Trimester 1

Let’s start from the very beginning with the first trimester shall we, I’ll smoosh it all in to catch you up. At the beginning of the year we decided that we wanted to grow our small family from two to three. In February, it happened! I knew I was pregnant a few days before I took a pregnancy test, my body was starting to change and I just had a feeling. On the 23rd I took a test and a very faint pink line appeared. First reaction...we didn’t know if it was real. I took another test the next day, it was darker and we knew. We were so excited and kind of surprised by how fast it happened. A week later we had a doctor appointment to confirm. 

Fast forward a week, BAM...Covid-19. I was furloughed from work and honestly didn’t think it would last as long as it has. With everything that was going on I felt terrified and a whole lot less prepared to be a parent than I had felt a few weeks prior. At this point I was in my 6th week, we still hadn’t told anybody that we were expecting and other than a few small things I wasn’t showing any pregnancy symptoms. 

Around my 7th week is when it truly hit, the gloriousness that was my first trimester. Now I must say, in most ways I was very lucky because I really didn’t have it nearly as bad as a lot of people. I was exhausted, even though I wasn’t exerting that much energy, I felt like I ran a marathon and worked overtime doing manual labor in the hot sun all day. I have never been that tired and slept more, who knew naps were so good! I was also getting restless legs pretty bad. But the worst thing about trimester uno was my food aversions. “You’ll have cravings” they said...I wish! I had food aversions to EVERYTHING! I wasn’t getting morning sickness in the sense that I would throw up all the time randomly, I just literally could not eat anything. I would try and it was a toss up if it would stay down or come back up. I lost 30 pounds in my first trimester because I couldn’t eat. Something would sound good for a few minutes and poor Adam would go get it and come home just for me to not be able to eat it. Applesauce, popsicles, chopped veggies, and some fruits were about the only things I could eat with the exception of San Diego Mexican cuisine (which I couldn’t get unless I was there, which was only once, but I ate it the whole time we were there and it stayed down!).

We drove down to San Diego when I was 9 weeks for the weekend so we could finally tell our parents. I was having a hard time not having anybody to talk to about it but didn’t want to spill the beans over the phone. The funniest part is that everyone knew that we were going to start trying for kids and Adam and I aren’t spring chickens but we were so anxious and nervous to tell everyone. The reactions that we got were great though! 

The Monday after we told our parents the news, I had my first appointment at the San Francisco Birth Center where we got our first peek inside my uterus and saw that tiny heart beating away. It was beautiful!

The last few weeks of trimester one were pretty uneventful. All of the symptoms that I listed above were still in full swing. We started to kind of tell close friends and family but didn’t make any public announcements about it until the 2nd trimester. Covid continued, I was still out of work and we were both extremely excited and also trying to re-plan/prepare given the current circumstances.

With love, 

Tiffany