Baby Bump (blog 1)

Wow! I can't believe how quick these past 9 months have flown by. It doesn't feel long ago that I shared my pregnancy with my family and friends and today I’m sharing my pregnancy with my “Creativekid_and_more” family. It feels surreal that the journey is now coming to an end.

As I'm writing this, I’m currently 34 weeks pregnant and I can't wait to hold the baby in my hands. But before the baby arrives, I want to do a recap of my pregnancy journey and go over each trimester in detail. I want to share my honest experience.

This is my personal experience with my first pregnancy. Every woman is different and each pregnancy is unique.

TRIMESTER 1

We will start with my favourite moments. Finding out we were pregnant is an obvious highlight, but my husband was the one who was super excited the day we found out we were pregnant. Well, if I'm being totally honest, I was really shocked at first and didn't have a reaction for about 3 to 4 days. When the news finally sinked in, I was very happy about the new one joining our family. It was a special moment and thinking about it now makes me emotional again.

We kept the news to ourselves for about 7 days. The day we visited the doctor and it got confirmed we told our family. As in my family there was already a baby on its way, we told our parents that they are going to be grandparents for the second time and there will be one more member joining. Their happiness didn't seem to end that day. Everybody in the family was so happy about the news.

Nausea was my constant companion after 8 weeks. I had very bad morning sickness. I felt nauseous the whole day. I would say it was the worst when I could not eat my meal and if I had a meal I would feel nauseous. The only thing that helped my nausea was to suck on some candy and Ice Cream. I didn't enjoy my food anymore and eating became a chore. This was a negative symptom in my 1st trimester.

Then moving on, keeping a secret is a tradition especially in India. The pregnancy is kept a secret for the first three months. It is because if any miscarriage takes place, by any chance during early pregnancy. At first, I thought that it would be difficult for me to keep it a secret but I got through it. The best part was, I was able to share this news with my loved ones- family and some of my close friends.

My experience of the first trimester was tough, both physically and emotionally. Although physical changes were not prominent, emotionally accepting the fact of being pregnant was more challenging. There were restrictions by my loved ones for travelling, doing household chores or any kind of work that would be stressful. But I am not that kind of person. I took those statements very lightly and enjoyed every moment, be it travelling on bikes, exercising or doing household chores. I took things normally. So overall the first trimester was a good experience.

I hope you enjoyed this journey so far. We will be posting another blog for the other trimesters soon. So stay tuned…

- Aarti Vyas-Mehta