WOW . . . My husband and I are pregnant! I still can't believe it. I have written a couple of "trying to conceive" journals, and I dreamed of the day when I would finally be able to write a journal about my pregnancy. I suppose now is the time! I'm so overjoyed, but at the same time a bit skeptical since we went through so much just one year ago.
First I have to say what a miracle it is that we conceived exactly one year later from the first time we conceived. We were married in Hawaii and I believe we conceived in San Francisco on the last part of our honeymoon in July '08. My first pregnancy ended in an ectopic pregnancy that almost cost my life two months after we were married. Well this year we went to San Francisco right after our one year anniversary and guess what??? Yup, we conceived again. I suppose San Francisco and the month of July is the magical place and month for us, especially since we've been trying since December '08.
Now I'm starting my 11th week. I just can't believe it. My hubby is so excited and has now named the baby peanut! We have had many doctor's appointments to confirm this is not another ectopic and one scare in the hospital. Turned out I had a really bad kidney infection and while there they confirmed I had a good pregnancy. I was only 4 1/2 weeks at the time, but they got a great picture. The nurse doing the ultrasound said she wasn't able to print out any pictures, but doing this job for 25 years and learning about my previous pregnancy she couldn't abide by the rules. She couldn't help herself and right there she printed out peanut's first picture. So looking back it's now funny to me that we were really trying to hide this picture from the ER Doctor so that she wouldn't get in trouble. That's a memory I won't forget!
So moving on to morning sickness or should I say all day sickness is so awful. WOW I never thought I could feel so terrible. I was off of work for about three weeks since I was so sick I couldn't really do anything. My doctor put me on some medication and that didn't do anything, so they doubled the milligrams and it seems to be working a little. I still have days were I just can't get off the couch for fear I will fall off the face of the Earth. My hubby has been awesome; he takes such good care of peanut and me. He goes and gets me what ever it is I'm craving and I'm just so thankful he are experiencing this wonderful journey together.
So now we will make our predictions . . . we both feel really strongly that we will have a boy. I just can't wait to find out, boy or girl it doesn't matter. I only wish for a healthy baby.
Thank you for joining me on the journey and for allowing me to share my experience. I've been an avid StorkNet reader for about 7 years, and I just can't believe that it's my turn to write a journal. It's really exciting!
~Loni
