Pregnancy: 8th week

Week 8
December 6 - 12

So technically I'm 7w6d, but I had my 8 week appointment today, so I figure why not?

For the appointment, I wasn't sure what to expect, but figured a pap might be in the picture. I was right. Since my last one was in February, she wasn't planning on doing another one until February, but she was going to take a look at my cervix, so she had to prep like I was getting one anyway. Apparently my cervix was hiding because she literally had to get down on her knees to see it. It made me curious about that, because it's fixed on one end and doesn't have many place to go!

And in February when I had my last pap, I was concerned about a hard growth on my cervix, which turned out to be a nabothian cyst, which is a normal occurrence for most women of child-bearing age, and was supposed to go away on its own. It's still there. The doctor accidentally irritated it today trying to see it, and it made me start spotting. She said that it was probably the reason why I've been spotting off and on, because it's easily irritated.

But since she made it start to bleed, she decided to do a pap, just in case. Works for me. She's already in there, and I'd have to get one soon anyway.

She said I seem to be progressing well and am doing everything right, so she doesn't foresee any problems. So yay! Oh, but she did tell me that she was going to keep me on metformin the whole time, because she figures I'll develop gestational diabetes (GD) if I stop and the treatment would be met anyway. Whatever. I'm so used to taking it now, it doesn't faze me. And I'm okay with not getting my body used to it again if I stopped. Getting used to met SUCKS.

And at the end, they gave me a binder full of info about how this particular clinic does things. Included was a menu from their hospitals in Fargo. Damn! I really hope the hospital I deliver at has as good a food choice as the ones in Fargo do! It's like going to a restaurant. Now whether the food is good is another story, but it sure sounds good.

My next appointment is January 6th.

But..... on a somewhat perplexing note, the nurse called a few hours later and said that the pap came back positive for a yeast infection. I'm like "huh?" Never even expected that because I have absolutely no symptoms of one, which apparently is very very common in pregnancy... the no-symptom yeast infection. But she did say that a YI could also contribute to a sensitive cervix. Good thing she irritated my cervix, huh? So I get a fun messy routine for the next 7 days. Which is not cool for swimming. I have to go because I need to go 12 times a month to get the $20 insurance kick-back, and I'm taking a week off after Christmas, as we'll be out of town. So the plan will be to not go in the mornings, but in the afternoons, and hopefully the medicine will be gone by then. I feel guilty for doing it, but all my searching on the internet says that it's perfectly fine to... the chlorine kills pretty much everything you don't already have, so I won't spread it around. But still... ugh. *cringe*

Symptom-wise, I'm not having very much overall. I'm not dying of thirst anymore, which is good because it means I don't get up 5x in the middle of the night anymore to pee (I still make sure to drink lots, though just not around bedtime!). I don't have any specific food aversions, but some days, certain things turn my stomach just a bit. It makes it hard to meal plan when I don't know from one moment to the next whether I'll be able to eat it or not. I really like salty, greasy & sour things though. DH is leery of these cravings, thinking I'm creating a junk food addict and/or that I'm using it as an excuse to eat like crap, but I gotta eat so I'm going to eat whatever my stomach will allow me to!

Going along with eating, I'm finding that I'm always hungry right before I go to bed (11ish) and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night needing to eat. It's slightly annoying, but really, I'm not complaining. At least I'm not waking up in the middle of the night needing to puke! *knock on wood*. No real morning sickness yet, but if I let myself go too long without eating, I do get nauseous. But overall, I love having symptoms. Do you realize how panicked I would be if I didn't have ANY? I shudder at the thought. ((((sanity))))

And I spoke too soon. I lost all my symptoms the day after I wrote the section above. And on 8w6d, I was cramping all day & spotting pink. This had better be because of the yeast infection!