Journeys With a Pregnant Lady

Helpless Feelings

Being on the boy side of the pregnancy there isn't much in the physical sense that I experience. Sure I'll probably get fat eating the food that Kim can't eat because she is too nauseas to. But that is about the only physical affect that I will feel when it comes to the first trimester sickness.

I don't like watching Kim get sick. I try to provide comfort but that only does so much. The best thing I can do is to do as much around here as possible.

Early Start

We are starting to get our plans in order for the baby’s room.

After much discussion about which room would be good for the kid and which room would be good for us, we decided to move out of our room and move into our unused and unfinished guest room. This room is the larger of the two and will allow us to create more closet space. Then our now room will be the new baby room.

This unfortunately creates twice the work for me. Might as well start as early as possible. We went to Lowes and purchased laminate wood floors for our room and the baby’s room. Kim is still thinking about the motif for the baby's room.

Sickness Begins

It figures that most of the woman who we know that were recently pregnant had little or no nausea. So now that Kim is constantly throwing up she has no one to talk about the horrible and constant vomiting with. She already has the look. The look of “You did this to me!” I’m trying to be there for her.

What do you do? Normally you go to the store and find a great medicine to take. Not anymore. You have to worry about the baby and whether or not what you take is bad.

There is a list of suggestions from the doctor. We will try them.

Parents to Be

Well, now we have done it, the little lady is pregnant.

I know I’ll want to make plenty of comments about our 9 month journey and beyond, and I don’t communicate with all our friends like I should, so I’ll take time jotting down thoughts that I have about the parenting process. Hopefully this will keep everyone up to date.

There are going to be things I will forget about this process it will be nice to have a written record.

To catch you up with what you guys have been missing out on:

When we were around the time to see if we were pregnant I was sent out to purchase the device that would tell us our future.
So our testing process began.
First test…. positive
Just incase that test was wrong.
Take another…. positive
But just incase those two were wrong, why not take another, but make it a different brand… positive

I would find out later that the chances of a false positive are so slim that you should believe the first test and save the money.

I will never forget the look on Kim’s face. She was so happy. Her smile made the room glow. Even now weeks later with the nausea she is still happy.

Okay, lets get to the doctor. Wait.

Apparently you just don’t go to the doctor. You have to wait until you are 8 weeks pregnant. That is a very hard thing to do. First you think that they must have a more accurate pregnancy test (more accurate than the three 99.9% tests we already took) and second what if we do something wrong in those weeks. We need him to tell us exactly what to do.

Help us doctor, you are our only hope.

Here is reality. The doctor uses the same test you do to confirm the bun is in the oven, but his test must be purchased in bulk at Sam’s Club or something. After all the concern, it turns out that his test is no more accurate than ours and we are just as pregnant. And guess what? He doesn’t do much but talk to you. He gives you paperwork, calms your nerves and says I’ll see you in 4 weeks. Believe me the calming the nerves is the best part of that preliminary visit. The endless flood of information through the Internet is great, but poison at the same time. It makes you think in too many directions at once. Just relaxing on the office couch and listening to the solitary voice of your doctor laying out the landscape of the coming months is comforting.