Oops, you should’ve said something in the OP.
And the best news is that they know what causes that now! 
- Jinx
We were very lucky and found a diaper service. If there is one in your area, try it. It seems to be cheaper than disposables and much nicer than washing cloth diapers.
Warning, your feet may actually get bigger in size, and not just swell. Go look for new comfy shoes each trimester. You may prevent bunions if you do. All of your bones get a bit softer during pregnancy and sometimes when they firm back up, they aren’t in the same place as they used to be.
Eat lots of calcium rich foods. Schedule dental visits for a month or so after you have the baby and follow up in six months after that. Many women get cavities during or just after pregnancy. If you catch it early, you just need fillings, wait and you may need false teeth.
Nursing is not easy, but it is worth it. If you don’t want to, you are not a bad mother, it is your choice. Don’t worry people will say you are a bad mother if you nurse, or if you formula feed.
During the last trimester gain your weight at the recommended pace, about 1.5 pounds or so every two weeks IIRC, check with your doctor. Even if you already gained more than you should or even if gaining is really hard, as it was for me. Your baby will be healthier and more likely to sleep through the night.
And congratulations!!
Congratulations!
There’s something in the Doper Water Supply. I’m 11 weeks pregnant. 
So, here’s a list of things I’ve figured out in the past two months:
Keep some crackers or pretzels near your bed, along with a glass of water. When the morning sickness starts kicking in, you’ll want to have something to nibble on when you first wake up to help bring up your blood sugar. Take your time getting up in the morning.
Ginger (the root, not GingerOfTheNorth) is very helpful for nausea. Ginger ale, ginger tea, or candied ginger can help when you’re feeling sicky.
Keep yourself hydrated.
Instead of 3 large meals a day, eat small meals every few hours to keep your blood sugar up. This, too, will help with nausea.
Listen to your body. You’ll soon figure out what triggers your nausea and what you can avoid. If anything seems wrong (spotting, cramping, etc), call your OB immediately.
While you’re dealing with the nausea, eat what you can tolerate. I worried about not being able to eat as balanced as I liked since all I could seem to tolerate was steamed rice and yogurt for the first few weeks. Eat what you can, and as the nausea starts to go away, you’ll be able to add things to your diet. For a while, the idea of vegetables just made me turn green. After a few weeks, I can eat raw veggies (salads and carrot sticks), but cooked vegetables, for the most part, I don’t even want to go near.
(Yes, I’ve had plenty of dealings with morning sickness, can you tell? :D)
Take your prenatal vitamins.
You are going to be tired. Your body is going through some major changes. Get plenty of rest.
As for cravings, all things in moderation. I’ve had a huge sweet tooth, so I’ve tried to get things that aren’t all pure sugar and junk. Things like fruit-juice sweetened oatmeal cookies and muffins, and high-fiber fortified breakfast cereals have taken care of my cravings for cookies and Frosted Flakes.
Unless you’re one of these tiny girls that ends up gaining 30 pounds in the first trimester alone (proof that there is a God), don’t fret about your weight. Eat healthy, indulge your cravings and relax. Your body craves weird things because it needs the stuff in them. Ice cream is okay It has calcium, y’see
Now log off the computer and go take a nap right now. Get allllllllll your sleeping out of your system these next 9 months. Milk it for all its worth. Make hubby do the dishes. 
Now for serious advice: don’t be like I was and lay around on your ass for 40 weeks. Try really really hard to walk a mile a day. Your labor will go much quicker.
Abbie Carmichael is right, the more accustomed that you are to physical activity, the easier the birth will be in most cases. Chocolate is good for pregnant women and their babies.
Congratulations!
You’ve already gotten a lot of great advice. I have two more words to add: resale shops! Thrift stores, charity stores, Once Upon a Child - lots of options. Keep them in mind when you’re ready to start creating your nursery. I purchased cribs for each of my twins plus the changing table for less than $250. And I’ve bought most of their clothes and toys there as well. Not only was it a big relief for my Hubby, who was quite petrified about our finances, but those stores carried wonderful vintage toys that you just can’t find now (I get the sense these sturdy treasures will be circulating forever!).
Best wishes & take excellent care of yourself! Keep us posted!
Congratulations!
Be glad you have the perfect excuse to do (or not do) almost anything-put your feet up, get a bowl of icecream, put your favourite movie on and enjoy!
Thank you all for the nice wishes and thoughtful advice.
I haven’t replied early because as of lately I’m expending all my waking hours… well, asleep. I feel like a giant piece of blob. I did some walking today, other than that I am just getting closely acquainted with my pillow.
I haven’t felt any nausea at all, of course it is only 4 weeks now. When do I get it? (hopefully I won’t, knock on wood). Besides falling asleep any time and a diminished appetite I don’t feel that much different. No PMS-type lunacy yet.
Can you tell I am going to use up my $4.95 in the next 9 months?
Wow! ¡Muy impresionante!
By the way, get used to getting thoughtful advice!
Here’s my advice: practice your most pleasant smile in the mirror and say, “Why, that’s lovely! I will do just as you say!” And then practice turning around and doing precisely what you want. A few rehearsals of this script and you may even be able to say it convincingly.
Congratulations, couldn’t have happened to a better mom
The first trimester sucks. It takes forever it seems. All I wanted to do was sleep constantly. One night I went to bed at 7, woke up at 7 in the morning, went to work and the first thing I hear is “You look like you need some sleep.”
For maternity clothes, Old Navy is pretty cool. You can get some casual things for really cheap if you look around. Of course not all stores have the maternity dept. Motherhood isn’t bad, but can be a bit expensive.
Get a nightlight for the bathroom. One that’s bright enough so that you can see what you need, but not one that’ll completely wake you up. Get ready for many runs to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I’ve topped at five and I’m only midway through right now.
Babies 'R Us is a wonderful store. I would go every day if it weren’t a half hour drive away.
I’m having my mother’s first grandchild, my grandmother’s first great-grandchild, and my in-laws first grandson (after 4 granddaughters). They haven’t overdone anything, but I live a good distance away. My mother calls daily and asks how I’m doing, but it’s not much of a change from before. She has, however, already bought a little table and chair set and is planning on going clothes shopping this weekend. (We just found out that he’s a boy yesterday.)
If you have problems with your prenatals, take them right before you go to bed. Most of the time you can get to sleep before they start bugging you.
That’s all I can think of right now. Good luck, congratulations. I look forward to seeing some Mighty_Baby pictures at the end of next summer.
Morning sickness usually kicks in around 6-7 weeks, and usually eases off around 12 weeks, if you’re typical.
I found Altoids mints to be helpful with the nausea. Also ginger, ‘seasick’ accupressure wrist bands, and never, ever letting myself get hungry. Of course, I wound up on Zofran because I had ‘worse than usual’ nausea. I mean I couldn’t keep water down. But this is not typical.
If you find water makes you nauseated, try Gatorade watered down half strength. It helped me some.
You needn’t switch to maternity clothes until you are physically uncomfortable in your regular clothes. Since this is your first (right?) you may not show until the first trimester is over. (With my 4th, I was in maternity clothes by 6 weeks because my tummy hurt from anything tighter.)
I found a ‘pregnancy wedge’ (a small soft wedge of foam) to be quite helpful for sleeping comfortably as I got larger. (Like this one but single, just the one wedge. I think you might be stuck buying the pair, but google around for ‘pregnancy wedge pillow’ and you might find a single one. This goes under the belly so you don’t keep rolling forward.
I do recommend a doula for labor and delivery, if you can afford one. A doula is there to support you and your partner through labor. She is your employee, not an employee of the hospital, and she is there to make you comfortable, and to help you get the birth you want. But don’t pay up front, and make sure she has a backup in case for any reason she might be unavailable when you need her. Don’t ask me how I know this.
If your circumstances allow it, and you prefer a natural birth, consider a midwife rather than an obstetrician. As the saying goes, “If you don’t want surgery, don’t go to somebody who does surgery.” Midwives are trained extensively in normal birth and do not do cesareans. Their clients (they don’t call them patients!) have a lower rate of surgical delivery than the average OB, and you needn’t worry - since a midwife stays with you throughout your entire labor, if anything begins to go wrong that cannot be handled by position change etc., the midwife will notice it, and the OB on call will be called.
You’ll probably be deluged with baby gifts. First babies get that kind of thing. You may want to hold off on larger purchases such as baby bouncers, swings, etc., until you see what people gift you with.
You may not want a crib at all. I only recently began to transition my 4th to the crib - she’s 15 months old - at bedtime, and only put her in it for naps when she started flinging herself off the bed in her sleep. I mean rolling. Right. We did the same with the others - transitioned them to regular beds anywhere between 15-22 months of age, before which they slept in bed with us, and despite all the warnings to the contrary, this was accomplished without difficulty or trauma. Some people never use a crib, but just put baby’s mattress on the floor. Some babies really want to sleep with you, and some parents find they sleep better with baby nearby. So, it’s a thought to consider. Of course, if you choose to co-sleep, make sure you follow the rules of safe co-sleeping.
As far as the breastfeeding thing goes - I’ll second what another poster said: it can be difficult, but it’s worth it. I’m a poster child for ‘difficult’…oddly enough, I had completely different difficulties each time. But, I had excellent support, including misc.kids.breastfeeding on the UseNet (great group of ladies) and went on to have very successful, satisfying nursing relationships with 3 out of my 4 children (the 4th never took the breast, or a bottle either - she was tube-fed until she was 4 1/2 years old and finally learned how to eat.) I never once regretted the initial struggle, for the later ease, portability, frugality, and comfort it provided (and still provides the youngest).
Consider the possibility of using a sling or other similar baby carrier, if your baby turns out to be the kind who just isn’t happy unless it’s in your arms. For the first 3 or so months of #4’s life, I used a homemade version of the Hug-A-Bub and during her evening fussy time, would strap her onto my front and bounce up and down on a ‘labor ball’ (exercise ball). She loved it. I loved it until she got too heavy for me to carry. Jen Rosenberg has a great website with links to sling pages of all shapes and sizes.
Anyway, I hadn’t meant this to get so long. Congratulations!
Hmmm… The Mighty_Family. Sounds like a cartoon super-hero family (a la The Incredibles). We will surely need some superpowers next year.
I had groupB strep, and gestational diabetes, so I did not reasonalbly have the option of giving birth at home. I did get by without anethesia and I did have a pretty easy birth. Just because somethings don’t go the way you would like them to, doesn’t meant the rest can’t.