I haven't been documenting my pregnancy very much on this site. I'd like to slow down with all the pretty pictures and do some more life documentation so that this blog actually serves a purpose. I didn't post about being pregnant at first because it was a secret and I have family and friends that read this site. But since Christmas, it's been open record that I will be having a baby in July.
It's definitely been an interesting change in my life. I've never been one of those women that just live and breathe to be mother and find this change so natural and wonderful. First of all, I was so sick first trimester. The ahem....love life fell off a cliff, still hasn't fully recovered. Plus, I have never felt so fat in my life (even though at my last doctor appointment, I had lost weight). My belly started pushing out pretty early, so I just feel huge.
Ahhh...the joys of being 5'1". First trimester I was able to eat a little breakfast and a pretty decent lunch, but come dinner, I was done. Nothing could tempt me. I was completely off meat, all and every meat made my stomach turn. Meanwhile, the doctor was telling me to up my
protein (there is only so much beans, peanut butter and yogurt you can eat). The fridge emptied out because I couldn't grocery shop. I would be grounded on the couch for and hour
everytime I got back from the grocery store from the overwhelming amount of smells. I could shop at Sam's club, it only smells like boxes in there.
It was hard not eating dinner because poor Matt had to kinda fend for himself, and I'm the cooker in the family. That's why I don't have to clean garages or kill bugs, I'm an excellent cook. Plus, we have his two kids for dinner twice a week and I'm sure they were wondering why I stopped eating, was often in bed, or couldn't open the lid to the
crockpot without running out of the room to the bathroom. We waited for Christmas to tell them also. I was so paranoid about miscarriage, the less people who knew the better. Plus, once they told their Mom, the metro area would have known (to say she's a gossip would be an understatement).
Another way this has messed with my body is the sleeping. I slept a lot at first, I mean, a LOT. In bed at 7:30 type stuff. However, I was waking up at 1 am to pee and again at 3 with terrible stomach pains. Lots of bread and dry cereal eaten in the middle of the night to calm my stomach. At first I was having such pains, that I thought I was miscarrying, I would call Melinda freaking out because I was doubled over in pain. Come to find out, it was GAS. So for a couple of weeks I was on the maximum dose of Gas-x you can take in a day. I have never in my life had the occasion to take Gas-X, thouht it was for men and old people. But let me tell ya, it was a life saver. It helped
immensely. So I was sleeping a lot, but my sleep was messed up by my stomach and my bladder. The most annoying thing?
Perma-nausea and not being able to throw up. I just wanted to throw up, I knew I'd feel better. For as sick as I was, I only threw up twice.
I am now at 16 weeks and I am still loving my sleep, and I'm eating better. I can eat meat, chicken still grosses me out, but I'm not much of a chicken person anyway. And the baby is starting to move, I started feeling that at 15 weeks, which is early, especially for your first. I'm convinced the little
porkchop is a boy, it is just WAY too active. So that's been interesting. It's not kicking yet, it's not as distinct a feeling as I thought it would be. It flutters, it feels like a butterfly in your lower intestines. And when it does move, it tends to induce a cramp, so I'm having a lot of cramps, really low, which has not been fun.
We are both very excited for this baby. We will be poor as church mice, but who cares. But this is
officially the
weirdest thing my body has ever (and I hope will ever) go through. And as much as it is romanticized, let me tell ya, it's anything but
glamorous. I am no longer sexy, I am a scientific machine built for carrying this
Olympic cartwheeler.
It's
definitely going to be an adventure. God bless my husband for being the man he is, I have no idea how I would do this without him.
