Week 6: Symptoms x 100,000,000

I can barely keep my eyes open long enough to find my computer, let alone write a blog posting, so this might be short and sweet!  Obviously the pure and utter exhaustion has fully set in!  I come home from work and nap until dinner and then usually go to sleep for the night shortly afterwards.  I've also become quite the light sleeper as well...just ask my husband who has been forced to sleep in the second bedroom on an air mattress the whole week due to his snoring...poor guy. 

Speaking of poor guy, the mood swings are also in full gear...have to love those raging hormores :-/  The tiniest thing gets on my last nerve these days.  For example, as I'm sitting here typing this post I have my windows open and all I can hear is this SUPER annoying woman (or man?) laughing outside, and it is possibly the worst laugh I've ever heard...ever.  I'm about half a second away from yelling out the window to tell her/him to knock it off. 

And the lovely nausea is here 24/7 now.  I haven't thrown up yet, knock on wood.  But I did find a semi-cure to keep the spins and God-awful feeling at bay - http://www.biobands.com/ - I HIGHLY recommend these to anyone with morning (all day!) sickness or motion sickness - they're amazing!  I only take mine off to shower now.  It works using accupressure - not sure if that's what's actually doing the trick or if my brain just thinks that's the case; either way...I'm in love with this ugly little bracelet!

Oh, and I'm peeing.  A lot.  Like, all the time.

I almost forgot!!  We got to hear the heartbeat last week!  Since I'm still seeing the IVF clinic for my appointments I get to do things more often and earlier than most normal pregnancies - no complaints here!  We got to see the little peanut again...looking more like a grain of rice this time though!  And the heartbeat was a strong and healthy 112 bpm!  We have another appointment this upcoming Monday and we'll get to see and hear the heartbeat again! 

As of tomorow I'll be 7 weeks (time is CRAWLING!!).  I forgot to post the fruit/food picture for week 6, but it was the size of a sweet pea...how cute!   Below is the fruit of the week this week! :) 

                                                  
                          
Baby's brain -- both hemispheres! -- is growing fast, generating about 100 new cells every minute. Arms and legs are emerging as joints start to form, and a permanent set of kidneys (baby's third!) is now in place.

Hard to think that it's only the size of a blueberry...yet I swear I'm already showing; that's not fair!  I'm sure I'm just bloated from another lovely symptom of pregnancy: constipation...ugh.  I can't wait to actually get a real baby-bump so people can stop looking at my bloated stomach and wonder to themselves, "is she already showing, or was she always this fat?!"

Well, I'm off to squeeze in a small nap before the husband gets home with dinner!  I'll probably dream about 'going Sybil' on my obnoxious neighbor!