I really am pregnant!
I found out I was pregnant really early. I hadn't even missed my period yet. In the back of my head it was still coming. That day came and went and the reality of my situation started to settle in, but not really.
The first four weeks of this pregnancy I felt great, as in not pregnant at all. I had to burp every three seconds but as I told everyone, better to release it up top than down below. I did, however, become extremely EXHAUSTED. The term "exhausted" is an understatement for what I was going through. It was ridiculous and I couldn't control it. Chef was getting frustrated that we weren't spending any time together and that the house would never get cleaned because I was sleeping ALL the time. He is more understanding about my extreme exhaustion but he still wants a clean house. I'm trying.
During this period my entire research lab went to Boston, MA for a scientific conference. I think I slept 60% of the conference. I believe there was one full day that I didn't attend anything because I needed to sleep. It was horrible. My schedule was to wake up, eat breakfast, go back to my room for a 2-3 hour nap, and then try to get on with the rest of my day. I was so wiped out I couldn't think straight. I started to look sleep deprived even though it was all I did.
I was still partially in denial about the pregnancy so I procrastinated about getting my haunches to the doctor to see what was really going on. I have student insurance at my university so I called up student health to see if they did blood pregnancy tests. NOPE...only urine tests. I had taken enough of those not to waste my time. I had to get on the ball about prenatal care and figure out what I wanted for this baby.
I wanted this experience to be as natural as possible and decided to do some research on birth centers. I found a lovely birth center less than two miles away from our house. I went on my student insurance website to see what my benefits were and if by some act of God, care at the birth center would be covered. IT WAS! For those of you that don't know the cost of a birth center is usually less than 1/3 of what the cost of delivering in a hospital would be and the fact that my insurance treats pregnancy as "any other sickness"(according to my benefits book), this would be covered at 80% because the birth center is in my network.
The deal with the birth center is that they require you to take a tour to see if you like it before they accept you as a client. Due to some scheduling issues with Chef's job and limited spots for tours I couldn't schedule our tour until I would be 9 weeks along. That is a little longer than they would have liked so at the same time I scheduled our tour, I scheduled our first appointment for 9am the following morning. This way I would already have an appointment if I loved the center and if I didn't they would just cancel it. They did want to get me in there because apparently most health care providers want to see you for the first time around 6 weeks.
With the tour of the birth center weeks away and it being the only thing I was looking forward to the time began to pass so slowly. It became a real serious waiting game, and I was losing.
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