We had our first doctor’s appointment on Wednesday, and I think it went really well. We really liked the doctor, and she answered the couple questions I had, and even though I know I started off this pregnancy overweight she said that she doesn’t like to see anyone lose weight during their pregnancy (I’ve lost about 5 pounds), which as odd as it might seem was reassuring – I didn’t feel like she was judging me.

She called with the test results today, and everything looks good, so that’s awesome. I do have to take some antibiotics, but it’s nothing serious, just some bacteria in my urine (yay, pregnancy oversharing!). Anyway, it’s apparently really common in pregnant women, and nothing to worry about as long as I take the medicine. From what I recall my sisters had similar issues with their pregnancies, and I told the doctor that, so she said we’ll be keeping an eye on things.

I was telling friends of ours today that while I was fairly certain I was pregnant even before the appointment (the positive test and no period for a couple months were pretty good indicators ;-)), having the appointment done and the test results back make it feel that much more real. Because I’m pretty sure they would tell me if they got the results back and I wasn’t pregnant. ;-)

Anyway, things are going well. I have my appetite back (although that’s not exactly right…it wasn’t really my appetite that was gone, so much as my capacity to actually eat anything solid for a while). I’m still a little picky about food – things that I used to enjoy just don’t sound good and other stuff that I only kind of liked sounds fabulous.

In other news, we are going to work on the brakes on the car tomorrow morning for a while, and then on Sunday if needed. Luckily, the guy that is helping us out has a vehicle we can borrow if we can’t take our car tomorrow morning (we are a 1 car family at this time). Hopefully it will be a relatively easy job, but we haven’t worked on them before. Any tips for working on the rear brakes of a Toyota Echo?