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Want it over soon

This is my third pregnancy and the worst one ever! I am counting down the days. I am now 37 weeks.

My ribs ache along with the pelvic region. I am stricken with 24-hour heartburn and keep having repeated bladder infections. I also have carpel tunnel syndrome, which started during the 18th week of pregnancy. Last but not least I have high blood pressure, which was per existing before pregnancy. I can’t sleep at night I am so restless so I went to the health food store and bought some rescue remedy drops.

My due date is April 10th. Please god let it be sooner...

Good news is that I am having a boy!!


Pat

GIVING IT ALL UP

Everything around you gets harder than you think. When you’re young you pretty much give every teen hood possibilities besides your education. You give up your friends, fun pretty much; you cant get the clothes you want, you can’t even sleep the way you want or play you have to be very cautious.

When I found I was pregnant I thought I was following all the girls’ footsteps I said I wasn’t going to do. I admit I said all those things girls say before the get themselves in a situation like this. I will never have kids, I'm going to get my tubes tied, I’m going to party the rest of my life. Yes I indeed said all that crap.

I was thinking about getting an abortion but just couldn’t. Not that I was scared or anything, I just thought I was 3 months pregnant and I first felt something precious in my stomach. I had this thing called a baby growing in my tummy that I was curious to hold and hug and to cry in my arms. I couldn’t get rid of it I already loved it too much.

I told my boyfriend and he has been on my side for the past 8 months and already going to give birth in April. My family has been there for me through the times I can’t sleep and the times I’m in pain. But for all who thinks young teenage mother gets pregnant for just one reason, they’re wrong. This helps us young woman (that’s what we are) achieve greater thing in life, as in wiser choices and having someone that you can call yours.

Please wish me luck on having my newborn son and I wish all you young single or not single woman to keep your head high and don’t let any other tell you no different then what you think is right.


VERA

First time around

I am in the beginning of my third trimester. I am very excited about a little boy entering our lives! I am due on June 5th so I still have a little ways to go. I am a working mother-to-be and probably will be working up until the end of my pregnancy. Working has created a helpful diversion to the fact that my husband is unfortunately deployed with the US Marines. He will not be home until a few months after the baby is born.

It has been pretty tough because as all expectant mothers know, the mood swings and emotions are running wild!! :) He is very sad that he is going to miss the birth of his first child but what can you do?!?! He is trying to get home for a week when I have the baby so that he can at least see the little guy and possibly experience the delivery with me, but this is going to be tough seeing as due dates usually aren’t right on the money.

All in all I have had a great first pregnancy! No morning sickness, so far no stretch marks...I have had some run ins with emotions as said before but I think that is mostly because of the fact my husband is gone. The backaches have just started and I have been getting a little swelling in my feet but these are things I can definitely live with. I have been feeling a lot of kicking! This little boy is an active little bugger! :) Hopefully he wont be off the wall when he is born! :) Yikes!

Luckily, even though my husband is absent, I have had massive support from both of our families and also from all of my friends! I have to say, I have felt a little like a celebrity with all of this attention I am getting, haha.

Overall, everything is good and I am just eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first child! :) Good luck to all of the other mothers-to-be out there!!


Traci

The worst ever

I am in my third trimester (I am 37 weeks). I have 3 children already and this is my worst pregnancy. It started out good in the beginning but now I have no sensation in my right hand, causing me to drop things.

I recently got 13 stitches because I was holding a piece of glass and it fell from my hand and landed on my leg. Can you imagine? My doctor says its carpal tunnel syndrome. I have never had this before - I can even move my fingers at night, most of the day

It makes taking care of my other kids 14, 10, and 3 really hard. My doctor says he will induce next week. I can’t wait.


josette maynard

Oh how quickly things can change.

This is my first pregnancy. I was 21 and a junior in college when I got pregnant. I had known the father of our baby for a couple of years and had one of those "I think it's fate" type of crushes that I couldn't get over even though the circumstances of our lives never were conducive to having a relationship. We met and sort of had a friends-with-benefits type of relationship from the beginning. We both led kind of crazy lives in terms of partying and socializing, but managed to take care of our responsibilities for the most part (I was teaching preschool and attending college and he's a licensed framer w/his own business).

It seemed our paths always crossed just when I thought I'd probably never see him again. Sometimes I wished they wouldn't because it was making it impossible for me to get over him, but of course he never knew how I felt. Last summer we ran into each other and this time I wasn't going to let him go. We went camping a couple of times, I brought him home to meet my family (I knew he'd love them, and that the feeling would be mutual. I wanted him to see the type of person that I really was, aside from the party girl he knew.) And I tried to let him see that I was interested in moving toward having a relationship with him.

Our families are very religious. Mine however, is Catholic and his are Jehovah’s Witnesses. I soon realized that this was one of the main reasons he wouldn't let himself fall for me. Against every bit of advice I had ever given, I completely let down my guard and told him exactly how I felt. He had that night (and only that night) to sleep on what I had told him because the next day I found out I was pregnant.

I called him when all three of those tests came back positive. We drove down to the lake and talked about everything that we were afraid of and we consoled one another. Though neither of us were, we both agreed not to see anyone else nor that we would take care of each other in every way we could and we'd see where things went.

Happily, we never turned back. I'm 38 weeks pregnant today and expecting to give birth any day. My fiancé and I live together and are planning to get married at the end of the summer. We celebrated our 7-month anniversary and my 8th month of pregnancy on the same day. We love each other, or families love each other, and everyone loves the little boy who's growing and kicking and rolling around inside of me.

Our story is not traditional by any means, but I still feel like I'm living a fairytale. I thank God every day that He blessed us with such joy and love in a way we never would have imagined could have made us so happy. A few months ago I was living a life that I'm not particularly proud of; a selfish life that didn't please God. I know now though that He doesn't forget us. He lets us stumble on our own so that we can see how much we really need Him. Then, before it's too late, he picks us up, helps us clean up our mess, and sends us off on a new and better path. And which path could be more beautiful?


Angela