An Exciting New Chapter

I had spent so long dreaming of being a mother and yet I still could hardly believe it when I got pregnant in June 2024. I was so excited and yet so very scared. I knew what kind of mother I wanted to be, but who knew if that would be how it turned out. I couldn't help but worry about all the things that could go wrong in the next 9 months.

I tried my best to stay positive and most of the time I succeeded thanks to my husband and the past couple years I had spent trying to switch my negative mindset to a positive one. However, there were times where it wasn't easy especially in the first trimester.

I worked through almost my entire pregnancy. During the first trimester, the morning sickness and fatigue made keeping up with the expectations of my job was difficult.

Thankfully, the manager was very understanding and patient with my temporarily lowered performance throughout my pregnancy.

Trying to keep the knowledge of my pregnancy to a minimum until I was fairly certain that it would stick was difficult. And not just for me but for my husband as well. There were times that I thought he was more excited about the baby than I was! He came closer to spilling the tea more times than I could count, but I was relieved that he was excited for this new chapter in our lives to begin.

The second trimester was physically easier due to the fatigue easing up a bit and the morning sickness fading away. However, the emotional side of things had picked up a little. I struggled with the feeling of not having enough time to prepare for my baby's arrival. This acute awareness of the approaching due date made the second trimester feel as if it passed extremely quickly. In what seemed to me like a very short amount of time, I'd gone from 8 weeks pregnant to 20 weeks and time to find out the gender! And after a long week of waiting for the gender reveal party to roll around, we found out that we were going to have a beautiful baby girl!

Before I knew it, I had made it to my third trimester. My fatigue had returned, but the sense of urgency only increased as we approached the big day.

Unlike the first and second trimesters, the third seemed to last forever and I had done basically everything I could to prepare at that point. It was just a waiting game at this point.