Ok, Since I did not start blogging at the beginning of my pregnancy, I'm going to summarize my first trimester and then do my second trimester in another post. After that, I will be doing posts weekly or every other week as I am currently entering my third trimester now.
To start off, symptoms I was having before I even knew I was pregnant include sore boobs, extreme exhaustion, constantly being tired, feeling weaker, craving for cheese, and of course my missed period. But as far as I knew, my exhaustion and tiredness could have been from working extra hours and I could have just really wanted cheese for no reason. Also, I was having cramping pain which had led me to believe my period was still on it's way. But as we know, that was not the case and my missed period was clearly saying something. I was pregnant.
So by about week 6, I started having nausea 24/7. It was not necessarily as bad as I would have imagined because I rarely puked. I puked once at 8 weeks, twice at 9 weeks, once at 11 weeks and maybe once or twice at 13 weeks. Give or take some to that amount, I may also have some weeks mixed up, but it's just an estimate. You can clearly see I didn't puke much. And the reason I puked most the time was because I gagged when brushing my teeth which soon led me to stop brushing part of my tongue which I think led to my bad breath problems.
Anyway, quick story about the worst puking experience I've had in pregnancy; Anthony and I went out bowling with his brother and we bowled for a good time. I had plenty of water and also had some pizza. But near the end, my stomach felt slightly upset. I drank more water which seemed to help, but when we got into the car to leave, it was just extremely nauseating. I knew I was going to throw up because there was always a slight difference in the way my stomach felt when I was actually going to puke. So Anthony said to pullover and we got out and I puked a couple times by a tree as Anthony held my hair back and helped me stay on my feet. Luckily we had a rag available to wipe my mouth off. And it was night time so less people were less likely to see me which is a good thing in that case. Lol. And that was that.
Now, as far as work went, I was struggling. I went to work feeling nauseated the whole entire time and my exhaustion was killing me. Luckily Anthony was there for me. He was like my third hand and more! He did so much extra so that I wouldn't have to lift anything heavy. The only heavy thing I had to carry was the tray with dinners. That wasn't too bad for awhile, and when I reached maybe 12-16 weeks my uterus had grown some more and whenever I carried it started feeling like I was putting pressure on this bubble in my abdomen. (so this kind of carries into the second trimester.)
During this time, Anthony and I also talked about whether we thought it was a boy or girl and we both thought boy. Anthony tells people that he knows "based on mathematics." Anyway, we also had said we weren't going to name him or her yet because of how early it was and anything could happen. But that was short lived. I told Anthony I wanted to name him Angelo so that is the name we went with since. We didn't even need the sonogram to know the gender. Lol.
I also never saw a doctor or care provider of any kind during my first timester. We were trying to hide the pregnancy form the people who did not know yet I guess and so seeing someone was sort of put off.
Knowing we were going to have a baby, we knew we had to move somewhere else. We thought about Texas since it would be less expensive, but it's so dang far away. I actually wanted to move to Pennsylvannia since it wasn't extremely far and because it's a very pretty state in most areas. As we try to figure out where we are gonna go, Anthony ends up talking with one of the bartenders at work and he tells Anthony that he has some houses in Pennsylvannia and that he has connections he can hook him up with a job. So that's the opportunity we took. And so for the first trimester we were figuring most of this out.
Now, I know this is extremely jumbled as I tried to include most of what happened in my first trimester. But hopefully it is still readable. Thank you for reading and if you have questions or comments just leave them below.
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