A Bun in the Oven

So, the whole family knows now, and the news has been made public via facebook, so I guess it's safe to post these pictures now.

Yup, it's true. I am currently incubating a little boy inside my uterus (which is as strange to me as it sounds written out that way). As the doctor put it when I found out, it's a very strong positive. There's no mistaking that pink line. Turns out I've been preggers for 19 weeks as of this week (I found out at 17 weeks), so I got to cruise through my first trimester completely unaware. Actually, in complete denial is a better way to put it. I can't say that I was not nauseous pretty much every morning from November until now (though, I didn't actually hurl, so that's lucky), and I can also not say that I wasn't completely exhausted for no reason during the last quarter of the year. And I guess that explains the wicked heartburn I was having (that too has abated for the most part) and the weight I've gained since my back surgery in September. Still, perhaps being in denial helped my first trimester go by quickly and somewhat painlessly.

I also got lucky in that I found out about the baby's existence and that he is a boy all within 24 hours, which means I got to skip all the hoping/worrying about gender completely! And I would have worried too, because I've always wanted to have a boy first, so I would have spent many days obsessing over it. It's not that I don't love little girls (my niece is just adorable!), I just always hoped that any daughters I had would have an older brother. Plus, I hear that little boys are harder to deal with as babies but get easier as they get older, which is a theory I can get on board with, being that I have two younger brothers. Girls are easy to start with but get harder as they go along, which is something to which I can also attest, having been born a girl and remembering in all-too-vivid detail the hell that was going through puberty. So all in all, I'm pretty stoked to be having a boy!

It's a good thing too because I'm not at all into the pink/fairy/princess stuff that usually goes along with having a daughter. I decided basically right away that we'd be going with a pirate theme in the nursery, and that wouldn't work so well with a girl. I mean, could you purchase something like this for a baby girl?

Well, I probably would still, but I'm sure I'd get funny looks for it. I'm already registered on Amazon and at Target, and I would just like to take the chance to tell Amazon THANK YOU for having awesome baby pirate stuff that Target would never dream of carrying. Though, I did find a diaper bag at Target that is black with jolly rogers on it. The BF (aka C) and I will be painting my second bedroom in an underwater/sunken ship motif, and I'll most likely be making my own crib bedding because everything pre-made that I've found so far is way too cutesy. Don't be surprised when the first photo you see of an infant will be one of him in a jolly roger onesie or something of the like.

So, stay tuned for updates. Let's face it: being pregnant and planning for the little one will probably be the only things I blog about for a while. My second ultrasound (for the halfway point exam) is scheduled for this Friday, so I should have some ultrasound pics for posting soon. I'm going to try not to over do it, but it is not my fault that one's brain finds it impossible to focus on anything else when there is a life growing in one's body. It's still a lot surreal to me, which isn't that surprising considering I was pretty close to being halfway through when I found out about being pregnant. Surprise! I've always kind of suspected that that is how it would go for me, though. I'm not so good at long term planning, so it's probably a good thing that it snuck up on me. C and I are very excited about it, though, and have a lot to do before our son makes his grand entrance!