So my origianl plan was to finish out the rest of my pack of birth control pills which would take me to the end of the month. Since I have been taking the 3 month pack of pills, sometimes my body decides that it doesn't want to wait that long to have a period and I start getting the cramping and general bad feelings early. Well, as luck would have it that happened this month. I usually just skip right to the sugar pills at that point and then go back to my regular schedule after that week but since I was planning to get off the pills altogether I just quit taking them. It's exciting and scary all at the same time. I feel a little unprepared because I thought that I had another two weeks left before I had to think about it.
I think that the reason that I am the most anxious is that I have been trying to get myself off of all other medications before we start "trying." I have been on Ambien for almost a year straight now and coming off of it seriously feels like I'm detoxing from drugs or something. I've been stepping myself down slowly - going from full pills to 3/4 pills to half pills and now I'm on 1/4 pills. I have a bit of a phobia of giving my kid birth defects because I've taken something that I shouldn't. I know that I will be off of it completely by the end of the week but it still makes me anxious.
On that same note, I've started taking a multivitamin every morning. I have been reading a lot about the role that Folic Acid plays in early fetal development and the research shows that the first week of pregnancy is the absolute most important time for development needing Folic Acid and usually you don't even know that you're pregnant for several weeks so I want to make sure that I have it in my system at all times just in case. The pills are seriously huge and tend to make me a little nauseous if I don't eat enough food with it, but I figure it's best not to ignore hundreds of doctor's advice - including my own.
Phew, that was a long first post but I guess I have a lot to get out. I have a feeling I'll have several more by the end of the week. :)
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yeah! so happy you joind the blogging world! and so happy you are gearing up for baby. i tried the vitamin thing and it was giving me weird side effects. so i stopped (to make sure it was infact the vitamins) I am going to start again and if they come back, make an appointment with my doc. good luck and keep me posted.
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