Journal Entry: First Trimester Lessons

JOURNAL ENTRY FROM MY FIRST TRIMESTER:

Oooooft, I'm writing this on a Saturday night. We've just had our friends over who are pregnant as well (we're just two days apart—that Italian wedding energy!!!). We made butter chicken and watched the new Netflix movie with Liam Hemsworth (drool), Lonely Planet. It wasn't groundbreaking, but it was a feel-good movie.

The best bit, halfway eating dinner and our friends saying how good it was, I realized I forgot to add both tomato and COCONUT MILK to the curry. WTF??!!

This is a pretty accurate picture of the baby brain that I've been struggling with.

For the other mamas out there, maybe you're like, "Oh, just wait, Monica!!" But I seriously wasn't aware that it could happen in trimester one. And it's not just our dinners that are the victim of this. I'll be in the middle of a team meeting, and my words just stop. They literally either cannot come out of my brain, or I've COMPLETELY forgotten basic English words like "enter" - as in "she entered the room." LOL.

I also fully forget conversations, things my husband has said to me, or even whether I've brushed my teeth.

This blog post probably makes it sound like I'm a non-functional human, but it's honestly not THAT bad. Just for someone who's EXTREMELY sharp and knows how to use her words, I feel like I'm playing sudoku daily, and my brain is having the greatest workout of its life.

Anywayyyyy...  I'm 7.5 weeks at the time of writing this (a little "stamp in time" moment), and I'm currently bloated as f*ck. The last few days, I've been having such bad digestive discomfort, and it's not been fun. I'll take the baby brain, nausea, and fatigue over feeling like your food isn't digesting, being bloated, and having stomach cramps and still managing to feel physically hungry at the same time?! What a TRIP.

Honestly, pregnancy initiates you into the ultimate embodiment of surrender and trust.

What's getting me through it and not having me be in my head all anxious of 'is everything okay?!' are two things:

1) My close friend in Atlanta is in the same pregnancy week as me (seriously, such a blessing - ladies, try to time this up with your bestie if possible - it's so nice!!!! Actually, it's also REALLY nice for the men to have each other too!).

2) Talking to my baby! 👼🏼

For those that don't know, I am extremely connected to my intuition and have re-developed my ability to channel from Source and my guides - and I am psychic (I say "re-developed" because we are ALL like this; we just shut down this part of ourselves for fear of what others will think). 

Since before we even conceived, I've been talking to our baby. 

• I knew when "he" was coming (I call him a "he" even though we technicallyyyy don't know if baby is a boy or a girl yet, but I just have a strong intuitive sense that tells me a HE - fun fact: as I'm finally getting around to posting this, I'm in my second trimester and we just found out HE really is, in fact, a HE 🥹).
  
  
• I had journal entries of him telling me I'd meet him in October -- then I found out I was pregnant in October. 🤯
  
  
• I knew I was pregnant even when I was completely dismissing myself (I talk more about this in this podcast HERE), and I was only able to talk to one baby when I was freaking out about it maybe being twins (even though the whole time he would say "mum it's just me! chill out and trust yourself" - and, once again, I can confirm it truly is just ONE baby lol).

I also talk to him daily just to check in and know that everything's okay. He's good; nothing I'm doing is hurting him, and everything will be fine.

I've been focusing on using the slow cooker a tonne to make super nutrient-dense meals, eating a lot of warming foods, getting my 20 min naps in every day (that's been a game changer for my overall energy levels and not getting SUPER tired), exercising daily, and reminding myself that this is all practice for what's to come!

It's been so wild, and I've loved every single second of it.

My biggest learning lesson of the first trimester was about really prioritizing rest, time management, and energy management. I truly feel like pregnancy prepares you for postpartum (if you let it). I know that once we have our baby here, the amount of time that I'll have to work each day will no longer be up to me. I'll have to pivot a lot more and do things on the fly, and my productivity level will go through the roof because, in that one hour that I have, I'll have to get done what I used to have 3 hours to get done.

So, whilst it's an adjustment now, I'm also grateful for the many months of pregnancy where I'll get to continue to prepare mentally, physically, and energetically.

It doesn't feel like a huge transition going from not being pregnant to being in the first trimester because we prepared SO MUCH. We were not only focused on our pre-conception health optimization journey on a whole next level very early on (I talk about this a lot on the podcast), but we also spent the last two years+ getting my business ready for me not to be able to be involved in as much as the day-to-day operations. 

So, I truly feel ready and equipped, and I know (and FEEL) this baby will continue to be a source of a huge personal AND professional quantum leap. 

Anyway, just a little journal entry I wanted to share - whether you're pregnant too and riding the exciting AND uncomfortable waves of the first trimester, or you're in the thick of whatever initiation the universe has you in right now - I see you and we're in the midst of a quantum leap TOGETHER. We've got this. And even in the discomfort, remember that it's going to be soooo worth it to meet this next-level version of you (and your baby if you're pregnant like me! 🤰🏼) on the other side.

As you're reading this, I'm in trimester two now -- my energy is back, and I'm LOVING this glow-up after the waves of the first tri. 

Wishing you a Happy New Year, friend, and I hope you're having the most magical holiday season if you're reading this in real-time!! ♥️

xx Monica

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