pregnant

Who knew there was so much to being pregnant that people never tell you. they kind of skim over most of it and then when you mention things they are like "Oh yeah...". This is basically a blog on how i am dealing with a first time pregnancy.

let's see...it all started when...

My husband Andy and I decided that after we were married a year we would like to try and start having kids. everyone i knew that was trying to have kids or had kids in the past had tried for a year or more to have them. so in my mind i put myself with those people and thought that this would be a long process. boy, was i wrong! it took us 3 months. that's it i couldn't believe it.

We had just gone back to work after thanksgiving break. i started not feeling well early in the day. it just hit me all of the sudden. I decided that i probably just ate to much over the holiday and it would go away. well, it didn't. i was sick at work so i went home and then i stayed home the next day. I had class that night and had to be there so on the way home i bought 5 pregnancy test from the dollar tree. just cause i was there and they were a buck and it would save me a trip later.

I really did not think that i was pregnant. I was only a few days late and i had taken so many tests every month that i decided i wasn't even going to worry about it anymore. so when i got home i said to andy that i was going to take a test. on the box it tells you to take it in the morning but i didn't care at that point. i figured i had 5 of them so why not take one that night and one in the morning. i did all the steps and waited, and waited, and waited. now one pink line shows up to let you know the test worked and if you are pregnant you will see another pink line. and they said even if it is faint it stills means you are.

after the 3 minutes i thought i saw a line but couldn't believe that i saw a line. I called my sister- in-law who was with me when i bought the tests and told her about it. we talked for a while and she told me to let it sit the whole 10 minutes. so i did. i defiantly saw a line. I ran into the living room to show andy and we both just stared at it for a few minutes. finally i told andy to say something and he said "We need a bigger house." He is a man of few words :) I told him it was to early to worry about all those things.

So i went to bed and during the following week i took the rest of the tests just to make sure. it is true i am pregnant :)

after those first few days my sickness wasn't really bad. i have only gotten physically sick once since then. It just kinda sits in your stomach and you think you would feel better if you got sick but you never do. i can deal with that most of the time.

one thing i wasn't ready for was how tired i would be. i mean this is crazy tired were i am up for a few hours and then want to take a nap. over christmas break it was wonderful because i could just nap through out the day. it is going to be a lot harder when i go back to work and school!

Yes, i am working full time and going to school part time. i am taking 10 credit hours this semester so my days are kinda full. I will have thursday and friday at home though which is good. Summer i might only take one class. my due date is august 7. if i took a class this summer the finals would be at the end of july which would put me at 39 weeks. that would be a problem if i went early. but that is far away still and i am just taking this one day at a time.

so i am 9 weeks and 4 days pregnant and everything is wonderful.