Alot of you might know that I claim to be a yogi.  Not one of those diehard, tree huggin’, vegan type yogi’s by any means.  Just a simple person that enjoys doing yoga on a semi-regular basis.  The trouble with me and my yoga practice is that we don’t meet often enough.  I start out on my yoga routine for a couple days and then quickly fade away into being a lazy couch potatoe.  No matter how I start out I quickly crash and burn.

I love the idea of keeping up my yoga practice into my pregnancy but I have a feeling that once I get really big and round that I’ll lose interest and stop doing it all together.  What can I do to stay motivated?  I don’t want to crash and burn this time.  I feel that if I do keep it up throughout my pregnancy that it won’t be as hard to get the pregnancy weight off once I’ve given birth like it did with my first child.

Lets face it, any physical activity outside is out of the question just because it is too cold!  Yoga just fits me.  Its easy, I always see results, and it releases all of my built up tensions.

Hopefully writing this post will be my motivation.  Besides if I go through this holiday season with no excersise at all, I’m going to gain 20 lbs.  Ok, everyone wish me luck.  And feel free to check up on me.  Just ask me if if I’m doing my yoga.

*btw, I did 30 mins of yoga this morning.  planning on doing another hour and a half.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been experiencing round ligament pain.  I had RLP when I was pregnant with my son but I remember it as being much later in the pregnancy and not this early.  RLP isn’t fun at all.  It happens usually when I get up to go make supper, around the same time everyday.  But RLP isn’t anything to be alarmed about it, it is just simply apart of being pregnant.  If you don’t know what round ligament pain is go to this website and check it out.  Educate yourself!

So, I had a doctors appointment again today.  Yesterday was an ultrasound, today the doctor.  Visit went well.   He found the heartbeat and confirmed my due date of May 25th.  I did the usual pee sample which is always fun *sarcasm*.  They took my weight, and I’m already topping the scale at 137 lbs.  That means I’ve gained 3 lbs. in the past two weeks and have gained a total of 10 lbs. since I found out that I was preggers.  Goodness!  If I keep this weight gaining thing up I’ll be as big as a house.  What I don’t understand is that I haven’t really been eating alot, I mean nothing out of the ordinary like that week with my folks.  So I don’t understand why I’m gaining so rapidly.  Maybe my body just retains fat when I’m pregnant.  I usually have something light for breakfast, a decent lunch, and a good supper.  For snacks I eat fruit so why am I gaining so rapidly?  I can’t figure it out. I’m not doing anything different now than when I wasn’t pregnant.  Weird!

Today, I had my first ultrasound. The ultrasound was to determine how far along I was. Well according to the ultrasound I am 12 weeks and 5 days and due on May 25th. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow for confirmation. So I know ya’ll are just dying to see pictures of “The Bean” [yes, I’ve changed his nickname again because of two thing 1. I really like it and 2. kumquat just isn’t catching on], so here they are…

Top of Head and Arm

Profile

Opening and closing mouth: swallowing amniotic fluid

Leg Stretched Out>

Leg and Foot

Headstand

Face: hubby thought he was doing a namaste’/buddha pose with his arms in prayer position on his chest.

Arm and Hand

During the ultrasound the bean waved at us and was also opening and closing his mouth as if to say hello. Up until now it hasn’t felt “real”, like I was really pregnant. But after seeing the little guy it hits home, finally. It was the same way with p-nut, I just felt fat up until the ultrasound.

Today, we were SUPPOSED to have an ultrasound. Well I called hubby at work about 2ish and told him he had to be here by 2:45 no later than 3 because we had to be at the ultrasound place in the next town by 3:15 [30 mins before our actual appointment]. He said ok, but he is in a meeting so he would have to call me back. Well, he called me back and they said he couldn’t leave and that he’d be here as soon as he could. Well he ended up showing up at 3:30. We booked it to the next time and arrived at the ultrasound place at 3:50. Lady makes us wait for 45 mins while she try to find the ultrasound tech. After waiting she so graciously informs us that everyone has left! So we had to reschedule. Because the rude operator couldn’t get us in the rest of the week they could only do it next Monday. This time I got a morning appointment. Hubby says he probably won’t go into work until after the ultrasound. We’ll see. Personally, I think bosslady had something to do with hubby not being able to leave the meeting. Before the “incident” she was all for hubby being at all my doctors appointments now it seems that although she still approves it she will try to make him late to every one.

Sorry to all the people that wanted to see little baby pictures today.  Ya’ll will have to wait till next week.

P-nut got a cold sometime last week and has so graciously passed it on to me. It seems like just as soon as I get well, I get sick again. Ah, pregnancy, how I DON’T miss you! Anyway, I’ve gone threw it all in the past couple of days. From a sore throat to a runny nose, watery eyes to losing my voice. It hasn’t been fun and tylenol hasn’t been cutting it. I’ve been miserable yet again. I just can’t seem to get well. I’m only 2 months preggers and already I can’t wait till this baby is out! Sad….just sad.

I had my first preggy doctor’s appointment today.  First of all my doctor during this pregnancy is a MAN!  Now, I despise man-gyno’s, I just think something is messed up if a man wants to look at sick kooty-kats all day long but that is just me, so whatever.  Anyways, that is the only gyno here in this small town and he just moved here from Texas and doesn’t even have his own office yet.  He is currently working out of an Eye, Ear, and Nose Allergy center [that is where I had my appointment] until they finish building the hospital here.  They don’t even have a hospital here, isn’t that crazy!  After the initial shock of all this and hating where I live they did the normal routine tests.  They weighed me [I’m topping in at 134 lbs!!!  can you believe it?  that week of eating sure did a number on my tummy!!!], made me pee in a cup [a came prepared with full bladder, ], took my blood, and did a pap test which HURT!  I’ve never had a pap smear that hurt before.  The doctor said that I’d probably have some spotting later on and I sure did.  It was really weird to have a pap smear not only that hurt but also that made me bleed.

The nurse is really friendly and the doctor is creepy but nice.  They’ll have to do for the time being I guess.  I have an ultrasound scheduled for Monday since I don’t remember the date of my last period which was sometime in August.  So there should be some pictures soon! Hopefully we’ll be able to determine if “Kumquat” is a good nickname or not.  With my son, his first ultrasound he looked just like a p-nut.  The doctor predicts that I’m somewhere between 8-10 weeks.  With pnuts first ultrasound I was 11 weeks so we shall see.

If you keep up with my other blogs you’ll know that my folks were in town this week for a visit.  I hadn’t told my folks prior to this week that I was preggers because I wanted it to be a surprise.  Well while we were out, we stopped by Jamba Juice and got a smoothie while instide my father asked how far along I was.  I asked how he knew I was preggers sine I wasn’t showing he said he just knew.  Later I found out that hubby squealed to him during a phone conversation weeks ago.  But my mother still didn’t know so I wrote on a pumpkin “I’m pregnant”.  I asked her if she wanted to see the pumpkin I got and when I turned it around she started laughing.  She thought it was a joke.  I showed her the pregnancy test and she started crying.  Needless to say she is thrilled.  Now she has an excuse to go yard sailing for baby stuff.

Because of the lack of entertainment in this small town we basically ate our way through the week.  We ate out everyday, 3 meals a day.  I think we ate at every restuarant here.  So as you can imagine I put on some weight this week, probably 10 lbs.  My tummy is poking out and waistbands on pants are starting to get tight.  I know I won’t be eating that much till their next visit so hopefully I can get a couple more weeks in without wearing preggers garb.

I’m starting my excersise program of yoga and waling to the library this week so hopefully that will counteract the binge eating that insued last week.

*Note* I walked to the library to write this post.

Well come to find out, I didn’t have the flu but infact Roseola. I woke up today with a rash all over my body just like the bean and p-nut had after they got rid of their fever. Apparently, an adult with Roseola gets it alot worse than a kid because I felt awful. I did research online and pretty much diagnosed myself. The majority of the websites that I looked at said that it may cause a miscarriage or birth deffects and some said that they just don’t know because there haven’t been alot of tests done to determine the outcome because it is so rare.

When I got the rash this morning hubby got really concerned and demanded that I go to the ER, so we went there and the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I told them tnat I did research of my own and think that it is roseola. After the doctor went back and consulted with another doctor she came back and said yep that is what you got and sent me home. There is no medicine to take just have to wait it out. So basically we had a wasted trip to the ER.

Weight: 129 lbs.
I think I have the flu.  I’m sure I got it from the yucky pay phone I used the other day.  It is especially bad that I’m sick because the only thing I can take is tylenol since I’m still early in my pregnancy.  Had I been in my second trimester there would be more medicine options for me.  So this kinda sucks.  I just gotta suffer and hope it goes away quickly. Last night it got really bad and I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital.  My arms, hands, legs, and feet all got really really cold and almost numb feeling.  I couldn’t get them to warm up despite how many layers of clothes I had on or number of blankets that I was under.  I was shivering so bad.  I took a warm bath and went to sleep and eventually warmed up.  But I was sooo scared.  I had never felt that feeling in my hands before.

I’m doing alot better today.  I have most of strength back.  The only thing is that I still have a horrible sore throat.  So I’m not doing alot of talking. I’ve been drinking nothing but orange juice the last two days.  I figured the extra vitamin C could help kick this flu bug.  Tomorrow I have to keep the bean, so I’m trying to get as much rest today as possible.