part 1 - PRE PREGNANCY
hey guys!
long time no blog. if you haven’t cottoned on yet, i am just entering my third trimester of pregnancy.
so, in traditional leah fashion i thought why not document every single aspect of my experience and share it with you. i am an open book after all.
now this first segment of my experience is about pre pregnancy. basically, everything michael and i did in the lead up to falling pregnant and sharing our story.
now im not sure if you guys remember but before this i shared alot of issue revolving around my skin, my gut and just my overall lifestyle choices. which during this mission to find a cure for my acne i was undergoing alot of gut and hormone tests.
one of these tests was from kin fertility. i used kin to INITIALLY check my hormone levels to see if they were contributing to my skin issues. however, i also did select a full check to see how my FERTILITY was tracking just for the sake of it. this is something i never considered but as i approached 31 the thought of fertility does start to cross your mind.
as far as CONTRACEPTION goes, i stopped taking the pill over 10 years ago. i am very much anti- pill. the pill really messes around with my emotional and mental state to the point where im a completely different person. so, had well and truley detoxed this from my body before hand.
my. kin test results showed that all my hormones and egg count was in the normal range, which is alway great to know.
I ALSO WANT TO ADD - I WAS NOT ONLY ON A SKIN AND GUT MISSION BUT A FITNESS MISSION. I SAID TO MICHAEL THAT I DIDN’T WANT TO HAVE A BABY UNTIL I HAD MY ‘DREAM BODY’. YES, THAT’S WHAT I CALLED IT. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH APPEARANCES. IT WAS ABOUT BEING STRONGER AND FITTER. I HAVE NEVER PARTICULAR BEEN A STRONG PERSON WITH ENDURANCE. BUT I KNOW IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE ACTIVE MUSCLES FOR WHEN YOUR BODY STARTS TO GROW A BABY.
SO FOR ME ‘DREAM BODY’ WAS ALL ABOUT STRENGTH.
before we started trying for a baby, we did update and add this to our health insurance. we are both with ahm insurance and to add the pregnancy to our policy basically costs my portion around $250 a month i believe. we decided that we wanted to have a our first baby in the private system. being first timers, with absolutely no experience we are really relying on our ob and hospital to hold our hands through the entire process.
once we kind of got our head around the idea of the structure, we were under the assumption it took couples sometimes up to a year to fall pregnant. you need to factor in specific dates you are ovulating in order to fall pregnant successfully. did i know anything about OVULATING? Absolutely not.
i was using an app on my phone called flo which was a period tracker and showed roughly when you were OVULATING.
Clearblue Advanced Digital Ovulation Kit Test
we started using the clearblue ovulation tests to track what days i was fertile. they are really simple to use. basically you wee on the stick and if you have a smiley face you are in your window.
I just picked these up from Chemist WAREHOUSE.
we were extremely lucky and shocked that we were- a one hit wonder. as soon as we got the timing right we fell pregnant instantly. which now brings me to my next INSTALMENT.
how we found out
my first symptoms
first trimester MANAGEMENT
part 2 - trimester one
