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Hello everyone!! This is my first pregnancy and I am very excited. I really have no experience with babies and have been doing lots of research trying to prepare myself as much as possible. That's actually how I found this website, and I have really enjoyed reading other women's experiences, so I decided to sign up. I look forward to sharing stories and experiences, and wish everyone a happy and healthy pregnancy.

A little bit about me...just a few years ago I was quite a partier and didn't know if I even wanted children. I loved my freedom and independence. I have been in property management with the same company for almost 7 years now and have lived on my own for about the same. After my first serious relationship ended REALLY badly, I wasn't sure I would ever find anyone else, or if I could ever trust again if I did. So I focused on me and just had fun for a few years. No strings, no worries. But all that changed two years ago when I met my current boyfriend. Neither of us were looking for anything serious, but here we are two years later, very much in love, living together and having a baby. And I couldn't be happier. I now know this life is right for me and all I can think about is having my baby. My boyfriend has a 6 year old son that lives with us full time, and that has been a learning experience. But when I met him he was already 4 so I really know nothing about babies. He could already walk and talk and all that when I met him, so I'm very nervous about how to care for a baby. I have signed up for about every pregnancy and childbirth class offered through my birthing center and those classed start next month.

I will be 18 weeks tomorrow and go for my first sonogram on 01/30/08. I am very excited and really want to find out the sex of the baby. I really want a little girl, but almost feel guilty for saying that because I am just about sure it will be a boy. I really don't know why I think that, it's just a feeling. But I will be happy either way.

January 31...

I found out yesterday at my first ultrasound that I am having a girl!!! I was really excited and surprised because I really wanted a girl, but really thought it was a boy. I had looked on the Chinese astrological chart and taken a lot of the gender prediction quizzes and everything said I would have a boy. I guess that stuff really is just for fun. I also found out that the baby weighs 10 ounces which sounds really big to me from everything I have read. I will have to wait till my doctors appt. next week to find out if he changes my due date. The sonogram info put me at 19 weeks instead of 18. I just hope she is healthy. It is really difficult having to wait to hear if everything is ok. She was very active during the sonogram and even got the hiccups which we could see. Now I just can't wait to actually feel all that movement that I saw is going on.