Pregnancy: 5th week

Week 5
November 15 - 21

Not much new to report except I think my boobs have gotten the message that it's okay if they really hurt. They're pretty painful now, and though I don't think they've gotten much bigger, they feel like they've grown at least a cup size. My bras still fit, so that will be my gauge. My energy levels are just a touch low, but I honestly thought that would be worse. And now I'm getting hungrier a lot more. So all in all, pretty normal stuff.

I've already been planning on what to do with the nursery, so of course that means going on Etsy and drooling over fabric. I've also been researching up the wazoo about cloth diapering. It's something I really want to do, and there are literally tons of different options out there, so I'm glad I'm doing this early while not much else is going on.

But I laugh when I think about preparing for a baby, and the order in which I place certain things. In a lot of ways, it's exactly like planning a wedding: you get the bare necessities done first like booking the church and booking the reception. Then you do the fun things like dress shopping, cake tasting and flowers. When that's done, you finish all the other not-as-fun stuff. With a baby, you make your doctor's appointment first, and then you can do fun stuff like nurseries, names, cloth diapers, clothing. When all that's done, then you do the boring stuff like car seats, bottles, nose suckers, etc. See? Exactly the same!

But this is actually an awkward time of year to be newly pregnant (mid-November). Because you just know there will be awesome Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals that will cut the cost of a lot of big ticket baby items. At the same time, I'm nowhere near the end of my first trimester and as such, am very leery of buying much of anything while the chances of miscarriage are still pretty high. So as much as it's going to kill me, I'll wait until the after-Christmas sales and hope they'll be just as good. I'll still be only 11 weeks at that point, so not quite out of the woods, but close enough.