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Apr 10 2013

19 Weeks and Some Change

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Today I am 19 weeks and 2 days along, I am so close to being half way there!  It is crazy to think that on Monday I will be 20 weeks along.  So, what has my journey been like up to this point?

In my last post I explained how we found out we were pregnant a week before Christmas.  We actually took a cheapy pregnancy test first and I after I took it I threw it away thinking it was a negative result.  For some weird reason I decided to look at it again later, yes I took it out of the garbage and looked again, kind of gross I know.  Anyways, there was hardly even a line there and by hardly I mean hardly.  I had to call Jay up and make him look at it to, to make sure I wasn’t crazy for what I was seeing and I wasn’t just imaging what I wanted to see.  The next day we decided it would be a good idea to spend the money on a more expensive digital test.  I went in the bathroom did my thing and came back out with the stick.  Sat it on the counter in the kitchen and we waited.  I couldn’t stop looking at the blinking clock on the digital test.  Jay even made me cover it because I was driving him crazy.  I kept lifting up the paper looking.  It felt like the longest 3 minutes ever.  Then . . .

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I looked at Jay, smiled and said, “I’m not crazy!” haha!  Two weeks leading up to this moment I had been pretty grumpy and wasn’t sleeping well which is very unlike me.  We hugged and held each other.  This moment was different from the first time.  We were both scared.  Reasonably so after what we had been through the time before.  We had that, “This is to good to be true” feeling.  This time around we decided we would only tell a very select few people about the pregnancy until we made it to a certain point.  I did call and tell my  Mom that night, but  I asked her not to say anything till we told who we wanted to tell.  We had dinner at my sisters house that week and the way we decided to let them in on our secret was to have my Parents, Brother, Sister and her boyfriend Luke open up an envelope and inside included a picture of us with our positive test and a message.  We had Jay’s parents open theirs on Christmas Eve when they came over and we also wanted to let my cousin Paul, Amy, Grace and Little Luke know so we gave them theirs when they came early.

The following weeks we were still freaked out.  We had to make it till I was 8 weeks to see the doctor and it seemed like it took forever for that week to come.  Things were definitely  different this time around, much different from the first time.  I experienced extreme fatigue, and I mean extreme to the point of being completely un-motivated.  I didn’t want to do anything but sit on the couch and rest.  To top it off I was really nauseous.  Thankfully not to the point of throwing up everyday, but I did have days where I was sick from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep.  Oh, and this just so happened to be one of the worst cold flu seasons ever!  I was so sick over New Years and I couldn’t take ANYTHING so I was miserable and still freaked out about loosing the baby.  I ended up going to urgent care to get an anti-biotic that was safe for me to take while in my first trimester.  Two weeks after getting over my cold . . . I got the flu.  I was sick for a full week, was even throwing up.  So horrible!

When I hit twelve weeks things were getting better, by 14 weeks I was feeling like ME again!  No more fatigue, no more sickness!

How do I feel now?  I feel awesome!  I am happy, sometimes grumpy (thank you hormones), energized, and just really excited!  I even have my motivation back again.  Jay and I go to the gym every morning when we wake up.  Now that I am way out of my first trimester I am enjoying this pregnancy.  Seeing my baby moving all around and seeing that all her body parts are coming in normal ;) and she is healthy as can be really put my mind at ease.  I do still have some fears, what if my baby comes out retarded, what if something is wrong, what if she isn’t healthy . . . I think it is normal to have those fears.

What are things I crave?  Well, I was already obsessed with Ajo Als Con Queso dip, but now I feel the need to try to get Jay to take me there once a week so I can have it, and that is all I eat for my dinner haha!  I love it that much!  I also crave Sour Punch Straws.  Other than that, I do not have weird cravings.  I do crave Dos Equis beer which sucks because I can’t have it.

We already have the baby’s furniture here and put together in her room.  Dresser, changing table, crib and my Grandad got us a rocking chair.  Oh, and I already had the bedding picked out and my Mom bought me all the bedding and the extra’s I wanted to go with it . . . we get so excited about things it makes it hard to wait!  There is still so much she needs though.  Sometimes it overwhelms me thinking of all the things she needs.

I have my monthly appointment tomorrow, I always look forward to them because I get to hear her heartbeat.  I pray things continue to go smoothly and she continues to stay healthy and normal.

Psalm 139:13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
chels

 

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Apr 5 2013

Well Hello There

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I am excited to be back in the blogger world!  Yeah!  If you want a peek into who, “Jay and Chelsea” are click here to read about us.

We are more than ecstatic to say we are expecting our first child and she, yes she :D ,  is expected to arrive on Labor Day, haha, September 2nd which puts me currently at 18 almost 19 weeks pregnant.  Our journey to this point has not been an easy one, but it is a journey God has been a part of 100% of the way.

Let me explain . . .  In July we found out after 2 years of trying to get pregnant that it had finally happened only to have it taken away shortly after in August when we lost our baby.  It is one of the hardest things that we have ever been through both individually and together as a couple.  Through the experience I realized how “not alone” I was.  There were so many woman that came to me and told me their stories and through that it helped me get through.  It is still hard for Jay and I to talk about.  During the time we were pregnant I was also in a really bad situation at work.  Jay urged me to quit, but I wanted to go out the way I had always planned . . . work up until having the baby and then be done and be a stay at home Mom.  I promised Jay that if anything happened to the baby, I would quit my job.  Well, God had a different plan in mind for us, we lost the baby and I stayed true to my word and I quit my job.  That was a very difficult discussion for me.  I literally had to say, “Okay God, I’m totally freaked out right now, but I know this is what you want me to do, so here we go.”  I did this, trusted him and he has blessed us.

In November Jay and I were both done with our other jobs and put all of our time and effort into building up Everly FIlms.  This is what we feel God intended for us to do all along.  When we actually stopped being stubborn and started to listen to him it was a huge!  Doors started to open up more for projects and then . . . . we got pregnant!  We actually found out we were pregnant a week before Christmas :)   December has always been a very special month to Jay and I.  It is when we had our first date, when we officially became boyfriend and girl friend 7 1/2 years ago, the birthday of our savior and it is also when my parents had their first date.  Now we can add that we found out we were going to have a baby!  Very special.

Looking back now I can see how “His Plan” has been so much better than the plan I had for myself.  When I stopped trying to control everything and I gave it up to him, not only was I less stressed, but all the things we had been praying for started to fall into place.  This has become one of my favorite verses:

Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

I would love to share our experience with pregnancy so far, but I will save that for my next post ;)   Stay tuned.

chels

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Hi! I'm Chelsea! I love God, I am a wife to a hotty, I'm a soon to be Mom, I'm very dedicated to my family and I am obsessed with my dogs. They are my kids!

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