4 Weeks

I've been bad about posting, so I'm going to do weekly updates to get myself to post more!  :)

How do you feel?  Pretty good and not really very different yet!  Just mega excited!

Symptoms:  Mostly just thirsty.  I've been drinking a TON of water and I can't quench my thirst, which leads to constant need to pee.  Also, when it's been a couple hours since eating  last, I get hunger pains like it's been days.  And I have been getting some heartburn.  Other than those, though, all my symptoms are more like PMS ones: a little cramping, a little tired, boobs are sore, a little gassy.

Workouts: I have still been using my elliptical 4-6 times this week.  And doing my abs.  I need to add some strength exercises to my routine!  Oh, and of course I've been keeping up the kegels! :)

Doctor:  I have an initial appointment next week with the NP at the office I usually go to.  Can't wait!

Bump:  So I know it will be a while before I have  a bump, but I want to document how my body changes so I'm starting now with the pics.

Wahoo!!!!!!! I'm knocked up!

So, I wasn't going to test on Thursday morning because I was only 9dpo and I was supposed to have a glass of wine with my mom that evening, so I didn't want to have to bail on her. But I woke up in the middle of the night and went to pee and was totally out of it. I thought it was the morning of 10dpo, so I PIAC and dipped an IC. Then I sort of woke up and realized that it was the wrong day. I just gave it like 1 minute, but I didn't see anything obvious, so I just tossed the IC and went back to bed without giving it the full time.

The next afternoon, I went to throw away the TP roll and glanced in the trash and thought that I saw a 2nd line on the IC from the middle of the night. I hadn't peed in hours so I immediately PIAC and did another IC. And a sort of (but not super) faint 2nd line appeared. So of course I dipped a bunch more (because I just got 20 in the mail plus I have a bunch of FR Rapid Results, store-brand EPTs, and CBE digis in my cupboard). They all had 2nd lines (except the Rapid Results didn't). So I did a digi and there was no "Not" before the "Pregnant". OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a cute little onesie that I had bought and I put it in a gift bag with the digi to give L. It killed me because I had to wait FOREVER to tell him because he worked late and then I had plans with my mom and our friends/coworkers (we work together) that we've had for a week, so I couldn't cancel. I was getting up early to go kayaking with a friend the next morning, so I used that as an excuse to have just a Perrier, but my closest coworker suspects I think.  She did the "uh, huh....." and gave me the side eye.  She knows we're trying, so she's just waiting to hear that we are.  When L got home I gave him the present and he was so dumbfounded that it actually worked this cycle that he just sat down in his chair and said "no way, no way". 

My due date should be somewhere around March 20, 2012.  This was the cycle that we had said all along was our "ideal" because I work on the school calendar and a March baby means I won't have to go back to work until the next fall.  I'm so excited I can't stop smiling!!!