6-7 weeks

Hi baby, 

 Today you are 7.5 weeks old and the size of a raspberry.  I am feeling you a little bit more because starting on the first day of week 6 the nausea hit hard. Week 6 was by far the hardest week of my life. I honestly was not sure if I was going to make it. Starting every morning with the dry heaves and feeling like dying was not fun. Since then it has been a roller coaster of nausea. The worst part of it is that smells set me off. Not only smells but the idea of certain foods, basically anything in our fridge that we’ve had in the past week makes me want to vomit.  I called my doctor office to ask them for IV fluids because I felt so dehydrated. Unfortunately, in talking with them they basically want you to almost shut down a kidney before they give you fluids. They recommended vitamin B6 daily and filled me a script for Zofran. I don't know if its the hormones letting up or the B6 but I've been feeling a little better this week. It’s nice to know that I can have the Zofran for emergencies but I’m trying my best to not use it unless absolutely necessary.  I have also found that if I wake up early and go to my Crossfit class the day goes a little smoother. I mean Crossfit still sucks and I come home feeling awful but if I eat some toast I will start to feel better.  The nausea still comes in waves and sometimes I think this is pretty miserable but the adorable little baby we get at the end will make it all better. I'm not sure how women don't talk about the suckiness of the first trimester... like working nauseous is extremely difficult. Last week in the peak of nausea I caved and bought some onesies for motivation.

Utah Jazz and BYU onesies are adorable...and are now hanging up for inspiration and a reminder of what we will get out of this rollercoaster.  Scott loves the BYU football one but mostly because he is hoping that he has sired the first Goldsmith boy. The record currently is 8-0 with Goldsmiths only bringing girls to the family. I feel like with those odds it has to be a girl. I'm not even sure what this family would do with a boy.  Luckily all the onesies can work for a boy or girl, the power of bows and headbands! We are only 18 days away from seeing you for the first time and hearing your perfect heart beat. Once we get to see you for the first time we plan to tell your grandparents and I’m sure they will be so excited.

 

We love you baby,

Your parents

The Goldsmith's are growing

In December Scott and I started looking ahead. Scott is going to be graduating this May and we've been telling our mothers (because they ask so often) that we will start looking into it once Scott gets a job. But, as per usual, I am not the most patient person. An example of this might be every time we watch anything on reality TV or sporting event and are a few minutes behind on the recording. I always know how it ends...in real time.
Anyway in November Scott and I began talking about starting our family. Many people have issues getting pregnant so I was anxious to get started incase in took a long time. After many prayers it was decided that we would start our family! Oddly two days before we decided to start Kevin and Jo announced that they were about 9 weeks pregnant. The Goldsmith family is going to have a lot of new babies this year!


I was very frustrated that getting pregnant didn't just happen on our first try and doubts that we would ever be able to get pregnant started to appear. I know that is crazy because the average time for a couple to conceive is 8 months but I am far too skeptical to be optimistic. After getting my hopes up twice I realized that I needed to stop putting so much pressure on Scott, and on my self for that matter. So after 3 failed attempts we got the greatest news we've ever had. On Sunday morning I woke up and took a test. That little faint line making a plus sign was about to change our lives forever. We still don't believe it...it doesn't feel real. Tomorrow we will be 5 weeks along and our little miracle is growing away. We are still about a month out until first doctors appointment but we are so excited to see our little cutie!
Just this week we also realized that we have never even been over potential baby names. But being us we decided on two in about 5 minutes. Robin if it's a girl and Henry if it's a boy. We have several months of planning and changes ahead the next year and will keep posting our life adventures. Baby Goldsmith will be joining the family right during BYU football season, but the baby was luckily timed well enough to come the week of two away games so dad doesn't miss any games. Our little miracle is due October 15, 2017 and we are so excited. Today our baby is still the size of a poppy seed so we are waiting on her/him to keep growing!