First days of pregnancy

I found out I was pregnant on 3rd December 2008 and although my husband and I were thinking of getting pregnant, the good news still came as a bit of a shock.

A mixture of feelings really: happiness, excitement, fear and worries. It’s inevitable to think: what now?

The amazing thing is that since the very first moment you look at that positive sign on the home pregnancy test (believe me, I looked at it hundreds of time…) you’re already a different person, at least for me the changes started there and then.

Firstly I thought: How am I going to tell my husband? It has to be in a special way… Then started the search for a good website that could tell me the “do’s and don’ts”. What to eat, how to exercise, when to call my GP? The questions are endless now that this amazing journey of giving birth to a baby has started.

I think until now I had never realised that the responsibilities of a mom start 9 months before the baby is born and that the first days of pregnancy were so important. I already don’t feel like drinking my usual glass of red wine and please don’t offer me coffee, I could never do this, not now that I’m a mom. The baby comes first, unbelievable! I’m already someone else…. will I ever be “me” again?