5 weeks

I'm 5 weeks pregnant today. It feels really weird to say it...but it will probably be really weird to be 10 weeks pregnant...or 22 if I should get that far. I even FEEL pregnant, which is weirder still, because I don't think I've ever really felt pregnant at 5 weeks before. Usually 5 weeks is the calm before the storm, the first symptoms of pregnancy have settled down, and the second bout that happens after 6 weeks has yet to kick in. But the last couple of days I have started to get a serious aversion to food, steady nausea, and a crazy sense of smell. Not to mention 'the girls'. They are so sensitive that the slightest cold draft makes them ache, which in this house is just about all the time. I'm wearing a sweater in the house 24/7, even though it has been unseasonably warm here in the North East.

Normally this would make me feel good about things. Pregnancy is progressing as expected...check. But I live in 'opposite world' where good embryos, good numbers, and good symptoms don't necessarily mean good outcomes...but where ugly embryos, low and non doubling betas, and no symptoms do. The last time I started out with a first beta like this and a good, solid doubling I ended up with a miscarriage. I guess I just don't know what to expect when I'm expecting anymore. But I'm still smiling :)