Hi All!!! Im very glad to be here. My husband and I have been trying for quite awhile. I have been, what I call 'happily' sick. I have been told the worse your symptoms the better chance of not having a m/c. I hope thats the case. I am amazed at the worrying I have done since I got the positive test back. Hopefully everything will go smoothly!!! I have never been preggers before and I can say besides feeling sick all the time I am sooooooooooo happy. Probably the happiest I have ever been. Anyhoo, I just moved to Chicago from Cali so I am pretty far away from all my family and friends. If there is anyone out there who is from the area and would like to get together it would be great to meet some other pregnant women in the area!!!

4/27/07- 16 weeks today..WOOO HOOO. Besides having a stuffy nose, headaches and body aches and losing my belly button, all is going pretty smooth. Sounds like a lot of people on the site have felt kicks. If I wasn't losing my belly but I would wonder if I was just having a sinus infection and the baby was just an idea in my head. Lol. I have been amazed at how many of my friends don't talk to me any more now that I am preggers. Which is really sad and depressing considering this is the time I need them most. Luckily I have a great support system in my family and my husband. Without them I would be completely lost. We have our next appt. on May 8 but won't get another ultrasound until the end of the month. I am hoping that we will find out what we are having then. I am dieing! I don't care either way, I am thrilled to be preggers, but I really want to start doing some SHOPPING...Oh yeah~ and I know the grandparents do to =) Its going to be more fun to use the babies name while talking to it too instead of calling it little baby. I will keep ya'll update on everything as things progress. Congrats to you all...What a great time in our lives eh?

5/5/07- Well its a little over a week later and the stuffy nose and headaches haven't stopped. Now I have this horrible pain in my ribs. I can't believe how much pain I am in. The doctor called me back and told me that it has nothing to do with the baby its a highly irratated muscle in my ribs and I will have to just deal with it because I can' take motrin. Ugh. Oh well. As long as babies ok, i will deal with it.Speaking of dealing with it. I am totally surprised that so far, Im not afraid of giving birth. For as long as I remember I have dreaded that day.But now, i have made peace with it. Maybe its because its still pretty far away, or maybe its because of all the episodes of a baby story i have watched. Either way, I can't wait to hold my precious child in my arms....