My first steps into motherhood

"Making the decision to have a child it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go outside your body" ~ Elizabeth Stone

We have been blessed and lucky.

We are expecting our first child sometime in early May if everything goes well.

Being all of eight weeks pregnant I have little advice to give others, but I sure do have a long list of things that I wish someone had let me in on prior to getting pregnant.

Like:

Why did no one really explain the aching tender masses that my boobs would become?

Why did no one tell me that my uterus would take over my lower abdomen by force causing pain in every smooth ligament I own there?

Why did no one mention the overwhelming need to sleep a gazillion hours a day?

Why did no one tell me that despite this sleep I would still feel tired all the time?

And Why didn't some one tell me that the first appointment would include my pap and a blood draw?

Lucky for me I was able to get into my first midwife appointment already and confirm that everything seems to be going fine. However, I was disappointed by the literature that I was given. It had an extremely condescending tone which was the opposite of the words and actions of my midwife. Guess that I will be buying a few of my own baby books and using the internet for information.

Also I will be going for a dating ultrasound soon. This is so that we can have an accurate "due date".

I have long cycles of 39-47 days, meaning I also don't have the same ovulation schedule as those who have regular 30 day cycles. We know the date that I was likely ovulating and our midwife is currently using that date instead of the start date of my last period to give us our "due date". At least until we get our dating ultrasound in.

Here is to our new adventure "Motherhood".