My first trimester was a good one, nothing to complain about besides some minor discomfort. I never got any morning sickness and most of the other symptoms that are common I never got either. The one change I did feel is that I would get bloated quite often and this was uncomfortable, but luckily those days are over...(or I just got used to the feeling, who knows!). Again, I never got food aversions and my cravings are very mild and not too crazy (mangoes and healthy food). Honestly it has been a pretty easy ride thus far.
So how did I get pregnant? Well...the PG version, Tony and I (actually I did as he had been ready for a long time) decided to get pregnant in June after the birth of my little niece princess Michayla. I realized how I would love my child to grow up with Michayla and the more I waitied, the bigger the age difference. So during our one year anniversary dinner I told Tony that I was ready and we pretty much spent the whole time talking about the idea of having kids and making plans for this change. We were going to wait until September to start, but then we thought maybe, August...no, but that conflicts with....on and on it went. Honestly, there will always be reasons why not to start having kids and so we decided to not let life dictate to use when to start and to just go for it and adapt to the change. And so we did; we had to wait until July to start as June was almoust half way done.
July came around and guess what? Tony got deployed to New Orleans for a month! How were we supposed to get pregnant?!? Luckily his mother had a plane ticket that she decided to give to me so I could go visit Tony in New Orleans (she did not know about my plans to get pregnant). I decided to go during the time I thought I would be fertile, pretty much I was taking a chance but hey, we were on a mission. We had a total of two full days of trying (half of Saturday, all of Sunday and half of Monday)...and no, that is not all we did, we got to explore New Orleans during that time too. it was such a fun trip and we both were on cloud nine. I came home wondering if it was a successful mission and decided to buy my first maternity magazine to read on the plane. Those next few weeks of waiting were driving me insane as i wanted to know am I or am I not?
Then came the day when I tested. I needed to do it together with Tony but since he was in New Orleans we decided that the best way to do it was on Skype using the video camera. He was able to see my reaction and I was able to see his. The first test I took was unclear. I thought I could see an extremely light line but was not sure if I was imagining it or... just was not clear at all. Decided to do it the following day and again, the line was not that clear and I was not sure what it meant. Decided to try another brand to test and again got unclear results. Decided to make my friend who was visiting, Mayra, take the test to see what a real negative looked like. I still did not feel like it was clear enough for me to celebrate (however Tony on the other hand could not hide his emotion and showed it in his face. An hour later he was at Barnes and Noble purchasing his first daddy book, What to Expect for Expecting Fathers). The following day before going to work I decided to do the test one more time, this time it was pretty clear that it was possitive, I was for sure with no doubt pregnant! Now I believed it too. I guess I had done the other tests a little too early to detect the pregnancy hormone.
We decided to share the news with my family the day Tony returned home from New Orleans. I threw him a "surprise" welcome home party and invited the family to come over for lunch. Five minutes after arriving he announced that the suprise was not for him, it was actually for the family as we wanted to announce that we were expecting a little one. I swear, there was silence in the room for a few seconds. No one believed it and they were all confused. They knew that I did not want to get pregnant at all and so they were not even aware that we were trying. After a few seconds we had the first response from my brother who asked, "wait...you are pregnant? really?" and then the cheers began from Lindsey and Vicky after they realized what we had just told them. My mother and mother-in-law in the other hand were in shock! They kind of did not believe us and though we were playing a joke on them. Only time allowed them to believe it but it did not take long, only one day. Anyways, the rest is history. I write too much and have noticed that this post did not escape my many lines...sorry for the length.
Buggie at 7 weeks and 4 days. By the way, Vicky nicknamed the baby Buggie...
Buggie at 11 weeks and 2 days. Look, he/she is giving us the peace sign with his hand, already such a Berkeley baby!
Buggie at 12 weeks and 4 days, this picture is clear because it was done through the ultrasound machine...the one we will be using from now on. The previous pictures were done with another machine. I am so excited, on October 18th I find out the sex of Buggie, I just can't wait!!!!
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