Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s Not a Fake!
So ever since I found out I was pregnant, I have had this sneaking suspition that it’s all a big hoax. First of all, I never got sick. Ever. Well there was this one time when B and I were at the zoo with the Preston clan and we walked through this bird atrium. It’s normally kind of cool, but during this visit, it was being all ghetto and none of the pretty waterfalls were going and it was REALLY stuffy. Oh, and it smelled like bird unrine. Bad. Anyway, I almost woofed my cooks in there, but I booked it out to the zebras and kind of dry-heaved in front of them. But that was the only time. Secondly, I do not feel any different. Especially recently. I’m not overly tired. I’m not “glowing.” Yes, I do have have my moments of HBS, but I’m beginning to think that I’ve always had moments of that, pregnant or not.
There have been a few subtle indications that I’m pregnant however. Like, the 16-year-old style zits that my face has taken a liking to. Or the weird raging headaches I get from time to time. But I could easily just chalk that up be being stressed out. So, needless to say, I was kind of nervous about our upcoming “hear the heartbeat appointment.”
Yesterday, Brandon met me at Dr. Chaplain’s office. We went back and Brandon got to meet the doctor for the first time. I think that went well. Then we asked 498 questions, all of which Dr. Chap answered or at least tried to answer. Then came the blessed event. Using the little doppler wand, the doctor waved it around my belly. At first we couldn’t hear anything. Like for quite a few minutes. Then we picked up my heartbeat. But then. . . all of a sudden. . . wchow wchow wchow. There was definitely something in there.
So anyway, it’s official. Start spreading the news.
Oh! And Brandee requested that I start saying how far along I am each time I post. I’ve decided that this information will go at the bottom. That way if you don’t care, you don’t have to look. See how accomodating I am?
10 weeks
I’m glad it’s official. But also there was this which made me not nervous even when you were:
1) your hips are all jacked up which come from the hormone that makes your whole body loosen up like a marrionette
2) your belly has a tiny brick bulging ball at the bottom of it
3) already your hair is very long and thick like happens when you’re knocked
Still though, I can’t believe you don’t have all the barfing. I mean, I’m glad. For you. But I can’t imagine ’cause of how I was going to die for almost the whole time I was pregnant.
| Posted 2 years, 10 months agoYou did a good job on the heartbeat sound. “Wchow” is exactly right. Also, weren’t you just a little nervous in the moments before they picked it up? I was.
| Posted 2 years, 10 months agoI’m assuming this is just one heartbeat, right? You forgot that important detail.
| Posted 2 years, 10 months agoOnly YOU, my sweet love, could take a topic that I’ve never been remotely interested in (er, that whole “fruitful/multiply/birthing canal/dirty diapers” thing) and make it something I can’t wait to hear/read more about.
I love you. I miss you.
| Posted 2 years, 10 months agoI just realized that you updated your posts in retrospect to reflect your new commitment to including your weeks of pregnant at the end. I very much appreciate that. Thank you.
| Posted 2 years, 10 months ago