Chelsea Kaplan’s Musings About Life... After Birth
Posted by Chelsea on September 12, 2007
Okay, everyone. I’ve been holding out on you, but I’m ready now to come out of the closet.
I’m pregnant. Nearly 14 weeks freaking pregnant.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strangely, I found out this news only a few days after posting my apparently very discussion-worthy “Nicole Richie, you suck” post. You know, the one in which I expressed my frustration that unmarried, frequently arrested, former heroin-addict Nicole Richie could get pregnant naturally and I was unable to do the same.
Blog karma is a funny thing, huh?
Anyway, I posted that on a Thursday, and that Sunday noticed that I had been feeling PMSy for like 5 weeks, but hadn’t M’d. This wasn’t rare for me - I barely ever do so, but I figured taking a pregnancy test was probably in order, though I knew I wasn’t pregnant. Remember, I had to go through IVF to get pregnant with my first kid - I knew there was no way it just “happened”.
Well, apparently, it did:
My husband, holding the test I took . I always had these incredible fantasies of how I would tell him I was pregnant if I ever conceived naturally. In this case, however, I was in such shock that the minute he returned from running, I came out of our room and said, “Uh, dude…could you come look at this, please?”
My OB, Dr. Joan Loveland of DC’s Reiter, Hill and Johnson, was so excited for us, but wasn’t at all surprised. “I told you that this could happen!” she squealed when my husband and I went in for my first exam. “Pregnancy begets pregnancy. Your bod just kicked back into gear!” I had always heard about those women who went through all of the fertility crap or adopted and then BOOM - they get pregnant. I just never thought that was never gonna be me, but I guess I got lucky and it was. It’s only just starting to sink in now, and feel like it’s really real and not some dream from which I’ll soon wake up.
So, these past few months have been a crazy experience of disbelief, nausea, frequent pizza eating, exhaustion and excitement. My family and the Momtourage all knew, but I was waiting until the end of that first trimester to make it fully public. Now that I’m there, I’m as outed as Lance Bass, T.R. Knight and Doogie Howser all put together.
What’s cool is that 2 DC Momtourage members (Alicia, mom to Jesse, and another one who hasn’t yet come out) are both due with their second babies within in a few weeks of me. I’ve got 2 NY-area Momtourage friends (names to come later) a couple of months behind me, and 4 Atlanta momtourage friends (Sloane, Alice and 2 yet to be named ) all due within a couple months of me as well.
My due date is March 15. In the Roman calendar, this date is referred to as the Ides of March, best known because it is the date on which Julius Ceasar was assassinaed in 44 BCE (the story of which was famously retold in Shakespeare’s “Julius Ceasar”). The term has come to be commonly used as a metaphor for impending doom.
Vincenzo Camuccini, Mort de César, 1798
Maybe this means I’m due for a Caesarean?
If that doesn’t bode well for a seamless pregnancy and birth and easy baby, I don’t know what does.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <BR><BR>Congrats, Chelsea! What wonderful news. Best of luck with the next 6 months - and beyond!
Congrats!!!
how exciting—thanks for sharing the fantastic news! best wishes to you and your (ever-expanding) family.
Wahoo!! Finally out of the closet!<BR><BR>Kind of looks like you peed ON R in that picture, doesn’t it?
Mazel Tov!
GREAT NEWS! You deserve it after all you endured the first time. This happened to my sister-in law too, and she now had a girl AND a boy. maybe the same will happen for you!
Congratulations! I just came here after clicking on the BlogHer list.<BR><BR>I love hearing news like this - may you have a very happy and healthy pregnancy.
How exciting! Congragulations!
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very happy for you!! I started reading your blog because hubby and I will start having kids soon!! I love it and I am very happy for you!!! I don’t know why but I kinda had a feeling that it was coming!!
OHMYGOSH!! I am soo freaking happy for you! I hope you have a girl this time!!! Have a happy and healthy nine months!!!
Officially de-lurking to say congratulations! Looking forward to hearing about your pregnancy adventures in round two (in between juicy celeb rants of course).<BR><BR>FYI: came here via blogher ad link. Go team.<BR><BR>Julie
Glad you’re out of the closet! Having 2 is a lot of fun!
awwww, congrats to you!
Congrats, Rumy dear!<BR>tats gr8 news…. <BR>Hope u hv a girl this time & she resembles u
officially delurking as well…CONGRATULATIONS!! maybe sven and inga are expecting too??
I have read your blog for a while now, and I just wanted to say, Congrats!
What terrific news!! Good luck with the pregnancy!
Congratulations - I’ve been enjoying your blog since happening across the Nicole Richie rant. Already wish I could apply for a momtourage position!
Congratulations, Chelsea! Good luck with everything, and just os you know, my dad’s birthday is March 15th and he is the sweetest, greatest man in the world!!!!
Congratulations! I have been reading your blog for awhile and wondered when you would add to your abode! <BR><BR>I was born on 3/16, pisces are great people! <BR>:)
Yay!
Congrats on your new future bundle of joy!!<BR><BR>*w00t* for prego mommies!!
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