Joys of Pregnancy!

I will probably have lots of joys that I will share along the way. Some will be genuine others will be sarcastic. Hopefully my tone never comes across as resentful or annoyed because in all honesty I am super happy that I am going to have a baby, but sometimes the journey there isn't so pleasant.

An amazing joy is knowing that each day the baby is doing something new! And for me it is amazing how just overnight my belly expands.

Speaking of an expanding belly; with that comes the joy of stretchmarks. Not all people experience this but I knew before I was even pregnant I would get stretchmarks. Last night my first one appeared. It was the strangest feeling actually. I got this crazy crazy itch! I will note that I didn't scratch instead I went to find the lotion and as I stood up all the sudden there was this feeling of release. I looked down and there it was, one sole stretchmark. At first it bummed me out and then I was like hey this is just another joy of pregnancy. And while it seems a bit unflattering and depressing the overall picture makes it better.

One joy that I was not expecting was the hair. Everyday I am plucking one or two dark noticeable hairs from my chin line! But that isn't anything. You should see my stomach. My stomach is almost as hairy as John's (no offense babe, but we know, lol). And it really did come on all of the sudden. One day I said out loud to John, "You know this is weird, my stomach sure does have a lot of hair on it." His response, "Yeah I know I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to hurt your feelings but it is definitely hairy." Maybe this is too much information for you but I just thought I would share with you. Hormones can cause crazy things to happen to your body and each woman is different. Nobody once told me that my stomach could turn into a grassy knoll, so I am choosing to make it known now to anybody that might become pregnant.

So there it is just a couple pregnancy joys that I wanted to share. While calling them joys might seem odd please trust me that anything that happens to one's body during pregnancy is amazing because you are carrying life!!! How cool is that?!