Ice Bags PLEASE!

OK...today was the first visit to the Tripler Hospital. Tony was able to meet me there, which was cool, since he may not be able to make the next appointment.

It turned out to be an uneventful morning. I had to pick a lot of numbers and wait for them to be called, however, the system pushed me through in good time. You have to remember that this is an Army Hospital and there are a lot of pregnant mama's in the military...it's the age I suppose???

Basically, today's visit was mostly a consultation with a nurse setting me up for what is to come. Tony and I had a chance to ask any questions, and the nurse hooked me up with a free science and pregnancy book (that they don't normally give out). She could tell I was a reader :)

The real excitement was at the lab. I had to get blood drawn for every known test imaginable. Of course, I didn't have time to eat or drink much this morning...wasn't thinking. They were training a new lab tech, so it started by them having to fix the tournaquet a couple of times since my hand was falling asleep. As they were drawing blood, I could hear things dropping and the teacher saying "no, do this", "here, let me show you"...etc. I'm pretty sure it was taking longer than normal.

After about what felt like 5 minutes, blood was rushing out of my head. I guess I turned white, so they started calling for ice bags, put my head back and then forward, until the blood came rushing back. I was sweating pretty bad, so they let me go lay down and called for Tone to come wait by me.
Yah...I was "that girl" in the lab. You see...this was a lab with 5 different techs working on 5 different patients, all in the same room. Everyone else was just fine and dandy...ughh!!! I should have eaten more...who said I had to fast???

That concludes day one at Tripler. Tony had to go back to work so we grabbed some food and went our separate ways.

Oh yeah, I've gained two pounds already. Either you're puking your guts out and actually losing weight at this stage, or you feel like a big bloated blob. I'd much rather feel like a big bloated blob. You can call me Bloated Britt...I'll post a picture this weekend.

Bye for now.

Wine Sauce??

Well, the first weekend knowing we are pregnant is about to come to a close. Friday night we decided to go out for a little bit of Italian at Zias here in Kailua Town. I was ready to grub it up on some shrimp pasta with a buttery garlic wine sauce, but Tony wasn't too much of a fan...you see...the sauce had the word WINE in it! How cute! I tried to explain how those sauces are usually simmered and cooked to reduction where there really isn't any alcohol left in the liquid...hey, I read it in my book as well :) So, he proceeded to order the sauted mushrooms (in a buttery garlic wine sauce) as an appetizer for us to share...yummy...couldn't wait to gobble them up! As I dipped the mushroom in the creamy garlic goodness, Tony stopped me in mid dip and scraped off most of the sauce...I was cracking up in my head. I'm still not sure if he was joking or serious. In any case, I ate up half the mushrooms minus some of the sauce that smelled and tasted SOOOO good! Man, I'm salivating as we speak!



That's pretty much the only pregnancy related incident that happened all weekend. Oh wait, he does call me PW now. Tone's all about the nicknames...Pregnant Wife.



So, the first real doc appointment is this coming Friday. Hopefully, we'll have more info to report. Maybe a picture or two. I keep forgetting my camera.



Life is going on as usual and I really sometimes forget that a human being is growing inside of me...I guess that's a good thing since the symptoms have all been minor so far.



We do have to do a shout out to the Boise State Football team...they beat Oregon at Oregon on Saturday...no big whoop!!

Ok...this is my first attempt at bloggin' so here it goes! I received an informative email from big sis T today recommending I set up a blog so that family and friends can be with Tony, myself, Saders, and the Babester (That's still so weird to think!) in "spirit" as we embark on adventures to come here in Hawaii. I can always count on T to send me links for only the best in wedding planning, household shopping, and now baby stuff! Keep um' coming Tar-Tar!!

So, now you know the news! I found out after taking a home pregnancy test at my good friend Roz's house. She went onto Webmd.com after asking me a few questions about "things" and sure enough webmd told us a pregnancy test may be warranted. Roz got in her jeep right away and drove me to the Marine Mart...I guess we had to find out that second! Anyway, sure enough the little positive sign came up within seconds...I called Tone right away and the rest is history. Tony and I were both in shock! It's kind of like no matter how much planning is involved you're still surprised with the outcome. Actually, I'm in shock as I write this...crazy!

I went to the clinic yesterday to take another Preg. test and that came out positive as well...so, we're now 4 weeks, 4 days pregnant (maybe) and the due date is May 21st. Whoa!! The adventure begins!

Tony's so excited and is as cute as ever! He's going to make sure everything is done by the book...no worries there!! Things are good!

More to come....gotta go potty...again!