Nenya14
Registered: 10/17/09
Posts: 4
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Hi Ladies!
Some of you may remember me from the CW board...wow how that board got me through a rough time in my life and what wonderful wise friends I made! Just a little update:
Hubs and I have been married 3 years this month and life is great. I'm in my 2nd (and last) year of my graduate program to become a licensed therapist and also have a full time internship working with female survivors of sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, nd domestic violence. It's an intense job to say the least but I love it. After moving to Florida a little over 2 years ago it's starting to finally click--we've made a bunch of good friends and have more or less adjusted to the total culture shock after being northeasterners our whole life. It feels like we have had one huge change after another...starting with marriage, then moving 1000 miles away and leaving my 7 year business career to go back and pursue something completely different, and now we are facing the biggest transition of all, becoming parents! No--we aren't pregnant yet, but we have tentatively begun trying!! I say tentative because it wouldn't be ideal timing right now what with me in a very stressful place school and work wise, but yet at the same time if it happened, we would be thrilled. I've had my "pre-conception" appt with my GYN a couple weeks ago and still have to get some blood work done. I feel like I've been living like a pregnant woman already, taking prenatal vitamins, fish oil, drinking much less, doing yoga more, eating organic and more veg centered and I love it. We will officially start trying in a couple months when we go on vacation since God knows my sex drive needs a boost and relaxation would certainly help that! 
Obviously I have no idea how I will feel once I get pregnant, or how I will feel if we struggle with fertility issues, but at this point, I have never been more "ready". That statement "you just know" with marriage always gave me major heebie jeebies, but for me with motherhood, I do "just know". Of course, I totally anticipate having anxiety, perhaps huge, at times once I am pregnant--it's enormously life changing. I think I just have a lot more confidence at this point in my life (I'm 30 now and feel the most secure in myself I have ever felt) that I can handle changes. I've already handled some huge changes and came out okay---which makes me so grateful for those stressful changes because they were great practice for THIS change!
Anyhow--I really just wanted to check in here since I saw a lot of familiar names and wanted to throw my hat in the ring!
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sherylpaul
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Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 110
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Welcome, Nenya! Preconception is certainly a world unto itself! Be sure you read the articles I have on this topic. And we look forward to hearing about your unfolding journey into motherhood. It's quite a ride... exhilarating in every sense of the word.
http://www.consciousmotherhood.com/CM_articles.html
Blessings,
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AussieJo
Registered: 03/13/08
Posts: 116
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Hi Nenya
I remember you! Congrats on your decision. You sound like you are getting prepared which is great. I look back on our ttc days as really exciting because little did we know how huge the changes would be with the birth of our son Liam but nearly a year on I can say its the best thing we ever did. Liam has bought us so much joy and our threesome is tight as can be.
Good luck and I look forward to sharing your journey with you x
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