minxy

Hi dreamwidth.

You know how you are growing up, and (if you are in the US) "sexual education" basically boils down to do not get pregnant, because you will instantly? Turns out there is a ton about the incredibly awesome female reproductive system that they are skipping with that message, and also, it's inaccurate, but I internalized one major thing:

DO NOT GET PREGNANT.

Since I got an A in health class (that's high marks, non-USAians), I have spent 39 years successfully not getting pregnant, using various techniques.

Then I decided I wanted to get pregnant, and the message had changed! Suddenly it was "Oh man, you are OLD. Maybe you won't be able to get pregnant!" Except ha, no. I got me a bun in the oven within two months of going off birth control.*

Which is all to say: hi! I am currently pregnant and I'm telling you much earlier than I'm telling anyone else because I thought I would have a lot more time to process the fact that I just undid 39 years of "DO NOT GET PREGNANT" and it's a very odd thing to wrap my brain around. Let alone the little brain I am currently incubating down cuddled in my intestines.

Because it's you, and I'm in a very strange headspace, I feel I can tell you that the MPreg "WTF?" is suddenly seaming much more realistic to me. I definitely identify with thinking that was not a thing my body was going to do.

*remember that moment in one of the LOTR movies when Gimli falls off a horse and gets up shouting "that was deliberate! that was deliberate!" I feel like I should be protesting similarly at this moment.

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cofax7

Wow, hey congratulations! Also, nice to hear from you!

minxy

It's been a crazy first year back, but I'm really happy!

minnaway

Congrats! Best of luck :)

Ta very! I shall need the good luck!

... I think I have progressed to the "what were we thinking? We are not grown-up enough for this!!!!" phase. Which is totally a thing.

synecdochic

OMG! Congratulations on successfully getting pregnant at a time you wanted to get pregnant! Congrats on baking a baby! Looking forward to hearing about the new tiny human!

Isn't that something? I decided to get knocked up and boom, two months later there's an alien in my innards. I only half thought it worked like that.

My spouse is being utterly hilarious about this. I text him "omg, the koala is growing a spine this week!" and he texts back "sorry! Just got distracted by looking at how to retrofit my vintage truck for a baby carrier. But that is so cool!"

Hee hee hee! You two are too cute.

And yeah, it is pretty impressive to only take two months. Makes it more impressive that you managed to get this far without an accident if you're that fertile!

I'm apparently an overachiever at fertility too-- my temperature charts were textbook the month I did and didn't conceive. I was more worried about that (E was blase-- "so we adopt!" if we weren't able) than much else.

Cat is currently purring his way through the early weeks right on top of my belly-- I'm planning on a tour-de-force baby book about how that makes your kid smarter. The mass market literature I've seen is deplorable; I'd make millions for the kid's trust fund.