After finding out about the pregnancy, we scheduled an appointment with my Obgyn. I told her about the positive pregnancy tests and she said it is too early to tell anything and scheduled a scan after 8 weeks. In the meanwhile, I started to experience mild nausea after every meal, but never vomited which was good enough for me.
The nausea and uneasiness would start right after having food and sometimes it eased a little after drinking green tea or lime juice. But it never worsened beyond that. Finally, I completed 8 weeks and went for the scan. I was pretty nervous and had some silly thoughts like there is no baby in me and it was all just my fantasy and I imagined the symptoms. But I coudn't have been more wrong. Hearing the baby's heart beat for the firstime on the monitor and seeing a grey blob in the gestational sac reassured me immensely and everything became too real. I WAS REALLY PREGNANT!
Apart from the mild nausea, the only symptom i had was sleepiness. After having lunch I had to take a nap in the afternoon. I was not a great napper before, but this urge to sleep took me by surprise. I also had these unusual pains in my pelvic area sometimes, but that was just my uterus stretching to accommodate by baby I guess.
I was lucky to have work from home and I utilized it to the fullest during my pregnancy. This was the period that I fell in love with my husband all over again. He was handling his fair share of housework before, but now he took up almost everything. Along with helping me in the kitchen he started handling other housework as well like laundry, cleaning, etc.
The only craving i had in this period was for spicy food. I satiated it occasionally with some vada pav and hari mirchi!
This pretty much sums up my first trimester. I am lucky to have not suffered through severe nausea and everything was almost normal.
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