22 Weeks Prego!!!

So, I will definitely be scanning in pictures tomorrow (if we still have power, from this state of emergency Ice Storm going through KY right now...), but anyways, I thought I would write about today!!!
For weeks and weeks I have been SOOOO EXCITED about our 22 week ultrasound appointment. I had envisioned wearing my cutest maternity top, and Sam and I taking a picture of my belly before leaving for our appointment, us going baby bedding shopping afterwards, and everything just going perfectly. Well.. that was not the way it was to go!!!
Last night at about 9:00 p.m. I had made hotdogs for dinner (I was craving them for some reason, and believe me - will probably NEVER EVER eat a hot dog again), and Sam and I were watching the Bachelor. Well, at about 11 P.m. last night, I just started to feel TERRIBLY SICK. I mean, I felt AWFUL! So, I think that falling asleep will help - WRONG!
At 2 something a.m. I switched bedrooms for a change of scenery... next thing I know, I am sprinting to the kitchen and have this TERRIBLE, I mean TERRIBLE waterfall throwup all over. Just repeatedly, some of it made it in the sink, some of it was all over the floor, b/c I was just too sick to stand up! So, for about twenty minutes I feel better, and then it hits me again. I go lay back down with Sam, and I can't sleep. I just feel AWFUL and keep swallowing over and over hoping I don't just go through that again. Well, at about 5 something a.m. I have round two...and it is just EVERYWHERE in the kitchen again.
So at 5 something in the morning, with tons of snow on the ground, sweet Sam heads to the gas station to get me some Sprite. My sickness lasted all day today... so much that I COULD NOT get out of bed before our appointment. The thought of showering and blow drying my hair, seemed like the equivalent to running a marathon -there was just no way I was going to be able to do it, I was just that SICK!
So Sam helped me to the vehicle and I went to the doctor a grubby mess, and I was excited but I felt so sick and was trying to eat (I had gotten down water, sprite, and a few apple slices at this point...), and not get sick again...but anyways, even with all of that going on, it was SO WONDERFUL to see our baby!!!
I of course cried when the doctor told us it was a girl, and it was just so nice to see our baby flipping around and being happy in there... b/c I was feeling so sick, it made me feel good to know that our baby was still having a ball! And our ultrasound tech was even nice enough to use the 3-d ultrasound for part of it, so that we could get a few pictures of her face!
Not that everything didn't seem real before, but it just made it THAT MUCH MORE real at the ultrasound today. Sam and I are going to have this great little girl that is going to totally rearrange and change our lives forever! It's so odd b/c you live life together as two people, and then after we have her, it will be like we could never imagine our life as just two people again. I mean, we already love this little girl so much, and we haven't even met her yet!
But anyways, even with all the sickness I had today (seriously, besides the doctor's appointment, 10:00 p.m. is really like the first time I've been out of bed - I even had Sam update my facebook status, b/c I was just TOO SICK to text many people or anything!), I still have a number of things to be thankful about, and praise God for today!
1) Most importantly, everything looked great at our ultrasound. I am excited to have a girl, but even more excited that everything appears healthy. She is actually even a little big for a baby right now, she weighs 1 pound and 3 ounces... which is actually what most babies weigh around 22 weeks and 5 or 6 days. So they either have our due date wrong, or she is just on track to be a big baby! Which is good, b/c it will make me a little less nervous if we end up going early, to know she's a little bigger. Sam weighed like 10 lbs and I was like 6 something, so I'm guessing she'll fall somewhere in between! =)

2) Even though it was absolutely TERRIBLE being sick last night and today... I am so thankful I didn't have a fever and started to keep water down after 5 something this morning, so that the baby and I didn't become dehydrated.

And the whole sickness thing, taught me two things about labor:
1) I wasn't ever sure if I was going to get an epidural during labor. I am deathly afraid of shots, so I wasn't sure if the pain of having a baby was going to outweigh my fear of having a huge needle stuck in me like that or not. Well, after feeling like I was going to die on the kitchen floor last evening, if there had been a doctor here in the kitchen with any kind of shot, telling me it would make me feel better - I would have taken it in a heartbeat!!! So, I know labor will be a different type of feeling, but since I've heard people say at points they felt so bad they thought they might die, I have a feeling I will have no problem getting any type of needle/shot for relief at that moment.

2) And when labor comes, if I am in a high amount of pain...even if Sam wants to just rub my back or my head, it would probably just be best if he didn't touch me! =) I was in the middle of being sick last night, and normally I would LOVE for him to rub my hair, but at that moment I just did not want any kind of contact at all. Poor Sam, he had to clean up throwup, make me soup for dinner tonight, run errands for my Sprite and popsicles... he definitely followed our marriage vows today! =)

Anyways, I am feeling so much better (obviously, or there is NO WAY I would be sitting at the computer right now), and I am so very thankful for our baby and my husband. Hopefully, we'll be able to scan ultrasound pics in tomorrow! =)