Our Little Scare-Early Pregnancy

Overview of Weeks 5-11
Being pregnant this first trimester has gone a lot differently than I ever imagined. I thought the sickness and all of that happened early on and was over within a week or two. Before I complain though, let me first say that really I am overjoyed to have this experience!
So, I didn't know losing weight was an option and secondly, who knew feeling exhausted started so soon.  During my 6th week, I couldn't eat anything but apple sauce and jello. Even those two items hurt my stomach and well water, OUT of the question. I later found out that I was taking multivitamins that irritated my stomach so it helped when I later switched. After week 7, and a prescription of Zofran from my doctor, my symptoms weren't 'terrible' (aka didn't feel like the flu anymore) and included cramping week 5 and 6, heartburn, feeling full after two bites, and nausea either at night or during the evening. I was told by my doctor that cramping is usual and it means the uterus is growing, in case any pregnant girls still early on wanted to know ;) i read so many blogs when everything was still too early to make things obvious by asking new mothers questions. By the way, the term 'morning sickness' needs to really renamed "all friggin day gag me" because it hits at different and in spurts throughout the day.

Week 6-Our Little Scare
I'm glad my husband was so excited about telling everyone our great news! He told a lot of his good friends almost the day after we found out, hehe. I was told by my mom about the etiquette so I refrained from sharing as much as I could. It wasn't until after our little scary experience, however, that I really came to understand why people wait to say something...

I woke up on week 6, day 5, also on a Monday, with a little cramping but nothing major. My back didn't hurt and I wasn't dizzy but none the less, the cramping was still there and kept me a little worried. I soon found what sort of looked like a miscarraige. I cried with Jarrod along side me who comforted me by saying it may not be a miscarriage. We opted to go to the doctor but because I wasn't 8 weeks yet, we tried a minor ER center this time and they were fortunately open and very helpful. I arrived at the ER, told them my symptoms and within an hour, they had an ultrasound technician ready for me and had my blood HCP levels back. Jarrod came in time to hear the baby's heartbeat and everything indicated the baby was doing fine! The problems was that the placenta sack tore a little from my uterus, also called a hemmorhage. To prevent further tear, the doctor at the ER and later, my obgyn, told me NO RUNNING and no working out until I get farther along, as long as it's healed. Since week 6, I have been such a good girl and have not run! To most, that would be simple but I love to go for a run so that's been a little hard. I can't complain though because I have a new little life inside me!


Since week 6:

Weight gain: -6 lbs

Highlights: telling family around week 8 after my sisters bridal shower :) my aunts and grandma teared up which was special to me, as I'm definitely more emotional, easy cry target ;)

Symptoms: stomach tightness, nausea, smells stronger, cry-able (I'm talking tear up at a pretty song on the radio), more aggressive, especially about this election. All of a sudden, I've become passionate about politics? Also, speaking my mind has become a little too easy...? Speaking of my mind, pregnancy brain made its debut when I locked my keys in my car AND then spent the next hour in the parking garage underneath my car. I attempted to find the spare key that Jarrod placed under my car, yeah under. Still a sweetie though, love you babe! I finally found the key but too bad Jarrod was almost halfway to where I was (I worked an hour from where we live). So sweet of him! Haha :/

Gender: I think it might be a boy, based on my new interest in politics and oh yah, sports!

Surprise Surprise!

Anniversary!

It was our wedding anniversary week so Jarrod and I celebrated at hotel ZaZa, where we got engaged. We decided to nix on gifts because we just bought a house and I’m not a fan of giving gifts on an anniversary right now. I think it takes away from the meaning, and that is our relationship. For the big mega marks, yah I’d appreciate some jewelry to symbolize our love and commitment ;) For most anniversaries though, I told Jarrod I want the best card ever written and a really fun date. So, Jarrod complied and wrote me by far the sweetest card he’s ever written and with that we had a wonderful date at Hotel ZaZa. Anytime Jarrod does something heartfelt, however, he always has to counter it with something funny, which I love of course. So naturally, on the back of the card he writes “Well, it’s been a year already. When we having babies?!.” I think he may have been prompted to write that as I had just taken a Walmart brand early pregnancy test. I had a weird fainting spell two weeks prior and thought that maybe it was a sign I was pregnant. The two pregnancy tests that I took from that were negative, so I tossed the idea out of my mind and stopped worrying. By the time ‘the time of the month’ was supposed to roll around, I thought nothing of it at first as again, I just had verification that I was not. So, my little mind was put at ease. Then, three days went by and still nothing. I’m very regular and have always been consistent once I got to college. I started to stress again so as always, my solution is to go buy a pregnancy test and find out so I can stop worrying. I also don’t like anticipating or guessing outcomes. When I want to know, I’ll find out dangit!

Walgreens trip

Fortunately, I worked, at the time, down the road from a Walgreens. During my lunch break, I thus decided to take a little trip there. I knew Jarrod would eventually find out that I had yet again bought a pregnancy test so I pondered getting cash from the atm. I never did get cash though and just bought the test, super awkwardly I might add from the cashier lady who couldn’t get her scanner to work. I didn’t want to take the test at work, because well yah, that’s awkward, so I took it in the Walgreens bathroom. Within 2 seconds I saw two lines. There it was, two lines and holy crap what does that mean? I thought “Oh, ok it’s two lines, it’s positive, it’s positive, it’s positive, holy cow I’m pregnant!!!. AHHH!” I just sat there stunned for a while then relieved to know I could get pregnant, as that was a worry since I’d been told I have endometriosis. Who knows if that diagnosis was accurate though, hm. Anyway, I felt a sense of warmth knowing there was a little baby inside me. I’d never thought about what it would be like to find out you're carrying a new life inside you. It was a very specfial feeling to say the least. Unforunately, terrifying thoughts did start to enter my mind after feeling blessed. I honestly had no clue what I was supposed to do next or even how we were supposed to raise a person, human being, baby, teenager, ah! I freaked, obviously, so  I immediately went to the vitamins isle. I just sat on the floor stunned, while trying to pick out vitamins for the next 10 minutes.

The big news

It later donned on me that I should probably tell Jarrod. I can’t keep secrets for the life of me, so I didn’t want to wait and called the poor thing at work. I wish I’d told him in person now but my brain wasn’t really working at that time. So, I called the branch number and his relationship teller answered the phone. She really is the sweetest person and asked all how I was doing, how work was etc. It was so hard to not say, “Oh, yah, I’m good and pregnant!” Jarrod answered the phone about three minutes into our conversation so his worker politely hung up the phone. First, I asked him if the call was recorded. After he clarified that it wasn’t, I did a Jarrod and just blurted out that I went to Walgreens, took a test and it’s positive, so, I’m Pregnant! Jarrod’s initial response was “OMG, you’re kidding, you’re kidding?”. Me-“no, I’m not kidding babe”. Jarrod-“Are you serious, are YOU serious, are you SERIOUS, ARE YOU SERIOUS?”. He said ‘are you serious’ in just about as many possible ways as he could. He was shocked to say the least. The positive fluctuation in his voice let me know he was at least excited though J

Mom’s intuition

As I’m in the parking lot, about to leave Walgreens, my mom calls. Of course she’s calling now, I thought. So, I answered the phone and blurted out that I was pregnant. I didn’t know you were supposed to wait to tell parents until after you’re at least 8 weeks. Ha! My mom would definitely pick up something was up a day into pregnancy so regardless of me not knowing the rule, I think that worked out for the best. Her response was “Well, is this good news”? HAHA! She remembers how freaked out she was when she found out she was pregnant with me so it’s hilarious to me that was the first question out of her mouth. I laughed and said “Well, of course it’s good news, but I’m freaking out! I didn’t plan for this to happen until a couple years from now. I can’t take care of myself right now so how am I supposed to take care of another human? Also, what do I do now? Do I call the doctor, what vitamins do I take, when should I feel sick? AHHH!”. Needless to say, I asked her all the questions that had been running through my mind in one breath as I was definitely freaking at this point. She eventually had my sister join in on the call and answer some of my immediate questions. Kathryn had just completed her first rotation with the obygn so she’d seen a couple pregnant women at that point.

Despite being scared out of our minds, Jarrod and I feel so blessed to have this very loved surprise. We've already started to clear out the closet and are thinking of decorating ideas!!! Can't wait to find out whether it's a boy or girl!!