Expectant mother blogs about her experience

Welcome to the Baby G Chronicles! I created this blog in an effort to "chronicle" my journey to becoming a mother for the first time that I can share with family and friends, including some pics along the way.

I named the blog The Baby G Chronicles for many reasons. 1) The Chronicles of Baby G was already taken. 2) I like the word "chronicles" - it sounds big time and not too many people use it. 3) it brings back memories of my hometown newspaper - named the Augusta Chronicles. I like the whole newspaper feel of it all which is why my post names will look more like headlines that regular titles. Neat huh?? 4) It explains precisely what I will do here - chronicle my life and the life of Baby G.

And so it will go.. I will try to blog once a week on the day I turn the next week in pregnancy weeks. If that makes any sense at all. My tracking date is Wednesday for all intents and purposes. So today, I am 15 weeks pregnant. Next Wednesday, 16weeks. So I will try to "chronicle" on Wednesday or shortly there after. But for now... let's get started.

Week 15 - I will keep this brief because its late - its the first one and I'm sleepy.. LOL But as I stated, I am officially 15 weeks pregnant. A little shy of 4 months I suppose. Which reminds me.. NEWSFLASH (no pun intended.. or maybe it was) WEEKS is the new way of counting how far along you are. Every time someone asks me "how far along are you?" And I say "oh I am so and so weeks" I get a response "tell me in months I hate when people do weeks" Well I hate to break it to you, but that is how the doctors do it these days so that is what you will be getting from me! It's roughly 4 weeks in a month - you do your own calculations. I am saving my brainpower for something more useful -it's a precious commodity these days you know?

So, I feel great! I didn't throw up too much. I had little to no morning sickness, just a nasty sinus drip that would cause me to gag and then throw up (was that TMI? - sorry). But other than that, I was/am good. I was winded sooner than expected.. I thought I had to be WAAAY bigger for that to happen but my OB says some ladies experience it early in the pregnancy. I guess that "some" would include me this time. And so far I can't even stand the THOUGHT of chinese food. Just thinking of it makes me want to hurl. But besides that, so far I am eating regular foods. I could do a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit daily for some reason but I limit myself.

I would venture to say that my pregnancy (PRAISE THE LORD) has gone quite well so far. I really haven't even snapped on anyone (well that one time in Walmart - but not since then). But you could ask my husband and sis and those who are around me most and I think they would agree with me. So maybe the snapping comes a little later in the pregnancy. Who knows.. this is all greek mixed with swahili to me.

I haven't felt the baby move yet though I get mixed info on that. Some say I should feel it already (just the butterflies) some say it's still too early. Though I bought in to the "I should feel it now" and could have SWORN I felt something earlier today. Maybe that was my food digesting. I should probably wait a few weeks huh?

Well that's it for now. The next few weeks will be exciting. Week 18 is the big 3D ultrasound. We are scheduled to find out the sex then too. I am SURE and would love a girl but Ezra is SURE it is a boy. We will see.. Care to place your wager??

Goodnight!
Marcia