To tell others or not to tell others? End of Week 9

This week hasn’t been bad at all. Other than the daily tiredness, I’ve felt pretty good all week long. My parents came to visit this past week and babied the heck out of me. My grandmother, mom, and mom #2 (MIL) seem to think I shouldn’t do anything, which includes bending down. Oh yes, they are crazy. They also insist I was the Ramayan starting now and finish the series before the end of my 7^th month. I kinda agree with them about that… good thoughts and positive energy will help the baby grow and become a better person. On the other hand, they say not to watch or read the Mahabarat because of all the fighting that goes on in the series. But isn’t there a lesson to be learned? Doesn’t good conquer evil? But for now it's the Ramayan!

Okay I digress…

I’m slowing telling a few friends. They say to wait until week 13 or the end of your first trimester to tell people. I can’t contain myself and find myself telling a new person every week.

This weekend my BFF Rachael and Zena will find out! We’re supposed to go see Nital’s baby #2 this weekend, but an old Indian superstition forbids me to see the new baby and mommy until the baby is a like 6 weeks old. So I’m gonna bail on Rach and Zena last minute. I really wanted to tell them with Nital around but alas I can’t. I’ve tricked Rach into thinking we’re just going for breakfast Sunday morning. We had joked that we would try to get pregnant around the same time. Bill and Rach are now thinking about starting a family too. So she joked that we will discuss during breakfast when we’ll get pregnant. We’re starting our pregnancy pact. Except we’re grown up. So no one will think it's unusal, espcially our husbands. haha.

Week 8

WOW – this blog is proof that week eight was all a big blur for me. I have been just tried and kinda out of it. The week flew by. I am in no mood to do anything. I come home and just want to relax. I have five hundred projects that i want to complete - mainly my other blogs. I still get sick towards the end of the day. I have no food craving other than pizza. But I always craved pizza, even before I was pregnant. i heart pizza.

Oh, I had my first ultrasound this week. I heard the little peanuts heartbeat. I saw their heart flutter, which made my heart flutter. It was a pretty surreal moment for me because before the ultrasound I didn’t really feel pregnant. I mean I had all the symptoms but never actually could connect to the baby.

Here’s their first picture ever. Kavita joked he/she had Anand's head and my (insert "giant" here)cheeks:

And this is me at Week 8:

Week 6 & Week 7

Week six was an exciting one. We told practically our whole family that we were expecting. My symptoms really started to show. I was cold one day and hot another. I was nauseated few hours and fine after that. I felt tried the whole time though. Today marks the start of my week 7. Here is what the baby should look like during week 7. I can’t believe there is a little person inside me. It’s hard to believe because there are no physical signs of this pregnancy.

Oh, side note- Nital and Raj welcomed baby girl yesterday. Nandini Sannidhi has arrived! I got to see a picture of her early this morning and she’s adorable.

They are saying 2011 is the year of girls. We’ll see if that’s true in 8 months.... or 10 weeks!  

Mom & Dad, we're expecting.

So much happened this weekend. Parul found out accidentally I was expecting. We rang in the New Year with some friends. We told our parents we are expecting. And we told the rest of our family we are expecting yesterday.

NYE was eventful. But before we get into NYE night, let me tell you how Parul found out. She came by our place to pick up a sweater for a wedding on New Years Day (WTF? Why would someone do that? I mean unless it was a family member, I don’t think anyone has the right to take away the first day of the New Year!!). Anyways, I had my What to expect book out on the table and she asked me “Amisha, are you pregnant?” I couldn’t lie because there were many clues in the weeks before that I was pregnant that I thought she picked up on. So I hysterically laughed (out of nervousness) and told her I was. She was shocked because didn’t think I was; she just assumed I had the book to prepare.

Later that night I used my “I’m on a cleanse” excuse to not drink on NYE. Shital jokingly said I was pregnant and that’s why I wasn’t drinking. She slowly (one by one) told everyone I was expecting and that’s why I was not drinking… she was half joking because she didn’t really know I was. Later Dee (her hubby), says I had this pregnancy glow, which I thought was a crock of shit. My face looks the way it did when I was 13. It’s acne central. There is no way there is a pregnancy glow… the only glow you can see is the red mountains on my face.  So Dee, thank you but cut the crap. Haha.

So we finally got thru NYE, the next day we went to NJ to tell our parents. I couldn’t wait to tell them, so as soon as we got there, we gave them these photo frames that said “baby picture coming August 2011”. Here is their reaction:

Hiral and Manali were downstairs and heard the commotion, so they came up to this reaction:

I wish I had the chance to tell them on my own, but some things are just outta my control.

Yesterday, we finally told all of Anand’s family, but told them to keep on the DL since we are not telling anyone till like end of Feb or March.