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Pregnancy & Baby Index: Pregnancy - Diaries: Kristin
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Kristin - An introduction As a newlywed people often warned me against the 'next step' syndrome; which, by their diagnosis, is when a woman finishes her wedding and the spotlight fades and she automatically begins looking for the next big step in her life...Baby.
Week 10 - First prenatal appointment! Fourth of July weekend was a bit rough, my sinus infection made my nausea so much worse and there was no time of day or night that was safe from the morning sickness fairy. We spent Saturday and Sunday at friends houses and Monday I just lay on the c
Week 11 - Are we there yet? Ahhh, the end of the first trimester. It used to seem like it would never come around and now it is here. Where did the time go? Oh yes, that's right, I spent it puking!
Week 12 - It's a tumor, no it's a baby! I have, this week, officially begun to show! No one else may be able to tell, but it is there, finally, to give me reassurance. I was rinsing my hair in the shower the other night and glanced down at my stomach to see a small protrusion right in the
Week 13 - Stretch it out! Okay, so most of the nausea and terrible vomiting of T1 is fading away, but I am trading one pain for another. Of course I was warned of all the inconveniences of being pregnant but I really believed that somehow, they just wouldn't apply to me.
Week 14 - Porcelain bowl, or crystal ball? It has been a frightening sort of week. Last week I began to feel 'stretching pains', as the midwife fondly calls them. They weren't excruciating, just very uncomfortable, little stabbing pains that moved from the top of my abdomen all the way down i
Week 15 - Stalemate What can I say?.. there isn't a whole lot happening on the pregnancy front. 95% of my nausea has faded with no other new symptoms developing. No real 'cravings' as of yet. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' when I was little and watching her eat pickl
Week 16 - Have a little faith in me After a week and a half of feeling like a child begging her Daddy for the doggie in the window, I finally found out the real reason Colin is so resistant to the idea of homebirth. I've felt like a school girl, bouncing and whining, hoping to at least
Week 17 - Oh my gosh, I think i'm pregnant! Oh my gosh, I think I'm pregnant! No, really! It's as though it all became real this week and suddenly I have so much to do, and read, and plan! This week my 'little bump' became more like a small watermelon and now people can tell that I'm pregnant
Week 22 - Back from La-La Land I should be flogged for having not written for this length of time, but it makes me feel better to know that not a lot has happened in the month or so since my last entry. After quitting my job it has become increasingly difficult to find myself at a
Week 23 - All quiet on the pregnancy front This week's prenatal appointment went smoothly and quickly. The office where my midwife practices requires patients to meet with one of the OBs at some point during the pregnancy and also require the standard glucose test to rule out gestational diab
Week 24: Baby shower and baby names I never thought there could be such a thing as too much PINK, but there is!
Last Saturday was the much anticipated/dreaded baby shower. I had no idea what to expect from my scatterbrained friends and perfectionist mother, so I went without any prec
Week 25: Big bouncy baby booty In the last week I've thought less about the baby and more about my butt.
People's persistent oblivion to the fact that I am pregnant has lead me to conclude that all of the weight I've gained must be going somewhere other than my 'bump'.
Week 6 - The first signs of baby It seems weird that my first meaningful evidence of the life inside of me involves having chicken broth and 7up for breakfast and riding the waves of nausea throughout the day. What better way to announce your presence than to cause vomiting and clam
Week 7 - Shakin' off the haters Before I was pregnant I'll admit that I was still very interested in the entire 'process' and wondered often what it would be like to pregnant and what life was like for pregnant women.
Week 8 - Rip Van Kristin I feel I have slept a thousand years in the past two months. I don't think I have seen the clock hit 9:00PM yet. Not even the most intriguing episode of CSI can convince my eyelids to remain open long enough to find out the killer. My couch, from wha
Week 9 - Happy 4th of July! This is going to sound terrible, and I have yet to hear any other pregnant woman say this, but I'll be honest. I AM TIRED OF BEING PREGNANT! So far it has been all work and no play and the first trimester is a hellish place to be right now.
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