This is a Mom blog.

I don't want to coat my facebook wall with pregnancy stuff (ewww, I just realized how gross that sounded), so I think the majority of this blog will be related to my current gestating status! This won't be a pregnancy blog per se, or one of those dear baby blogs, but I've been censoring myself on the internet about my pregnancy and I won't do that here.
I'll still be AGirlNamedStewart, but that's only because there are so many cool pregnancy blog names that are already taken.
Girls Gone Child? From Here to Maternity? My Lovely Lady Bump? The Daily Discharge? All taken.

Owie Zowie

I had Braxton Hicks contractions for the first time today...yikes! "Painless" my foot. I had super strong pain in the center of my abdomen for almost 2 hours. My doctor's office was closed when I called and I didn't want to incur the costs of calling the on call practitioner. After a lot of hydration and walked I stopped feeling so horrible.
I finally am not freaked out since I've felt her move for a while. I can't believe anyone ever said Braxton Hicks were painless.

Joy to the World

I'll have a little human being with no free will and almost no muscle control to dress up this holiday season.
HALLELUJAH indeed.

I must seem like the biggest nerd

Today's my birthday! Everyone at the office wants to know what I'm doing to celebrate. I'm telling them the truth: I'm going home and sleeping. People have kind of given me weird looks and it just dawned on me that people in the office don't yet know that I'm pregnant. They just think I want to celebrate my 29th birthday by being unconscious.

Current state of mind: terrified

One of our pets had a seizure today. We've ruled out anything that was ingested, so this is probably genetics.
I never want to leave my baby again.

Deep Breaths

I'm a little bit frustrated right now. It's not a big deal.

Back story: this summer I had a large ruptured ovarian cyst. My period was 12 days late (!), I was tired all the time, I felt full after eating small amounts of food, I gained some water weight below my belly button, and I sometimes had a dull or even hot ache in my lower abdomen. I got it checked out, no big deal, it went away after a month or two.

Right now John and I aren't trying to not start procreating, if that makes sense. I'm 4 days late and I was actually getting a little excited! I've been tired and feeling uncomfortably full. I was waiting until I was a full week late to take a test because I don't want to get a false negative. For about a week I'd intermittently have a sharp twinge in my lower abdomen, which I thought were maybe maybe maybe round ligament pains. This morning I started to feel a dull pain in my lower front side and after lunch felt that familiar hot sensation right where my ovary is. Not being pregnant right now isn't the biggest deal. I just really wish I wouldn't be growing a cyst the first month that a pregnancy would be happy news. Oh well.

TMI?

I think John's in guy heaven. This evening he watched Star Wars and then watched porn while playing Angry Birds.