I can still remember the day I found out that I was pregnant. I guess I should say the morning...

The night before I was telling my husband that I was one day late for my period, which that isn't that bad. But my husband made the comment saying that I was pregnant. Me, I doubted it. Just because I was a day late didn't mean anything yet! I thought it would be too early to take a test. 

Sure enough the next morning I wanted to take a pregnancy test. My husband wasn't up yet so as soon as I saw the faint second line, what do you think I did? I snapped a picture to my friends! HA. I know, not what I thought I would have done. Now, why did I send to them first? Well all of them have had kid(s) and taken pregnancy tests before. Me? I have never. So I had to ask them if I was seeing things! 

After them confirming to seeing a faint line, I was ecstatic and woke up my husband with a pregnancy test in his face! We had our first positive pregnancy test! This also meant, the nerves started to go crazy. Had to call the doctor to make an appointment, make sure I had prenatal vitamins, get enough sleep, and not stress out! 

I got my first positive pregnancy test on September 15th, 2023. We had our first doctor appoint on October 6th to confirm that I was pregnant. Then we had out first ultrasound on October 10th and we we so excited to see our baby. However, before we got to see our baby, the tech showed us that I had an cyst on one of my ovaries. This was not how we wanted to start our appointment. After she showed us the cyst, she moved to show up our tiny little embryo. Now, this should have been a sweet and joyful moment. However my husband and I were so worried and scared what the cyst meant. Obviously the tech did not share any information on what that meant and what could happen. So my husband and I were left with so many questions and negative thoughts in our minds. We were so quiet while we waited on the doctor to come in. 

When we finally got to talk to the doctor, he assured us that the cyst is nothing to be concerned about right now. That it can go away or shrink on its own. That it would be something to watch and check on at our next ultrasound appointment. 

Other news, our baby was measuring 7W4D, which was about a week off than we thought. We had a sweet little baby growing. Such a special moment for us that we got to see our baby 5 days before our second year wedding anniversary.

We go to see our baby less than a month later, on November 6th. By this point, I was having so many food aversions. I could not stand chicken! And this is a lot for me to say! I am a primarily chicken eater. I began to not want much meat, I do not know how my husband and I even ate during this time. I was craving sweets so much and that was want I ate a lot of, and bread! 

I just became a mom recently. 

Our baby girl came into the world in May 2024. Ever since then, our lives have changed for the best thing ever. My husband and I are both teachers, so we were able to spend our entire summer break together spending time with our new born and learning how to doing this thing called "Parenthood". 

Since I have this outlook I can use, I want to share my new title, "Mom" with who ever reads.

Birth Story Time: 

At 33 weeks pregnant, we were informed that our baby girl was Frank Breech, which means she was still head up and feet were sticking straight up. Which this meant, unless she flipped, we would have a schedule c-section. We could have tried to have the doctors try to flip her, however the chances that it would be successful was only 50%. Then if it did not work, we would still have had to resort to a c-section. In my eyes, the statistics was not high enough to try it. Which meant, early as 39 weeks we could have our baby girl here with a c-section. 

Now during pregnancy, I was scared and worried in general. I wanted my baby girl to arrive safely and healthy. I was going to do whatever I needed to for her to be here. That meant we did not want her to come naturally or we would have to do an emergency c-section. That meant not triggering labor at all! 

The day of our scheduled c-section on a Friday morning at 10 am, we had to get there at 8 am. They rolled me back into the OR room around 10, the most difficult part of the entire c-section was them trying to give me the spinal shot in my back. It felt terrible and the pain from that hurt so bad. Two different people tried to give it to me, they almost went and got a third, thankfully after what it seemed and felted like 10-20 minutes of them trying they were successful. Instantly I did not feel anything. Honestly was the scariest part of the entire time being in the hospital. They helped laid me down flat on the table then called my husband back into the room. The anesthesiologist that tried to give me the spinal the first time was so sweet and nice to take my phone during the entire procedure to take photos. I was so thankful she gave us so many memories to look back on. From the time my husband was able to hold my hand to them wheeling me out of the OR to go to recovery. 

Our precious baby girl was born at 10:45 am. They were finished with my stitches by 11:15 and we were on our way to recovery around 11:20. Once we got to recovery, we were able to spend our time with our baby girl. We were parents! That feeling in that room is something I will never forget! 

We were in our personal room in two hours. As soon as we got up there, they got me into the bed and I instantly felt like I needed to puke. Now, my entire pregnancy journey, I did not throw up at all. So this feeling was awful to me! Coming off of the anesthesia was a weird feeling, so I threw up twice. Mind you, this is moments before my in laws were able to come see us. Thankfully after throwing up those two times, I felt pretty good! I collected myself with a snack and drink then was ready to spend time with family as they came to visit us. 

The day was filled with family coming to see us. We did have a few hiccups during our hospital stay, which I will leave for another post. 

Thank you if you read this post, this is honestly for myself to be able to look back on one day. And its a bonus if it helps out any future mamas out there. 

So much love for our baby girl and our new family.