Introduction

At the suggestion of my sister Carmel, I have decided to start a baby blog. I am very excited to be pregnant, so it will be neat to have access to ME while I was pregnant. Really though right now I barely feel anything. I am about 9 weeks along and have had no morning sickness. My mom said she didn't either, so I am feeling pretty good about that. I feel really tired alot, but I work two jobs and have felt tired for a while; so this is not really a new feeling. I feel some period-like feelings, not cramps necessarily, but stuff going on in there. I usually feel like I'll go to the bathroom and find the biggest period ever.

My first doctor visit was last Tuesday. She came to the same conclusion Adam and I did and thought we were about 8 weeks along. I got strep throat while visiting my family in late April/early May and of course was prescribed antibiotics. Decided I was allergic to batch one on day 6 or 7 of meds and was told to stop taking and given nothing new. I got strep again the next week and was given new meds. So this miracle I get to expirence is thanks to me getting sick. I think it was a push for me. I have always told Adam if he wasn't ready for kids by the time I was 25, I was going to make the decision to leave. I wanted to be a mom and respected his not wanting kids just couldn't compromise my own dream and calling. So now I am pregnant, turn 25 in November and Adam is excited! It's all feeling really good right now. I have support from him, my family and his. I feel very good. Want to be closer to my family, not sure how to solve that problem yet, we will just have to visit more often.

Life right now is a hustle to get all individual ducks in a row asap, so the next few months can be spent getting all baby ducks in a row. We are working to finish the house. That is taking time, but Adam works nearly everynight after work on it, so I see progress getting made so fast. I'm still trying to decide on school this semester. I want to go back so bad, but I also need income. Hope to get all of that resolved in the coming weeks.

I really just can't believe this is real. I feel so good and so normal. I changed my way of eating probably 6 or so weeks ago, with a nagging feeling I wanted to starting probably around Easter. Now all the positive changes I am seeing, I don't know which to relate it to, the pregnancy or new habits. I hardly sweat anymore and have almost no B.O.; I used to be so sweaty, I would only wear tank tops due to constant armpit wetness that embarrassed me. At the beginning of the warm weather, my skin became oily which it always does. My facial oil level has seriouslcy reduced. I don't shine and produce oil nearly as much as I did just a couple months ago. I have been expiramenting with skincare too, but as a whole, on the days I do nothing with my face, I am not the greasepit I used to be. It is uncanny. Anyone expirence this during pregnancy? I want to know about what others have expirenced. I have always been curious, but never knew what to ask or even what to look for. Now, I feel like I have new questions daily.