Hi All!

I am 11 weeks pregnant as of yesterday and i am very excited. My body has begun changing already. I thinks its funny lookin' Anyhow, Like most pregnant girls I feel tired a lot. I work full time (7-3) and when i get home i make some food and lay down. by 7pm i'm knocked out. Weekends come around and sometimes (1-2 times a month) i'll go out with my man but sometimes i won't go and i'll stay home. My mind is changing. i would go to parties and stuff like that but i don't want to put myself in smoky areas (duh, second hand smoke is bad for my growing little person). But now i feel like i don't go out at all. My friends and i used to hang out once in a while and now that doesn't happen at all. they call me to go out but i tell them maybe another time. I know they'll be surrounded by smoke and other things. I just don't want to put myself at risk. My man goes out once in a while with the boys but i don't mind because he has to have some social time also. But i guess what i'm saying is that its a bit frustrating. I wish that my friends would just understand. i'm pregnant ... i'mgoing to be a mom so i'm at a different stage in life. i still care about them but things change.
i even lost a friend because she feels that i am leaving her behind. she goes out every night and doesn't even have a job. I used to always give her advise but i stopped talking to a wall. on the other hand i am moving to a nicer town, got a new car, my man is my baby's daddy, i have a job and having a baby. i can't hold her hand through everything.
i don't feel bad that i stay home ... i actually don't mind ... if my man goes out i'll just go to my moms house and watch movies with my younger brother. i feel like i have to start to be a great mother once i found out that i was pregnant. hmm ... i guess i just needed to get all of this off my chest before i exploded.

who ever reads this thanks for listening.

I think I sound a lot like you. I use to go out with my friend Jenny all the time. Then my husband and I found out we were pregnant and started renting more movies and relaxing and staying home. Spending more time together and just being ourselves. I don't like going out and doing that stuff anymore because I feel like I am going to be a mom. Mom's don't do that stuff when they have infants at home. Its nice to get out every once in awhile but it's wonderful having a husband who thinks the same as me. I just thought you should know you aren't alone!

Pregnancy is a life changing thing. Your friends must learn to understand a pregnant woman cant go out and party like she use to any more, like you said there's the smoking which no pregnant woman in there right sense would wanna go. Most of all you need the rest, all the rest you can get, especially in the first 3-4 months of your pregnancy. Talk to your friends and explain to them properly, that you're pregnant and you feel tired most time and you donot want to endanger your baby, they should be able to understand if they are true friends. Now is not the time for you to feel frustrated.

Thanks for all of the Support ladies. It really does make a difference to be able to get things out and recieve support.

you are very welcome, we all do need support during pregnancy.

Pregnancy and motherhood will change a person from the inside out.. and sometimes people do not understand that as they are not experiencing it for themselves..BUT its okay..most mothers understand and know that the love between a mother and child is more important than going out partying ect.