So last I checked in, I was on a plane to Seattle. Brad and I had a great time checking out the city (and thankfully spent a lot of time relaxing too, which was much-needed). It's probably easier to recount in picture-form, so here we go.
Coffee as delicious as it was pretty! (Decaf for me...)
Gorgeous weather wandering around the city. So we wandered up to the business district and went to the top of the Columbia Center to take advantage of a beautiful day and 360 degree views:
Then we hopped in the car and drove over to gasworks park. It was really cool - an old industrial center that now is a beautiful park with great city views!
On Saturday it was a little rainy, so we stuck to eating delicious food and drove out to Snowqualmie Falls for a quick photo-op. It was so cold and windy, we didn't stay long. But it was beautiful and there was so much water! Very impressive.
The trip back was uneventful. We missed the foot of snow that was dumped on Charlottesville, so that was nice. It did mean I had a few classes get cancelled while we were gone, which luckily meant I was actually less behind than originally anticipated. Woohoo!
Last Monday went by slowly... Dealing with jetlag is no fun. I had my monthly checkup on Tuesday morning. Showed up at 10:30 to find out my appointment was actually at 9:30. Oops. They were awesome and squeezed me in anyways. Heard baby's heartbeat - 160 bpm! In and out, everything is looking good.
Until two hours later.
I had been feeling a little nauseous before my appointment. Nothing crazy, just like breakfast wasn't sitting quite right. I went to my appointment, got back to the office, and about two hours later ran to the bathroom and threw up what little breakfast I had eaten. Return of morning sickness? Awesome.
Then an hour later I threw up again.
Then again.
And again.
By 2:00, I was getting a little nervous. I wasn't even able to keep down saltine crackers and ginger ale. Even water made me throw up! I hadn't kept anything down all day, so I called my OB back. "Yeah, I know everything was fine this morning, but now all hell has broken loose..."
The nurse told me that there was a nasty 24 hour bug going around, so she prescribed me some meds to help stop the vomiting so I could at least keep fluids down.
I missed work Wednesday (but did manage to take my midterm that I was supposed to do Tuesday night), but drank lots of Pedialyte and took multiple naps.
By Thursday, I was feeling back to ~90%, which was good because it was my birthday!
I got this hilarious card/text from my brother, Bobby (Sour Patch Kids Glamour Shots is the next big thing, ya know), and Brad cooked me a delicious porkchop dinner with angel food cake and strawberries for dessert. Besides that, it was lots of relaxing and recovering.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were more of the same. Just trying to get my energy levels back up. I lost about 3 pounds in one day, which put me back down below my pre-pregnancy weight (which isn't good!). I've gained a little more than a pound back, so I'm about a pound up right now. Okay, but something I'll have to keep an eye on.
The bump is definitely there though! Maybe not quite so obvious in pictures, but in real life it actually is starting to look more pregnancy and less post-burrito-lunch. I really can't wait to get a real obvious bump that leaves no question :)
Most recent bump pics:
And today I'm rocking my first pair of maternity pants. Boy are they comfy... and fit me a lot better than my "fat pants with a rubber band" that I've been wearing... I might have to make the switch.
Still sticking with regular/longer shirts though. No need to get all flowy just yet.
Okay. So that's the goings on around here. Hopefully I can remember to post more often than once every two weeks!
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