Pregnancy So Far

Here's the story so far.

November 6th, 2011 - I was concerned because of my late-ness, so I had my mom go to Walgreens to get me a pregnancy test. I had her go because I didn't want to stress Keith out. He was aware that I was late, but wasn't concerned and I didn't show my concern in order to keep him calm. I took the test so that if it was positive, I could just know, and if it was negative, I could stop stressing. Well, within 20 seconds of taking the test, the word "pregnant" showed up. My first response was shock. After all, we were not planning or preparing for it. I then started crying and kinda taking it all in making sure I wasn't dreaming. I was SO scared (still am, by the way!). I told my mom first, and after a couple minutes and wiping away the tears, got the guts to go tell Keith. I took him to our bedroom to tell him, and when I did, he was SO sweet about it. I was expecting him to be a little shocked, but he was happy and excited and that took a lot of the edge off of me. I felt so much better knowing he was so happy. His excitement turned my fear into excitement. I have such an awesome husband. :)

The next couple of days were hard to keep a secret from friends at work and from our family. We wanted to go to his parents house that night to tell them all, but we waited until the next day. I then told my side of the family on our facebook group, and then leaked it to some friends as the weeks went by. I told my bosses when I was about 12 weeks pregnant.

I set up a doctors appointment for December 26th even though I still didn't have insurance. I wanted to make sure everything was fine and dandy, and maybe hear a heartbeat! Keith and I both got the time off of work to go, and we were really excited. When we got to the doctor's office, the nurse behind the counter looked at us funny and asked why we were there. "...I have an appointment" I said. She came back later and told us that the doctor was on vacation. She said "We tried to call you, but we didn't have your phone number..." Yeeeeahhhh right. We left that place very disappointed. We tried calling to make an appointment for the same day somewhere else, but all the doctors were on vacation. So we waited until we got back from vacation to schedule another (Feb 9th).

So far I haven't had much morning sickness. I've had nausea in the mornings but only threw up once. In December with all the celebrations it was hard because all the food that was presented to me just didn't appeal to me. I think I lost a few pounds. Other than the nausea, it's been a pretty easy pregnancy so far. I was afraid I would at least be an emotional mess, but I've been quite pleasant! Keith has been great to me, also. Even though I'm still perfectly capable to do things, he wants to do them for me. He makes me feel beautiful when I'm feeling fat and ugly. I love him!

I'm fascinated by pregnancy. I've always wanted to know what it feels like. So I've been giving the girls at work a play by play description of how everything feels, and what I'm thinking about. They think it's funny. I think it's great that my coworkers are so excited for me, too. They buy me baby toys and one of my managers bought me a "what to expect when you're expecting" book.  This baby is already loved by so many people! That makes me happy.

I've been feeling the baby move a lot lately, which is really neat. Since I haven't been to the doctor, I was always worrying about whether the baby was still in there or not. I took pregnancy tests to make sure I was still pregnant, and that was really the only validation I ever got. Now I just feel the baby move and it reassures me. This is a recent thing. I felt the first movement a couple weeks ago, but now I feel it everyday.

Keith and I are really excited to have an ultrasound soon to see what the baby looks like. I just wanna make sure it looks human and that it's healthy and all that. We'll also be able to see whether it's a boy or a girl so that I can return some baby clothes that I've bought (I bought for both sexes. haha).

Anyway, that's my baby story so far. :)