I decided to post these old blogs on here since I initially wrote them on the i-am-pregnant.com website. Since I don't use that website anymore to blog, I wanted to transfer the few blogs I wrote on there while I was pregnant:
11-5-08
I just signed up for this pregnancy blog and have a lot of catching up to do since I will be 17 weeks along tomorrow! I would just like to say that yesterday was a historic day in the US as Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, the first black President ever! I told my husband that our child will always be able to say that the year he/she was born was the year the first Black President came into office. They will always be able to say "when I was born, Barack Obama was the president". This is a pretty amazing event in our country. I am very happy that we can look forward to positive changes in the next 4 years he is in office! I hope the economy will shape up in time for the arrival of our little one in April.
11-22-08 - It's a Girl!
I'm excited to say that we went to my ultrasound appt. yesterday and sure enough, we are having a girl!!!!! We are very excited and look forward to welcoming our daughter in less than 5 months! I guess I should start at the beginning of all this and explain the amazing story of finding out about the pregnancy in the first place! Back in the spring, Matt and I decided that we would try to conceive beginning in July. We ideally wanted a Spring 2009 baby and would be happy for an April, May or June birth, however we would be happy with whatever month our little one would arrive! However, in order to try for a baby in one of the three months we ideally liked, we decided to begin trying in July. I went for blood work just to make sure everything okay back in June. I had also gone off the birth control pill in January 08 just to make sure my body could go back to normal after being on the pill for over 11 years! Sure enough, my blood work came back okay except for high prolactin levels in my pituitary gland in the brain. My OB doctor had me go for an MRI just to rule out any prolactin tumors and to determine if the levels were very high or could be managed with medication. The MRI did not show any tumors but the doctor wanted me to begin a medication, Bromocriptine, to decrease my prolactin levels so that my menstrual cycles could come normally. (My cycles had started to come very irregularly and farther apart each month after I went off the pill and this is when my blood work came back showing the high prolactin levels which is what was causing cycles to become farther apart and sometimes eventually stop altogether!) I went on the medication the day after my birthday, July 14th. The doctor said it would probably take a few months to become normal again with cycles and with ovulation but she said we could go ahead and "try" if we wanted to however she said we probably wouldn't be able to get pregnant until my cycles evened out after being on the med for a while. We still decided to try in July when I thought I was ovulating, and that was that.
Meanwhile, a couple months before all this had happened, my mother-in-law had asked if Matt and I would be interested in going to see a psychic/medium with her and a few other family members in August. She said we would need to get tickets very soon as the medium is very popular and would sell out quickly, especially because this particular "gathering" was limited to only 40 people. We decided to go, it sounded like a fun and interesting experience. The show was scheduled for August, 9, 2008. There were 8 of us that went in our group: me, my husband, my m-i-l, her partner, my husband's aunt, cousin, cousin's father and his fiancee. The medium we were seeing is named John Holland. He is originally from the Boston area, Dorchester to be exact. He is a very gifted and quite funny medium who also has psychic abilities. His main focus during his shows and gatherings is to pass messages to the living from loved ones who have passed on. We got to the show and I thought maybe my grandparents, cousin or friend would come through with a message but I was not getting my hopes up. About a half hour or hour into the show (it was 2.5 hours), John looks right at me and says "I have to ask this, it's just something coming to my mind now, Did the baby come yet?" I was surprised and laughed a little and said no. He then said "Are you trying to get pregnant right now?" I looked at my husband and his family and said "Well, if you must know, yeah!" John said "Are you pregnant?" I laughed and said "Not that I know of!" The audience laughed as well. John finally said "well, you ARE pregnant!" Then "And I'm really sure of it!" He told me to take a pregnancy test bc he was so sure and even asked me to email him to let him know for sure. I was so surprised and a little skeptical! He also came back to me two more times during the show to tell me I am definitely pregnant, he also said "I see that you are going to have a girl, not a boy, it's definitely a girl" and also that my husband would be doing very well at work at the time I am to go on maternity leave and I would be able to take a long leave, probably around a year or so since he'd be doing well enough to support us without my salary!!! I was so happy to hear this news, but again, skeptical and unsure. At the end of the show, people from the audience were coming up to me and saying "Congratulations! What are you going to name her?" It was all very funny and an entertaining night, but now we were very curious to find out if I was indeed pregnant. I mean, we had tried only a couple weeks earlier for the first time, maybe I was???
I wanted to wait until the next morning which was a Sunday, as I had heard that first morning urine sample is always the most accurate for results on a pregnancy test. My husband wanted me to take the test that night after the show, but I insisted we wait til morning. Sunday morning, we ran downstairs and I took a test. Sure enough, two lines appeared on the screen but one of the lines was much fainter and lighter and took longer to appear than the first. We stared at it and was unsure if it really meant I was pregnant. My husband said, well take another test to be sure! I had another brand of pregnancy test also on hand, so I took that one as well. And that one also had two lines show up, again one line much lighter than the first. We looked at each other and could not believe that the medium psychic had been right! We were very happy and excited! We called our parents to tell them! They were SO happy! And we realized that my little issue with prolactin levels had not affected my ability to get pregnant! I had only been on that med for 10 days before we conceived!!!! Just to be really really sure, I still went for a blood test at my OB's office on Monday (day after the pregnancy tests). Sure enough, Tuesday I called the office and the nurse looked up my blood test results and said "Yup, you sure are pregnant!"
Well, here we are 19 weeks into the pregnancy and time for the ultrasound to tell us for sure if we are having that little girl that John had told us we were having. And yesterday we went, and the ultrasonographer confirmed that it's a girl! She showed us the 3 little lines on the screen that show it's a girl (vagina) and also gave us pictures! We have one of her little foot, two of her face looking right at the screen, one of her belly down and of course the one that shows her little private parts! We are hoping that the third part of John's predictions are true as well and I will get to enjoy a nice long maternity leave with my beautiful bundle of joy. Our first child. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
11-22-08 - The past few months
I haven't been keeping up with any weekly or monthly blogs and I want to make sure I have writings to look back on in the future to reminisce about my pregnancy! So I will try to catch up now!
Well, I had absolutely no morning sickness or nausea at all during my first trimester. I am very thankful for that! I didn't have any cravings either! One time I craved homemade vegetable soup and another time fresh chocolate chip cookies but they weren't crazy intense cravings so I wouldn't call them that. Some symptoms I did have during the 1st trimester were very sore, tender, heavy breasts, some stretching in the uterus (that I could feel) that almost felt like period cramps or the feeling you get right before you get your period, and having to pee a lot more often, especially in the middle of the night or very early in the morning! I was also more tired than usual. In my second trimester I am still tired but not so much, and my breasts are no longer sore, although still very big! I did have some bleeding on about 4 occasions during the 1st trimester but not until week 10 and it was on and off for about 2 or 2.5 weeks. Everything was fine and they never told me why I bled, but it's over now, thank goodness!!! It did make me very nervous though! I've had 3 ultrasounds so far, the first was the day I first had bleeding, the second was for my First Screen testing for Downs and trisomy 18 and my third was yesterday where we found out what we are having as well as to get all the measurements done to make sure baby is developing according to schedule. She weighs about 10 ounces now! I can't believe I am half way through my pregnancy already! So crazy! I've really been enjoying the pregnancy and have been excited to feel her moving all around! I first felt movement right around week 15 or 16 and some days I feel it more than others. I can't wait until my husband can feel start to feel the baby move! He's been trying to listen to the heartbeat through a stethescope but hasn't been able to hear it so far. He really wants to though! We've heard the heartbeat on the Doppler at pre-natal appts. several times so far so that's been cool! We first heard it on the Doppler at 9.5 weeks and it was awesome! Well, I will update more later!
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