Journal

Week 7

(April 22nd- 29th)

Emotional:

Well, so much has happened! I've been looking more and more into my options and trying to see if it's possible to go to university next year. I've already put myself on the day care waiting list at the university I want to go to, so that even if I end up going in Fall 99, baby will have somewhere to go that's nearby her/his mom.
My mother now knows about my pregnancy and is being really great about it. She understands that I just need her support right now, not any lectures and I appreciate her caring. I just wish the baby's other grandmother was taking it as well... :(
Chris (aka "baby's Dad") is home from university... this has added a lot of confusion into my life, especially where Matt is concerned... It was easy to date someone else while Chris was very much out of the picture but now that Chris is home and trying to make up for his past mistakes, Matt and I will have to be friends only. Chris is now trying very hard to make up for a lot of the problems we've had throughout our relationship (which has lasted about a year and a quarter, off and on). I find it difficult to trust him since he has really hurt me in the past but he seems happy about having a baby together and I think we can work out our problems and provide our child with parents who love eachother.
Besides my relations with other people, I am also slowly adjusting more and more to the idea of a child. I'm trying to arrange my life so that I can still do the things I want to do (like go to university) while still making sure my child will be provided for. I'm actually pretty happy about this baby and am getting more and more excited about the fact that I will soon have this wonderful, miraculous child in my life and I will be a Mom!!! :)

Physical:

This has been the week of nausea! It seems that things have gotten a lot worse and I just feel sick almost all the time. It strikes at any time of day, usually several times a day. I haven't been vomitting much (thank goodness) but there have been many many times when I've just had to sit down in the close vicinity of a toilet, just in case. I also still feel really tired, and have trouble staying awake in mid afternoon. I really can't wait until the nausea stops!!!

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