Journey with You

Ya! I am now five weeks pregnant. How amazing! I can do absolutely nothing but at the same time are doing the most wonderful and important thing in a woman’s life.

I went to the church for Sunday Mass and it made me feel great. It snowed really badly on that day but I wanted to show my gratitude to God and pray for my baby’s health. After church, I started debating if I should drive to my mother-in-law’s to tell her the news because I felt exhausted and the driving seemed pretty bad at the time. I finally went around 4pm. She was so happy and excited to hear the news. We exchanged some thoughts and they gave me some comfort. I addressed my concern of taking too much vitamin D and beta carotene 1 month ago and 2 weeks ago. She told me not to worry. She is going to have her surgery on the same day as my sonogram. I hope both will go well.

I called a nurse at the doc’s office yesterday and she called the pharmacist to prescribe me a prenatal. When I picked it up, I asked them to show me the bottle so I know what I am getting. The bottle says to take two tablets daily while the pharmacist told me to take one. She said that’s doc’s office’s instruction. That seems so odd though. I will then only get 0.5 mg of folic acid. Also, two tablets contain 54 mg of iron, which sounds high to me. I ended up coming home with another brand of prenatal. I called a nurse again this morning and she said she’s never heard of two tablets daily prenatal. I am going to go to the pharmacy during lunch and try to get it resolved there. The whole thing is stressing me out a little.

Oh, something weird happened in the past few days. DH was talking to his friend in Rochester on the phone over the weekend. His friend came totally out of the blue and asked “Is there a baby on the way?” My co-worker JP at work came to me yesterday and said “I dreamt last night that you are pregnant.” So odd, isn’t it? Anyway, they became the first two people outside the family member that know about the news. I hope those two incidents are good signs!!