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What I least expected with this pregnancy was:
The strangeness of it all. Here I am at 17 weeks and I still have the strange appetite I'm not accustomed too. I eat better and I try to eat what I can but STILL I'm only eating half of what I used to! Still, the baby is healthy, I take my prenatal, and I try to get in the vegetable,whole grain, milk, fish and other essentials I need instead of just trying to eat. My cravings are strange. I always thought I'd crave pickles, but I want mashed potatoes and gravy with Fanta most of the time.
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The best bit of advice I've received is:
Just to take it easy, take care of myself and still go out and live my life. Especially in the second trimester where it doesn't take too much to make me dizzy anymore.
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What has changed the most in my life with this pregnancy is:
COURAGE! I have a fear of needles. (No I don't mean I don't like them, I mean I've had to have therapy to deal with my phobia.) The longer time goes by and I don't have to face my fears, the worse it will get. Well NOW I've gone through a blood test and a diabetes test (Poked 4 times in three hours.) and I have to take another one at 28 weeks! Yes, courage definitely. I do it all for the baby and I'll do it all again for her/him.
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What made me realize that I was really pregnant was:
I knew beforehand, but I didn't know KNOW. Crying in the backyard because I was hungry and I really wanted to eat EARLY and a LOT and for some reason my caged puppy's (Little stinker still had trouble with potty training sometimes) cries for help were getting to me and I just felt...yeah, I sort of knew then but I knew for sure when I first got that positive test result that very next morning.
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This month's ultrasound was:
I didn't get a second ultrasound yet. The first one went pretty well but I REALLY had to pee and the lady was late! I almost had to cancel the appointment I couldn't hold it much longer.
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At my prenatal visit this month I discovered that:
It was for once nothing BIG. No shots, no nothing! Just a simple checkup. YEAH!
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My hopes:
That everything turns out alright for both of us.
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My fears:
I am a candidate for gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes does run in my family but so far I've been fine and I will take the second test at 28 weeks.
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