15/4/2016 0 Comments 1+1=3One word that sums up the past couple of months. Pure Bliss. Late last year (2015) we were blessed with the surprise of being pregnant. After organising and saving for our perfect wedding for a whole year, it was a breath of fresh air containing equal amounts of excitement and nerves when we found out that yup we are going to have a baby. We weren't planning on falling pregnant so quickly but it was definitely something we were looking forward to in the near future. The abruptness of everything was muddled into a very busy time for us as we were working hard saving to pay off the wedding and planning our honeymoon to the USA. Adam was as cool as a cucumber when we found out and without any hesitation welcomed our new rapidly changing lives with his big open arms. Me on the other hand got straight into mapping out our plans for the future and trying to figure out how things will work out. That's one of Adams and myself many differences, he doesn't really worry about much at all. Planning the final touches of a wedding, working 5 days a week, finishing up on uni assignments paired with being in the early stages of pregnancy in the middle of Summer and experiencing daily much of the first trimesters blues including but not limited to nausea and vomiting, loss of all appetite oddly followed with increased bouts of hunger and binge eating, exhaustion to a whole other level, heightened sensitivity to any smell and random nosebleeds was the most challenging and terrible experience to have all at once. Nonetheless I got through it and now it seems like those times I was vomiting in plastic bags, on the bathroom floor, in toilets, in the shower and in the front garden are distant memories. On our wedding day I was 12 weeks pregnant and not showing at all, at this point only our closest friends and our family new of our secret little addition that was nestled up in my belly. I would imagine that our little one was completing somersaults and sucking its thumb like it was at our scan a couple of days prior completely oblivious of the world outside its cosy nest and that its soon to be mummy and daddy would be tying the knot with much anticipation. Travelling to the USA and being 12-15 weeks pregnant did serve its challenges while the nausea and vomiting almost completely vanished, I was still left with the exhaustion and hunger and ultimately the difficulty of learning and trying to be obedient and careful about what I can and can't eat which in the USA where there is large portions of all sorts of food everywhere was hard plus I craved vegemite so badly and nowhere sold it and for a pregnant women it's incredibly hard to ignore those cravings. Along with this traveling to a country like America in Winter for your honeymoon and for the first time isn't as relaxing as going to a hot tropical island while you are sipping on cocktails by the pool and wearing nothing but a bikini day in and out. We had a number of things to be ticked off and figured out including making sure the jeans and clothes I packed would still fit me for the next three weeks of our honeymoon, how to travel with a tired and hungry pregnant women whilst lugging around 80kgs of luggage across a bloody large country during the middle of their worst snow storm in years, trying to organise where we should be staying next, figuring out what a pregnant women is meant to do at Disney land when all the rides say 'expecting women advised not to ride' (I went on every ride-felt a little guilty but I figured if 3 year olds were going on Disneylands most bad ass rides that im sure that I would be fine). Home time was a time to get our lives ready for what was quickly approaching, we found out that yup we were having a boy (instincts told me this the whole time), he was healthy despite the American food/cheeky Disneyland rides, apparently we needed more room (we really didn't) but that didn't stop Adam from building an extension off our room (a males way of nesting), grandma was gonna go wild and on countless baby shopping sprees and that our lives were going to be flipped upside down in the best way possible. Categories
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