“A nice plate of potato cookies and a cup of moss rye tea.” ~Boober Fraggle

Two inevitable questions that we hear when people find out that Michelle is pregnant are “How was morning sickness?” and “What strange cravings have you had?”

Oddly enough (and we’re very thankful for this) Michelle didn’t experience much morning sickness. Sure there were days that she was nauseous and she was certainly more tired than usual (which is certainly saying something) but all in all the morning sickness wasn’t bad.

She never became physically sick. Again both of us are happy about this because Tony has a weak stomach when it comes to seeing people vomit. She also didn’t really have any food aversion. It wasn’t like we’d cook a meal, sit down to eat it, and the smell would make her ill or she didn’t want to eat.

In fact, along with her need to nap, her need to eat also increased. She’d need a snack every few hours or else she’d feel nauseous. Usually she’d grab something healthy like apples and peanut butter, grapes, or cherries but on occasion Spraggle would demand something else. Along these lines there have not been any strange cravings yet. Macaroni and Cheese is certainly her pregnancy food of choice. As well as fresh summer fruit like watermelon and cherries.

We have only encountered one strange meal and that was during a stop at Wawa when she wanted Baked Potato Soup, apples and peanut butter, Skittles, and pickles. Not all at the same time, mind you. But she did proceed to eat them all in succession while in the car.

While we’re sure there are strange quirks and cravings in our future so far there has not been too much of note.

"We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts." ~ Cantus Fraggle

So we got to meet the doctor today and got our first visual glimpse of Spraggle. WOW! It’s amazing that we all start out so small. Only the size of a kidney bean Spraggle was a bit difficult to find but once found he/she looks like this:




Oh! And Spraggle Monkey was there too



The doctor seems pretty cool. Although since we are dealing with a hospital, Dr. Sproat may not be the doctor to deliver our baby. Any doctor in the practice could be the one to help us that day and we will try and meet them all before they bring our baby into the world.

Dr. Sproat, although not much older then we are, seems like a VERY competent and knowledgeable OB/GYN. That being said she did seem to stutter over a few of Tony’s jokes and comments. Anyone who knows Tony knows that he can be a wise ass (all the time) and while throwing out his one-liners and comments they seemed to catch the good doctor off guard and in some cases caused her to stop and think. LOL! It was all in good fun and it seemed to make the experience less awkward.

Dr. Sproat did point out Spraggle’s tiny beating heart, stating that it was a little flutter on the screen. Tony and Michelle don’t know if she had something floating in her eye or if they are just blind but they saw no such flutter.

A few more appointments were scheduled including more bloodwork and another meeting with Dr. Sproat to hear Spraggle’s heartbeat.