Pregnancy Journals

Jaylene3 · Aug 1st, 2008, 23:34 PM

Hello all,

Well I have finally decided to start this journal.

So far so good, I truly have nothing to complain about and am just happy to be going through this little rollcoaster of a miracle.

So some background;

I am 24 years old (25 in October) and was just married this past Saturday, July 26, to the man of my dreams and my best friend in life. We have been together for 5 years now and are so happy to have finally tied the knot in the presence of our family and friends.

We live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a major Oil Industry city, with lots of big trucks, but prety skylines. It is the capital city in Alberta, but you would not think that if you saw our neighbor to the South, Calgary....quickly booming and looking more and more like a capital city while we still have poor road planning and "freeways" with traffic lights on them.

I love where I live though.

We live in a two-storey home with our dog Berkley, and two cats Max and Emma. It is a lovely home and I would not trade it for anything.

So onto the pregnancy.

We have wanted kids since the first month we were together, however we were 18 and 19 at the time so waited a long time before we even thought we were ready. One memorable night back in May of this year Chris said to me in a passionate moment, "If there was an opportunity to make a baby, maybe now is it." An with that, the NEXT morning, no word of a lie I KNEW!!!

Having said that, keep in mind we were planning a wedding that was 2 months away, I was very stressed.

We dealt with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

and then I went to my GP where he concluded that yes I was pregnant. I hadn't even missed my

yet and we knew that I was pregnant.

Since then I have slowly but surely come to accept that I am pregnant, and now with the wedding having come and gone, have fully accepted it and am on

and cannot even wait until LO

is here.

Another note for you is that I am a freak. I stress about the littlest things and worry about small stuff...like for example, today i ate 2 small packages of Beef Jerky and am now completely hung up on the fact that it may harm the baby.

So I hope you enjoy my postings, I will try to keep this as interesting as I can and hopefully be able to reply to any questions you have.

I am so grateful for this site and all of you.
Looking forward to this!!

Frankie · Aug 2nd, 2008, 10:06 AM

Welcome to the journals Jaylene

What can is beef jerky if i may ask??

xXx Vamp xXx · Aug 2nd, 2008, 10:17 AM

Aww that

Story is very cute

Congrats sweetheart and I'm glad the wedding went well :0D

polo_princess · Aug 2nd, 2008, 10:54 AM

Welcome over to the journals hun!!

Congratulations on the wedding!! My LO has put mine on hold and she's not even here yet lol!!

elm · Aug 2nd, 2008, 20:14 PM

Yay!!! It's lovely to see you've started a journal

xxx

That is such a lovely story about you and your DH back in May! It was so meant to be!!!

How's it going at work? x

curiosa · Aug 3rd, 2008, 17:55 PM

congratulations on your

! what a lovely story!

Jaylene3 · Aug 5th, 2008, 17:46 PM

Thanks everyone.

The beef jerky kind was Big Cheif. It was just the mini sticks but I have promised myself I will never eat it again!!

So I am back at work today after a long weekend, we had monday off as the Civic Holiday and I feel a little more rested than I have been in a while. Mainly because I slept in until 10 am both Sunday and Monday.

My DH has finally felt my bump, he was in denile this whole time that anything had changed about me until we were laying in bed on Sunday and he felt my belly and could tell there was definitely something there.

It was nice that he now knows something is changing. I knew...now he knows. lol. He also talked to LO last night which was super cute, told him about all of the furrballs that were waiting to meet him/her and how we hoped that LO is not allergic when they are born. Fingers crossed!!

This morning I got really lightheaded after climbing the stairs from the basement to the top floor of our house,

, I had to lay down for a few minutes. Recently, this has been happening more and more often which is normal according to my Waht To Expect When You Are Expecting book. Awesome!!!! (Sarcasm, should be noted)

I am thinking of starting to swim this week, but may hold off for a little bit, until I have my first doctors appointment and make sure everything is okay.

My first appointment is August 11th and my 20 week scan is September 11th. Looking forward to them quick a bit.

Hope all of you are doing well.
Thank you for reading!!
Love and

Jaylene

P.S. I AM FOUR MONTHS PREGNANT!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!