MAY 10, 2008

Getting closer! I am now on (hopefully) temporary medical leave from work due to low blood pressure, which is at least better than high blood pressure! After a faint at work and a bit of bleeding, I think it is probably good to take some time off - but I am not very good at relaxing. Baby is forcing me, however, and because of that, I will be kinder to my body. I cannot wait to meet the little troublemaker, hopefully in less than 10 weeks! It will be nice to see the little bugger again when they do the ultrasound next week to make sure there is no bleeding in my placenta. One last look in-utero before we meet him/her face-to-face!

Most Hilarious Aspects of Being Pregnant:

• EVERYONE, regardless of their own weight, feels the need to tactlessly comment on your size - continually! What you say to them: "No, I'm not having sextuplets" or "Actually, I'm not due for three more months." What you want to say to them: "I'm pregnant - what's your excuse?!"
• One word - HORMONES. Okay, they may not be hilarious to you when they are making you extremely annoyable (I might have just invented that word) or emotional, but looking back, the irrationality seems pretty darn funny!
• Attempting a bikini wax - this involves a mirror, almost falling over (a lot) and 3-4 times the regular amount of time necessary.
• Putting socks on - "the dance." That is, when your pelvis doesn't hurt so much that you can't even lift your legs!
• When your baby is lying on one side and your belly looks completely deformed.
• Knowing that you're actually peeing for two!
• When your baby kicks you and makes your jump, and everyone who sees you jump for no apparent reason just thinks you are crazy.
• Pregnancy brain - all I can say is thank goodness I have that to use as an excuse!
• to be continued!

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MARCH 17, 2008

Four months to go until our due date! This is very exciting; while I know that Tigger probably won't arrive on his/her due date, it is still exciting to see the weeks pass by, watch my tummy grow and feel the little critter bouncing around like - well - Tigger! I am just wondering - what is this going to feel like in ten weeks if the baby is already able to startle me with his/her sudden, powerful movements? I think s/he might punch a hole in me!

I LOVE this second trimester! I have never felt so healthy in my life - tons of energy and motivation, and so happy with everything. That is, when I'm not throwing up or crying for no apparent reason.... Ah, the joys. At any rate, I feel so blessed to be able to experience this. I can't wait to go on maternity leave and devote myself full time to being a mummy!

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Tomorrow is, theoretically speaking, halfway to meeting our baby! Wow, how amazing. It seems like time went so slow as it has happened, but looking back, it seems so fast! Now I feel the Karate Kid moving around and banging on me often - it always makes me smile. It seems like yesterday when I was telling people about the microscopic shrimp-baby mouse cross that was growing inside me. Now the critter is 6 inches and more than half a pound!

I am so excited - to meet our baby, to get to know it, to learn who it is and why it is here. I am excited to see what it likes and dislikes. I am excited to see recognition and love in its eyes when it looks at me. I am excited to watch my husband as he learns how to be a father - and I know that he will be an amazing one! I am excited to learn what it is to be a mother, how it changes my priorities even more than it already has, how it changes me in ways I can't yet imagine.

Oh yes, these are exciting times! Love and luck, as always, to you and yours!

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IN THE BEGINNING....

Hello, fellow pregos and trying-to-be-pregos! I am a 25-year-old Accounts Manager with a wonderful and supportive new-ish husband. We were preparing to prepare to have a child... but apparently one was very determined to sneak in a little early, so here we are! I absolutely knew I was on November 7 - I had pain that was different from any that I had ever known and I felt... pregnant. By the next morning, I was sure that I was wrong (although I had dreamed of children that night) but it was the day I was supposed to get my period and it hadn't show up yet so I figured I'd take a test just to make sure I could down some wine that evening with friends at a get-together. I have done so many of those tests because I have a crazily irregular cycle and I would become concerned after a while of period no-show. The little blue line that tells me the test is working showed up... and then a faint cross. I could not believe it! It almost looked like a shadow. So I hopped in the shower and when I got out, sure enough, there was the cross; a positive pregnancy test.

So I woke my husband up (he had only gotten home from work a few hours earlier) and gave him the exciting news, then headed off to work. I stopped in, then proceeded to a walk-in clinic, where I had a negative urine test. The doctor decided to send me for a blood test and there it was - positive confirmation that I am going to by a mummy!

We are so very excited. The same day that we found out we closed a deal on a house, so we will have a new house for our new bambino, too.

These are happy times! Love and luck to us all!