The first three months

October 20ish, 2011

In celebration of our upcoming anniversary, Jim and I decided to get away for the weekend.  After much discussion we thought Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was the perfect place to celebrate the survival of the first year of marriage! It is helpful to note that this entire week I was feeling lousy and was quite unsure if I would be able to enjoy the weekend.  But, because I am a trooper I powered through it and we had a great day on the lake.  That night we had a great dinner complete with a complimentary bottle of wine for the anniversary (oops!).  After dinner we headed back to the room to enjoy the Wisconsin Badger Football game.  I was just exhausted and ended up passing out at 8 pm.  (Some wife, I am right?) 

When we returned home we celebrated the anniversary by having a family dinner.  We enjoyed our wedding cake and popped a couple bottles of champagne (oops!).  Now, I was still nauseous all day, but I just thought that I had caught something from one of my students.  That was my go to response for about two weeks!

On Monday, I e-mailed Jim from school and told him that we should probably take a test. Or two.  I took two that night and nothing registered.  Apparently I wasn't alive that night.  After talking to my mom, we decided to take another one the following day.  Much to our surprise...it was a PLUS!!!! We were speechless.  Jim called his parents and said that we thought there was a baby on the way.  I proceeded to take a couple or ten tests between October 25th and November 15th (our first doctor's appointment).  I didn't want to be that girl that walks in the office so happy to be having a baby, only to walk out crushed that it wasn't true.  Hearing that little baby's heartbeat was one of the best things that has ever happened to me.  I was so excited to know that I was for sure going to be a mom! This led to the next two months of me feeling completely worthless.  I was emotional, exhausted, and just felt downright lousy.  I only actually had morning sickness three times, however it was the nausea that followed me around daily.  I didn't want to get up and go to work in the morning, but I knew the little person growing inside of me was so worth it.   We had 2 sonograms that first trimester.  It was amazing to see something so small, yet so alive.  I was in love!

9 weeks

12 weeks