But a weeeee raspberry.

   Baby Alvarado update! 

Everything is going great, baby is measuring 7 weeks TODAY! We have a new due date, May 7, 2015 which happens to be my daddy's birthday!

Baby Alvarado is the size of a raspberry this week and has a healthy heartbeat of 96 beautiful beats per minute. I cannot even begin to describe how beyond happy we are! 

Let's see, so far I am craving lettuce (with a little red wine vinegar) have some heartburn every now and again, NO MORNING SICKNESS (I feel lucky) suuuuuuper bloated, tired alllllll the time, hungry often and over all HAPPY.  

Short post today, will post more as the weeks keep coming! 

Thanks again for the prayers, and congratulations! The Alvarado's are so thankful, and so happy. 

From one side, to the other.

              Being as I myself have experienced pregnancy loss, I know the heartache.... And now experiencing so far a healthy pregnancy I know the pure happiness and joy of waking up every day knowing a little life is forming inside of my own body. 

   My heart truly goes out to every woman who has experience pregnancy, infant, child loss and most definitely to those women who cannot have children of their own. I feel every woman should get to experience ce something as beautiful as pregnancy, giving birth and raising a child. 

To those women trying to conceive, my advice to you is never to give up. Always hope that this month is THE MONTH....something as beautiful as a life is worth trying for, forever. 

  I know the disappointment of trying and it not happening right away, but remember there's always next month to look forward to. 

I truly wish such things as miscarriages, stillbirths, and infertility didn't exist. I just wish everyone had the chance to experience this. It hurts me heart to know so many women cannot. 

   I strongly suggest talking about it, to those of you who have experienced a loss or cannot get pregnant. Talk about it, don't keep it all in because that will only cause you to feel even worse. 

I am always available for anyone who needs to talk, remember that. 

<3

But I'm "barely" even pregnant.

  Dum, dum, dummmm. 

Being this early on in my pregnancy, I didn't think flying would be so uncomfortable. Boy, was I wrong. 

It all started when I knew I should of gone to sleep early last night, but didn't because the husband wanted some brownies. Well, 4 hours of sleep went by all too quickly. My alarm went off at 3:25am and I had to fight myself to get out of bed, immediately I thought to myself "well I'll definitely sleep on the plane!" W R O N G. 

  I got ready to go and we headed out, within 15 minutes of being on our way there it is again, the overwhelming feeling of hunger hit me hard. Soooo we stopped for food! This made my tummy very happy. Then of course I took my prenatal, which is so big it almost made me throw up in the car. 

     A little bit if nausea hit this morning so I was hoping for smooth flights. We get to the airport and I check in, they were kind enough to allow Pablo to wait with me at my gate. We hung out, said our see you laters (because I'll be in florida for a month) and I was boarding my first flight. Seeing it was only a 50 minute flight, how bad could it be, right? THE WORST. Terbulance the entire flight, bump after bump after bump, as ifffffff I wasn't nauseaous enough. Finally, that plane landed and I had 15 minutes to make it to my next flight. The airport was PACKED, I was walking to my gate and it hit me, I HAD TO PEE something serious. I found the closest bathroom to my gate, which was actually quite far from my gate and the line was out the door and down the hallway, I couldn't wait in that line.... I was to board my flight in 5 minutes. Ugh, I had to hold it... Which was the worst because I reallllllllly had to pee. 

    Anyway, everyone is on the plane and we're waiting and waiting and waiting...... 20 minutes later the captain comes on the radio saying a staff member was sick, and we were waiting for a new one to replace them..... Another 20 minutes goes by and he finally arrives, the entire place actually started clapping..... Mind you, we all just sat on a non-moving plane for 40 minutes with an insane amount of screaming children. 

    We finally took off, and I feel time is going to slow. I can't get comfortable for the life of me and a group of four 7 year olds, and 5 teens are next to me and they are unbelievably loud and quite rude. I've heard things like "do that and I'll punch you in the mouth" and "damn it!" Come out of the little ones mouth already. 

   Lawddddd knows I just want to land already, this travel day has been the travel day from hell. 

 Why does California have to be so far away from florida again? 

Why have we not found a faster way of traveling yet? 

On another note, I have been to the doctor twice already. My pregnancy was confirmed by the doctor the day after I took an at home test, and yesterday I went to do a mountain of paperwork, walk though how my appointments will work, another pee tests, and an insane amount of blood work! 

Everything with Baby Alvarado is good still, and we couldn't be happier. Seeing as I will be in florida for a month, I will be missing two doctors appointments so as soon as I get back we will be getting to see our little baby for the first time and we cannot wait! 

Thank you for all of your prayers, congratulations and support. I truly appreciate it. 

I feel so safe with this pregnancy, I know my pop, and Stan are watching over and protecting the little life growing inside of me. 

Now, I must get back to trying to get comfortable on this horrible plane. 

(Published 3 days after writing)