We’re Having A Baby

I have been dying to write this post! Chris and I are having a baby! WOW! I’m about 4 months pregnant! You know those wives tales about announcing your pregnancy after the first trimester? Well, we decided to tell just a few people before that but we waited until now to tell everyone because we were waiting on test results for stuff. I’ll go into that later. Everything looks healthy and we are super excited!! 

Here is a photo of the baby at 7 weeks (I didn’t know they did ultrasounds that early). We have a more recent photo (even a video-I know, crazy technology) but this is my favorite because I like the little starfish pose. This said to me, “I’m here and I’m happy!” It might even say, “I’m ready to party.”

 

A note: I have now broken the vow/pact I made with one of my BFFs and myself to NEVER, never under any circumstances post a photo of my ultrasound online. I conferred with her yesterday (she is a new mom) and her response was, “You’ll be doing lots of things you never thought you’d be doing.” Well, in that case, get ready for some sexy boudoir prego shots of me soon. Ok, hopefully not.

This baby was made in Paris! TMI? 

Well, we returned from that trip and I just thought I had some gnarly jet lag. I figured that had to be the reason for the multiple late-night trips to the bathroom, hours of daytime “staring” (sitting there in the parked car zoned out and exhausted for multiple hours at a time) and the aversion to my daily coffee ritual.

We had been on the road for a while, moving from Seattle to Los Angeles and then immediately going on a 2 week trip to Europe. “Maybe jet lag and all this travel-food is why my blood sugar is so off,” I supposed. That was until I was practically grabbing the steering wheel from Chris to pull over so I could get an emergency/life-saving granola bar at the gas station one day. Yes and later that day when I was starving yet again, I cut my toe on a Whole Foods table which sent me into a dizzy/on the floor/fainting/drama-queen moment. Please trust me, this is not my usual reaction to seeing like 2 drops of blood. I couldn’t control myself. I was THAT lady on the floor of Whole Food with people staring at me. Moments later I was sobbing inconsolably in the car. Chris was so incredibly confused. Poor guy. I even have a photo of the bloody toe but I will spare you.

Days later we signed a lease and I was unpacking and moving things for three days straight in our new home while Chris was at a business conference out of town (AKA partying in Vegas for work). The hunger and thirst were unbearable! I thought, “Wow, moving/unpacking is such a great workout. My thighs are going to look great!” 

That’s when it hit me…what day is today? Isn’t it what Chris calls my “normal” time of the month. Quick, unearth that single pregnancy test you always keep in your travel kit! 

(P.S. another totally strange photo I never thought was appropriate to share)

Then I stared at that positive test in disbelief. I was shaking. WHAT!? No. It can’t be! Amazing! How was I going to wait until that night when I was going to pick Chris up from the airport!? Somehow I survived. I picked him up at LAX, we Yelped a Thai restaurant, drove there and found parking down the street. I was going to tell him inside but as we walked from our parked car to the restaurant, I couldn’t wait another second. 

I interrupted him mid-sentence as he was fondly reminiscing on the trip’s funnier moments. “We’re having a baby!!!!!!!!” He looked as if I had said something like, “I don’t feel like having Thai food tonight, let’s get back in the car and find another restaurant.” This second statement would have been very confusing to him as well. Once it clicked he mirrored my entire disbelief of the situation. “Wait, what? You’re telling me on a dark street corner that we’re having a baby?” Well, yes, I made the baby announcement on a dark street corner in Los Angeles. Glamorous. Thomas Kinkade-like or just like in the movies. Maybe Disney will want to use this in a future screen play.

So we’re both very excited and it is just now starting to sink in. I hear that getting advice can be super annoying to new moms/moms-to-be. Please, the flood gates are open. I’m curious about everything. I will be asking specific questions here and there. Look, I’m an acupuncturist and in school, we learned that breast milk cures some eye infections (totally true), so you can’t “weird me out.” I’m totally interested in everything from super green mom-stuff like organic mattresses to buffalo chicken wing dips that help you lose post-pregnancy pounds (you know what I mean).

Who is most excited about this baby? My dad. Yes, it is amazing and surprising. He has asked me things like, “How is your health doing?” Normally this would be WAAY too personal/feminine-land for him but it is very sweet.

You can follow me on Instagram for the prep…or distractions from the prep. Here I am on Facebook, Twitter, Bloglovin and Pinterest. Baby things will slowly invade these sites (and this site) but I will stick to my usual posts as well. XO