will happen if we will have the baby here or in Argentina.
I do not feel so attractive but got my hair dyed two weeks ago and a pedi and wax, the beautician was also pregnant due in March with her firs.
I felt really good after that pamper.
Today I am going to Mary's wedding, so I have to pamper myself a bit. Need to do a bit more washing. But my life is nearly organised.

I have Scans and appointments at the hospital in Early November, not long now. It is all going so fast this pregnancy.

10 weeks

Based on my Early pregnancy Scan I am 10 weeks today. Based on the first day of my last pm cycle, I am 10 weeks on Friday.
I am at uni, feeling ok, had chicken soup for lunch with some thin noodles, but did not eat the chicken bits. Felt sick this morning at the same time I was being dropped off at Uni by Jas who was about to go shopping with Joaquin.
Jas has been sick with a very strong flu, that gave him high temps and made him stay in bed for a few days. He is feeling better today but has dull headaches, maybe the tamiflu and the antibiotics.
The Dr gave him tamiflu on Sunday after we saw her, just in case as I am pregnant and gave me a packet for safe keeping. I have been feeling more energized lately and less sick. Still tired at night, still want to sleep at 9pm. I am quite mean to Jas as I do not want cuddles or hugs or any thing that will wake me from my sleep. Then I wake at maybe 12 or 1 or 2 for toilet break and then can not get back to sleep for a long while. Then on the dot I wake at 7.30am or even if i am lucky at 8am. Joaquin also wakes at the same time as me calling "Mummy" or "Daddy" or even "Help" or "Help me". This morning he was very upset with a sore finger, and kept saying "ouch" all morning, he had a small very small cut on his index finger, we tried to put bandaids and cream and he got very upset. Jas had to put a bandaide on his finger to show Joaquin it would not hurt.

3 weeks and 6 days pregnant

It is J's 35th Bday and I did another pregnancy test and it was a bfp (big fat positive) I term that women use on the pregnancy/baby forums. I think J is convinced that we are pregnant. It is all very early days so I am a bit cautious about this. J still wants me to go to drs to confirm so I have a drs appoinment on Saturday the 1st August so we will see then. SO far only symptoms I have had is a lot of saliva in my mouth, that at times I can not sleep as it clogs my throat and I have some immsomia too.
I went to Uni today, I did not make a cake for Js bday but I think he is happy that we are going together on another little adventure.

3 weeks and 4 days

I just did a pregnancy test behind Js back and it was positive. The second red line was faint but it was there. I am 4 weeks and 4 days pregnant and I knew I was pregnant last week. My periods are not due till Friday 31st and J said not to do a test until Friday but I can not wait.
We just got back from the Hunter and from our six weeks holiday. It is so good to be home, having a kitchen and sleeping in a soft clean bed, and not a tent. I mean the tent was nice but the bed is nicer. I have not been able to sleep at night and have weird thought and now I know why.
I know when all this happened, when the act to conceive the baby occurred. We were in Cairns, we were in a tent, Joaquin was asleep. I had made zucchini patters with potato mash, Joaquin had eaten a few while watching Diego and Dora on the LCD screen J had set up in the car. The tv shows are fed by an ipod system, quiet brilliant, and we can change and pick what he wants to see all trip.
We also had some left over fresh oysters J had bought at lunch, that we ate for lunch along with prawns. A very very yummy prawn sandwich. I did not have oysters and zucchini fritters, but J did and was quiet hyped. He talked to the guy staying in the camp-trailer who was heading up north on a fishing trip. He told the guy who was from Western Australia all the facts about fishing up north and catching bronze whalers. We had just been back from the north and heading south. Our 4-wheel drive was covered in red dust and was still red after J had washed it and vacuumed it at the car wash up the road.
Anyway that is the night it all happened, I had gone for a run at 7am. Left the tent and ran up the road to the hills behind the caravan park and felt really good all day.
Anyway from Cairns to Kurramine to Airlie Beach to 1770 to Bribie Island and Surfers Paradise I knew I was not feeling just right. I have been running in the mornings trying to train to City to Surf but I have been feeling bloated and can not sleep at night.
The first day of my lmp was Friday 3rd July, that makes the estimated birth date at 9 April 2010.

38 and half weeks pregnant

Nearly there
here is a photo of what I looked like a week before i gave birth on may 30th 2007

6 weeks

Today is Friday. It is hot in Sydney, but here in the flat I am in is quite cool.
I feel good, I am at home and listening over and over again to Regina Spektor Fidelity, I love the song.
I am approximately 6 weeks pregnant and starting my 7th week. I have so much to do today, so lets see if i can get everything done.
I thought pregnancy was meant one feel bad, But truthfully it is not too bad.
I am not hungry, but thirsty and quite tired. I don't know If i feel 100% pregnant as I feel normal, but i feel changes in me, somewhere deep, like a coming of age, a maturation and a zest for life, for new life. I do not know how to explain it, maybe this happens to other woman as well. I guess it might all be just a feeling of Happiness.

J-chico bought a camera yesterday to take photos, and he has already taken some good ones of me. Now it is my turn to take some of him.
This weekend we will go to visit his family and tell them of our news. J-chico's sister is also pregnant and her baby is due a week before mine.
It is funny how woman get pregnant at the same time, well it is Spring here in the southern hemisphere, time to procreate and reproduce just like other mammals and birds and reptiles.

Here are some links concerning pregnancy in Australia
Childbirth Education Association of Australia

Birthnet