but, i was always thinking about what i would write if i was to start a blog, and felt like i had some good stories to share. i even started a list of things to blog about so i could remember them as they happened. i'm gonna see if i can find it now...wow, it's quite a list so i think i'll just share it here to get you up to speed.
here is what happened the first three months of pregnancy:
- 10/18
- third times a charm - taking the test for the third time
- first reactions: shock, tears, doubt, it was supposed to be february!
- immediate mommy/baby mode: whole foods for vitamins, babysafe products, books, etc
- 10/19
- at work, cant think, secretly looking up prego websites
- 10/20
- doc's test, blood test
- therapist meeting
- yoga class: love, gratitude
- 10/22
- the biscuit
- spooning, david's hand on belly, love
- 10/23
- pos preg blood test
- calling possible OBs, CNM, etc
- only preg friend calls crying about her ultrasound, breech posish baby, needs csection.
- 10/23
- going out with friends/fake drinking
- 10/25
- gorgeous day
- walk to dolores park
- late afternoon lunch at cool resty with large open windows
- VIRGIN bloody mary - first ever
- scheming creative announcement ideas
- 10/26
- worked over time.
- kids are expensivo!
- my pee is bright neon yellow/green from the vitamins
- 10/27
- called in sick to clinic volunteering
- researched more OBs, extremely frustrating
- cried at therapist office
- davids out of town
- missed yoga because lost wallet at grocery store
- prego brain?
- made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
- 10/28
- work, really sick kid
- david comes home, hes got the flu
- make chicken and veg soup for sick hubs
- 10/29
- work, same really sick kid. care conference. sad.
- trivioke party planning committee
- 10/30
- got up early for clinic volunteering
- left to return in afternoon for vaccine shots
- slept alllll day
- gave out vaccines to a mil prego women, kids and homeless peeps
- got a vaccine myself and told Sr. Kathleen i'm preggers bc she had to give me the 'correct' vaccine
- 10/31
- more vaccinations in the morn
- football watching/halloween celebration = more fake drinking with friends
- 11/1
- enjoyed the extra hour of sleep
- took first belly pic
- bestie sent an email that she thinks shes preggers. oh my! what if?
- slept alllll day
- felt dizzy, horrible nausea, forced down a banana
- made easy mac, ate chick fingers from wholfies
- watched bye bye birdie, sang along
- 11/3
- is this what they mean by morning sickness
- something is wrong with me
- total disbelief
- looking up prozac withdrawal symptoms
- worst headache ever
- do i have the flu david had last week?
- 11/4
- gun shot wound patient
- worst smell of my life changing C-collar
- emergency ginger snaps delivered by hubs
- only thing i can eat
- 11/6
- first doc appointment
- possible delayed ovulation bc of neg tests
- scheduled a dating ultra sound for next week
- np was kind of annoying, disappointing
- 11/9
- purposefully turned phone off because didnt want a 5am wake up call for overtime
- turns out i was supposed to work today! whoops!
- people have been calling me frantic since 7am
- i wake up casually at 930
- end up working from 11-7
- dont go to book club bc exhausted and worried about fake drinking wine
- 11/10
- this must be morning sickness
- feel awful
- cant eat
- worst never-ending hangover feeling
- looking up home remedies online, none work
- 11/11
- call in sick, cant get out of bed
- shelley, 39 weeks pregs, comes over
- cry to her that im pregnant and feel awful
- call doc, get otc med unisom
- sleeeeeeepppp
- 11/13
- ultrasound
- wasnt prepared for the intravaginal ultrasound, thought it was over the tummy!
- forgot everything when that little peanut showed up
- couldnt breathe when i heard the heartbeat. tears.
- baby is 7 weeks, 6 days. due date is june 26.
- 11/15
- sick sick sick sick sick
- 11/17
- shelley and chris welcome joseph liam, healthy baby boy
- 11/18
- call doc again for something else, nothing is helping
- get rx for reglan
- 11/20
- at work
- projectile vomitting all day
- cant keep anything down
- awful!!!
- doc says to go to ER
- get iv zofran and fluids
- 11/21
- call in sick
- fake thanksgiving
- fake drinking
- wear pajamas/sweats all day. nothing new!
- 11/24
- dentist appt
- no cavitites!
- need to floss more
- 11/25
- doubling my zofran dose
- not really helping
- never felt worse in my life
- people at work are wondering what is wrong with me
- 11/26
- real thanksgiving
- work
- red-eye flight to boston, then montreal
- david and i fight at airport. high anxiety.
- david's put up with a lot of my bullshit these past few weeks
- 11/27
- arrive in montreal
- haven't pooed in 7 days.
- not feeling well
- announce news to yeagers - picture contest
- 11/28
- poo status is reaching emergency levels
- haven't pooed in 8 days
- feel extremely bloated and cant move
- talk to french pharmacist, in french
- prune juice, epsolm salt, suppositories, enema, HOrRibLE!
- hide out in room/bathroom for most of day
- can barely eat thanksgiving meal
- 12/3
- more poo issues
- crying on bathroom floor
- how am i going to deliver a baby if i cant even get this shit out??
- 12/11
- dr appointment
- hear heart beat on doppler
- get miralax for constipation
- talk about restarting prozac
- 12/11
- karen and jesse's holiday party
- big reveal to friends
- 12/12
- craft time with david
- baby daddy and pregs sweatshirts
- threw chicken sandwich at husband, not on accident.
- there was mustard on the sandwich
- i hate mustard
- cry in bedroom
- seriously consider restarting prozac. yikes!
- 12/12
- big reveal again to more friends at christmas parties
- stayed out til 2am
- haven't been out that late in months, seems like years
- 12/16
- 12 week ultrasound
- baby is constantly moving and doing somersaults in my belly!
- 12/19
- christmas activity in sf
- symphony choral christmas spectacular!
- barf during intermission in extremely crowded bathroom
- feel need to explain to everyone that i'm pregnant and not bulimic
- 12/20
- sick sick sick sick sick
- convinced i will never feel normal again
- how can one feel this tired?
- slow slow at work
- charge let me rest for an hour. angel!
- 12/23
- christmas with david
- exchange presents
- listening to christmas music nonstop
- 12/24
- christmas eve
- travel to chicago
- so nervous to tell family
- announcement video
- 12/25
- tell dad. he cries.
- great christmas day with family
- cooking
- singing and dancing
- trivial pursuit, girls win!
- 12/26
- visit friends to tell the news
- laura and meghann are pregnant too! knew it!
- crazy all day snowing in chicago. gorge.
- 12/28
- lunch with mom
- 'be prepared for a big baby'
- 12/30
- knitting store
- anxiety over color
- get pink and will make two if needed
- 12/31
- new years eve
- work!
- come home, make pasta, start knitting blanket
- asleep by 930pm
- 1/1
- happy new year!
- cancelled from work
- new years resolution: have a baby!
- and start blog
thanks for reading and sharing!
2 comments:
i feel terrible that you were this sick and i didn't know about it! poor thing!
Holy cow! We had the same due date! (But a year apart and he came a month early!)
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