Boy am I glad to see the first trimester end. Happy trails to you first trimester - I will not miss you. The subchorionic hematoma (the technical term for the blood clot) went away right at my 12 week ultrasound, so I graduated from my IVF doctor and was sent on my happy way to my OB. Also, with the death of the blood clot, I am free to resume life and enjoy this pregnancy (hardy har har) so I am back at work and I even travelled last week.
Speaking of enjoying the pregnancy (heehee), I sure don't like it. I know that I have wanted this for so long (no I haven't forgotten) and I should be eternally grateful for the opportunity to become a mother (and I am), but I can't say that pregnancy agrees with me.
My list of complaints starts and ends with morning sickness. I've had a couple of other pregnancy inconveniences, but they aren't worth complaining about, and without the morning sickness I think I could have had a complaint free first trimester. However, the morning sickness ruined my every day and I am desperate for it to be behind me for good. For the last week or two I have had some temporary respites from the sickness, but it always comes back. Today is a "comeback" day, a reminder that I am not out of the woods yet. For most (those who actually suffered from morning sickness, most women I know were miraculously spared from it), the nausea goes away by week 14, which means I'm just 1 week and 3 days away from spontaneous and total healing. Since I've noticed it easing up on some days, I am optimistic that the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger and brighter with every day that passes. I refuse to believe that I could be one of those cursed women who experience the morning sickness throughout the full 40 weeks.
I mentioned to one of my friends that pregnancy is similar to pledgeship. Morning sickness is just another act of hazing. When asked how I was feeling I replied with "Just beat me with an ax handle and get it over with."
To devote two whole paragraphs to complaining about the morning sickness might sound extreme, but I've devoted two whole months to complaining to my husband about it, so maybe you can count yourself lucky to be a reader and not a listener. You can skim down past this part, after all.
Today my pregnancy is aged 13 weeks and 3 days, which means I'm officially into the 2nd trimester and it's time to start getting things done to prepare for these bundles of joy. Our first task to prepare is to plan our last vacation together, pre-babies. We did some internet research on Friday but haven't made any decisions yet. We'll probably do a cruise or all-inclusive vacation somewhere. I anticipate I'll need access to food on a 24-hour basis so both those vacations will cater to me nicely. We're not sure how late into the pregnancy I'll be given the all clear for travel, so I'm hoping we can get in a vacation in June. Plus, Forrest deserves a vacation for putting up with me. He has been nothing short of an angel and I don't deserve him. He even got me flowers for Mother's Day. He deserves the Medal of Honor (and possibly even a purple heart - yikes!) for his efforts in keeping me happy.
Our second pregnancy task was registering, which I have started today. I put in about 6 hours of online registering and I'm pretty proud of the list I have so far. Of course, once Forrest and Liah get their hands on it I'm sure it'll get sliced and diced and will become unrecognizable from its original form. However, it's a start and it's a lot easier for them to edit an existing list than start from scratch, so my efforts today won't be in vain. I decided to forego the Babies R Us registries since that store is expensive. In lieu of the monopolistic retailer, I chose Amazon.com. They have everything that I will need and they seem to ask a little less for each item than BRUs, so hopefully I won't get any complaints that there's no actual brick and mortar store to shop at.
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