Michael and I have known that I was pregnant since late October. After telling our family and asking them to keep it quiet for a little while, we started telling some of our friends. We didn't want to jump the gun and tell everyone--after all, things do happen, especially in the first trimester.
Honestly, the ones who are only finding out now are rather lucky. I had to suppress so many urges to whine about the pregnancy nausea on Facebook. My hopes of being one of those lucky women who escapes the pregnancy nausea were dashed pretty soon after we found out we were expecting. I'm a real baby about nausea--nothing can really lay me so low. If I remember this portion of my pregnancy accurately, I am not sure I could go through another. But if what I've read on forums and heard from some of my friends is correct, if we really want another I'll be eager and happy to do it all over again.
What is really neat is that I'm in good company. Several of my friends are pregnant now, too, and we share information and stories. At this point in time, I'm the last of everyone else I know who will be giving birth next year. Everyone else is experiencing their pregnancy milestones before me, so it's nice to have the benefit of their fairly recent experiences.
As of my last visit to the doctor on November 30, I was somewhere between the 10 and 11 week range (based on his assessment of the size of my uterus), which means I'm in the 11 or 12 week range now. Thus, my due date (June 20, 2011) is very likely a bit early. He tried to listen for a heartbeat anyway, but could only catch it very faintly for split seconds before he lost it again. He said we would definitely be able to hear it on our next visit, which is in about a month. I am very excited by that prospect, because it will be the first direct sign of life I've had so far. I've only had the indirect symptoms and indicators that something is indeed going on in there, but I haven't had an ultrasound or anything else that provides that confirmation and makes it...real. I think until I have something like that, I can't help but be a little skeptical even though all the other signs are definitely there. It's silly, I know, but please indulge me in a little silliness--I've never done this before.
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