10 weeks

 117 lbs
Hips: 35.5 inch
waist: 33 inch
arms: 10 inch
thighs: 21 inch

So Im currently ten weeks pregnant. Thats cool. My nausia has been mild. but headaches and dizzyness arent uncommon. I swear to god, i can feel this child move inside of me, even tho hes tiny (im still guessing at the he part lol) I ogt to hear babies heart beat via doppler at my nine weeks appointment, and doc said my uturus felt big but good. Im confident that everything is going to go well. Im planning on going drug free.

Im so excited as my 17 year old cousin has agreed to take my labour and birth photos. there are two reasonings behind this, A) i dont want a stranger that involved in my vagina and birth of my child, and B) i think it will help convince my cousin to wait a very long time to have babies....like i said, pain med free :D

We still cant agree on Names, although lately Im really into Dominick for a boy and Edith for a girl. He totally hates both. Dominick reminds him of Dominic Torretto from the fast and the furious movie series, and Edith is his ex gfs middle name. But he likes Ezio for a boy...you know, the main character from assassins creed lol...go figure.

We had this problem naming our daughter too, so im not overly concerned about it. The baby will get a name im sure lol

So lets see, my breasts have gone from a D to a DD, which im unimpressed about...makes my back hurt. But they dont hurt as much as they did when i was pregnant with my daughter, they also ARENT like two rocks on my chest like last time either....that hurt a lot.

 In all reality, either this pregnancy is being very good to me(knocks on wood), or my other ones were all hell. Im not sure which, but either way, im not complaining.

9 Weeks

8 Weeks

We had our first ultrasound this week...heartrate is 171 bpm!

8 Weeks, 2 Days

7 Weeks

6 Weeks

Weight: 114 lbs

Hips: 35 inch

Waist: 31 inch

Breasts: 34 inch

So things have been picking up a little with the morning sickness. This morning specifically was rough. I had strawberries for breakfast. Bad idea. They were def. Not the best things coming back up. Thank god for ensures. When nothing else stays down, they always seem to do the trick lol.


I dont FEEL as bloated these days, but as you can see, I still am. For the record, the embryo is only about the size of a blueberry. Although some of it is my uturus, most of it is swelling and bloating. My uturus is measuring for eight weeks now, but i still have my ultrasound coming up.


 I heard back from all of the midwives in the area, ive been wait listed by ALL of them, as i was too far along when i applied and they were booked for my due month. So, FYI, if you want a midwife in canada...get to the yellowpages as soon as you see two pink lines. I was five weeks, and they were booked.

But on the bright side, I got a call yesterday from the OBGYNs office who delivered My Ali. Which means, ill be able to deliver in the birthing center, with the same doc who helped save my daughter by my side. I'm good with this. We have a good relationship lol When i was in labor with my daughter, he was about to c section me due to wonky heart beats and other stuff (both of us) and i grabbed his wrist wand threatened to slit his throat if he came any closer with the scalpel. He laughed at me, then delivered my daughter vaginally. I trust him.

This time, I'm hoping to have a much more calm and relaxed birth. I'm doing it in a birthing center, not an operating room. Ill have access to birthing balls, shower, a whirlpool. FOOD :) and i wont have to spend 20 hours on my back strapped to a machine. Don't get me wrong, i love my daughter, but my labor and delivery was not a pretty story. as soon as she was in my arms, the birthing experience didn't really matter anymore though.

This pregnancy is definitely dragging on and on and on lol. I keep trying to not think about it, focus on My Ali, and go from there.

5 Weeks

Weight: 114lbs (up a lb, woot woot)

Hips: 34 inch

Waist: 30 inch (can we say bloated)

 Breasts: 33 inch

 Still no REAL morning sickness, over the past five weeks, Ive thrown up twice. I sometimes feel nauseous if i get up too fast in the morning, but i have my soda crackers on my dresser for those mornings.

Ive been craving spicy foods a lot, and when i indulge in them i get heartburn, but only that. But my goodness, am i ever gassy. And i cant control it. It can be embarrassing. It doesn't seem to matter what i eat.

I feel so extremely bloated these days...probably because i am. After all, i have a pot belly, and baby is only approx. 2 mm long, so its obviously not "baby". I can feel my uterus when i poke around, and have measured it myself. Its where it should be to suggest that baby is still growing. It still makes me very nervous that my symptoms are minimal. The list is getting longer now, along with bloating, gas, a little nausia and heartburn, my breasts are so sore, and are becoming visibly swollen.

Out of nowhere, my hips are aching so much, and my lower back and all the muscles from my knees to my shoulder blades. I never had this with any of my other pregnancies, not even later on with my Ali. SO im really not used to it, but am learning how to deal with it.

According to the Chinese Gender Predictorhttp://www.babygenderprediction.com/chinese-gender-chart.html, Ali was a girl, and Baby Bean is a boy. I know its not always right or anything, but its fun to think about. I also thinks its a boy, but hubby is 100% convinced that this is, in fact, his fifth daughter (he has three daughters from a previous relationship). we have started the name game early, but can only agree on girls names. So far the list contains: Aiyanna (Eh-anna), Keira and Shawnasie.

Until next time...
Mama Kiwi

4 Weeks

Weight: 113 lbs

Hips: 34 inch

Waist: 28 inch

Breasts: 33 inch

Before we conceived in October, i was 111 lbs. I'm five foot two, and have been on the smaller side my entire life...what can i say, I'm fun sized.

My first three pregnancies all ended in early miscarriages, but before the miscarriages occurred (one at five weeks, one at eight and one at eleven), I had terrible morning sickness. Morning, noon and night i was running to the bathroom and becoming re-introduced to the toilet. I was throwing up 8-12 times a day. I had terrible heartburn, indigestion and gas.

With my fourth pregnancy, I found out i was pregnant at five weeks. I was at work, a small town pizza shop, and my boss was cutting cappicolli for the pizzas and talking to me. He was an older Italian man, about 45 (old enough to be my father) and he talked with his hands. Well, his hands were covered in cappicolli grease, and right there, in the back of the restaurant, I vomited on my boss. I didnt know i was pregnant yet, and i was SO embarrassed. He helped me clean it up, while we were cleaning it up, i kept apologizing, telling him i didnt know what was wrong with me, and that i was SO incredibly sorry. I'll never forget what he said to me. "Caightie, Ive been talking to my brother [my other boss] and some of the customers. And well, we have all noticed, you smell things that are going bad before anybody else, your making frequent trips to the bathroom. Your....lady bits....have gotten noticebly larger...and...i have three children, i know what early pregnancy looks like. Lets go." He then closed up the shop, and drove me to the hospital.

I know that sounds extreme, but we lived in small town Alberta, and that's just where you go to confirm a pregnancy when you don't have a family doc. They refer you to an OB after they have done blood work and a pap.

That pregnancy mimicked my previous three, except the heartburn carried right through until I delivered at 38 weeks and 1 day. The morning sickness, just as brutal as before, lasted from about four weeks to 24 weeks, then came back at 35 weeks and stayed until i delivered. I craved BACON, all the time. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. I never got sore muscles really, except from about 30 weeks on, and that was only when she was on my sciatica. and i had some of the CRAZIEST dreams.

But this time around, at four weeks, i was just getting very vivid dreams. Mostly about my father, who passed away 9 years ago when I was 13. VERY mild nausia, no vommitting, no heartburn. Nothing. It makes me nervous.