Elizabeth Madison

At this point in my pregnancy both my husband and I had told our families that we were expecting but we had not yet told our coworkers the news. I was still not showing in the beginning of my second trimester and luckily I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms like nausea so it was easy for me to be able to keep it a secret at work. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to announce my pregnancy at work yet until in an early morning huddle another one of my coworkers made an announcement that she was expecting in early August. I was so excited to hear about her news but in the back of my mind all I could think about was now we were going to have two people on maternity leave for potentially 12 weeks. I asked when her due date was and to my surprise it was only 2 week after mine. I looked at her and then looked at my manager with a surprised look. Another one of my coworkers jokingly asked if there was something I wanted to add. That is when I announced that I was also due in July....

My husband and I found out that we were pregnant November 2017 and we were so excited. We had been trying to start our family for the past few months prior and I had been off the pill since January 2017. We first found out that we pregnant with a home pregnancy test, you know the ones that have the one line for not pregnant and the two lines for pregnant. Well I was still not convinced that the test was accurate since some of the lines were faint so I bought the home pregnancy test that tell you literally if you are pregnant or not pregnant like this . Its nice because it has a little digital display screen that has a loading screen after you saturate the applicator. Once it is done loading it displays either pregnant or not pregnant. There isn't a faint line or a faint word that makes you question whether it's accurate or not. After the little mini celebration between my husband and I we decided that we wanted to keep it a secret until we were able to get our first sono...

By this time I was starting to have a definite baby bump and my symptoms were starting to get a little more noticeable. I was feeling the back aches and the heartburn but I was also feeling the good ones too like the stronger movements of her kicks. My heartburn had started to get so bad that I had to keep a stash of tums with me at all times. I was eating them like they were candy. To help with my back aches I used a heating pad  during the day and at night I slept with a body pillow . I really liked the U shape of this body pillow and it was also very soft and fluffy but was still very supportive for my hips and back.  Around this time I was clearly showing enough that customers at work felt comfortable  about assuming I was pregnant. The biggest question people had for me was if my husband and I had picked out a name yet. My husband and I are somewhat of procrastinators. We had been looking at names but we didn't really find anything that we both liked. It w...