Our Journey continued...

First Trimester 

I told myself before I was pregnant, that since we had to work so hard to get pregnant that I wouldn't complain about being pregnant. I hear women complain about the struggles they go through when they are pregnant and I always thought to myself, if they ever had to struggle to get pregnant or to stay pregnant they wouldn't complain about the things they experience while they are pregnant. There are so many people in this world that can’t get pregnant, have been pregnant many times with no success of carrying a child past a few weeks, and many people that try for years and years that would give anything to go through the struggles that pregnant women go through. So with that being said, I don’t want this to sound as though I am complaining I just know if I don’t write this down, some day I will wish that I would have wrote down what is was like to be pregnant and the things that I went through while being pregnant.

My first trimester was interesting to say the least and all I can I say is holy cow! I think girls in general and used to their bodies changing slightly every month, but being pregnant is crazy. My body has gone through so many changes already and I feel like it continues to change everyday.

Week 6 is the week I found out I was pregnant and both Mike and I were over the moon excited. At this point I wasn't feeling nauseas and food still sounded good, but I was feeling “off” and tired. All I can compare it too is, I felt like I had the flu and all I wanted to do is sleep. But all in all I was feeling pretty good.

Week 7 is when I started to feel sick and lost my ability to eat just anything. Eating quickly became something I had to do rather then something I looked forward to doing. Even drinking water was a challenge. I was also feeling really tired and being out in the sun would take everything out of me. On the positive side, when I did have energy I felt pretty good.

Weeks 8 and 9 were a lot like week 7 except my nausea was no longer being controlled by food and I was feeling sick about 98% of my day. I could no longer drink water on an empty stomach, eat food that didn't sound good, or even smell food that didn't sound good. I would come home from work being so hungry but couldn't eat because nothing sounded good or I was so over hungry that nothing sounded good. I noticed quickly that sweet things were not going to be part of my diet, well at least not in this trimester. When I did eat sweet things it made me sick almost instantly. When I say sweet things I mean jams, yogurt, juice, etc… not just baked good and candy. I did find out that my go to food when nothing else sounded good was, toasted peanut and honey sandwiches and a glass of milk. I could have them any time of the day and eat multiples of them.

Week 10 was a split week for me. There were days that I would feel great and then there were days that weren't any different from the weeks before. I always took extra food with me to work so when I would get hungry I would have something to tie me over until it was time to eat again. There would be some days that I would eat everything I would bring for snacks and still need something else and then there were days that I didn't need to eat anything extra. I was still pretty tired and I didn't have that much energy, but I was regaining some energy, not a lot, but some.

This week was also the week we told our families we were expecting a baby.

Week 11 I feel like things started to shift. I started to notice that I would feel pretty good in the morning up until after lunch then sometime around 1-3 I would start to get sick again. I was still bringing snacks with me every day and much like week 10, some days I would eat everything and some days I would take food home.

Week 12 there were more days I would feel good the whole day then there were days I would fill sick in the afternoon. The shift in me taking food home was greater then the days I would take an empty lunch box home. I still didn't have a ton of energy, but I had more energy throughout the day. When I got home and relaxed for the night is when I noticed how tired I really was. Before I was pregnant my bed time was most always at 10:30, while being pregnant, most days I am ready for bed at 9:30 and go to bed around 10. All in all I was feeling better and food was again becoming something I could enjoy.

This week we also started telling close friends that we were excepting a baby.

Well we made it through the first trimester, we had some up and downs, but we made it through. We learned a lot and at each doctors appointment our baby got a clean bill of health. Our baby was growing and developing and we only have to wait 2 more trimesters to meet him or her.

Fourth Appointment

September 20, 2012, was our fourth appointment and once again baby got a clean bill of health. Although we didn't have an ultrasound this time we did get to hear the heartbeat and it was beating at 153 beats per minute and sounded nice and strong. Dr. England did give me the order form to call and schedule the anatomy ultrasound for about 3 weeks or around 19 weeks, but not before 19 weeks. So we will be able to find out what our baby is on October 10, 2012 and I also scheduled my next appointment with Dr England for October 22, 2012.