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.