It's Thursday! That means I'm 7 weeks pregnant now!! I love Thursdays!!
I just read that this week my baby will be developing hands and feet and is now the size of a blueberry!! ...much better than last week when he was a lentil; I have no idea what I lentil is, but a blueberry I can picture.
So that's the cool stuff... in other news, I was sure the nausea would not happen to me, but I was oh so very wrong! I threw up last Friday for the first time and pulled a muscle in my jaw which hurt so bad that I couldn't eat anything all day Friday and only soups on Saturday. (that made for an interesting anniversary weekend.) But I guess I'm doing ok with it now. I'm starting to get used to feeling a little bit nauseous all day and also the exhaustion that sets in around 11:00am. So far I haven't thrown up since that awful Friday morning, PRAISE GOD!, and have just adjusted my eating habits so that whether I'm hungry or not I'm snacking at least every 2 hours. It's a little bit crazy, but I'm sure that I'm filling out my jeans more because of it.
But I do get excited now and again because I know that all this sickness and exhaustion means our precious little angel is developing quite nicely inside me! :) And I have to remember to praise God for that and just continue to seek His strength and comfort to walk through it.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Being pregnant is the strangest and yet coolest thing ever...
Today I realized that it is not smart for a pregnant lady to go grocery shopping.... EVERYTHING in the store looked and smelled incredible. Then I went outside and got a wiff of somebody's greasy french fries and remembered how good that stuff tastes! Luckily, we haven't budgeted for that kind of thing this week so I'm now at home drinking milk and munching on fruit instead. I'm starting to try things that I never ate before pregnancy. For example, I found out that baked potatoes have some sort of nutrients in them that are good for developing babies so guess what is on the menu for this week! Yea, I'm going to try eating a baked potato. Perhaps I'll top it with some cheese and broccoli to make it more like broccoli and cheese and less like a baked potato. :)
We had our first ultrasound last Thursday and found out that I am 5 weeks pregnant! My due date is May 26th, which at the moment seems pretty far away except when I think about all the things that need to be done in order to prepare for a baby! ... I don't even have the first clue where to start. I don't have any idea what a baby needs! I'm lucky to have so many lovely people around me that have already had children and therefore can show me the oh so scary-looking ropes. We've gotten lots of advice already, and probably the best was not to forget about eachother - cherish these last few months as a family of two because it will all change. I feel like our first week of knowing we're pregnant has been all about telling everyone and figuring out what to eat and how to sleep... oh and jetting off to the bathroom every 5 seconds.
I had cramps pretty bad at the beginning of the week (doctor says that was from the bursting of my cysts - pretty normal), but they've actually subsided and I'm afraid have made way for nasea to settle in. Today has been my first day of a little bit of a queasy stomach. I've gotten great advice to eat a little every couple hours and that has actually helped. I'm also going to try lying down and watching movies for the rest of the morning while I wait for my husband to get home from work (I think our baby would want me to do that-he will love movies).
Tonight we will be having dinner with family again (people love to feed pregnant ladies) and hope for a pretty early night sleep. So far pregnancy is the coolest thing I think I have experienced in my whole entire life!
We had our first ultrasound last Thursday and found out that I am 5 weeks pregnant! My due date is May 26th, which at the moment seems pretty far away except when I think about all the things that need to be done in order to prepare for a baby! ... I don't even have the first clue where to start. I don't have any idea what a baby needs! I'm lucky to have so many lovely people around me that have already had children and therefore can show me the oh so scary-looking ropes. We've gotten lots of advice already, and probably the best was not to forget about eachother - cherish these last few months as a family of two because it will all change. I feel like our first week of knowing we're pregnant has been all about telling everyone and figuring out what to eat and how to sleep... oh and jetting off to the bathroom every 5 seconds.
I had cramps pretty bad at the beginning of the week (doctor says that was from the bursting of my cysts - pretty normal), but they've actually subsided and I'm afraid have made way for nasea to settle in. Today has been my first day of a little bit of a queasy stomach. I've gotten great advice to eat a little every couple hours and that has actually helped. I'm also going to try lying down and watching movies for the rest of the morning while I wait for my husband to get home from work (I think our baby would want me to do that-he will love movies).
Tonight we will be having dinner with family again (people love to feed pregnant ladies) and hope for a pretty early night sleep. So far pregnancy is the coolest thing I think I have experienced in my whole entire life!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
A New Blessing
This week Tyler and I found out that we are having a baby! We've been trying for about a month, and the doctor thinks I am 6 weeks pregnant... interesting :)
It is such a beautiful blessing from God because I have something called PCOS which means that my ovaries produce too much testosterone and could form cysts (I think). The doctor said it is usually difficult for a woman with PCOS to get pregnant and on top of that I was only allowed to be off birth control for a month because the treatment for PCOS is to be on birth control so that my ovaries won't produce too many hormones.
ANYWAY, all of that to say... a couple months ago we prayed and asked God if now was when He wanted us to have a baby, and we really felt like He was telling us to go ahead and try...so we did... and He blessed us! Against all odds! :) God is good. And now I have a little tiny baby the size of a lentil growing inside my uterus. It's fun to think about! I will try to keep this blog updated with my thoughts (as they are currently waking me up at ridiculous hours of the morning) and our baby's development.
YAY!
It is such a beautiful blessing from God because I have something called PCOS which means that my ovaries produce too much testosterone and could form cysts (I think). The doctor said it is usually difficult for a woman with PCOS to get pregnant and on top of that I was only allowed to be off birth control for a month because the treatment for PCOS is to be on birth control so that my ovaries won't produce too many hormones.
ANYWAY, all of that to say... a couple months ago we prayed and asked God if now was when He wanted us to have a baby, and we really felt like He was telling us to go ahead and try...so we did... and He blessed us! Against all odds! :) God is good. And now I have a little tiny baby the size of a lentil growing inside my uterus. It's fun to think about! I will try to keep this blog updated with my thoughts (as they are currently waking me up at ridiculous hours of the morning) and our baby's development.
YAY!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
A couple good friends have told me that they follow my blog...this, of course, would be a great and exciting thing if I actually wrote on it I think! So I will try to be better.
I assume that as our trip to Zimbabwe draws nearer we will have more to journal and also a much greater need to keep loved ones informed. From what I have heard, we won't have our cell phones there and won't always have the internet either; so I think that maybe still we won't get information on here as often as we would like... At any rate, this shall be hopefully the first of many entries to document and keep you updated on our Zimbabwe travels, and we are both excited to be able to share them with you in this way.
The pastor and his wife leading the Zim_2010 team in June traveled to Zimbabwe for a two week preliminary stay in January. They went to solidify contacts and ministry opportunities that the rest of the team will be doing with them when we go in June. They came back with so many stories of how excited the people there are to know that we're coming. They are already fasting every Monday for our arrival, and these are people that already only get one meal a day usually. The ministries we will be doing include: teaching them how to homeschool, teaching them how to build churches, water and sanitation, evangelism, and feeding the starving.
We heard a story from the Pastor R and his wife that they visited a garbage dump to feed people but only had enough for about 50 people (and there were more than that there). They told the people how many they could feed and the men happily stepped aside to let the women eat first. But that was good enough for God! The sadza that they were feeding them never went dry! They fed all the women AND the men until they were satisfied and then even had more left over! :) ...An amazing story of God's ability to still perform miracles.
They also met with Africa University for me while they were there. It seems to be a slow process getting to a position where I can do the research I want there, but I'm sure that it's coming. There are professors there that would love to have me work with them, but I first have to come up with the money to do so. Tyler and I are presently waiting to hear from UT in knoxville if I've been accepted and admitted for the fall term to get my masters in Hydrogeology. They're currently doing research on water in Bangladesh that I think is exactly the research I want to pursue in Zimbabwe. So it would be great for me to learn from them and then be able to develop my own in a couple years... the only problem with this plan of course is that it means waiting a couple years to do research for Zimbabwe...
But God has a plan, and right now we're just walking it out.
We're very busy with all this life stuff! ...sending letters and information to UT knox, sending out support letters for people to partner with us in our trip to Zimbabwe, and still trying to concentrate on each other in our very first months of being married! It's very interesting and very fun. Having so many things uncertain helps us to keep our eyes securely on the Lord... the craziness of our lives constantly reminds us that we can't do it on our own and it helps us to stay in prayer and hold each other accountable to that. :)
I'll try to update again sooner next time!
-Kati
I assume that as our trip to Zimbabwe draws nearer we will have more to journal and also a much greater need to keep loved ones informed. From what I have heard, we won't have our cell phones there and won't always have the internet either; so I think that maybe still we won't get information on here as often as we would like... At any rate, this shall be hopefully the first of many entries to document and keep you updated on our Zimbabwe travels, and we are both excited to be able to share them with you in this way.
The pastor and his wife leading the Zim_2010 team in June traveled to Zimbabwe for a two week preliminary stay in January. They went to solidify contacts and ministry opportunities that the rest of the team will be doing with them when we go in June. They came back with so many stories of how excited the people there are to know that we're coming. They are already fasting every Monday for our arrival, and these are people that already only get one meal a day usually. The ministries we will be doing include: teaching them how to homeschool, teaching them how to build churches, water and sanitation, evangelism, and feeding the starving.
We heard a story from the Pastor R and his wife that they visited a garbage dump to feed people but only had enough for about 50 people (and there were more than that there). They told the people how many they could feed and the men happily stepped aside to let the women eat first. But that was good enough for God! The sadza that they were feeding them never went dry! They fed all the women AND the men until they were satisfied and then even had more left over! :) ...An amazing story of God's ability to still perform miracles.
They also met with Africa University for me while they were there. It seems to be a slow process getting to a position where I can do the research I want there, but I'm sure that it's coming. There are professors there that would love to have me work with them, but I first have to come up with the money to do so. Tyler and I are presently waiting to hear from UT in knoxville if I've been accepted and admitted for the fall term to get my masters in Hydrogeology. They're currently doing research on water in Bangladesh that I think is exactly the research I want to pursue in Zimbabwe. So it would be great for me to learn from them and then be able to develop my own in a couple years... the only problem with this plan of course is that it means waiting a couple years to do research for Zimbabwe...
But God has a plan, and right now we're just walking it out.
We're very busy with all this life stuff! ...sending letters and information to UT knox, sending out support letters for people to partner with us in our trip to Zimbabwe, and still trying to concentrate on each other in our very first months of being married! It's very interesting and very fun. Having so many things uncertain helps us to keep our eyes securely on the Lord... the craziness of our lives constantly reminds us that we can't do it on our own and it helps us to stay in prayer and hold each other accountable to that. :)
I'll try to update again sooner next time!
-Kati
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