After the standard-first-time-Mom’s 12 positive pregnancy tests, it finally sunk in that I was actually pregnant! (P.S. the cost of those things is enough to stop any woman dead in her slingbacks, maybe you could get a better deal if you bought them in bulk at Sam's.) The initial feeling is almost impossible to describe; it is about 1,000 intense emotions all at once… excited, scared, happy, lucky, nervous, blessed, but most of all love. It’s amazing to me how much I love this little guy (I think it’s a boy and I really don’t like the idea of calling my child “it”) and at this point he’s no more than a conglomeration of thousands of cells hard at work.
After our shock and excitement wore off, we came up with a gameplan to break the news to our family. Now, I know the smart thing to do is to wait to tell people. Some people wait until after the first ultrasound (you get to actually SEE your baby’s heartbeat…so cool!), some people wait until after 10 weeks (this is the landmark where your precious little embryo graduates to an actual fetus) and some people wait until after the first trimester. However, anyone who knows me knows that I am the absolute WORST person in the world at keeping surprises. And I knew there was no way I could keep the news from my Mom for more than a few days so we decided to tell our parents together Christmas Eve. The Gulledges stopped by my parent’s house for their annual Christmas Eve Martini Party (I know my Dad suspected something when I declined one of his famous, delicious white chocolate martinis and opted for a less exciting glass of water) and I just blurted out “I’m Pregnant!” and started crying – The first of many odd emotional breakdowns that are sure to come with the exponential multiplication rate of hormones – it’s so funny looking back on it, everyone just sort of looked around for a minute like “what?” and then they all realized what I had just said. It was the best Christmas Eve ever. We told the rest of our family members on Christmas Day; Carlysle broke the news very nicely without crying.
Weekly Womb Workings: This week the little egg is now called a blastocyst and it has divided into two parts: the first part is forming the placenta and the second part will become the embryo. The two layers that make up the amniotic bag of waters are newly formed, and the very beginning of the connecting stalk -- which will become the umbilical cord -- has appeared. Until the placenta is fully functioning, the yolk sac, now present, will feed the baby. Basically, the "home" for our little one is under rapid construction!
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