Baby hates back

This is a day I'll never forget. I woke up with a sore back - general left overs from some lifting and work we've been doing around the house. My back has actually been sore for a few weeks, but nothing horrible. However, this morning it was definitely feeling pulled. When I got out of bed I immediately felt sick to my stomach and headed for the bathroom (ahhh morning sickness). There was little doubt I was going to throw up and I got down on my knees, but my sore back made it incredibly difficult. Suddenly I started to feel dizzy and I went to retch and *POP* the most blinding pain I've ever experienced. I just passed out. I came too quickly but was incredibly scared. I was sweating all over, but good news is the pain radiating from my back trumped the nausea. I was pretty hysterical and called Tyler who has almost just reached work, I called my mom and then Scott P. took me to the hospital.
Scott was a ROCKSTAR and drove me calmly to the hospital. I'm pretty panicked as the pain is unlike anything I've ever experienced not to mention I'm newly pregnant. I am admitted to ER and Tyler shows up. Long story short, the pain is unreal, but I can't really take ibuprofen any anti-inflammatory because of the baby... just Vicodin. They don't know exactly what it is aside from the fact that I have Sciatica, but no x-rays for this baby. The ER nurse takes my vitals and b/c I'm pregnant he has to look for the heartbeat. Well I'm new enough to this baby thing that I didn't realize at 5 weeks, the baby doesn't have a discernable heartbeat. Well the nurse finds one and promptly tells me I'm actually 10+ weeks. Well! That's interesting! As we're leaving for Chicago in a few days, I had to schedule an urgent visit to the OB/GYN - they did a u/s and confirmed I'm only 5 weeks.

And the back issue continues…

Mother Nature Rocks Our World - a lot

Ok - this is day 2 of knowing we're pregnant and I'm pretty freaking excited (5 weeks). It's been a hellish few days after the insane 12/14 windstorm with 70-80 mph gusts that blew down many trees onto roads and power lines. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296085_winda15ww.html We had flash floods, high tides, etc, it was a WILD night. Being from the mid-west it reminded me of a tornado, but it lasted longer and was in some ways more violent. Power was knocked out around the Sound, millions of houses actually - we're still without power (and heat) and after 4 days I finally convinced Tyler to take us to Hotel Monaco with Roxie for tonight. I'm enjoying being back on my computer, watching some TV, taking a warm bath and just generally being warm.
How we found out we were pregnant is inextricably linked with this windstorm. Baby Bob has one heck of a story waiting for when he/she gets here. We had friends over Friday night after the storm. The whole thing was very romantic the first night -we had candles, I made stew (gas still worked) and there was some residual heat in the house and hot water in the tank. We had some wine, laughed, played games - it was really fun! After some fun and games, Tyler decides to head out with the crew to Georgetown which happened to be one of the only areas with power and thus a bar. I decided not to go and for some reason, I decided to take pregnancy test. Just to clarify, I take them all the time for no reason but to prove to myself I can't get pregnant. We've been trying to conceive for a year and a half, so this is like sick fun for me. Suddenly, there I am with a very faint second line, tilting it back and forth in the candle light not sure if I'm seeing things or not. I went to bed praying that there was ANY Walgreens was open the next day. As it happens, it was one of the only stores in Burien with power - I bought a Clearblue 3 pack and took all of them. Lo and behold - a resounding positive on all three. I told Tyler, who was hung over and dumb founded and then cried. It was all very exciting. Now all those weird food aversions made sense - why I almost threw up when I smelled fish or tasted sushi...well I'm so excited I can't stand it. I feel wonderful and just pray that I keep this one through first trimester.

Welcome baby bob- I love you already.

Baby Bob's Blog

First post on baby Bob's blog. Note, Bob to me and Tyler is a non-gendered name. He/She will be called Bob until they make their arrival. I like it better than guppie or boo. :)

This blog is for my family and friends who we don't see very often to keep up with us, the pregnancy and eventually the birth of our little Lohse. I'm sure we'll throw in home improvement pics in here --- we always do. Baby Bob is scheduled to make a debut August 19th, 2007.