Baby Peirce - First Trimester

September 12 - 19, 2014: Our little sesame seed is now 5 weeks! Stephen and I are still getting used to our little surprise and are starting to get more and more excited about our tiny baby every day. Stephen has been so sweet and is already praying for our little one and asking that it may be healthy and grow strong. So far I have felt pretty lazy and have had a serious lack of energy. I have a little bit of food aversions and no cravings. Nothing is appetizing but if I don't snack every couple hours I start to feel sick. I feel the most sick at bedtime when I lay down to sleep. Our first ultrasound was done this week to determine how far along I am because of my super abnormal periods. We only saw the gestational sac which means I am in fact about 5 weeks along. We are so excited!!

First ultrasound showing only the gestational sac.
Meaning we are having a May baby like we thought!

Telling mom and dad the good news!

September 26 - October 3, 2014: Our little blueberry is now 7 weeks but measured 8 weeks on the ultrasound we had today. We were able to see his/her heartbeat!!! Our little poppy is incredible and amazing in every way! Poppy had an amazing heartbeat of 155 bpm and everything else is looking perfect. As for me I am only feeling sick when I haven't eaten in a couple hours. So I am still feeling the worst during the night when I am sleeping. As long as there is a little food in my tummy I am pretty good during the day. I am still super exhausted but am able to get out of the house to go on a short walk almost every day. 

Baby Peirce measuring at 8 weeks with a heartbeat of 155 bpm. September 30, 2014.

This will be the last ultrasound we get until January when we are back in the states.

9 weeks - October 11, 2014

October 27 - November 7, 2014: Today (Oct 27th) we were able to listen to our little figs heart on the Doppler! Poppy is now 11 weeks and doing very well. It was incredible being able to listen to his/her heartbeat. The only symptoms I have during the day now are occasionally getting exhausted for no reason or feeling a little sick around food. My sense of smell has been incredible. I feel like I have a superpower which is both good and very bad being able to smell every little thing, especially living here where garbage is found everywhere. I've never sneezed more in my life than this last 11 weeks. My lack of sleeping well has slowly gone from just annoying to just unbearable. I feel horrible any time I lay down which means I haven't been sleeping much the last week and a half now. Thankfully the doctor at the clinic gave me some nausea medicine to take at night. The first two nights I took it I felt amazing and was so happy to be sleeping again. By the third day it wasn't working as well and the side effects from it were making me feel even worse than not being able to sleep. So I stopped taking that after about 5 days. Week 12 started pretty awful being back to no sleep and just feeling miserable. One of the spouses here went home to visit family for a week and brought back some sleeping pills that I haven't been able to find on the island that are alright to take while pregnant. I started taking them about half way through week 12 and have felt significantly better. I am now sleeping again and hoping that within the next couple weeks I will start feeling good again. We are happy to be done with the first trimester and look forward to the second and me starting to show!

12 weeks - November 2, 2014

Baby Moon/Birthday weekend getaway to Rosalie Bay