27 Mar A New Chapter in My Life
Hi everyone!
I’m really sorry about the lack of updates in the last months. Somehow I just didn’t feel like writing much. And then so much has changed in my life as well: Last year in November Tom and me found out that we will be expecting a child.
I was really surprised at first, not that I became pregnant of course XD, because we wanted to have children now and stopped using any birth control in late summer, I already stopped using Evra in late 2012, but since as you might know I was having a pretty hard time and had to take several medicines I had to wait a bit before really starting our plan. But I was kinda surprised – fortunate and happy of course, but somehow surprised that everything worked out within only two months.
My gynecologist told my that it takes around 11 months in average to get pregnant and that I shouldn’t even hope to plan anything. Then my neurologist also told me that in my state back in late 2012, it won’t be even possible to get pregnant, which made me feeling even worse, because I really felt ready to have a baby. I was also 30 years old, and I read everywhere that the fertility rate drops pretty fast after the mother becomes 30.
On the other hand, both of our families seemed to never had any problems on getting pregnant: My mother has 3 kids, my father 5 in total and Tom’s mother has 4 kids. Tom’s family is so big, I don’t even know everyone.
I already used some pregnancy tests before, and except for one that came out invalid, all of them were – of course – negative. So on that day in November 2013 I didn’t have much hope. My period was pretty irregular since I stopped using Evra, and most of the time it took around 4 and a half week, so I didn’t really expect anything when I was already one week over the normal time.
When it showed a positive result, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I woke up Tom and told him about it. We both were very happy. After that I had to wait another 2 weeks until I had the first appointment at my gynecologist. I was pretty terrified at that time to wait for so long (it seemed like an eternity), because I just couldn’t wait for an official result, but they told me on the telephone it would be too small, yet.
So two weeks later I had my first ultrasound (week 6):
Yeah, I know, there isn’t really anything to see yet, but at least I knew that there really was something inside of me and the test was correct. Because we couldn’t really identify anything on that picture, we just called it Schnipselchen (like a snippet), and it became its nickname. Now I had to wait for another month.
The first thing I noticed was that I got more exhausted when climbing stairs or thing like that. I even noticed that while I didn’t even know about the pregnancy. I also felt more tired than before, but that didn’t really bother me much. I also noticed, how my breasts got bigger and for around one month they really hurt, especially while sleeping. Then soon after the first ultrasound in November I started losing my appetite completely. I had to force myself eating a little bit of yoghurt in the morning, and when it was time for lunch break, I just sat there and just couldn’t get myself to think of something that I’d like to eat. Normally I tried to eat at least some rice or noodles with vegetables, but the portions were very small. Anyway I felt happy that I didn’t really feel nauseous (only sometimes in the mornings, if I hadn’t eaten anything yet), but I never had to throw up. Apart from that I really felt well.
Shortly before Christmas I had my second ultrasound (week 11):
This time you could finally recognize that this is indeed a baby. And most importantly a healthy baby. Right after christmas I went to the hospital for the first time for the birth registration. There was some confusion about the birth date of my child, but I got another great ultrasound while I was there:
Over New Year we stayed in Hannover with my family. Around that time my appetite finally (and luckily!) found back to me again. I am still kinda sad, that there are so many delicious things, that I’m not allowed to eat at the moment like sushi, matjes, salami, scrambled eggs and so on. I also try to reduce not so healthy things like Cola, also because of the caffeine. Sometimes it’s really hard. You want to eat fresh and healthy, but then all of the fresh meat, fruits and vegetables and at the supermarket are already moldy, or if they aren’t when you buy them, they surely are on the next day. You shouldn’t eat already processed or raw food so you have to cook, but you shouldn’t use induction cooking as well, because it might be bad for the baby inside of you near the induction field @_@. Sometimes I really feel confused about what to eat now.
The next ultrasound was at the end of January (week 15):
Now you can finally see a real baby. So cute ^___^. Also my doctor told my that it’s really likely that it’s going to be a baby boy. But he couldn’t say it for sure, but even I saw that there was something a girl wouldn’t have ^.~.
Not long after that I got a really bad cold. In fact I had an inflammation of the throat and ears. And I wasn’t allowed to take any medicine, except for homeopathic one, which didn’t help in any way. I felt pretty miserable and weak and was also worried about the baby. I really haven’t been this sick for years… I stayed two weeks at home, but then I finally felt better. I was so happy being able to sleep and go outside again.
It was also around that time when I felt the first kick of my baby, and yes it was a kick or a punch! So you read everywhere, that the first movements feel like a tickle or like butterflies, but not so with my child. At first I wasn’t quite sure, if it is in fact the baby moving (if you never had a baby before, you don’t know what it feels like), it might have also been air in my stomach, but soon I knew that this was in fact really different from what I ever felt before. And yes he’s very active. There are times, where I don’t feel anything at all for a few hours, but especially in the evenings and nights he always likes to party ^,^°.
At the end of February I then had the organ screening at another doctor:
Here you can see one of the small feet!
He’s a thinker, or is it a facepalm? Nevertheless he’s healthy, everything is perfect fine and she also confirmed that it’s going to be a boy.
After that I became sick again >.<. My immune system really isn’t the same anymore, but if everyone around you is sick (and there were a lot of sick people at work), there isn’t really much you can do when you’re pregnant. Now it’s important, that it protects my little baby, but I really didn’t need to have a bronchitis. But fortunately everything is fine again and I can go back to work for the last week before my vacation.
So for now as you can see everything is pretty great and I’m really happy. At first the time was moving really slow, but now I feel like it’s racing and July will be here by tomorrow. And there’s so much left to do. Well, I’ll still have enough time when I have my vacation.
I’ll even have more time for blogging again, at least I’ll try to and tell you more about my daily adventures ^.~. See you next time!