Well, the little guy I babysit finally got his first hair cut! It looks so adorable. I had to try to hide my excitement when his momma brought him over this morning because I think she's kind of sad that his long hair is gone. Honestly, I can't see why. Okay, he did have really pretty curls, but all day I've noticed how much easier it is to take care of him. I know it sounds strange that hair could make so much of a difference, but it really does. No more having to make him angry when I brush it and pull it up......and when we went to the grocery store today, I felt that everyone around me knew he was a boy. He just looks cleaner and nicer. To me, the long matted mess was detracting from his gorgeous little face....but now he looks so adorable! I guess I've pretty much decided that I like long hair on guys, but not on baby boys....it's too difficult to tell the difference between boys and girls when their that young, especially when the baby boy has a pretty face and long eyelashes.

Symptoms update: Feelin' puky pretty much all the time (except for shortly after I eat) and I've also had times when I've been a bit lightheaded. It seems the pukiness has died down a little and it's about 4:00 in the afternoon. I was really constipated until about 6am when I suddenly had a stomach ache and needed to use the bathroom stat!....but, man-o-man, I had to work hard for it. I bought some prune juice while at the store in my desperate quest to end the constipation, but then I suddenly had diarrhea when we got home. Uuugh. I give up. My bowels are rebelling against me. I thought it would be difficult to watch the little boy today, while feeling so ill, but it hasn't been so bad. He's been very good the whole time. He was an angel in the grocery store, which was nice, since it took me like 3 hours to get my shopping done. Guess I was just moving slow and kept backtracking to find things I forgot that were several aisles over. All of this sounds pretty normal for being at 7 weeks from my LMP.

I am determined to eat very good nutritious food for the baby. I even ate a huge spinach salad w/ sprouts, red pepper, olive oil, and lemon juice earlier when I was really didn't want to because I knew I needed some good green veggies in my system. After the appointment w/ the midwife, I was really inspired. She made mention of how every single thing that is being used to build the baby's body is coming from ME. I already knew that, but it was good for me to hear the importance of putting good things into my body because the baby's nutrients come only from my nutrients. Kind of like a seed that's planted in the ground. It's amazing to think that the flesh of a ripe juicy tomato is only made up of the nutrients in the soil - that's it.

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