Today marked a year since Archie was due to arrive, - of course he kept us waiting and then surpised us all by arriving in the most dramatic way possible. I thought I'd mark this day by sharing with you my pregnancy journey with him. I did begin to write this a few months back, but the perfectionist in me didn't like how it was going so I deleted it all (hello OCD).. So this is a whole fresh one using only my pregnancy Journal, I shall be sharing the termesters over a few days finishing with my labour and birth. Enjoy!
First Trimester.
Finding out.
I have been saying for weeks now that I am not pregnant, that that option isn't even possible.. Well bang goes that theory. Today, after finding a pregnancy test in the bottom of a draw and my period being late I thought "what the hell" and tested. In my head I was 100% sure I was not pregnant, I didn't even really look at the test after I took it, taking it straight to the bin. A second glance though and there it was a second line. Faulty test? Nope, I took another 3 tests before investing in a digi test "PREGNANT 1-2 WEEKS". I am pregnant!! How am I feeling, shocked, excited, confused.. numb. I feel like I can't talk, mainly because I don't know what to say. I'm pregnant.. I'm pregnant before we even started to try, how did this happen!? Ok so I know how it happened, but I was expecting it take months, years even before that second line appeared. I'm pregnant, right now, this second. Do I feel pregnant? No!
4 weeks.
I had my doctors appointment today. It went well, he congratulated me which was a far better reaction to the doctor I had when confirming my pregnancy with Eva who asked if I wanted an abortion! I am on Folic acid - the tablets that made me terribly sick with Eva and I've booked a midwife appointment. I'm told there is a small chance that this baby will also arrive early. I'm not worried about that though, what I am worried about is the speed of my last birth. My doctor informed me the average labour for a women of my age with their first baby is 16 hours, I was just under 3 1/4 hours. I've been told not to sit at home too long, to go to hospital after the first contraction. Do I feel pregnant yet? No.
7 weeks.
I saw my midwife today, she's nice, made me feel at ease right away. A different one to the one I had with Eva, although I'm told she does still work there which I'm happy about, I built a fab relationship with her. I am apparently 9 weeks pregnant, I highly doubt I'm that far along, I don't feel that I am at all, so we shall have to wait and see. I had my bloods taken - the joy! Let's hope everything is fine.
9 weeks.
I am craving my mum's pea and mint soup, I rang her at 10pm the other night and demanded she told me how she made it. It made me feel sick, so the craving went soon after, still it's my first real craving! Sickness has hit me like a tone of bricks. I was boasting how I didn't feel even the slightest bit ill, well that back fired didn't it! Walking Eva to pre-school the other morning I had to vomit in a bush.. nice! We saw our "Bug" for the first time today. Amazing. That's the only way I could discribe it! The scanner person (insert correct term here) asked me to guess how many weeks I was, I said about 9, by the midwife's date they think I'm 12, but I'm not conviced. Amazingly I was right! 9 weeks. Bug was too small for them to get all the measurements we needed so we are being sent back in 3 weeks. Bug, looks just like a jelly teddy at the moment, no hands or feet btu one very strong heartbeat. I can relax a bit more now. Do I feel pregnant now? Yes!
10 weeks.
I have the flu and I look how I feel. Awful. Time to go hide under the duvet until I feel better.
12 weeks.
Dating scan take two. I was amazed by how much our bug had grown. He has arms! I am 12 weeks and 2 days pregnant now and starting to feel that bloating feeling. I've also had a few butterfly type feelings, I've been told that can happen with your second pregnancy, which is amazing. The scan went well, we brought Eva with us, she got bored after just afew moments and asked if we could go home. She was excited to show off the scan photo's to her grandparents though.
Bean xo
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