Say "Cheese"!

After re-reading all of my posts, I realized that I am sounding rather whiny. This is actually part of the reason I started this blog - so that I could whine in private and not have to whine constantly to my husband. While not too many people know about the pregnancy yet, I don't want to inundate those that do know with my whining. I actually think i am a pretty positive person generally!

So on a positive note, I am very very excited to actually go to the nurse tomorrow! I called my doctor's office two days after the positive pee sticks and exclaimed, "I'm Pregnant! When can I come in?". What I found out is that my doctor doesn't see patients until 10 weeks. You mean I have to wait a whole five weeks?!? Then she said, we do schedule a one-hour visit with the nurse to get all of your bloodwork done. So that visit is up for tomorrow. I think it is kind of crazy that they make you wait so long give the importance of prenatal care. I mean not every newly pregnant woman reads pregnancy websites all day long, right?!

I think that will also help me to feel that the pregnancy is more real. I keep taking those pregnancy week by week pictures looking for the most minute change but I got nuthin' so far. Bigger melons are about it.

My nausea has been pretty good for the past couple of days, which I am also excited aobut! I think the food aversions/cravings are really interesting. I can go from really craving something to absolutely wanting to vomit at the sound of it pretty quickly. This has made our usual way of grocery shopping and making food a little difficult, as we usually plan our meals in advance and then go shopping for those ingredients. One way that has sort of worked is that if I don't have to do much of the cooking, I can usually suck it up. This is a little challenging because I love to cook. But darling husband is doing a great job. One of my most noticeable cravings is CHEESE. During the peak of my nausea in Week 7, my husband made me the most perfect grilled cheese sandwich. I downed it and asked for another, but we had ran out of cheese. He offered to go to the store, but I said no worries. A couple of days later, he was making bacon, egg & cheese english muffin sandwiches for breakfast and went to go buy cheese. He came home with two enormous bricks of cheese. "It seems as though you have been craving cheese lately". Is it bad that 5 days later one of those bricks is almost gone? I came home from work the other day and could not cut the cheese (no pun intended) fast enough to shovel into my mouth. I also just polished off half a container of cottage cheese in about 1 minute.

MMMM. Cheese.

As for aversions...chicken is totally grossing me out. As is seafood. Both of these things I never have issues with. For a brief period of time, avocados (one of my all-time favorites) were also grossing me out. Thankfully that is over with. I'm sort of afraid that one of these aversions will stick with me post pregnancy!

Other cravings - regular lays potato chips (usually not a potato chip fan), red velvet cupcakes, a Qdoba vegetarian burrito and McDonalds cheeseburgers. I have not given into the cheeseburger one yet, but I sense that I will cave soon.