oloriel | Also: The secret!

Yesterday also marked the big secret reveal (TM) in the family circle, so now I can finally squee and blather and spam to my heart's delight here.

Of course, the secret has already been sort-of-revealed by Sherlock

chili_das_schaf, who, in a feat of good memory, clever speculation, pattern recognition and brilliant intuition combined recent incoherent mentions of "no period in November", "secret" and "one more week" and (presumably) came to the correct conclusion, which is, in case you still haven't guessed it: Yes, the Lyra is totally pregnant. ^^

Although the lack of period as such didn't tip me off at the time - I've had, as mentioned, the same issue during other stressful exams - there were other indicators, such as weird cravings (cauliflower, wtf?) and sudden dislikes (feta cheese ;_;), inexplicable breast growth (like they aren't big enough already :p) and absurd and quite inappropriate tiredness.
After the last written exam, I bought a pregnancy test kit, but I still didn't quite dare to get my hopes and spirits up, since a positive test result might also have other reasons and it'd kind of suck to be all "YAY OMG BABY" only to find out that actually it's uterine cancer or somesuch. >_>

However, a week ago I finally managed to get an appointment with the gynaecologist, and although the little figure in the ultrasound scan was kind of fuzzy and looked more like a teddy bear, a general trend towards human being was clearly recogniseable.

At this point, I finally dared to believe it. I also got a Mutterpass and two bags full of spammage, from Pampers coupons to magazines for "young families" to a heartfelt form letter from the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection concerning the drinking of alcohol during pregnancies and why one shouldn't do it (O RLY?).
One of these days there's going to be a rant on how all these books and booklets and blah for pregnant women have an absurd tendency to be a) pink and b) formulated so a 10-year-old can understand them. Don't know about you, but I'd hope 10-year-olds (whether or not they like pink) don't actually need "Your Mummy Tummy And You" booklets...

Anyway! Yesterday, week 12 started (although the gynaecologist - and yes, her name is indeed Dr. Kox, and no, I think Dr. Kuntz would be more awkward, and yes, I know this was a horrible pun - said I might as well tell people "already", i.e. in Week 10, as things were stable already anyway), and as conveniently the nuclear family was gathered for Christmas, we started spreading the news. I was somewhat surprised that they were all happy - I'd expected my mom-in-law and my brother to be ecstatic, but rather thought my parents and grandmother would be too full of "BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR CAREEEEEEER" worries and we'd have to explain forever why now was a good time and the feast would be ruined. Instead, everyone appeared really happy. Phew!

As there may be a few standard questions, I'll try to answer them right away:
- Yes, this was intended. We've sort of been trying since August, though we were a little surprised that it worked out so soon. ^^
- No, I didn't have to struggle with morning sickness. Fortunately - exams + morning sickness would've been a kind of sucky combination. As morning sickness, if it occurs at all, tends to get better/ go away after week 12, I am no longer expecting that I'll have to deal with it this time around.
- Estimated time of arrival is mid-July. (I won't even bother giving an exact date - otherwise I'll probably have people going all "OMG IS SOMETHING WRONG" if it takes a bit longer, as it apparently does in 98% of cases.)
- No, I am indeed not allowed to have sushi ;_;. Or raw fish in other forms. Or raw meat. Or cheese made of raw milk. I am also not allowed to clean the cat litter until they've checked whether I've already had toxoplasmosis. That, I am not too sad about. ^^

Next check-up on Jan. 4th. First time I'm excited about an appointment with the gynaecologist (or any other doctor, really...) ^^

And... I think that was enough blathering for the moment! :D Thanks, you may now go back to your feasting.