6 Weeks

I went to bed Sunday night worried about possibly adding nausea to my nightly bathroom trip. Luckily this entire week I have not experienced any of it! The books say that 70% of women go through this terrible initiation into pregnancy so lucky me :) I am not out of the woods yet until after 12 weeks so fingers crossed I skip this phase.

I still do not feel pregnant and I don't believe it at all. My frequent bathroom trips and constant thirst are the only real life changers. My sense of smell increased immensely and now I realized how terrible everything smells here! My trash smells like vomit. My elevator smells like someone tried to clean up vomit. My pilates studio smells like playdoh and the boardwalk along the beach smells like dead fish. Don't even get me started on what meat smells like. I leave for the US next week so I will have to compare smells with my super nose.... I knew it was big for a reason- ha!

Friday Nate and I woke up really early to go to the lab to drop off my urine sample and get my blood taken. Yes, I have to get a cup from the pharmacy then do it at home then bring it in... I guess it saves time and money. Really the only bad part about it all was going to the pharmacy and asking for a peepee cup because that's all I knew how to say. Go figure the Portuguese words would be similar to English: Urina Coletor or in other words a Urine Collector.... When I told the girl what I wanted she just looked at me and said Urina Coletor? Yes. Yes! Coletor (duh of course). I crack myself up sometimes.

Anyway we get to the lab and I am surprisingly impressed with the cleanliness. We are the only people there so we got right in and out within 20 minutes. I had to register an account that way the next time I come in the can pull everything up and send me back for the blood work. They even gave me an account to so I can look up my results on-line! How awesome is that? There are even several locations all over Brazil that I can go to with out any problems. Nobody speaks English in the location in Macae but the girls were awesome and spoke slow so I didn't have a problem at all understanding them.

I think I am going to opt out of the trans-vag ultrasound... I just don't want to do it. I am going to wait until the 12 weeks ultra-sound on the belly. No need to do invasive procedures unless absolutely necessary :)

Tchau,
Sara