4 weeks along x

Well I believe I am now over 4 weeks along in my pregnancy :) I still can't quite believe I am saying that word and that there is a baby (well right now, a group of cells!) growing inside me. I even took another test because I couldn't believe it.

I went to the doctors yesterday to say, "I am pregnant, what do I do now?". His response was "give birth". Funny but not particularly useful. He took all my family history and details, he gave me an estimated due date which is different to what I thought...17th September 2013. So we shall see, I personally think I am due later!  He referred me to Kingston Hospital which is where I have chosen to have our baby. We have about an 8 week wait until my first scan/appointment and it just want it to go VERY VERY QUICKLY.

I certainly am starting to feel different and I am slowly realising that in just over 8 months time, we will have another member of our family. I picture every day what that scene will look like and it makes me beam from ear to ear. I have slowly started to feel some symptoms-I have been going off food a bit which is NOT like me. I have also had very achey ermmm (for the sake of embarrassment I shall just say the correct word...breasts) and also going to the toilet ALL the time (which again, isn't like me). I have had aches and weird feelings in my stomach, particularly today and wonder whether there is something rather exciting going on in there...I wish I could take a little look inside although to be honest I bet it looks rather disgusting. Right now, according to various websites and my ipad app, it looks a bit like this in my stomach at the moment:

I am aware I am still writing this blog to myself but I have to write down how excited I feel-I really can't wait to tell everybody. I bought a super cute pregnancy journal online so I can fill in week by week how I am feeling and stick in photos and then when our baby is older, I can show them.

Michael and I have *already* started debating baby names and we're set on our girls name and have about 3 choices for the boys names. I have to wait rather a long time until we find out what we're having but I may cave in and pay a bit extra for an early gender scan at 16 weeks. Do you really think I can wait until 20 weeks to find out? NO WAY!

xoxo