So after thinking about starting this venture for several weeks, I finally took the time to do so. Here I hope to write down the journey of my first pregnancy for friends and family to share. The news has not "broken" just yet, but I thought I'd get a head start!
The moment:
It's funny how when you pay close attention to your body you can actually feel what is happening. I didn't believe it until it happened to me. On July 24th of this year I knew I was pregnant. I was only, maximum, 7 days out from conception but I just had this feeling. It was still too early to take a test but you have to trust your instinct! I had told myself I would not take a test until my first miss period day - I didn't want to expirence a false negative test. On July 29 my husband convinced me to go to the local pharmacy store and take test - 2 days early. I of course was wanting to take one, so off I went to the drug store (with coupon in hand!) and got a 2-pack first response test.
When I got home and performed the test we laid it in the kitchen and with eagle eyes watched it. Low and behold, it was positive! It was faint -very faint but there were two lines. Of course we were both thinking it was too faint to be positive! Just to make sure, 3 days later on Aug 1, I took the second test and it was a strong positive!
We're Pregnant! Estimated Due Date April 10, 2010....James swears up and down it's a boy.
Now I am 8 weeks into this venture and still do not believe the news. We have our first doctors appointment tomorrow - ultrasound included. It's exciting and I think will make it much more real.
The past 2 weeks have been pretty hard. The nausea/vomitting hit at 6 weeks and 3 days. Nothing tastes good, nothing sounds good but I have to eat. I am not vomitting that often, maybe once every other day, but the nausea is pretty rough. Along with that I am expirencing heartburn/indigestion from decreased motility of the GI tract due to the pregnancy hormones. I am trying to take TUMS but they don't agree with me that well. Maybe I'll try some Mylanta. Murphey, our precious baby (well 10mo old baby who's 64 pounds), thinks that he should lay on my upset stomach ALL THE TIME. We're at odds over that. He's not used to "no" from Mommy. Little does he know, including Emily and Kojac, that their world is going to change in April 2010. They will be included as much as possible with this, after all they're still my "kids."
I'll try and post more thoughout the weeks of this pregnancy and attach photos when I can. Hope you all enjoy reading this and exploring this journey with James and myself.
More after our first doctors visit tomorrow.
