8 weeks - scan tomorrow!

So happy to have arrived at 8 weeks pregnant today! One-fifth of the way through my pregnancy - going fast already!

Not going to write much tonight, because I feel yucky. I have some sort of weirdo cold thing that I came down with yesterday evening. It's all in my head and sinuses and I feel dizzy and fluey (no fever, so NOT flu) and just ILL today. I haven't managed much of anything with the little ones, just laid on the living room floor ALL morning while they played around me or one or two of them nursed, etc. I have also had worse morning sickness today. I don't think whatever virus this is has nausea as a symptom, just that with everything else my body is dealing with, the morning sickness itself is worse for it. I never get morning sickness in the morning this pregnancy, but I did today. So the afternoon and evening have been pretty grim for nausea, but still only just getting towards the level of "norm" for a usual day with my other pregnancies. Bad day for THIS pregnancy though! ;)

I seriously hope to feel better tomorrow, but I'm not sure I will yet. I have my scan at 4.30pm and I hate hate HATE going places with germs. It's so wrong, people! I have such a thing about spreading viruses, it's inconsiderate, no matter how normal it is for everyone to do it - that doesn't make it right! Tsk! My children are all well (and hopefully I will not give this to any of them) - I guess I picked it up getting my ECG monitor fitted at the hospital on Monday. Urgh.

So hopefully I will feel better tomorrow, NOT be streaming with cold, wash my hands before I go and not touch my face whatsoever while I'm out. I hate giving germs to people. It's. Not. Right. [/rant]

I can feel a sweet little bulge above my pubic bone now! :) Just not flat there anymore, a definite little person growing! I'm not sure that I've known that this early in previous pregnancies - I would check except bleuurrgh I feel sick and yucky and am going directly to bed the moment I've finished this brief post.

Tomorrow I will find out how the little one is doing, and if he or she has a companion in there. I am not sure what to expect at all. I have no hunches. Just want to know that everything is developing normally, and I will be so happy and relieved, and be able to go back to calling the baby "Sausage" and think more normal thoughts about him or her, and so on. Not that I'd noticed having stopped using the name Sausage until just now. I really want to feel reassured about this pregnancy, and tomorrow's the day for that, so I feel really quite nervous about it suddenly. I think I will feel nervous right up to the scan, so I just hope the day passes quickly and I can get to that part without everything feeling like it's taking FORRREEEEVVVVERRR! The scan is at 4.30pm, so the evening is the earliest time I'd have a chance to update here. I will ask for a picture this time, unless I suppose I am totally freaked out or distracted hugely by something and forget! I don't think I will forget though... I hope I don't feel too sick. Today at 4.30pm was pretty bad :S

Anyway, yay for 8 weeks! :D Last pregnancy I got my doppler out at 8 weeks and ONE day and heard Samuel's heart beating, though I totally did not expect to catch it that early! So that would be tomorrow! But I'll hear it at the scan if all is well anyway. But yay, doppler time, almost!! :) I hope this first trimester whizzes by. It's always nice to stop feeling sick and to get past the nerve-wracking milestones and to the fun parts like scans, showing, maternity clothes, etc! Such fun! :)

If everything is fine in there, the baby should be starting Carnegie Stage 17 of embryonic development today (which lasts for a couple of days). The heart will seperate into four chambers, and the hands and feet are developing more. Sooo many things begin to develop just in the next couple of days! The pituitary, the intestines, the diaphragm, the trachea, the larynx, the bronchi, and the little teeth buds begin to form in this stage - just this 2 or 3 day stage which starts today!!! So amazing. Sense of smell is also developing right now.

Right, must go to bed! Will update tomorrow!