Yes, I’m still alive! And still pregnant! 🙂
Thank you so much for all of the wonderfully positive and encouraging comments and emails regarding my pregnancy. I’m going to save a copy for the baby scrapbook. Peanut will enjoy knowing how excited so many people were about his/her anticipated arrival.
It has been fun to tell people. Almost everyone that we called and told has screamed and/or cried. It is humbling to realize how much people care about you and how many have been praying. After you haven’t been able to get pregnant for a long time, you kind of stop discussing it with people and don’t ask people to pray for you like you do earlier on. It is so encouraging to discover people have continued to pray all along.
As you can probably guess by my lack of entries, I haven’t been feeling so hot. I’m not sure how much is the pregnancy and how much is the antibiotic the doctor put me on for an infection. I’m halfway through the medicine and can’t wait to be done. Yuck. I hate taking this stuff. Yesterday while I was on the couch I contemplated the virtues of only having one child and the medical marvel of vasectomies. Ok, well only a tiny bit seriously. Everyone keeps telling me it will get better and it will be worth it all when I hold my baby. I’m not quite there yet, but trusting they are right. It helps that there are tons of cute babies on TV commercials. 🙂
Everything Changes…
Uh, yeah. I don’t know about your antiboiotic situation, but the first three months are uncomfortable. If you’re queasy/nauseated, that can be a good thing actually – especially during that precarious first trimester.
Praising Him for your blessing!
Something no one told me is that it the feelings don’t necessarily kick in the minute you hold the baby, either. (I had a difficult labor, so that might have affected things.) But they do kick in! I think it’s *living* with the baby that does it. I’m just saying this so you won’t, after all this waiting, think, “Why are there no violins playing?” if indeed you don’t hear the music at the moment of birth. It’s okay if you’re not “there” at any given moment.
Carol and Laura –
Thanks for your words of encouragement and experience. I keep trying to remind myself that I’m not “sick” just pregnant. And that not feeling good is a good sign that my body is still doing what it needs to do for the baby to thrive. I can tell myself that mentally, but it doesn’t help physically! 😀
Sallie-
I survived 4 healthy pregnancies but went through 3 months of nausea w/each. Protein helped me a lot. But, w/my 4th baby, ginger saved the day. I was 43 & took natural ginger supplements at night and was amazed to feel “good” in the morning. I carry these with me now when I travel. I even used them while sailing the Aegean Sea in a small vessel several years ago and didn’t have a hint of seasickness. By the way, I had two boys in my twenties, wanted more, but couldn’t conceive again until 40. Our “boys” are 23, 20, 8, 5!We’ve been married 27 years.The last two were long prayed for blessings that we believe God gave us in his perfect time.