Week 7

How far along: 7 weeks.

How big is baby: The size of a blueberry

Maternity clothes: Leggings and slightly looser shirts.

Sleep: Constantly so tired and unmotivated! 

Best moment of the week: I made it through traveling to El Paso, Texas and then Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Food cravings: I make sure to eat a light breakfast each morning, always wanting cereal. And lately I've been wanting cream of wheat, original flavor since it's so bland it doesn't make me sick.

Craving fruits and few vegetables. Also drinking lots of lemon water.

Food aversions: This symptom hasn't gotten any better yet.

Symptoms: Little to no cramping, nausea, headaches and backaches and I'm starting to feel the bladder pressure everyone talks about.

Belly Button: Innie

Movement: it's still too early to feel anything but I'm getting anxious for it!

Gender: We'll get to find out at 12 weeks!

What I’m looking forward to: Growing this wonderful miracle! 

What I miss: Nothing.

Next appt: February 3, 2014 

Week 6

How far along: 6 weeks.

How big is baby: The size of a sweet pea! 

Total weight gain: Still haven't checked the scale but probably at least a pound.

Maternity clothes: I'm fitting in most of my clothes but definitely opting to wear leggings and sweat pants around the house & as much as possible. 

Sleep: I'm starting to feel the fatigue slightly and realizing naps are becoming a must on most days. Still sleeping through the night!

Best moment of the week: We celebrated Julie's birthday this week and the Who's Bad tournament. We've told Adam's side of the family and some friends so it's been really nice having everyone check up on me and care for me. 

Food cravings: Allllll the time! Since so many foods sound awful majority of the time, I crave few things: watermelon, strawberries, lots and lots of Rice Krispies with bananas. 

Food aversions: Just about everything makes me sick when I smell it. Lingering smells on clothes, smells I loved just a week ago, sweet things. Anything will do it. 

Symptoms: The cramping has eased up a little but still comes in waves so I'm loving my heat pad, which Adam renamed my cramp pad. Still have acne and backne, headaches, back aches, and nausea. But thanking god, I haven't thrown up!

Belly Button: Innie

Movement: it's still too early to feel anything but I'm getting anxious for it!

Gender: We'll get to find out at 12 weeks!

What I’m looking forward to: Getting through traveling for our tournaments! 

What I miss: Nothing.

Next appt: February 3, 2014 

Week 5

5 Weeks Pregnant

So I've seen these baby blogs everywhere, even before we conceived and before I had one ounce of thought towards getting pregnant. The more research I do, the more I'm persuaded to keep one of my own baby blogs/pregnancy journals since it's so highly recommended.

Here's this week's update:

Let me be honest here: that's not really a baby bump just yet. Mostly I'm extremely bloated from all the water I'm forcing myself to drink and hormones that are being unleashed. Plus, I have juuust a little extra belly because - trust me - after about a year of dieting and prepping for a wedding practically depriving myself of every delicious fattening food, there was no way I was going to turn them down again any time soon after the wedding. And I haven't gone back to dieting since. Then again, it's only been 3 months since we got married!

How far along: 5 weeks.

How big is baby: The size of an Appleseed!

Total weight gain: None that I've noticed! I started at 125 ish lbs so we'll see at my doctor appointment, which is at 9 weeks.

Maternity clothes: Not yet! Still fitting in all my jeans for the most part. H&M has some pretty cute maternity clothes but knowing me, I'll create my own by just getting larger sizes.

Sleep: It’s been pretty good. Fatigue hasn't hit me...yet. Mostly the only sleep that is interrupted is from the night cramps and it's usually just before going to bed and eases up during the night. No crazy/weird dreams yet either.

Best moment of the week: A week ago today we found out that we are expecting so obviously that was the best moment. Other than that, I'm pretty much going on with my regular daily life off work. I'm resting at home only leaving to see Adam's family for a little socialization. I've been a total hermit crab this week, just unmotivated and really wanting to take care of the pregnancy. I still haven't told my side of the family yet because I'm planning to surprise them. 

Food cravings: Nothing too extreme yet but definitely craving fruits and vegetables for the most part, it's actually hard to write about because my feelings and cravings hour to hour are so different! Right now I'm completely stuffed from eating cucumbers with vinegar (so weird, I know) and from drinking so much water. I really crave hot wings lately and lemons and always mashed potatoes mmmm.

Food aversions: My nose sets off aversions to the majority of food selections. Nothing sounds good to me when we go to restaurants and I end up ordering soup or mashed potatoes.

Symptoms: Cramping! Oh.my.gosh. the cramps! I have turned to Adam's cousin, Kayla, who is currently 20 or so weeks pregnant with her first baby, it's a boy! and also Adam's best friend's fiance who just found out they are having a boy too! Both girls said that the cramping is normal and that's it's my uterus stretching plus the baby implanting into the wall of my uterus. I might as well glue my heat pad to my body. I also have back pain, sore breasts, some light acne and backne which bums me out because I've never really been acne prone. But the back-ne! I've never had that before and that was my first indication that something was going on with my body. Thanks hormones. 

Movement: None at all. The baby's heart JUST started beating this week so I guess you can consider that movement, just movement I can't feel. :)

Belly button: innie

Gender: We find out in 8-9 weeks!! Obviously we really want a happy, healthy baby but we are hoping for a boy first so that our second baby we can hope for a girl. Big brother to protect little sister.

What I’m looking forward to: The baby living and growing inside me and just healthily staying there! I'm praying nothing goes wrong after reading too many worse case scenarios and scary stories online. ugh. Adam is about to ban me from researching.

What I miss: Wine. But not terribly. The smell of Adam's occasional glass of wine actually somewhat repulses me. Not quite nauseates though. I also miss coffee. But my morning chai tea lattes and hot teas were making up for it. I say were because I just found out that chai tea still has caffeine in it, although it's a small amount 35-55 mg while coffee has 150mg. I'm kicking that out of my diet starting tonight/tomorrow.

Next appt: As soon as possible!

The baby doesn't look like much yet but it's crazy how quickly he/she develops and turns from blastocyst to embryo to fetus!

New Year, New Beginnings.....New Addition!

Adam and I brought in the New Year with some huge news....

On December 29, 2013, one of my best friends, Tess, texted me and said she had a dream that I was pregnant so when I called her to hear about this crazy dream, she told me that her dreams like that are usually right. It turns out, she's practically psychic.

Here's the story. At the end of November, we (almost secretly) decided to start trying for a baby. After a couple nights of reading and researching I found out that it takes most couples to conceive within 3 months to possibly a year. That definitely wasn't the case for us, one month, or to be more specific, a 24-hour time frame of ovulating is all it took. I can sometimes be extremely impatient so when I started feeling all these strange symptoms early on (which I had read about in a book called The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant), I took a test about 4 days before my missed period and got an immediate positive. I told Adam right away to come and look at the test and he was so ecstatic! We are both overwhelmed with happiness.

Baby Gutierrez is due September 7th 2014!

The last few weeks, as I am 5-6 weeks pregnant right now, have been a roller-coaster. My biggest symptom is cramping which is really scary to me considering cramping can be a sign of miscarriage. I generally have the most horrible cramps monthly during my girl time so I can understand why theses ones are pretty bad too, it's just my body's way of adjusting, like many other women. After asking every resource I could possibly think of, cramping appears to be totally normal and is just your body stretching and making room for the new baby.

Despite the bad, mostly night-time cramping, I have not yet (crossing my fingers) experienced any morning sickness. I do, however, have crazy back pain already, acne, back-ne, food aversions, food cravings, and light mood swings - majority of the time I'm ridiculously happy and I love it! My first doctor's appointment should be this week, the second week of January, just to confirm the pregnancy and then I should be going back during weeks 10-12 for my first ultrasound to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. I am beyond excited.

This has truly been the best gift we could ever receive from God and we couldn't feel more blessed that we've been given this life changing miracle. 

Those Memorable Moments

This is the song I walked down the aisle to at our wedding and I am so in love with it.

 

And this one is our first dance song. Adam's choice.  ;)

The story behind this is classic but I'll have to write it up another time.

Tis The Season...To Blog.

After a wonderfully long girl chat with a new friend, we realized that we really only like blogging during the cold seasons, especially during fall when life isn't as chaotic. It's peaceful and heart warming to write all these random thoughts while the trees are changing colors and the leaves are falling. It's mine, and most everybody's, favorite time of year. We bring out the favorite teas, the pumpkin coffee, the creativity, the romance, the autumn adventures, the leggings and sweaters, and we find so much comfort in this.

Let me discuss what's gone on in the past year. 

My amazing man, Adam Gutierrez, proposed to me October 17th, 2012. We were married exactly 3 weeks and 2 days ago at 5:30pm on Saturday, September 14th, 2013. The ceremony itself was a miracle and breathtaking. Before that, It was such a worrisome wedding because Colorado flooded for the first time in ages and it was so bad that entire cities were blocked and stuck, disabling so many guests from coming to the wedding. One day before the actual wedding, we thought we had to cancel the wedding due to that fact. One another hand, we thought we should cancel the wedding out of respect to all of the citizens who were suffering. We stayed strong, made phone calls, prayed hard, and did everything we could to just hope for the best. Luckily and unexpectedly, our wedding venue was on top of a mountain in evergreen that the rain had hardly touched. The water in the creek rose just enough to make it flow beautifully right next to the wedding arch and during the ceremony, the sun came out so bright, so warm, and shined directly on us that it was absolutely like a scene from a movie. 

After the wedding, we recovered from all of the stressful planning during our honeymoon in Valencia, Spain. Oh man, let me tell you about Spain. Our honeymoon had a lot less honey and a lot more.....Bi-polarism from the locals. We met a handful of sweet, genuine hearts while the majority of the people we met were discouraging and, as I said, bi-polar. At least that's what we decided. We would go out to eat and when we greeted the local waiters and waitresses, we spoke in our broken Spanish but when we couldn't speak more than one sentence or understand whatever they were saying to us in Spanish, we tried to talk in English to them but they couldn't understand us and would get moody about it. One of the times, the staff had us wait 30 minutes for our Tostinos looking/tasting pizza and it came out completely burnt to a crisp. It sucked how bad they treat tourists. BUT Valencia and its architecture is amazing and I loved all of the cafes in front of the restaurants everywhere. It was so cute. Plus Adam and I fell in love with Aljibes Cabernet Franc wine. Yummmm! 

Food Junkie

I am obsessed with food! And delicious ideas like this:
Snacks

I am way too excited about it being Fall this year