We should have waited...to tell.

So right at the beginning of February, just two weeks after we found out, I started to feel a little nauseated. Nothing major, but I really feared that it would get worse. I have a weaker stomach than I'd like to admit. I guess since I started having migraines a few years ago I realized that it's easier to just go ahead and throw up than it is to try to hold it in, because when I hold it in, the nauseated feeling doesn't go away.

We wanted to make sure that our parents knew about the baby before we told anyone else, and I just knew that as soon as people at work saw me throwing up, they'd start speculating. (That's been happening to me for a long time...when I first started getting migraines and feeling sick, that's the first conclusion that people came to. But this time, it would be true, and anyone who knows me knows that I CANNOT lie, even if it's about something good.)

So against my better judgment, we told our parents on February 3rd, when I was only 7 weeks pregnant. Chris will probably get mad at me for saying this, but I think he was just looking for an excuse to tell people. And everyone else will probably be mad at me for saying this, but I really wish we would have waited. We really only intended for our parents and maybe our grandparents to know, but it wasn't long before aunts, uncles, and even high school friends knew. It's not that we didn't want them to know, it's just that we really wanted to wait a while until we had a chance to let it sink in. And I also wondered if people would be offended that we didn't tell them ourselves. It's not that we didn't want to break the news in person, it's just that we didn't have a chance to. (So I'm sorry to anyone who may have found out from someone other than us.) I know that our parents were just excited, but I guess I was just right that we should have waited to tell them. (But I'm usually right, so that shouldn't be a big surprise.)

And since I'm somewhat of a grammar/spelling freak, let me explain something--While it's commonly thought that people feel "nauseous," that word is actually misused. People feel "nauseated." Nauseous means something that's disgusting or something that creates nausea. So for example, while we might think that a carnival ride is "nauseating," the ride is actually "nauseous." I know, I don't like it either, but it's true.

Written on Tuesday March 10, 2009