I am pregnant!

Nov 6, 2005
Chennai, India

Yes...the frustration of the last two months are over and I am finally pregnant!! Its November 6, 2005, one day after my 24th b'day and I have received the best gift I could get..Both my husband and I didn't sleep the whole of previous night...I even woke up at 3 A.M and did a hurried pregnancy test, but nothing was obvious..some faint patches, but nothing conclusive. With a heavy heart, I slept again.
The lab technition took my urine sample and came back with two bold lines on a tiny strip. The only proof that I am pregnant. I wanted to save it, but by the time I realized that, the doctor had placed it safely in her dustbin and scrounging for it was not the ideal way to celebrate my pregnancy! But all celebrations were to be controlled till we get the baby in hand, as I had had some difficulty in conceiving and god and my doctor alone knows just how many hormones were pumped inside me, so, it was to be total rest, no traveling and good diet for the rest of the pregnancy. Not bad. Very achievable. So, I decided to stay back in Chennai..taking an unlimited loss of pay leave from my company and planning to have the best of my time with my parents.
I was to have a hormone injection twice a week, for the next 10 weeks. Things were fine till the 6th week. And then started the vomiting. It started out with once in the morning and everyone in the house were excited..I was finally getting some symptom of being pregnant and my mom was telling me that this was the time when women actually knew they were pregnant, only I had been to the doctor before because of my hormone issues. After the first injection, I started throwing up more often and very soon, it became every two hours. I would have just finished having something as light as an apple and there, it would all be on the floor. We tried all combinations of food and beverages, but I was throwing up without discrimination. Then it struck me that I was taking out whenever I was vertical and so, I moved to the horizontal, staying in bed atleast one hour after eating. Things became a bit better and I now had a bucket partly filled with dettol water near my bed. So, every time I felt like taking out, I would just tilt over and pour my self out into the bucket. This worked and I could even make it out of my bed for an evening juice. The day after the injection was the worst. I would start vomiting blood at the end of the day.
Amidst all this, I knew my baby was growing. Though there was nothing to show, I just knew it. I also knew that there was something special waiting for me, some surprise, something different that would come out the next scan. Each day was now a wait till the next scan.

That and more, the next post!