Wowee! I can't believe I'm almost 13 weeks! Tomorrow I will be 13 weeks along and I feel pretty good! I am filling out! OMG. I am definitely showing now but still hiding my belly at work until we get out of the 1st trimester and even then I hesitate to tell anyone because then I'll be getting looks every time I disappear for an appointment. WOW! So we had our first prenatal appointment last Friday. It was kind of lame. We didn't meet with a doctor just with some pushy loud mouth PA. Yuck. I wasn't thrilled with her brusk-ness. And also found out that we won't be meeting with a doc ANYWAY throughout most of the pregnancy just with the PA. Grand.
The appointment was long and it was mostly just the nurses and PA asking us tons of questions about family health history. I also had a pap smear and breast exam. Fun. :P My mother in law is a little bit overly excited about the baby news and really got all worked up to hear about the appointment and wanted to know everything that the 'doctor said.' Well- I didn't have much to report! lol. Sorry but there was no doctor and secondly it wasn't really a baby visit but a mommy and daddy visit. She kept pressing me though for information and I firmly told her the same thing I orginally told her. It was a mommy and daddy visit they just mainly asked a lot of questions about family health history and basically treat you like a number. I don't know what kind of information she was looking for exactly. Plus, it's really not any of her business what happens at the appointment and is not up for discussion. Hello. Anyway- I've come to the conclusion its just better to not mention future appointments to her because then I'll just get hounded to spill the details on everything when it really isn't anyone's business but mine and my husbands. I know everyone means well but I sometimes think they get too wrapped up in themselves and their own excitement and what they want rather than being respectful of me and hubby- we are people too! Not just babie incubators here to entertain and delight with our baby reports.
In other news we go for a genetic counseling session tomorrow and another ultrasound! Yeay!! Can't wait to see our little beannie Marie! I've told my mommah about the appointment and will give her the scoop when its over but that's it. Nobody else needs to know every single detail of my uterus and its inhabitant.
In the meantime, I am rather disappointed with the info out there in interwebs land regarding in-laws and newborns. Everything is sooo damn negative! OMG. I can't even read or look at this stuff any more! It's just the land of negativity!! For instance I googled "How to be kind, loving, and undertsanding to your in laws when you are pregannt or have a newborn." I am hoping to grow personally and to become a better person. A kinder and more gentle person. Someone who does not lose their temper or feel threatened or defensive every time an inlaw says an idiot thing or expresses their opinion. I am very sensitive and want to respond with love and kindness not to get defensive and lose my temper so I google to see what's out there and there is NOTHIHNG. NOTHING but in law bashing and scary stories that do nothing but work you up and get your feathers all ruffled!
UGH!!! That doesnt help me. All that does is get me more worked up and puts me in the mind set to pit myself against them. I dont want to do that! I want to look at my MIL and FIL like they are two out of control children who need to be loved and paid attention to but who ultimately do not control me or my emotions. Aren't there any books out there about disciplining and loving your inlaws and teaching them boundaries in a loving and non-threatening way? lol. Help.
Body update: My breasts are no longer sore! Yeay!!! I do get pulling pains in the right side of my uterus when I walk occassionally but other than that - no pains really. Once in a while I wil have a pulling sensation in my vagina. We heard the baby's heartbeat with the fetal doppler at the prenatal appointment! Yeay! 160 beats per minute! Is it a boy or a girl??? So exciting!
I'm sleeping ok with the humidifier and breathe right strips. I have pregnancy rhinitis so my nasal passages are always swollen and it is difficult to breathe most of the day. :\
Other thoughts are on breast feeding and the fact that my MIL never breastfed and only did formula with my DH. That should be interesting when she realizes I am going to breast feed exclusively for the first 1yr. I can't wait!! (To bf not to see her reaction). Also- she was going on about how easy her birth was and how she didnt gain any weight and how skinny my dh was when he was born. That's because she probably didnt eat enough. She said he was born with no fat on his body! Oy.
Anway- so what. Who cares. Im seriously thinking about taking that breast pump off the baby registry now and just buying it myself if I need it in the future.
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