My Pregnancy Expeprience

So I want to just kind of sum everything up about my pregnancy and birth just cause I have SO MANY friends who are pregnant right now and most of them are pregnant with their first! So this is what happened with me


Dave and I had been married just over a year when we got pregnant. I had been feeling strange for a couple weeks and so I randomly decided to take a pregnancy test and then I jumped in the shower for 15+ minutes (something Ill never get to do again..maybe 18yrs from now..) than got out and saw one dark pink line and one super light pink line... I thought "OMG!!!! IM EFFIN PREGNANT!!!!". But I thought it probably was an error because instead of waiting 2min to read i waited 15. So I took another and sure enough there was one dark line and one light line, so I didnt know what to think. So I sent a picture to my best girlfriend who has 2 of her own and she laughed and said yep, pregnant. I didnt  believe her so I took like 11 tests and went to the doctor and he confirmed it. I was in shock, it felt so fake.
We made an appointment with my OBGYN and fell in love with her! they did blood work and scheduled an ultrasound for the next morning. I cried when I got to see this tiny perfect 8week old fetus baby in my belly. It was bliss. His heart beat was so beautiful. Everything was great! I enjoyed my appointments after that cause I always got to hear his heartbeat. I had the WORST morning sickness from about 4 weeeks all the way til the middle of my 2nd trimester, and it lasted ALL day :( ick.
I had another ultrasound with a specialist at about 19weeks and we found out the sex! We were so excited to learn we were having a boy. We also learned that the umbilical cord was attached to the side of my placenta and they were concerned about that. I then had an ultrasound every 4 weeks and sometimes even more often, nothing ever became of that cord but it was a worry up until my sweet Owen was born.
I had almost every symptom of preeclampsia after 28weeks and my doctor was worried, She would send me to labor and delivery after my appointments occasionally just so they could monitor my sweet-pea and make sure we were ok and safe.
Preeclampsia made me swell up like a balloon- it was uncomfortable and ugly :( I also had really high blood pressure and they kept a close eye on that.
I started going to the doctor every week about a month before I was far along enough to have such frequent appointments normally. Then it turned into twice a week and sometimes 3 times a week and I was always being sent to the hospital and to the lab. I want this pregnancy to be over. I wanted my sweet Owen in my arms. I started itching really bad all over my body for no reason at about 33 or 34 weeks. Nothing relived it so I finally brought it up to my doctor and she sent me to the hospital for monitoring. I had to do a blood test that took min of 4 days to process. I was so uncomfortable. I could not even sleep I itched so bad. I cried cause it was so horrible and used every possible thing in my home to itch myself. I went in for an ultrasound and they said that my placenta was pre-maturing (meaning it was getting old and hard), They said Owen was so big that if my normal OBGYN did not induce me that week they would induce me cause his fluid was low and he was to big for my body and they didnt want him to get much bigger. I worried about this a lot. Being induced was something we played day by day for a long time. I held out longer than anyone thought I would be able to. I started getting ultrasounds weekly.
After Dave and I got to one of my ultrasounds we were sitting in the lobby waiting for our turn to go back. The doctor on call called me from my OBGYN office and said that I have choleostasis and I had to go to labor and delivery immediatly cause they needed to induce me. Choleostasis is when your liver stops filtering and all the bile is building up and causes you to itch, it can also cause sudden death to your baby in your belly. So we talked to the ultrasound technician and they wanted to send me to the hospital anyway cause my BP was through the roof and my body was done taking care of the baby inside. So away we went to the hospital, I have this whole story back a couple posts so ill make it short. I was in 25+hours of labor, only pushed for about 20 min (my epidural wore off right before pushing time...awesome). My pregnancy problems went away instatly and baby boy was healthy. He did not pass his hearing screening so we had to take him to a specialist but  he passed it with flying colors :) He was a big healthy 7lbs 13oz baby. We stayed in the hospital for 4 days, and they took such good care of us. I loved being pregnant even though most of the time i was sick. I would do it all over again though. Owen is the sweetest little baby!

-No matter how horrible your pregnancy may be, its still one of the most amazing, beautiful, wonderful things you will ever go through.