Hi there!

It’s time to start a new ”decade” here in my blog. The beginning of the year 2020 has been crazy, full of different emotions (let’s not even start about the whole covid-19) and experiences but the best and biggest news is: WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!

Even though many of my closest family members and friends got to knew it in the beginning of the year, I ”officially” revealed the baby news on a Mother’s day Sunday (week 21 of the pregnancy). Maaan, the feeling after ”exposing” myself, what a relief!

At the moment I’m on a week 30, so our little beby’s still growing strong. Feels so unreal that I’ve already come this far and our little bunny could be born in two months! Craaazy!
But now it is time to look back and go all the way to the beginning of the pregnancy. Let’s gooo!

Weeks 0-4: I literally had no clue I was pregnant. Thinking back, I always knew there was a possibility that I could get pregnant, as me and my husband had decided not to use any contraception after October 2019.

So in the beginning of November I used to feel kind of quilty whenever going to some pre-Christmas parties and drinking wine there. Well, it turns out, I did approximately 10 pregnancy tests in two months as I was so paranoid and scared. The test was always negative. So I allowed myself to sip some wine till the new year’s eve party.

Weeks 4-8: I started to feel a little strange in my body. My breasts felt quite sore and my stomach was pretty bloated all the time no matter what time of a day it was. Now that I think back, I might have been a little bit more tired than usual. It was actually about week 4 when I did my first positive pregnancy test.

On that weekend (12.1.) I was supposed to participate in a Tallin Cruise with my teacher colleagues. However, I had promised to instruct some group fitness class then and I somehow felt extremely tired after the first week of school after xmas holidays. I think there was also some magical unconscious gut telling me not to participate in that ”party cruise”.

I bet you’re wondering how I felt after having the first positive pregnancy test? I remember being very excited, overwhelmed, bemused, happy, scared and proud. Proud? Yes, I honestly thought my body would not be ready to actually have a baby after all those years of being underweight, having unbalanced hormone levels, doing crazy amounts of sports, not eating well etc…Turns out my body works pretty well!

Weeks 8-10: They say that the first trimester is usually the worst when it comes to nausea, but I barely had any symptoms (still feeling amazingly grateful for that). So now, I didn’t need to throw up, not even felt like it. Of course when the blood sugar was low, I felt a little sick in my stomach but other than that I was feeling pretty good.

There were also weird things happening in my appetite. I would suddenly feel like eating for example chicken soup and when I would buy it from the grocery store, it would make me sick at home. I couldn’t stand eggs either, even though it had been my favorite evening snack for several years.

I also had my first child health clinic visit during these weeks. I remember feeling super unreal going there as I didn’t really have any ”proof” (other than only 1 positive pregnancy test) that I was pregnant. I kinda felt like a liar as I didn’t really feel like I was pregnant.

Those first weeks of pregnancy are maybe the worst when you have to live in all that uncertanty before having the actual ultra check up. After the first clinic visit I decided to tell my mom about the baby news. In addition to being very excited, I think she was first in a slight shock and didn’t really assimilate the whole thing.

Weeks 10-14: On the first child health clinic visit, we needed to estimate how far the pregnancy actually was. The thing that made it a bit challenging was that I hadn’t had my periods for about last six years. However, the nurse tried to count the weeks between the last negative and positive preg test and we booked the first ultra check up for me.

Turns out, I was on a week 10 when I went there for the first time. I was freaking out. I couldn’t remember last time when I had been that nervous. But nothing beats the feeling when you hear the baby’s heart beat for the first time. I might have shed a couple of tears…There it was, our tiny cupcake.

As I wanted to participate in fetus sieving, I had to go to the ultrasound on a week twelve again. Then my husband got to come with me too. It was lovely to meet our bebe again, together as a family. During these weeks I shared the news with my closest friends relatives. Was so heartwarming to see and hear their happy reactions. I felt so grateful to have this amazing ”support group” behind me.

Weeks 14-18: I feel powerful, hyper energetic, joyful and simply amazing! Still no nausea, tiredness or pain in any way. On these weeks the corona was spreading and I have to admit, considering the state of being pregnant, I was a bit scared. As basically everyone else in Finland (and the whole world), I had to form new routines that would support my and others’ wellbeing my avoiding public places and for example not to go to the gym so much.

I still wanted to instruct my own fitness classes couple of times a week (knowing that at some point of the pregnancy I would have a longer break of it) but in addition to that I found a new passion: running in the woods. On these weeks we also had the exception law in Finland, which meant that the schools had mostly moved to distance teaching meaning more work and new things to learn. However, my new ”amazing” routines supported my wellbeing very well and I actually learned to enjoy the distance working.

Weeks 18-22: Still corona, still pregnant. On a week 20 we had our structural ultrasound. Exciting! We had talked about getting to know the gender of the baby and we both agreed that we wanted to know it. Unfortunately, because of corona, my husband couldn’t join me this time. I was freaking out again and panicing about how everything was with the baby. Luckily everything seemed to be fine and the tiny heart was still beating.

During these weeks I also decided to officially reveal the ”Big News” for everyone (meaning social media). Again, I huge relief! Finally I can talk freely about the topic and show off my tiny bumb, yeyy!

Weeks 22-26: Last weeks of teacher work, more weeks pregnant. Baby bumb was growing little by little but still no pain / weird feelings in my body. Although, I need to admit I was feeling very tired on the last weeks of school. There’s a fine line between doing enough and doing too much. I had to take three days off from work as I felt so overwhelmed and exhausted. Maybe the mixture of teacher job, group fitness and my own hobbies is sometimes too much, especially for a pregnant lady.

However, during these weeks I instructed all of my group fitness classes normally. Whenever I was doing sports, I was feeling amazing! Maybe it was the adrenaline, maybe some other pregnancy hormones kicking in…don’t know. Sports has always been the best medicine for me! <3

And guess what!? My loooong long holidays started on a week 25! First, I will have my teacher holidays and straight after that I will continue with my maternity leave from the first weeks of August. The feeling at the last day of school was so touching. I couldn’t believe my first teacher year was over already! Couldn’t be happier and more proud of my ”accomplishment”.

Weeks 26-30: Mama’s on a holi-holidayy! Woop woop! I had several summer holiday plans that I needed to cancel because of corona (for example travelling abroad), but in the end it didn’t bother me. I decided to visit my friends all over Finland, first in Lahti, then in Turku, Lappeenranta and Jyväskylä. Even though travelling is fun and I looove to spend time with my friends, it is a bit tiring (keeping in mind that I’m carrying somebody with me all the time).

During these weeks I experienced for the first time some really bad joint pain. Some mornings it felt very painful to start even walking. Like someone was ripping off my tailbone and pubic bone. Luckily it got better quite soon and I still got to instruct my fitness classes normally. I have found that massage, stretching, yoga and LPG-treatments have helped me with any kind of pain in my body during pregnancy. Highly recommended!

All in all, I’ve been enjoying my days at home, making a perfect mixture of group fitness, shopping, sunbathing, pampering treatments and meeting friends. And oh, guess what! You really think I’m super bad at enjoying my holidays and doing nothing after you hear this. I’M A STUDENT AGAIN!

Yes, I began to study health sciences in an open university! That’s because I know myself so well I need to have some ”responsibilities” on a holiday too. Especially thinking about the nine months of maternity leave. So I have also been writing some essays whenever I had some spare time left.

Weeks 30-> Right now, I’m sitting on a train with my husband, travelling back to Espoo. We had a lovely getaway spa weekend in Turku. Feels strange to think that this might have been the last trip together before having the baby in our lifes. Thus, I felt it was extremely important to spend some quality time together.

I really hope the next 10-weeks-or-so will go as great as now and I truly pray everything will be fine with our teeny tiny cupcake in the end. So crazy that the baby could be born basically at any time now! Well, I hope she/he will stay in my womb for at least couple of weeks to grow bigger and stronger.

This was supposed to be a short blog post (xD) but there you go! If you have any questions considering the pregnancy or anything else, hit me up! Hope you have had amazing beginning of summer! xx

Think pink, Siiri