If It's On Facebook, It's Official!

Little did I know that while I blogged on New Year's Day 2 little lives were already forming inside of me...

I don't know what it is about babies but they happen to you. You can try as hard as you can to make them, but these little gifts from God only come to you when they are ready. As hard as it was for me to accept this because almost every friend was popping out a little bub without even trying, I think I came to terms with it after I posted that New Year's blogpost. I was ready to press Play on my life that was Paused for a while.

I had it all planned out, I was going to do this, learn this, perform this, teach this, and then a couple of days later we found out that I was pregnant. I cried, he cried, my mom cried, my dad cried, heck even my sister cried not because I told her but because she kinda guessed and cried in case it was true.

Yes, we were very happy and very excited. I was going to embrace this pregnancy, glow and radiate like a firefly, I mean, I wanted this for so long right? My mom kept asking me if I felt any nausea and I was all, "No, mom. I feel great, I don't feel anything at all..." 

Then 2 days later I fell sick with a fever and sore throat and the nausea nightmare began.

I'm one who rarely falls sick so when I do it gets quite ugly. So I didn't realise that my nausea troubles had begun till my fever and sore throat went away and I noticed that I was still throwing up everything I ate. It was horrible. I realised I couldn't stand the smell of my own bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, fridge, clothes detergent, shampoo, I couldn't even stand the smell of my own husband. :( A smell I used to love by the way.

It was bad. None of my friends experienced nausea this bad so I did not know what to expect. All my mom kept saying was, you'll see, you'll see, which really did not help at all.

Now that I have just turned 14 weeks, I feel like the nausea has eased up a lot. It was progressive but now I can eat a meal without wanting to run to the nearest bathroom, I can even drink a couple of sips of water (something I could not even do earlier). I think I kinda know what triggers my nausea but I've heard that it's different for everyone. Can you believe this? Women have been pregnant for centuries and we haven't found a cure for morning sickness yet! There are medication of course, which I was taking for a while, but I wasn't too comfortable with the idea of taking something to subside a completely natural symptom so I weaned myself of the meds and just tried eating whatever I felt like eating. It came to a point where I just hated eating altogether, something I have never experienced my entire life.

So, as excited as I was to stand on a cliff and shout out "I'M PREGNANT" to the entire world, I kept mum (haha, geddit?) till we heard the heartbeats. Ok, here's the thing. When I went in for my first scan, we only saw one yolk sac. Only when we went in to hear the heartbeat for the first time  we found 2 little embryos and we had the shock of our lives! I couldn't believe it. After that we decided to tell our parents, friends and family members. I loved telling everyone because it felt like I was playing an awesome hand of poker. I mean people were already so happy to hear that I was pregnant, but when I upped the news by saying that we were having twins, people just lost it!

So, I didn't want to do the whole facebook thing of posting a photograph of my ultrasound because half the time people just don't understand what they're looking at so I kept things understated and kept people guessing till I posted a recent photo of a little bump that seems to be growing everyday.

Now, that it's on Facebook, I guess it's safe to say it's Official!

I'm pregnant with a set of twins!