Week 9

This morning I had my first ultrasound at my OB's office.  It was so nice to see my baby again, even though it had only been a week since the last time I saw him/her.  Baby is 1 inch long and had a strong heartbeat again.  According to the due date the fertility center gave me, I'm 9 weeks, 3 days today.  The baby was measuring 9 weeks, 5 days so they want to move my due date up a couple days.  I find it amusing that they want move the date up even though I know exactly when the baby was conceived.  I'll probably just ignore whatever date they give me and go with my original due date.  I know that my baby will  likely be born several days after my due date so it probably doesn't matter anyway. 

This past week of pregnancy has been the most difficult yet.  I hadn't had any nausea until Friday and then I ended up throwing up once during the night and once in the morning.  I assumed I was developing a late case of morning sickness, but I took my temperature later in the afternoon and had a slight fever.  I happened to have work off that day and ended up laying in bed for most of the day because I had no energy.  By the next day, I felt more like myself so I still don't know if it was pregnancy hormones, the 24 hour flu, or a combination of both.  I have had a little more nausea today and yesterday so I'm not quite sure what's going on.  Pregnancy is weird.  

In addition to the nausea, I continue to have headaches almost all day and the fatigue has gotten worse.  I had my appointment with the nurse educator on Friday and she mentioned that I could be developing nausea if I'm overly tired or eating too much at a time.  So I'm trying to get plenty of rest and not eat too much. The food aversions I've been having made accomplishing this much easier.:)  

Overall, I'm so grateful for how this pregnancy has gone so far.  I just hope there comes a time in this pregnancy when I can relax and stop worrying so much about the health of the baby. I saw a friend the other day who had had no trouble getting pregnant and had two healthy pregnancies and she said she never worried about losing her babies.  I'm so jealous of her experience.  I'm always worried I'll start bleeding or there will be no heartbeat when I look at the baby on an ultrasound.  I think it's the nature of pregnancy after a loss, but it's hard.  Hopefully each week that things are going well, I'll feel a little more confident.