the big announcement (again)
August 9th, 2006 @ 8:36 pm | Comments
Filed Under: pregnancy
I think I’m finally ready to publicly announce what I posted in a private entry the other day. (If you didn’t see it, you either need to register and I’ll have to raise your user level to read hidden posts, or if you’re already registered, sign in, dummy!)
Yes. I am pregnant.
We’ve known this for about a week, but it still hasn’t registered in my brain. I suppose it won’t truly sink in until April (that’s when the little turd, I mean the sweet little angel is due to arrive) when I’m lying in a hospital begging the doctor to MAKE THE PAIN STOP, PLEASE. Then, it might feel more real.
So. Yeah. A baby. A BABY. A little person that we’re going to have to feed and wipe and love and clean up after and change the diapers of and love and burp and kiss and feed. I think I’m still in a bit of shock… it’s not like we weren’t trying for this or anything, but there’s something about seeing the 2 pink lines and going ‘WHOA! Guess we can’t change our minds now!’ This is really happening. !!!!
I won’t even get into the whole ‘I quit my job less than 3 weeks ago, and now HEY! I’m having a baby!’ My timing is just AMAZING.
People have asked me how I am feeling when I tell them the news. At any given moment I will give you a totally different answer. Right now, I feel a bit tired and very bloated, like I drank 6 gallons of pop or something. This morning I felt pretty okay. At WalMart this afternoon, I felt like I could get down on the sticky floor in the office supply aisle and take a nice, long nap. Monday night at 3am, I felt like a menopausal woman when I woke up soaked with sweat from head to toe for no apparent reason. Yesterday morning I felt like I had eaten some bad Mexican food. And pretty much all of the time, it feels like my boobs might explode (TMI?)
What I don’t feel like? Is pregnant. But apparently I am! I keep thinking it’s going to end up like some horrible joke, that I’m an idiot who didn’t read the tests right and I’m just 2 weeks late for my period for some OTHER reason. It’s just a little weird to get my mind around right now. I mean, the little turd is only the size of a sesame seed. A SESAME SEED! That’s like.. tiny! And they tell me it’s going to grow into a baby, a real live human being?!
Maybe it will seem more real when I go to my first doctors appointment (August 29) Until then, I’m just going to keep telling myself that THE TESTS SAID YES!
More posts like this:
- 15 week belly pictures October 21, 2006
- at least we’re not grunting January 12, 2006
- reality September 25, 2006
- can you hear me now? October 9, 2006
- yeah we’re totally ready to be parents. March 26, 2007
August 9th, 2006 @ 8:45 pm
Congrats!!! That’s so exciting!! Oh don’t worry, it will sink in as soon as the morning sickness comes…
Hang in there though. It’s so worth it in the end!! Babies are such a precious gift. I’m so happy for you, even though I don’t know you. :-)
August 9th, 2006 @ 9:43 pm
You know how I feel…..congrats! I’m very happy for you. Just say the word and I’ll be out shopping for you….just waiting for the green light!
August 9th, 2006 @ 9:56 pm
I’m with Pris,-SHOPPING. It’s funny, I had my first appointment with Jaden 6 years ago, on August 29!
I love how you call the little embryo a TURD. It’s so you!
Once when I was preg with Joey, I was barfing and Kovalev the Cat was so concerned she jumped on my back and then Jaden wondered in and announced I was making a mess. Doesn’t that seem like fun!
August 9th, 2006 @ 10:17 pm
wow, congrats!!!! that is super exciting! Can’t wait to hear all about your journey :)
August 9th, 2006 @ 10:39 pm
Congratulations! I’m so happy for both of you. I’ve been reading your website for forever, and I remember when you kept saying it wasn’t the right time to have a baby (or something like that) and now you’re pregnant!
You do have amazing timing too.
August 10th, 2006 @ 12:08 am
Congratulations! :) I feel like such a goober because my session had been logged out and I didn’t even realize the exciting news until you made this public post. How did Dan react when you told him? :D
August 10th, 2006 @ 1:01 am
Again, congrats over and over again. :) You are going to make a great mommy to the little ‘turd.’ He he… :)
August 10th, 2006 @ 7:56 am
I had to laugh when I read this post because it’s pretty much how I felt when I found out I was pregnant. I totally expected to walk in to my first doctor’s appointment and have them tell me I wasn’t pregnant, how could I have thought I was pregnant, and here’s a referral to a good shrink.
But, I really was pregnant. AND SO ARE YOU!!
August 10th, 2006 @ 8:36 am
Congrats!!!!! That’s so exciting!!! :)
August 10th, 2006 @ 10:09 am
Congratulations :)
August 10th, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Little turd *rolls around laughing*. You win at life. :)
August 10th, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
Congratulations!! I don’t know why I keep missing your private posts… I tell it to keep my logged in. :( Oh well - happy times!!
August 10th, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
that’s awesome, congratulations. it’s so true when you dont expect it you get prengnat hehe, i should chill out.
August 10th, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
Congrats, Jen — I’m so happy for ya’ll. God’s timing is always perfect :)
August 10th, 2006 @ 4:31 pm
Congrats Jen! I’ve been reading your websites for YEARS and almost feel like I know you. I’m so happy for you both.
I too log in but haven’t seen any private posts?
August 10th, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
Yeah, I’m just stupid and can’t remember my login in info. No biggie though.
August 10th, 2006 @ 5:32 pm
congrats!
August 10th, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
Congratulations! I’m so happy for you two!
August 10th, 2006 @ 10:53 pm
CONGRATULATIONS!! I am so happy for you. I give everyone who has kids kudo’s. It’s way too much work for me :)
August 12th, 2006 @ 7:47 am
congrats!
August 12th, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
Congratulations! believe it or not i have been reading your blog for years, and was wondering when you were going to have a baby, hehe :)
August 13th, 2006 @ 3:03 pm
HOLY CRAP JEN! That’s AMAZING! Congrats so much!! BIG HUGS!
August 26th, 2006 @ 3:34 pm
Oh my gosh, where have i been?! Congratulations! :)
October 20th, 2006 @ 1:33 am
OHMYGOSH i know i’m SO damn belated on this…i’ve been so caught up in my own little life…but CONGRATULATIONS! how exciting!!! i can’t wait to meet the little (erm) Angel ;)