-30 weeks

Today I am 10 weeks pregnant! I am praying that the next 30 weeks will go by as uneventfully as these. The baby updates I get weekly tell me he/she is the size of a kumquat, but I've never seen one, so I had to check another site that told me he/she is the size of a prune.

Things have been pretty quiet on the symptom front. I am not as tired as I was, and I think that's due to not working--I can sleep and rest when I want to, before I get ridiculously tired. My arms go to sleep at night if they are above my heart, like tucked under the pillow when I lay on my side. Weird, I know. I posted on BabyCenter.com and asked if anyone else had it. Several other women are going through it, and the experienced moms said it usually developed into pregnancy induced carpal tunnel. If that's the trade-off I have to make for not throwing up, I'll take it! I usually only get nauseous when I get hungry, but a few times over the past few days I've gotten nauseous for no reason. I picked up some "Preggie Pop Drops," hard candies that have a 'proprietary blend of essential oils' that help nausea. Many of the women on BabyCenter.com swear by them, so I thought I'd try them. Tuesday night I had an explained bout: the baby does not like movie theater popcorn. It tasted so good, and then a few hours later I felt so sick! I'm not sure if this is my child...

Jimmy and I spent last weekend at Jackie's, my wonderful mother-in-law, due to the smoke in the area. It was a welcome respite! Then Tuesday night, we received a phone call that his second cousin's husband had died in an accident. It is really important to Jimmy for us to go up there and be with the widow and Jackie, who went up yesterday. So Friday night and Saturday night we'll be in the mountains, where the highest temperature for the weekend is 85 degrees!