As most of you know by now, David & I are expecting our first baby!!! We are so excited! I thought it would be nice to have a place to share all my thoughts and answer questions that most of you would be asking us anyway.
How we found out: While on a weekend getaway to the beach house, to give David's brain a rest and mini-vaca from work, we started noticing some strange things going on. At first we didn't think too much of them, but looking back now, how could we have missed them? We left on a Friday around noon. I went to the bathroom shortly before I knew we would be leaving. Then, decided I'd better try and go again, since it had been about 10 minutes, and we were going to be in the truck for a long time. We stopped on the way to pick up some lunch, and I thought to myself, "Man, I could almost pee again! I better go now!" Once we hit the road I started to feel a little tired. Nothing too unusual. A nice soothing truck ride. My favorite company. I took a little snooze. I ended up taking a little snooze everyday that weekend. One of the weirdest things that happened, and has happened multiple times since then, was that I was hot and cold with the chills at the same time. I would be standing up against the fireplace getting warm, while the side of my body that was opposite the fireplace was covered with goosebumps!! By Sunday morning, we realized that I was almost a week late. I have been late before only to be disappointed, so I thought nothing of this, and tried not to get my hopes up. On the way home I told David that I wanted to stop at the store and buy a pregnancy test just to make sure I knew, one way or the other, what was going on. When we got home from we unpacked the truck and I ran straight to the bathroom to take the test. The first blue line came up immediately, followed by the second blue line. The first line was the test result line, not the one that comes up anyway. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. My heart was racing! I was actually really surprised that I wasn't crying at this point. I think I was still in shock a little. I left the test in the bathroom, and went out the kitchen where David was. (We were not home alone at this point, or I would have gone running and screaming through the house!) That night also happened to be garbage night. Within about a minute of me going out into the kitchen, David walked back to empty the garbage cans in the rest of the house. I followed him back into my bathroom. He turned around and looked at my like, Are you following me? What's going on? I looked at him and looked at the test on the counter and looked back at him. Looking at the test with two blue lines, he said, "What's that mean?" I said, "It means I'm pregnant." Then the tears started coming!!! He gave me a big hug and told me that he loved me. That was one of the happiest, most bittersweet moments of my life!
I waited four day to take another test to make sure my hormone levels were still high. That test came up positive even faster than the first one! I called and made a dr.'s appointment, and the following Monday, it was confirmed that I'm pregnant! My due date is set for September 9, 2011. Little did I know, but the day that we left for the beach, and I started the great peeing. napping adventure, I was 5 weeks along.
We have our first OB appointment on Thursday, February 17th. David has chosen to take the day off and go with me. We're so excited because we should be able to hear the baby's heart beat. I will be 10 weeks and 6 days the day of that appointment, so I'm hoping the dr. has no trouble at all finding the heart beat.
Family reactions: While talking on the phone with Stace, I couldn't take it anymore! I was bursting at the seems with this huge secret I was dying to tell everyone under the sun! I tried to wait until I saw her in person, but it just came spilling out. She was so excited that she put the phone down and screamed! For a long time! My mom and dad were both very excited and had been both waiting for this day for a long time! We decided to tell David's family at a birthday dinner for his mom. He wrote something in her birthday card telling her she was going to be a grandma again. I think she was a little taken aback at first, because it took a few minutes to sink in. Everyone was very happy and excited for us. Juli even cried and gave big hugs.
How I've been feeling: So far I've felt very hungover. I'm very tired. I usually get tired around 2pm and by 6:30-7:30 and ready to crawl in bed and lay down. =) I've had a little bit on nausea here and there. Mostly a sour stomach, like a had an extra drink or two the night before. I'm very grateful that that's all, and that I've been able to function, for the most part, and haven't been too sick!
