I’m Pregnant! My Conception Story.

I’m Pregnant! My husband and I couldn’t be happier and so relieved that things went as planned. I am 6 weeks and 4 days pregnant (yes I am counting each day) and our little one is the size of a sweet pea or a blueberry depending on which source you use to track your pregnancy.

When I was in my 20’s I felt so much despair around the idea of getting married to someone who loved me and having a family. I never thought that this was a goal I would every achieve. After I met my husband and we got married I felt so incredible, like anything was possible for me and my next goal was to have a baby. Shortly before my husband and I got married my husband got injured at work and lost his ability to walk for 4 months. This put a little stress on our relationship but I was determined to get him up and walking again. He didn’t want to burden me and didn’t want me to have to take care of him and a baby so we put off the baby goal. Than after we got married and started settling into life and getting him walking and healing his body I learned so much more about the body and how to support it naturally and I was diagnosed with Leaky Gut.

This was a stressful time for me because I didn’t want to experience health issues while pregnant. While I was learning so much about the body I learned that the baby gets its microbiome from the mom during pregnancy and being birthed through the vaginal canal. Experiencing Leaky Gut I didn’t want my baby to get my off balanced microbiome. I felt so sad for a short time in the beginning of the process because I wanted so badly for us to have a baby, but I knew I couldn’t stay sad and depressed or I wouldn’t heal. We made our Preconception plan and I set my mind to healing; healing myself, my husband and the people I came in contact with. This was such a tough time for me mentally, I struggled so much with feelings of sadness, even more so seeing friends and family around me get pregnant and have their babies.

For some women our calling to be a mother is much stronger than with other women and its not just something we think about constantly but also a biological thing. We as women are created to procreate and our biology reminds us constantly that this needs to happen, especially as you get older. I am 34 years old and I didn’t want to wait too much longer to have children; we discussed having at least one child but what if we changed our minds and later wanted another little one, I didn’t want to be too old if we did want another child. I’ve learned that the older we get the harder pregnancy, labor and recovery can be harder on your body. Our hormones are decreasing as we age and its harder for our bodies to recover. I know this isn’t true for all women but for some it is.

So about a year and half ago we talked and felt more confident about our decision of finally having a child if we had a plan and our businesses and health were where we wanted them. Yes I have heard from many people that plans don’t always work but if you stay true to your plan it will come to fruition even if the time line isn’t exactly correct. I needed this plan; I needed it to give me hope, to give me a goal to achieve to keep me moving forward. And moving forward was what we did! Both my husband and I healed our bodies, set our mental state and physical state up for this new great adventure.

Due to business and than a series of events that lead to a global shut down we kept getting delayed on the baby making step. In March of this year I put my foot down and reassured my husband that now was the perfect time for us to bring this baby into the world.

We set a date of August to start the baby making and each day felt sooo long and each month drug on until we came to July. Now for the last 6 months I have been tracking my monthly cycle and knew exactly when I was ovulating and when the perfect time to start was and if we started trying in July that gave me enough time to start producing the pregnancy hormone and get a positive pregnancy test. I begged for us to jump ahead a month in the plan because I had a surprise and I couldn’t tell him why, his birthday was exactly 1 month away and I planned to give him the positive test for his present. He agreed!

I figured out what my ovulation day was; the day the egg is released and if fertilized it will implant in the uterus, and from research knew that the 3-5 days leading up to ovulation day was the best to start trying. If you have read my previous posts my husband and I have been together for 5 years and married for 3 years and this was not going to be the first time we had sex and we are both in our 30’s but the first day we had sex to start the baby making was the most awkward sex we have had. After we both said it was like we were in high school again and had never seen another person naked, but after the awkwardness went away it was pure love. We both agreed that we wanted to have this baby from love and we cleared our energies and emotions before going into this.

The next 5 days were open game on baby making and they were so much fun. It was like we were dating again and we fell in love all over again with each other. We were making a baby with love and good energy. We turned off our phones, turned off the wifi, played good music and had fun. We both agreed no stress was going to be apart of the process no matter how long this took.

3 days after ovulation I knew I was pregnant and I felt so happy and also like it wasn’t real. Everything I found on the internet was saying you won’t know until 5-6 weeks in and here are the common signs that your pregnant; morning sickness, dizziness, food aversions, moodiness, fatigue, etc. Even now 6 weeks in I don’t have any of those symptoms and I’m glad to inform you that not every woman will experience them.

I knew I was pregnant because I had bloating which happens during ovulation to create a lining in your uterus for the egg to attach to and this bloating didn’t go away. When you start the bleeding part of your cycle that is your body shedding that lining because no egg was implanted.

The second sign was fatigue; I felt tired during the day which I normally have great energy, I sleep great, I eat nutrient dense meals, I drink lots of water and I’m in good shape. My husband and I go on 1-3 walks each day for about 30 mins to an hour and I was so tired on the walks. Our quick 10 min walk took 25-30 mins to finish.

The third sign was hunger; I fast from 6pm until 10am-12pm each day and I can sometimes go all day with one meal and feel good. I’m not saying this is good because I know I was under consuming calories for my body, but now I was hungry all day, my body wanted food every 1-2 hours and I was eating decent sized whole food meals and I was hungry as soon as I woke up.

The fourth sign was my intuition; my body knew I was pregnant, what was happening with my body was different, it felt as if something was happening but not something bad, something beautiful and calming. If you listen to your body it will tell you what it needs and how to care for it. During my preparation I have become pretty in tune with my body.

Even though my husband and I knew I was pregnant it was comforting to get that positive test and a nice little gift for his birthday. As his birthday approached so did my expected period day and 2 days after my missed period I received the positive test.

I know so many women who have a hard time with getting pregnant and it becomes such a sad and stressful process. But also there are good pregnancy stories and I am so thankful I am experiencing it. If we concentrate on the good things and destress the process good things come. I hope that I can inspire other women to look at preconception, pregnancy and birth in a bright beautiful light. This is a natural process our bodies were meant to do not a horrible medical emergency.

Thank you for following my journey and I hope to inspire you! Please leave a comment and share with your friends and family.