Every thought under the sun I'm sure every pregnant woman thinks of, I'm sure of it.
When I first found out I was pregnant, so many thoughts ran through my mind. Obviously I was beyond excited, but I didn't initially think of everything that could go wrong, or what exactly I was in store for.
firstly? prenatal vitamins taste AWFUL. All I smelled was fish, and not the good butter covered or fried kind you want. just the smell made my morning sickness 10 times worse. and when I told my OBGYN about it, although it’s been highly contested, he said that there weren’t any tests or studies that proved they caused improvements, so he told me i didn’t have to take them, so I didn’t.
Be prepared for morning sickness. My first thought was ’what‘s too much?’ And honestly it sucks. I was in the hospital at least two times because I was so dehydrated. Keep saltines or a snack you like by your bed with a gatorade, it helps if you eat and drink some before you move around. One thing that helped me amazingly was pedialite pops. they're just popsicles that have electrolytes in them.
miscarriages typically happen within the first three months of pregnancy. when we first found out, we decided to only tell who was needed (family and a couple close friends). But then, after that first trimester we realized we hadn’t been together long so we just kept the whole pregnancy under wraps.
my most common concerns while I was pregnant were the usual i guess you could say. I was worried about weight gain, miscarrying, stress, my mom’s high blood pressure towards the end of all of her pregnancies, etc. but the most important one I would have to say is my bipolar one disorder.
medications are a risk/benefit situation during pregnancy. My doctor personally told me to stay off of my meds until I was out of the first trimester since that’s when the major development happens in the womb. honestly those were the worst three months of my life since I had been diagnosed. blake and I went through the worst time out of our entire relationship while I was unmedicated, leaving us with no option but to go back on my medicine ASAP. afterwards we had told my doctor about everything and he made it VERY important that I was not to go off of them again.
Learn from my mistakes. Don’t stress the little things, stay on your daily medications. Just take care of yourself mentally, physically and emotionally and this should all turn out okay. don‘t care about the weight you’re going to gain, or the stretch marks that you’ll develop, the swollen ankles/feet or the cravings. You’re bringing a life into the world, focus on that and the love you're going to show to him/her every day for the rest of their lives.
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