The First Trimester

I didn't really start this at the VERY beginning so I am going to play catch up and sum up the first trimester here.  I decided that I want a natural and drug free birth, well thats the plan atleast, and to do that Bradley Method classes were going to be the way to go. I still want to deliver in a hospital so if something does go wrong or if me or the baby needs in medical attention it wont be a problem. Ryan is being very supportive in all this and has gladly decided to give up his one day off of work for 12 weeks to come to birthing classes with me! (Love him for it!!!) We had found a doctor we thought we liked but realized we had a better option so we decided to go with a midwife and deliver at North Fulton(still making some final descisions on provider)..I have a bunch of decsion and ideas to work out and go over with my birthing plan but more on that later ...The morning sickness or in my case the all the day sickness wasn't to horrible. I had to make sure that I had something to eat almost every hour and I drank a bunch of water and poweraid but I never really got 'sick'(that lasted till about 9weeks or so). Around 10 weeks I started feeling pretty good but I still get really tired in the afternoon or really anytime I do to much of anything. Each day though I am feeling better and getting more energy so hopefully I will be able to start getting some things around the house done to prepare for our little one.

 Week 10 we got to go to the doctor to see our baby! It was a truly amazing thing, Ryan and I both got a little emotional being able to see for the first time a postive test turn into a hand that could wave at us! We got to see the little gummybear bouncing all around and even saw a little hand waving. When we heard the heartbeat I cried. Ryan and I are truly blessed and can not wait to welcome this bundle of joy in to our home!



Hopefully now that I am started every weekend I will be able to update this and add my pictures and such but here are a two that I have already taken.