9w4d

Before I start I just need to clarify that I type these on my iPhone which inevitably autocorrects random words when it feel like it - I've noticed a few weird and wonderful spelling and word mistakes dotted throughout my recent posts. Trusty iPhone!

The 9w4d bloat

(Some people may think it's weird I share these but this is my online journal and I like to look back...)

I'm under absolutely NO illusion that this is in any way shape or form baby, it's all bloat and my usual fat pouch being pushed higher. It's causing me problems with clothes though! I can feel where my uterus is now which is new for week 9. There's a small hard ball just peeking above my pubic bone where the little guy is hiding - if you look REALLY closely at the photo you can see the tiniest little bit of 'bump' (I use the term loosely) just at the highest lacey part of my underwear - that's baby. So tiny and unnoticeable. My fat is definitely being pushed a little higher and out by moving internal bits and pieces, again only something I've noticed recently but my surgery scar on the inside of my belly button is now visible to me - I've never seen this before.

I feel calmer this week and not so panicky. Still only mild nausea in the mornings now I've changed my prenatal time, fatigue is very much with me as are the bright blue veins running through my girls. Breast pain has changed from a very tended bruised feeling to a much deeper painful feeling. Giving them a poke used to be bearable and give the same results as poking a bruise, now if they are poked the pain lasts around 20 seconds and spreads throughout the whole boob. Constipation is here to stay and not my friend and so is constipation a close friend, gas. It's a good job I've already netted my husband, my bodily functions recently have been horrendous!

Weird craving seeping in...Chinese chicken was my latest and salted peanuts. After regularly eating scrambled eggs for breakfast I now can't stand the thought of the slimy shelled bastards sitting in the fridge.

We finally have our first midwives appointment in Thursday. No scans or anything to get excited about but the usual bloods and paper work as well as finalising where we want baby Briggs to be born. All getting a little surreal now. 80% of the way through the first trimester - at the end of the month we'll be into the second. Where is the time going?! We've even been brave enough to sit down and seriously discuss names.