I know it has been quite a while since I last blogged, but let me explain. :)
On Friday afternoon of October 15th, while Adam was at work, I decided to go to the store and buy a pregnancy test being that my period was due that day and I just had a feeling. I didn't tell a soul. I just got up, left, bought 2 tests, came home, took the first one. Positive. At this point I think I was shaking with nerves and excitement. I just could never picture what a positive pregnancy test would look like after I took it. Let me say this. In all my years, I always thought about how I would tell my husband once I found out I was pregnant and also how I would tell my parents. I figured, O, when it happens I will give Adam some special little gift when the time is right and the same for my parents. WRONG. I couldn't dial Adam's number fast enough! I thought if I had to hold that in for 5 more hours until he got home from work, I might go crazy. He answered. I said: "What are you doing?" "Working", he said. "Well....I am pregnant". "No you aren't", he said. "Promise Adam, I just took a test"! "Take another one!", he said "then take a picture of it and text it to me and I will call you right back"! So I did it. and when I called to see if he had gotten it he was already on his way home. I grabbed the camera and ran the front porch. I wanted to capture his excitement but since he cried most of the way home with happiness he had more of a solemn look than I was expecting. hehe!
We hugged and cried and laughed and smiled and stared at these tiny little things for an hour!
Then we debated when to tell our parents....after about 2 minutes we decided it's time! :) So we did! That was such a fun call! We celebrated that night at dinner and went to buy our first book What to Expect when you're Expecting. The whole day was such a wonderful experience!
Exactly 1 week later, the next Friday, I woke up not feeling good at all but went about my business for the next few days. By Monday, I couldn't do a thing but lay in the bed. Early in the morning on Tuesday I started what little did we know was going to be 2 months of VOMITING-all...day...long...and even into the night...Around 8 or 9 (sometimes more) times a day. Now don't get me wrong, I know that PLENTY of pregnant women deal with this everyday, but I just don't know how? I only left my house a handful of times in 8 weeks and pretty much cried most of every day. The event of the day for me was making it from the bed to the couch. Luckily my SUPERMOM knew I would one day want to look back on this and she snapped a picture every now and then.
My wonderful mom would come up weeks at a time and help me do things that I could not even do myself. Such as bathe and wash my hair. She would bring me nice new pajamas to wear (she couldn't stand seeing me in the rags I was wearing all day), would wash,dry, brush and roll my hair so I would look halfway decent every now and then. I did not feel decent.
The weekend before Thanksgiving I was admitted to the hospital for severe dehydration, but in my mind, I was going because I was on the verge of crazy and needed help. You can only take so much and then it's just something that has to be turned over to the Lord because I could not do it anymore. The IV's helped temporarily and I immediately felt better after an hour of them. When I returned home, the nausea and vomiting returned. It eventually ended, though I was afraid it never would.
Now we are almost 16 weeks preggo and feeling great (most of the time). We will be finding out the sex of the baby in two and half weeks and I am so excited!!! We had an appt. today and the heartbeat was in the 150's... Wonder if its a girl or boy?? The better question is, I wonder if we will be buying pink uggs or blue?! :)
Be back soon!
Courtney
