so tired!

For all you ladies that read this, and haven't had children yet, here's something that probably nobody else will tell you. NOT EVERYONE'S FATIGUE GETS BETTER IN THE SECOND TRIMESTER!! Everyone always tells you, "oh, don't worry. You're only tired the first trimester and then it's so much better." Not for everyone! I'm so tired STILL. My house looks like a tornado went through it. I have every intention on cleaning a little when I get home from school, but I just can't. I sit down and I pretty much cannot move again! Last night, in fact, I fell asleep on the couch at 7:30. And that's only because I MADE myself stay awake that long! I woke up at 8:45 and went to bed right away. I DO live with 2 boys that should be cleaning up for me though... Wonder why they haven't started that.

I hit the 16 week mark yesterday. Didn't take any measurements because my tape measure seems to be missing. I did weigh myself, but my scale is different from the doctor's office because I only weighed 120 (barely) on it, when I weighed 123 at the doctor's office last week. So I really can't count that weight. I know I'm not losing weight, so I'll just have to wait until our next appointment.

catching up

I had my first run-in with the pregnancy police last Wednesday. I was talking to a teacher friend of mine about my headaches and migraines and how they've come back since week 13 after not having a single one for the first trimester. I told her the doctor prescribed me Midrin and that caffeine helps sometimes too. In walks another teacher and starts chewing me out. HARD. Tells me I need to start thinking about my baby (hello, like I don't always?!) and how all this is going to make the baby's head wired wrong and so on and so forth. I told her that I'm going to trust my doctor and what he tells and she starts in on me again about how none of this is good for the baby. I walked out the door at that point, saying, "And the baby's mom, laying in bed in pain so bad that she throws up until 4 in the morning, then has to go to work on 2 hours of sleep isn't good for the baby either, so I'll take the pills and ceffeine." Next time, I'll tell her to be glad she won't have to have my "mis-wired kid" in her kindergarten class because there's no way I'd chose to send my kid to Encampment if she's still here teaching! She's a grump anyway and is ALWAYS "right" about anything and everything.

I went to Salt Lake City Wed. night-Saturday last week. WHAT A BLAST! I had so much fun. I found some great bargains while doing some shopping, too. A $30 yellow newborn sweater at Baby Gap for $8, some maternity clothes on sale, and on Saturday coming home we found the Outlet Malls in Park City where I found more great deals. More maternity clothes, and a green sweater and Christmas onesie at Osh Kosh B'Gosh for $11 total, and a sleeper and 5 washcloths for $11 total also.

While at the conference, Mom and I got to meet Keith Lockhart, the conductor of the Boston Pops Symphony. He's awesome! We also got to sit 20 feet in front of the Army Herald Trumpets, which only presidents of the US get to do. Those herald trumpets play so great! That was an awesome part of the trip. We also got to see a concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Oak Ridge Boys!! It was recorded to put on TV this summer, so make sure you keep your eyes out for that and watch it! What an amazing experience that was!

Josh left early yesterday morning for the week- he took the 8th graders from Saratoga to the Teton Science School. I can tell the dogs miss him- they look all over the house for him in the morning. I miss him too. :(

I thought maybe my morning sickness was going away, since I didn't throw up for 5 days. But it came back this morning. Maybe it's a fluke. Keep your fingers crossed. :)

Another doctor's appointment

Well, Josh and I took a half day each off work yesterday, using my precious sick days that I want to save for maternity leave. Our doctor's appointment in Laramie was scheduled for 2:45. At 4:20, we finally saw the doctor. If I would've known that, we wouldn't have had to take any sick leave!! And we saw the doctor for a whole 10 minutes. What a good baby I have though, he (or she) kicked Dr. Keeler. Dr. Keeler was trying to find the heartbeat with the dopplar, but the baby was moving around too much. (I wish I could feel that! But I can't yet.) Dr. Keeler pressed a little harder with the dopplar, and BOOM! The baby kicked him like he was saying, "HEY! Leave me alone!" We finally heard the heartbeat though. Steady and strong, that's for sure!!

I did get a prescription for my migraines. The first 3 months of pregnancy were WONDERFUL. Like headache heaven. I didn't get a single headache, let alone migraine! Then 13 weeks hit and not only do I get a headache every day, but last Monday got my first pregnant migraine. I was up all night in throbbing pain and throwing up until 4:00 a.m. What a long night! Poor Josh was probably pretty tired the next day too, since he was up with me! Hopefully this medicine will help when I feel one coming on.

It hit 71 degrees on our way to Laramie, and on our way home, it was 32 and blizzarding. No joke. Gotta love Wyoming weather in the springtime!

Hope everyone had a great Easter! It was just me and Josh this year. We didn't get any days off school for traveling, and I HATE eating Easter dinner in the afternoon and leaving to come home right away. Especially now that I get so carsick now that I'm pregnant. So we had a nice quiet day by ourselves. It was very enjoyable.

I'm off to Salt Lake City for the MENC National Convention tomorrow, so I'll catch you all up when I get home!

Ultrasound

Finally, it lets me post our ultrasound picture! This was taken at 11 weeks. It's only one baby, but two pictures. I think it has Josh's head. :)

This was taken at 13 weeks, 1 day. Weight- still 121. Waist- 33 inches and a tiny bit. Sorry, it's a little blurry.

PS....

I just noticed for the first time that Robyn left me a message! Whoo-hoo! :) Robyn, I have the Sea Bands. I've been wearing them for several weeks now. They do help a little! I recommend them to anyone!!

Changing

Boy, has my stomach changed in the past couple days. Not only is it getting bigger, but it's getting wider. My belly button is pretty shallow already. And Josh noticed a few tiny stretch marks the other day. I'm thinking maybe they were just marks from my waistband of my pants, because I can't see them any more.

Whacky weather here- it was in the 60's Wednesday and then today and yesterday it's been snowing. Supposed to be 60 again tomorrow. Strange.

Have a great weekend!

Man, I'm not very good at keeping this updated, am I?! I guess that's because there's really nothing new to report. My morning sickness is getting WORSE. I'm now throwing up every single morning unless I get to sleep in. But when I get up for work, forget it. I spend the first 5 minutes of my morning over the sink!

It rained and rained yesterday. At one point, our dogs were outside and when I went to let them in, both dogs were dripping wet and Birdie was just caked with mud. She had a great time playing outside. And she went straight into the bathtub when she came in, I made sure of that! The drain got plugged with so much dirt. She doesn't mind a bath though, she knows she'll get a bone afterwards. :)

I'll be 13 weeks tomorrow- one more week until the 2nd trimester starts. Then maybe all the puking will stop!!! (HA! Wishful thinking!!)

long time, no hear.

It's been forever since I've posted anything! We've been pretty busy. Josh and I are on Spring Break this week (and it's been MUCH NEEDED!!). We left last Friday to go to Gillette for the weekend. On Monday, we had our first dr. appt., which I'll get to in a minute. Since we've been back home, we've been remodeling our master bathroom. We put in some new tile in the shower, took out the vanity so we can put in a pedestal sink, and once we got the vanity out, realized there's no tile under there, so we had to completely re-do the floor, too. I say WE in all this, but really, it's been Josh. He doesn't want me smelling fumes or lifting. He's so great. Tonight we'll try to get the walls painted and the floor in over the sub-floor Josh installed this afternoon after pulling out all the tiles. Poor Josh is very sore tonight!!

Now for the doctor's appt. We got to have an ultrasound done, and I'm posting pictures up. The baby is just under 2 inches long. :) The heartbeat was 180 bpm, and everything looks great! We go again on April 17th, but won't have another ultrasound done until I hit about 20 weeks. I'm at just over 11 now.

I tried to post the ultrasound picture, but it won't work for some reason. I'll have to try again later.

boring, long night.

Since I'm stuck at work until 8:00 tonight for Parent/Teacher conferences, I thought now would be a great time to update the blog. It's 6:43 right now. Conferences started almost 3 hours ago and I've seen a whole 2 parents. It's always the parents of the good kids that come to visit you, never the parents you NEED to talk to. Like the mother of one of my jr. high kids, who, out of 17 assignments for 3rd quarter, has 11 0's. That's right, ELEVEN 0's. Now, when I was a kid, NOT turning in my homework was never an option for me. I never even thought about it. Thank you for raising me right, Mom and Dad!

The worst part about this is that I won't get home until almost 8:30 tonight, meaning I'll miss most of the Amazing Race. Grr. And then I have to get up and go to school again tomorrow. Thursday night, another night of conferences. Good thing we have Friday off to compensate!

Baby Hannah

I mentioned earlier that my great friend from college, Beth, has a little 11 month old girl who was born with Down Syndrome. They found out a couple weeks ago that Hannah has Leukemia. Please keep Hannah, her parents Beth and Jerry, her brother Colton, and the rest of their extended family in your thoughts and prayers! Here is a website for those of you that want to see some great pictures of Hannah and the family, and keep updated about her condition:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/hannahhopster

She's a strong baby girl with an even stronger family, so I know they will pull through this with flying colors!

8 weeks

8 weeks today! The Zantac and Sea Bands seemed to help today. I felt better and had more energy than I've had in quite a while.

Here's what I look like at 8 weeks:
It's all belly, no bloat anymore! I feel big from the front, and I also noticed today how much I've gained on my sides! I now have "fat" on my rib cage through my hips, which I've never had before. I haven't gained any weight though, I've actually lost it. Weight at 8 weeks: 118

Here's another picture of our baby's first shoes. I bought these little tiny golf shoes for Josh about a year ago and we can now get them out!!

at home.

So I had to stay home today. I HATE having to use one of my precious maternity leave days for a sick day, but I really didn't have much of a choice. Last night, I threw up before dinner and then couldn't eat a darn thing. All night long, my stomach hurt so bad that I couldn't sleep. It almost feels like there's a knot in my stomach. I got a whole hour of sleep I think, and didn't feel any better this morning so I stayed home. I called our doctor's nurse and she said to try some Zantac. So I went to get some (even though laying down feels better than standing up) and we'll see if that helps. If not, I'll be visiting our clinic in town tomorrow to see what else it could be. I really wish we lived near an OB so I could just go in for an appt when I need one!!

Hooray for medicine!

After having horrible morning-afternoon-evening-night sickness for the past week or so, I called our doctor to beg for something to help me out. I wasn't sure if he'd call a prescription in for me since we haven't seen him yet, but he did. I'm taking some Metoclopram now, and what a world of difference! I can function again!!

Ahhh- so comfy.

I can no longer fit into most of my regular pants. I'm not kidding. 7 weeks tomorrow and I already am too big for my regular pants. We went to Motherhood this weekend where I was able to find a pair of maternity jeans and a pair of maternity khakis, so those are now in my closet! I wore the jeans yesterday and was so comfortable all day- no more digging waist bands! Waist bands that dig into your belly really HURT and make me want to throw up!! I wore some maternity black dress pants to school today and could really notice a difference in comfort while sitting on the ground with my elementary students!

I haven't thrown up in 2 days but this constant stomach ache is going to kill me. Saturday was NOT a good day. Josh was gone all day in Baggs for a middle school girls' basketball tournament and when he got home, I told him I'm pretty sure the baby hates me. I was sick, sick, sick. And I'm not feeling too great right now either so I think I'll go lay down.

Adios,
Kara

Throwing up is fun.

NOT. Luckily, it's so far been contained to first thing in the morning. The constant stomach ache all day long though is getting really old!

It's freezing cold here- 3 degrees right now. We didn't get as much snow as everyone else did though. We only got a couple inches.

Valentine's Day was fun- Josh sent a dozen roses to the meeting we both had to attend on Tuesday. Then we had our first date in 2 months. We ate at the Saratoga Inn. I had the same meal I did 2 months ago, but this time it tasted a LOT different to me. My taste buds must be changing! It was nice to have a date though. And there was a cute older couple at the table next to us. They must just be engaged, but the lady said, "What's your favorite item in my house?" The man, without even pausing, said, "You." How cute. :)

Kara

Sick.

So I was hoping my sickness would stay evening sickness. However, yesterday after a bad night of sleep, I felt awful all day long. That was not a good feeling. I don't mind the fact that I'm sick, because the more sick you are, the less chance of miscarriage you have, but the feeling isn't very nice!!

I feel much better today after a good night's sleep. My stomach still hurts a little but I think it's because it wants some more of the toast it had for breakfast! I did however, throw up for the first time this morning. I felt better immediately afterwards though.

Note to anyone reading this: Do NOT let me hear you hock a loogey, because that's what made me sick this morning.

On a sad note, my friend has the most beautiful little girl that was born 10 months ago with Downs Syndrome. Things were starting too look up for her, health-wise, until they got an abnormal blood test back this week. They went to get some tests done today to see if the poor baby has Lukemia. Please keep my friend and her precious baby in your prayers.

Kara

Evening Sickness

I think my sickness is setting in. Yesterday and today, around 3:00, I get a really sick feeling. And completely exhausted at that time too. Tonight I had to concentrate on not throwing up. I decided that 3:00 is a great time to be sick though- I'm done with school for the day, I can go home, put on my sweats, and do nothing all evening long. It's MUCH better than puking at school! (Knock on wood- I hope that doesn't happen!) Here's hoping that if this is my sickness, it will stay evening sickness!!

Too Tight

So I got dressed this morning and found out that the first pair of pants I put on are already too tight! They were not loose to begin with, but I could hardly breathe when I buttoned them up this morning. So they are going in the box to save for a year from now. Luckily, I have some bigger dress pants I can wear! This weekend, we found some good sales and I bought two pairs of maternity pants, because I KNOW that some morning, I will wake up and NOTHING in my closet will fit. Now I have an emergency outfit. :)

I also let my principal know today that I'll be needing some time off in October. And I told one of our teachers, because I knew she'd tell everyone for me. Sure enough, she was walking down the hall going, "Did you hear that Mrs. Sandlian is having a baby?" :)

HOLY MOLY!!

So our journey with infertility has ended for a while. On Friday, Feb. 3, we found out we are pregnant! Holy moly, what a shock! We are super excited though. After the doctor confimed it by charging me $80 to pee in a cup (even though I already had, that morning, with the kit that cost $13 at Wal-mart!) we started calling our families. It's all very exciting! Baby Sandlian is due October 12, 2006.

This is a picture taken the day we found out, as you can see, I'm just a tad bit bloated. That is quite some belly for a normally-skinny me! (If you click on the picture, you get an even fatter version!!) Starting weight: 122.