"It looks like a foot..."

There really isn't much to update this week - same old stuff, different week!  I'm still nauseated all the time, and my sense of smell has helped contribute to that lovely side effect on a minute by minute basis!  The recliner I'm sitting in right now had something spilled on it (hubby won't 'fess up!) that smells God-awful, but no amount of Febreeze will get rid of it!  I think Adam might have done this on purpose to have total control of the recliner for the next 7 months...sneaky!

The mood swings are a little better, but this may be a better question to ask Adam!  I'm crying over everything though.  Pamper commercials are the absolute worst, and there is a Special Olympics one right now that makes me bawl every time.  Maybe all this crying will help me from having to pee so much...or is that just wishful thinking? :-/

I had some more spotting in week 7, but the nurses seem to think everything is still okay!  They said some women just have unexplained spotting during the first trimester.  I told a few friends this and they in turn told me they knew someone that spotted all 9 months...if that's the case with me, this is going to be a VERY long pregnancy!!

We had an appointment the day after I started spotting, so that was comforting.  We got to see the little peanut again and hear the heartbeat, which is now at 147!  Below is the sonogram picture we took home from the appointment.  I can see it right away, but it took others some convincing (i.e., my mother: "it looks like a foot"), but if you look closely at the blob (baby!) to the left of the inside of the sac, you can see at the top: the head, complete with eye, nose, and chin!, the two little arm-nubs sticking out, and then at the bottom, the 'tail'!

This past Friday (May 27th) I was 8 weeks, which means the lil' peanut is now the size of a raspberry! 

                           
Your baby is growing like mad, putting on about a millimeter every day and continuing to straighten out in the trunk. Though you can't feel it yet, baby is moving those little arms, legs and (now only slightly) webbed fingers and toes like crazy. 


Quick side note: completing a baby registry for showers is crazy-overwhelming!  I haven't started it yet (way too early for that craziness!), but my mother-in-law wants to buy our stroller so I had to let her know which one we wanted early on in case there are sales.  Just trying to decide on a stroller was much more stressful and time-consuming than deciding on dishes or bed sheets like we had to for our wedding registry!  We spent four hours at Bed Bath & Beyond when we did our wedding registry, so I can only imagine the hours that will go into this!  Just thinking about it makes me want to cry! ;)