Adam plays pregnant!

Ahhh, the role of the husband during pregnancy is usually underestimated. Adam has been riding this roller coaster with me through the whole 9 months and I must admit, he has been quite a team player!

Though he was shocked when I gave him a card on "my" birthday announcing that he would soon be a father, he quickly took to the caretaker role. Many of you know that I had a rough first trimester...and for those of you that didn't, it was AWFUL. I barely escaped hospitalization for dehydration due to all day sickness. Even with medication, I still felt sick from weeks 8-14. Adam was there to bring me water, cool wash cloths, stand with me, and take care of me.

When I was losing weight and feeling ill, he cooked for me...and then was understanding when I looked at the food he had just made and started crying because I couldn't eat it. Without complaint, he proceeded to nicely wrap it up and put it in the refrigerator to be consumed at a later time.



I just recently had to spend some time in the hospital getting pumped with IV fluids due to a stomach bug that dehydrated me. Adam stayed up the whole night taking care of me, attempting to give me any medication that my "approved list" allowed to help stop my sickness. I must admit that this is not just a pregnancy thing...Adam is a walking pharmacy, he travels with just about every medication you can imagine for any illness you can imagine.


The last month has been stressful for Adam. His associate has not practiced for the last month due to an infection that caused him to go into renal failure. Adam has been doing double overtime at the practice trying to keep it afloat while also attempting to find another dentist to help lighten the load. Even with everything going on, he still manages to come home to have dinner with me every evening, tell me he loves me, and give the belly a kiss before he heads back to the office late in the evening to finish the charts he was unable to get to during the day.

As I enter my last month of pregnancy, Adam continues to be a team player! I asked him to put on the "Empathy Belly." This is a pregnancy simulator that uses water,weights, and physical components to simulate the last trimester of pregnancy. The belly weighs almost 30lbs when put together. I had him lay down, sit up, and wear it for an hour while making breakfast. I was typing this blog upstairs 45 minutes into his required hour when I heard him moan!

My husband is a trooper and doesn't try to shoulder off responsibility. I am truly lucky to have him as my life partner, and I know he is going to be a wonderful father!

6 Weeks and Counting....

How it all started:
It is weird how a woman's biological clock works. I never understood how overwhelming the desire to procreate could be until one day I just woke up and tick-tock, I WANT, NEED, MUST HAVE a baby. I'm not so sure it works the same way for men. Although Adam did not need much convincing, if I wouldn't have had the urge to start a family anytime soon, he could have easily waited until his 40's to decide he was ready!

Once I heard the clock tick, the thought of starting a family completely took over my life. Before we even decided it was time to start trying, I made a doctor's appointment to make sure my pre-conception health was good and that the vitamins I was taking were the best. In an effort to get more healthy, I went to the gym more often and lost the weight I had put on during our first year of marriage. I started buying organic produce and meats. I joined websites like BabyCenter.com and Whattoexpect.com and got on message boards with other mothers who were TCC (trying to conceive). I started tracking my ovulation cycles. Adam and I even drove up to New York for free testing for Jewish genetic diseases.

We had 4 month span of time that would be ideal for me to have a baby. Because I work in the school system, and do not yet have tenure, I really wanted to have the baby and take maternity leave anytime other than the first three months of the school year. I convinced him that our first Anniversary (April 14) would be a great time to officially start the "family plan." We are apparently very blessed, as I discovered just two weeks later, on my 28th birthday (April 27th) that I was preggers!

Skip to Now:
I can hardly believe that in a mere six weeks (give or take a few) I'll be a mother. I must admit that I am flooded with emotions. This baby was planned and is very wanted. Of course I am excited about its pending arrival, but mostly I'm scared and anxious about how I'm going to adjust to motherhood.

I'm a planner. I envy my husband who has always been a "go with the flow" type of person. I know that things are going to change drastically with the little one's arrival.

I'm scared of this unknown. Will I be a good mother? Will I enjoy being a mom? Will I fall "in-love" the second I lay eyes on my child? I guess it's something I won't know until the baby's arrival.....ugh, I hate not knowing!

I have had friends say that parenthood is the hardest, yet the most rewarding job they have ever had. As hard as parenthood seems (and is I'm sure), they all appear to find such joy in it. Even though I have many, many fears, I still get a smile on my face when I think about how I am going to love experiencing all the little quirky things this new addition to our lives is going to bring. With the help of this blog, I hope to share them with you along the way!