7 weeks! Another week, another mini-celebration for me.  According to my little ticker I posted last time, baby is now the size of a blueberry. 🙂  I’m sticking with my plan to post at least every week, but there’s really not a lot to report yet.  I’m really feeling positive most of the time, but when I’m feeling good, it’s hard to find stuff to say about it.  But sometimes I am scared.  I was hoping once I got past the 6-week milestone, I’d be better, but I’m still anxious.

I’m still stuck in this blessing/curse (but I know, mostly blessing) of having no symptoms.  I can mostly eat anything.  Smells aren’t really making me gag.  I’m not nearly as tired as I was with S.  And of course I haven’t been nauseated or sick.  I have been a bit congested with no other symptoms (anymore), so I thought maybe this was going to be a pregnancy thing this time.  But Pete’s had that too, so I have my doubts. 🙂  I think it’s more likely it’s a combination of being remnants of an old cold + we need to get some dust out of our house….

Last night, I started having some mild to moderate cramping.  A lot of mornings, I wake up with some mild cramping, but it goes away after I get up.  I thought perhaps my full bladder was just bothering my uterus. 😛  But really I have no idea.  After the first couple of mornings like that, it didn’t really concern me anymore.  It’s not been a thing during the day though, that I’ve noticed, except maybe at the VERY beginning.  When I was pregnant with S, I did have some mild cramps off and on that was just my uterus growing, which of course needs to happen.  So this time, I didn’t know whether to consider the lack of cramps good or bad or neutral????  But when it started again last night after being basically non-existent for a couple of weeks, I panicked (again).  I wonder how many times something like this will happen?  I keep thinking maybe, once I see a heartbeat, maybe THEN I’ll be able to relax a little.  But am I just kidding myself?  Maybe I won’t be able to relax until it’s certain that this baby could survive outside of me.

I’m still mildly crampy this morning, but nothing severe.  And no bleeding.  God knows I check every time I go to the bathroom, and sometimes I make a special trip to check.  Since it’s my day off, I think I’m going to try to take it easy (though I can’t ignore some things like laundry…and taxes…boo!) and just stay hydrated.

OH!  I did just think of something a little more fun (silly) to write about.  Yesterday after church, we got fajitas for lunch.  And of course I ate waayyyy too much chips and salsa.  What else was I going to do while we waited (longer than usual) for our food to come?  But it was good.  Perfect for my recent affinity for salty things (maybe that’s something).  When our food came, everything was good.  But then…the bloat.  I looked in the mirror and sure enough, I had a food baby LOL.  I was pretty certain it was food baby and not actually baby for a few reasons: 1) it wasn’t there yesterday, 2) I had every reason to be bloated, and 3) it was pretty uncomfortable.  I showed Pete, but he was less impressed.  😉  Today, I can also add 4) it’s not there anymore.  It was fun to pretend for a little while, but I guess I will wait (im)patiently until I can see that there’s an actual baby in there.  (They always say you show sooner with your subsequent pregnancies, so I’m curious to see how long it takes to not fit into my normal clothes anymore!)

Anyway.

Really, really looking forward to my Dr appointment which will be one week from today!  Praying so hard for good news.