The Hals Family World Adventures: From week 4 to 5 - Beth

Week 4 - July 2nd - July 8th

So this week my symptoms were no longer a question of am I maybe pregnant or just imagining things? My symptoms were instead happy confirmation that - oh my gosh - I really AM pregnant!!!

And I have definitely been feeling it! We have wanted this for a long time, so I do not want to be one of those people who just complains about everything - this may sound ridiculous - but it has been so exciting to have moments where I am suddenly so exhausted all I want to do is stop everything I am doing and lay down. When I feel crummy I get so excited - in my head I keep thinking - "Hooray! I feel really crappy - this is such a great sign that things are going well!" In fact when I have had days when I feel pretty good I actually get really nervous - "do I feel great because something is wrong and the hormones are tapering off?!"

Very early on I had about two days or so of pretty intense, very isolated cramps - which technically coincided with further implantion. Online I read comments from other women saying it felt like "a demon creature scratching and clawing its way into place"....but I couldn't help but to prefer to picture it as more like a cute little one nuzzling up and burrowing in for a long protective snuggle.

I've had a few other fun images come to mind...as I knew the cells were differentiating and specializing and dividing up into several different roles and everything is newly under construction. I couldn't help but to conjure up images that were a cross between the cartoon exploration of the body in The Magic School Bus and a cartoon construction site. "Hey, keep the folic acid coming over here please," "we need to route the oxygen line through here." It makes me smile every time.