Please share some optimism! What are you looking forward to/what’s going well right now?

Week 7 and really getting bogged down with the constant nausea and exhaustion. When we first found out, the first week we were so excited and I had so much wonder and joy about this new life inside of me. I couldn’t wait to share all our hobbies and passions and adventures with our little one.

And now every week since I feel like that joy has slowly been sapped away by dread. I haven’t told many people yet and I’m dreading all the unsolicited advice, the “just you wait it gets worse”, the unasked for tummy touching, the weight gain and losing control of my body, the inevitable in-laws overstepping their boundaries.

Please share some optimism!! I would love to feel joy and excitement about my pregnancy again. What are you looking forward to? What’s keeping you excited? This should be a happy joyous thing, and yet I’m so anxious and already dreading the months ahead.