I'm Pregnant!

The main reason for taking this blog private is to announce that I'm pregnant. We're keeping it off Facebook for another month or so, but I need this outlet or I'll burst. Especially with Kevin off in Hawaii.

Honestly, I was planning to do this before the kid came, one way or another. Trying to figure out what sort of digital life we want for the kid is complicated. It's less of an issue for Kevin, as he posts nothing at all on social media. But I do. It's going to be a challenge to find the balance between keeping distant friends and family informed and refraining from any pictures or stories that will later embarrass the kid. Especially since the internet is forever.

The good news is that we have a few more months to figure that out. In the meantime, this blog could get a little pregnancy-focused. Especially in the next few days. I've got five posts the I wrote in the past couple of months but have refrained from posting this far. Those will go up this week, mostly so I can look back and remember what things were like early on.

As for now, I'm currently 12 weeks along. I had my second appointment last week, during which I got to hear the baby's heartbeat. It was neat, but I wasn't as moved as many people seem to be. I still hardly feel pregnant, especially since I haven't gained any weight for the past month. It's actually weird. For the past five years I've had to try really hard to avoid gaining weight. Then I switch into eating constantly and wanting to gain weight and it's suddenly become difficult. I'm sure that won't last much longer though.

This week I have the first trimester screen, which is a newer test. They do an ultrasound and a blood test to determine the kid's risk factor for Down's Syndrome and some other genetic disorders. If it's high enough I go through another test in the second trimester. But since that test carries a risk of miscarriage, they use this early screen to lower the number of women who take it.

The pregnancy is also the reason this blog has been so sparse these last few weeks. While I haven't suffered from any morning sickness (lucky me!), I have been utterly exhausted. It's beginning to pass now, but for a while there I was sleeping close to ten hours a night. This left little time for anything other than eating and going to work, and the blog suffered.

That's about to change, though. My energy is returning, and I have a ton of things to talk about. Most of them are pregnancy related (sorry to those of you who aren't interested). I'm sure I'll find other things to talk about in the coming weeks, though. Life is continuing to happen, and it's only going to happen moreso as the year goes on. I'm very excited!