So one day I finally decided I was ready to have a kid. After watching my one year old nephew play at the bottom of the stairs at my house, he was just so cute that I thought, "yeah, I'm okay with having my own."
It's funny how things work out. Even though I was ready, I guess Mother Nature wasn't. After 6 months of trying and not getting pregnant, I went to see my obgyn to see what was going on. Apparently, 6 months isn't long at all. Some couples tried for years before they got pregnant. So my doc said keep trying the natural way and if in 6 more months we still weren't pregnant, we could begin discussing ... stuff.
Then I finally went and bought an ovulation kit and ta-da, we got pregnant in the 7th month.
And a week after the first pregnancy test showed positive, I took another one just to make sure.
And then it hit me. Oh crap, I'm really pregnant. There's no going back now.
It was the beginning of something crazy and almost unreal. Let's just say for now that pregnancy was a huge eye opener for me.
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first tri - anti social didnt want to discuss w/ other mother to bes. nausea. sciatic
second tri - honeymoon tri...
third tri - felt huge. tired. acid reflux. cant sleep on back
labor & delivery - oh crap she's coming. focus focus. breathe. hit due date, stripped membrane, water broke that night, dilated slow. 8am given pitocin. 11:30 request epi. 12:15 got epi. 8pm almost c sec if didn't dilate more. 9pm, dilated enough it's a go for natural. puuuuush puuush. head's a little sideways so she would come out a little and then go back in. then finally she's out. then the placenta. then they knead the stomach
l&d recovery - painful to sit, tons of bleeding, 3-4 wk to recover and stop bleeding
nursing - first 2 days not bad. then the cracked and bleeding nipples. hurts enough to make me tear up and have to do labor breathing exercises.
uti
flu
mastitis
milk blister
sleep - having ellie... life is not the same. pre-ellie life seems so long ago even though it's only been 10 wks. sleep deprivation.. but your body adjusts eventually.
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