The pregnancy week countdown…

Well… I’ve got 7 1/2 weeks to go.

Not bad.

It’s funny how when you’re pregnany you truly talk in weeks and days… not months.

I think it’s funny when I tell someone that I’m 32 weeks along… you suddenly see them crunching numbers in their head… and then finally saying, “Ohh… so you’re 7 1/2 months”.

But I think I have pretty much narrowed down the pregnancy timeline…

For the first 12 weeks… you are beyond excited and beyond nervous. You don’t want to tell a lot of people… but you also want to tell everyone! As for my husband and I… the first time around we told people around 7 weeks… with my second child, we told everyone the night we got a positive pregnancy test. And then… we suffered a miscarriage… so when I got pregnant again after the miscarriage… we waited the full 12 weeks until we told everyone.

For the next 12 weeks… you just keep praying all is well. You begin to grow out of your clothes… people start to notice… and then the questions begin “do you know what you’re having”… or for my husband and I with our latest baby (after having 2 sons already) “Are you hoping for a girl?” Don’t you just love those ballsy people!?!

For the next 12 weeks… you really begin to feel the kickings and the pullings and you begin to get REALLY REALLY excited about the impending birth… knowing that you will be meeting this little person very soon!!

And the remaining weeks… you just want the baby to stay put as long as it can… but not come more than a week late! Is that too much to ask!!??

SO…. to all those pregnant out there…. enjoy your week countdown – whether it’s 39 weeks to go… or 1 week to go… it’s an AWESOME adventure!!!!!!!