Just another day

Day 2



I used to be the kind of girl who slept in pretty late on the weekends, usually got up around 1:00 maybe a little later, but these days no matter what time I go to bed like clockwork Im up between 8 and 9am. Usually within a half hour or so I will fall back asleep eventually waking up thinking that its late in the afternoon when really its more like 11am, then I get up. Its actually kind of nice, I really hate wasting by days sleeping but before I just couldnt get myself up, now no problem. Pregnancy sure does alot of crazy things. I assume that I will eventually start getting up earlier and earlier until im one of those 6am morning gals haha. I guess thats just natures way of preparing you for what lies ahead with the new baby!

Im feeling quite well today, my nausea symptoms are slowly stopping but I still feel fairly uneasy at times. One thing ive definatly noticed as that recently I have to pee allllll the time it seems, and I definatly get up at least once a night and again around 6am or else i cant sleep. I thought the whole bladder problem thing would come later in the pregnancy when Im big and huge and the baby is pushing on my bladder, but I guess it starts now too. I read in the book somewhere why it occurs so early but I forgot, I will have to look that up. Anyway, I am looking forward to tomorrow which is monday. Im going to fax in the final paperwork for my medicaid so im hoping I can get into to the doctor ASAP.... Definatly looking forward to that. Today Im going to finish up some xmas shopping and hang ut with my friend Liz, very very exciting :)

10 Weeks along... So I Think

Day 1

Hello all, welcome to my pregnancy journal. I decided to start this to help pass the time of waiting for my first addition to progress & arrive. It seemed for a while that life was flying by so fast, and now it seems that life has slowed down quite a bit. It was just 3 weeks ago that I found out that I was expecting but it feels like 2 months! With nothing much to do but sit back and wait the time seems to just creep by. I think the first few months must be the worst. You don't feel well, you cant eat right, and to top that off you know that you are pregnant but you don't look pregnant and all of the fun stuff seems so far away!!! ( like finding out the sex, and registering, and showing, and baby showers) For now its just wait wait wait.... For now I am just experiencing some of the fun symptoms of pregnancy. Including:

-Extreme Nausea (very very extreme)
-The metallic taste in my mouth
-Dizziness
-Fatigue
-Food rarely sounds good and most thing I used to like make me sick now.
-My boobs are sore
-I just plain don't feel NORMAL

I of course ran out and bought the book that I think almost everyone goes to get when they find out they are pregnant, "What To Expect when You are Expecting" The fourth Edition.... This book tells you pretty much everything you need to know. I of course read it cover to cover the first night I bought the book. Once thats done its kind of like "ok, now what?" .... Time to wait :) I'm just looking forward to starting to show and really starting to FEEL pregnant. I hope the time starts moving a little faster!! I'm So excited if you cant tell already. This wasn't a "planned" pregnancy, but exciting none the less. The only thing is that so far I have not yet been to the Obstetrician. Its an interesting story, when I found out that I was pregnant I had been very ill for about two weeks before I had had enough and was so sick that I finally went to the emergency room. They hooked me up to an IV and did blood tests and I found out that I was pregnant and nothing more, I just happened to be one of the lucky few that experience EXTREME symptoms of "morning sickness", which yes starts in the morning but lasts pretty much all day long at least it did for me. In any case the news was surprising and exciting however not being able to afford the crazy expensive health insurance we have these days I have been having to go through the process of applying for medicaid which has been a headache but I am at my last stretch and should be approved any day which means that I finally get to go to the real Dr. to make sure the baby and pregnany is going well, find out my true due date and hear a heartbeat and all the other good exciting stuff. Now the hard part is finding a good Dr. that accepts Medicaid, I have looked a lot online but am having a lot of trouble. I will tell you one thing, its very stressful when its your first time being pregnant and you are clueless on where to go & what to do, but I am sure it will all fall into place:) Goodbye until Tomorrow!... Thank you for reading:)