Week 9. More Fruit and Mood Swings!

You're Nine Weeks Pregnant. Your embryomeasures about 0.9 inches to 1.2 inches from crown to rump, or the size of a strawberry. The arms and legs are getting longer, and the fingers might be a little swollen where the touch pads are forming. The head is more erect and the neck is more developed. Your baby now moves its body and limbs, and this movement can be visible during an ultrasound, but you won't be able to feel it yet. Your uterus is continuing to grow, and your waistline is thickening. But unless you tell people the good news, your pregnancy still won't be noticeable to others. Weight gain is small, if at all, since you could be experiencing food aversions (or cravings), heartburn, indigestion, nausea and bloating. Mood swings and weepiness similar to PMS symptoms are also common.

Well, my mother is on her way back home, and my wife couldn't be happier. Take a nine week pregnant woman, and lock her in a house with a woman who knows everything, and isn't afraid to tell you what you are doing wrong, and how in her day, they did it much better.

So I spent my weekend keeping them apart. Oh I love my mother, but she is my mother and I have learned to ignore the tings she says and does that would drive most people mad. Now take a wife who is overly hormonal and stick her in a house with this woman for 3 days. Yeah, I caught a lot of it. So I spent the weekend digging in the dirt with my mother. First day was perfect, they where both sweet and kind to each other. But as each day went on it got darker and darker. I got a sun burn on the back of my neck, and this didn't help at all.

So it seems the plan for Xmas (that being when the baby is due), would be to have my brother stay here, and my mom stay at he mom's place. I think if you can separate them for a few hours things will be better. Or if my wife knows there is a place she can go hide for a while that would be good too. And I just realized something, she gets upset with me when I go hide in my workroom when I am upset about something, but she wants to hide from my mom. Hmmm. Oh well. First rule, wife is always right, even when she is wrong. And its your fault. ALWAYS your fault.