My 3 Month Update

I wanted to keep a record of my pregnancy symptoms and my thoughts throughout this journey. Today is my 12 week mark. Basically, 3 months of making a baby. Some of my symptoms include:

Nausea

Unfortunately, most mornings I feel super sick to my stomach and on the verge of losing it. Eating helps, but even then I often feel a lingering threat of nausea.

Bloating

It happened yesterday. I went from my normal stomach to HUGE fat glob on my belly. I woke up and felt super gross and I looked down and my stomach looked how I felt. I feel like I grew the entire baby in one night but THIS IS NOT A BABY BUMP! This is don't push on my stomach or move too quickly gas bubble.

Food Aversions

Smells. Good smells. Bad smells. Any strong smell that reminds me of food or a time when I had nausea makes me even more sick to my stomach. This symptom may be my worst enemy because I feel like it's all in my head. I feel like I'm being a baby and I'm making the whole thing up. Smells also make it really hard to eat. Nothing smells or sounds good.

"Cravings"

Many people talk about cravings as a pregnancy symptom, but I think that "craving" isn't the right word. Rather than a craving, you want to eat certain foods because you simply can't stand to eat anything else. Everything sounds gross, but you can manage to stomach at least one food at a time.

Fatigue

Poor Dallin. I wake up go to work, come home sleep. Occasionally, I'll clean the kitchen or make dinner, but mostly I'm just a zombie walking around. The best way to beat fatigue is to pretend it's not there. If I get up and move, I forget I'm tired. If I were to sleep as often as I wanted, I would never get out of bed.

Now, this may seem like a rant on how crappy pregnancy is...and to be honest it's definitely not been a walk in the park. However, the excitement about growing a human inside me and having a little baby of our own by Christmas is pushing me through all the hard parts. I can't wait to be a Mom!! I can't wait to have someone look at me the way that I've seen so many other babies look at their Mom's. They know from a very young age who their Mother is, and I can't wait to be that for some one.

So, bring on the food aversions and fatigue because I'm making this baby whether my body likes it or not!

Love,
The Littlefields

P.S. I just found this awesome article on morning sickness. The funny part is, I figured out almost every single one of these on my own! #terribletiming

We're Expecting!

I knew something was wrong the day I stopped loving food. Ever since I was a little girl, I would eat extra helpings if something tasted good enough. However, that all changed the day I became pregnant.

We decided to take the test a week after I had missed my period. I couldn't wait any longer I was so excited! So, we took the test during my lunch break. Dallin picked me up and I went straight to the bathroom as soon as I got home. Before I was finished using the restroom, Dallin had already looked at the results and had a wry smile across his face. He wouldn't just come out and say it. He made me decipher the instruction manual. 

Once we both knew, we couldn't believe it. Something was probably wrong. Maybe I didn't use it right. Could we get a false positive? I took another test the next morning and sure enough, another blue plus sign! 

I called my Mom in tears. I couldn't be more excited! 

We're pregnant!!!

Love,
The Littlefields