Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Life
I'm pregnant! I found out on Sunday, September 9th 2007. I took an at home pregnancy test around 5pm that day, it started to show two lines almost immediately, I kept watching and checking my watch. Yup two pink lines. I was amazed but actually not completely surprised, I wasn't late yet but was feeling a little different. Not bad different, just different. I was excited and thats an understatement, I had an hour to kill waiting for James to get home so I could tell him. Once he arrived home he was trying to change clothes as I grabbed him by the wrist and led him to the bathroom to see the test for himself. He told me later that by the look on my face he thought something was up but it wasn't registering, even once he saw the test he took a second to get the full picture, but he was so happy. He had one of those classic ear to ear smiles plastered on his face.
I'm 38 years old and this is the first time I've been pregnant, so this is all new to me. It is early in the pregnancy, when I found out I was about 4 weeks along out of the 40. I swore James to secrecy that day, we did the math soon after and I came up with the idea to wait until Thanksgiving to make the announcement (seriously what perfect timing to announce something worth being truly thankful for?) Sometime around Thanksgiving will be the end of my first trimester.
James called me many times on Monday he was having a tough time concentrating. I ran some errands that day. That night at home though I'm sure it was just about all we talked about. He was asking me that day had I called the doctor yet? When was I going to call the doctor? It didn't exactly feel real yet I actually took a second over the counter test that day it started showing two lines almost immediately as well and it came up with the same results as the day before. I wasn't ready to call my doctor though I was afraid of it all going away (silly thought I know.) Well Tuesday I did call my doctor and got an appointment for Wednesday for the blood test to verify what I was already certain of. Wednesday's appointment went fine and I got the results on Thursday, it was all true I was pregnant and they checked my hormone levels and those were good as well. Since that time I've gone back and had a second test of my hormone levels that test also held good news, everything was progressing nicely. I have a third blood test tomorrow and I'm hoping/expecting good news after that one as well.
Between those two appointments I've had a chance to ask a few questions to make sure I'm doing my very best to take care of this little baby growing inside me. I want this so very much, almost as much as I think James wants it, let's just say we both want this more than ice cream, more than Disney World, more than chocolate, more than mountains or beaches. We want this a lot!
James is having a seriously hard time keeping this secret, to be honest we both have, if asked a direct question we can't lie, so it has come out to just a couple people (not that I don't want to scream it to the world, I do, I just want to make sure everything is going well.) So this past week since we couldn't contain ourselves we told our parents and siblings and Grandmother Joyce of the good news. They were all so excited for us but I don't think any quite as excited as my mother-in-law Elaine. That was some serious fun telling her, she squealed and screamed and was so excited, this will be her first grandchild! As I'm writing this now I am at 5 weeks going on 6 so I have quite a while to go before having this new little one join our family, but I can't wait to meet this little one and introduce him/her to our family and friends.
This will be a long 8 months it seems just the past two weeks that time has slowed to a snails pace. But it will all be worth it and I'll enjoy keeping a running record of what goes on in that time on here.
Well hope your all well, see you later allig8tors.
