On the three year anniversary of the Mr. proposing, we had a positive pregnancy test! What a great day-before-Thanksgiving surprise!
November 27, 2009:
On my 35th birthday, a blood test confirms that we are, in fact, having a baby- due date August 2, 2010. Two hours later I bought "What to Expect While You're Expecting" at Target and read it over lunch....not at all excited, right?
I figure that I'll be positively ginormous in a few short months and might like to look back at what used to be me. So, this is it, my "before" shot.
The next time I remembered to snap a pic was at 8 wks, and I'm clearly more bloated already!
There are cuter pics I could post, from the early ultrasounds, but I'm sure that it would just look like a blob to anyone but me- we were "lucky" that since I'm old and ended up being pretty sick a couple of times early on in the pregnancy we've had more ultrasounds already than most people get in 40 weeks. By week 10 we'd seen the baby's heartbeat 3 times!
I'm nearly out of the first trimester, and so far the hardest thing has been keeping this from everyone we love. We'll share with family at 11-12 weeks and then with friends thereafter, but I'm a blabbermouth, so it has been tough. Let's be honest, I'm no strange to a glass (read: bottle) of wine, so pretending to drink or coming up with excuses for not drinking has been a part time job.
Otherwise, I've been getting stir-crazy with my Dr's orders not to work out in the first trimester (this is the longest I've EVER gone without exercise), eating more and more (though the Mr will tell you I'm still not eating enough), and peeing pretty much constantly. Oh, and I'm TIRED. Maybe since I'm getting up to pee all night, but I cannot keep my eyes open most of the afternoon, and I'm ready for bed at about 8pm.
All worth it though :)
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