Rescheduled

So the clinic reschedued my "nurse" appt until Monday afternoon. I'm not sure why, but I'm guessing it's due to the nursing staff being overwhelmed by H1N1 currently. I work for the same healthcare company that runs the clinic, and I know the phones have been out of control with people on hold for 6 hours! Oh well, as long as I get my lab results back prior to my Wed appt with my OB.

So new symptom: shortness of breath! Random. I just looked it up on Babycenter (my new source of info), and it appears it's fairly common due to your heart having to pump harder to reach the baby. Your body is supposed to adjust to it. Hopefully it will, as I went from feeling like a very fit slim person, to suddenly busting out of all my pants and having shortness of breath while sitting on the couch! I feel like a fat middle-aged male smoker parked on the couch! LOL. I can only imagine how it will feel when I actually get really big! Yikes.

Today I also had my first bad attack of "I need to eat RIGHT NOW or I'm going to be sick". People had warned me about that feeling, and it just came out of nowhere.

Hope you all have a good weekend! The weather is miserable here; I think I will remain parked on the couch.

Food Obsessions

So not only am I loving chocolate this week, I am now in love with grilled Black Forest ham and cheese sandwiches with soup. My new favorite soups are Progresso Santa Fe chicken and Tuscany chicken. I am obsessed! I've always been a big eater and have always loved food, but good lord; it is consuming my thoughts for much of the day now! What will I eat next? I asked D what we should have for dinner at 10:30AM yesterday. Heh. So far I haven't really craved anything I wouldn't normally eat though. I'm sure the cravings will get more strange as time goes on.

I had never heard the no deli meat during pregnancy thing before, so it's a good thing I can eat it if I nuke it first. So many things to learn.

I have the 1st "regular" appt on Friday with my OBGYN's nurse, and then with the doctor next Wednesday. I'm not really sure what the nurse appt will entail, but I'm guessing it will involve telling me to take pre-natal vitamins (check), avoid caffeine (check), yada, yada. I already got The Handout from Dr. P during my u/s, but I will gladly take another one, as I keep learning new things like the deli meat thing. And no salad bars??? Who knew? Good thing salad bars don't have grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and chocolate :=0

8 Weeks (tomorrow)

I am not really sure when the belly shots are supposed to start, but since my belly is definitely getting bigger, I thought now would be good!

I am so, so hungry all of the time. I just want to eat constantly! Chocolate is the craving this week.

And for anyone else out there craving chocolate, I give you: cookie pizza! SO GOOD.