Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.
Is every kick, roll and hiccup extra magical for me because I wanted and waited for it for so many years? Or are there simply no words to express how beautiful creating and carrying life inside of you is. It has occured billions of times before, and yet I feel like its this rare and precious gift that I’m experiencing.
Yes i have had my fair share of mood swings, extreme irritation, headaches and heartburn but feeling my little guy move for the first time and countless times since continues to be the most wonderful and thrilling adventure of my life to date.
now and then I hear women complain about their baby waking them up in the night from uncomfortable kicks and jabs and it always surprises me to hear irritation in their voices. Again I know that everything is extra special to me because of my long wait to get to where I am, but i could literally lay awake for hours of the night feeling my wee one move and love every moment of it.
i can’t get enough of carrying this tiny alien growing inside me. I wonder often about what this baby will be like. Will he look like his dad? What will his facial expressions look like? Will he cry a lot and be very expressive or will he be mellow and reserved?
The time to meet is getting near, but until then I will continue to live in the present and enjoy this precious gift of life growing inside me that ive been given.
a sudden slightly shrill scream escaped from me as the man ran in front of our cab after being picked up from the Cairo airport.
We were speeding along the freeway when it happened, and I having never experienced anything like it before, thought it was a crazy man that just about lost his life.
When it happened several more times before arriving at the hotel, I realized I was wrong.
This is a post written by Elizabeth Gilbert that I stumbled upon a while back. It brought me to tears and has changed the way I look at my life.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
If you have experienced infertility, then chances are you have experienced huge uncertainty.
Like me you have probably found yourself on a roller coaster of endless cycles of uncertainty and fear.
I’m known in my family for being a go-getter. I’ve been known to put myself through a LOT of self-induced stress while trying to accomplish a goal I have fixed my sight on.
For my first experience of India it would have been smart to choose a nice quiet, clean, touristy destination. (Wait does that exist?)
We arrived into Kolkata very late in the night, but thankfully found a willing taxi driver quickly.
This is a post I wrote a few years ago, when I was still hoping for and dead set on a natural pregnancy.
It was a phase or a stage of my journey that I needed to go through.
For a long time I felt like I was supposed to conceive naturally, and that because I didn’t I had failed.