I have been dying to write this post for months...I'm Pregnant!! This is the craziest, most exciting, wild, scary and intense thing ever. It has been quite an experience already. Around week 7 I hit a wall and all the symptoms kicked in. I wrote a little bit of how I was feeling...
Being pregnant sucks. Don't get me wrong I am beyond thrilled to be having a baby, but seriously, what the hell?! After the initial shock and excitement wears off during the first week or two, real pregnancy starts, and I was not prepared.
I thought it was going to be this wonderful, dreamy, magical experience. My mom had great pregnancies with no morning sickness and just the short lived extreme fatigue. I watched several friends glide through their pregnancies, not even knowing they were pregnant until after their first trimester. So I was lulled into this false expectation of a peaceful pregnancy.
I'm exhausted...I could sleep for 11 hours and after being awake for 2 i'm yawning and curled up on the couch with a blanket. Oh, but if I take a nap I can't fall asleep at night. I took a yoga class yesterday and almost fell asleep in child's pose twice. I pee about 400 times a day (and night). I'm not really nauseous to the point where i'm going to get sick, but I feel just nauseous enough to be miserable, constantly. I've only been pregnant for around 4 weeks and already my boobs are outrageous and they hurt, I just can't wait to see what they're doing in 8 months. There are also these lovely little things called hormones! Except they are anything but little right now, they are completely consuming.
So now I am just about 12 weeks, I have seen the doctor for our first ultrasound and little baby Blinn is doing great, and this mommy to be is starting to feel more like herself! I was so excited to finally go to my appointment, to make sure everything was going just as it was supposed to and to finally see the little peanut. Seriously, it was the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life. Happiness doesn't even begin to describe how I felt when the doctor started to point out feet and hands. It still blows me away that women can make entire little beings without even trying, and to see it makes it a little more real that it's happening to me! Our excitement has shot through the roof and we cannot wait to meet our little miracle. I know its still going to be quite the roller coaster as we prepare for this new adventure, so enjoy the craziness as I document this incredible time in our lives.
(Left) The day we found out I was pregnant! (Right) 11 weeks pregnant! Harley was boycotting...
(Left) The day we found out I was pregnant! (Right) 11 weeks pregnant! Harley was boycotting...
love this... love you, big blinn and baby blinn!! I could seriously fly out to Cali just to hug you and jump up and down in excitement (that is, if I had an endless money supply). You two will be the best parents. Bash still talks about yall.... if you made that much of an impression on him, just imagine the importance you'll have to your little guy/girl!! EEEEEKKK!! so excited!! love you! -Whitney
ReplyDeleteThanks Whitney!!! I wish you were here to hug and ask for all sorts of advice! haha we are so excited and i'll definitely keep you updated! xoxo
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