Derek and I are so excited to announce that we are PREGNANT!! We are so excited and couldn't be more grateful for this opportunity to be pregnant. I wanted to take a minute to share how we found out we were pregnant.
We have been trying to get pregnant for 5 years now. Well I guess we can't really say trying trying we just haven't been preventing it for 5 years and really trying for 3 years. Yeah I know a little confusing. However, we have been wanting kids for so long and had to wait patiently for our chance. We recently found a really awesome doctor that we just love that helped us to get pregnant. He had us on a very specific regimen that I won't get into but let's just say that it must have worked. Plus the timing must be right for us now.
So on to the story. I had been feeling super sick at the end of August and I wasn't sure what it was. I didn't automatically think that it was pregnancy because it felt more like a stomach bug than pregnancy. However, me being who I am and so ready to be pregnant was still hopeful that we were so I took a pregnancy test about 4 days before my next cycle. I took the test and waited and waited for the results to come still hating these pregnancy test because I swear they don't work correctly, expect for this time was different and there was hope. The test finally showed up and there was a really faint line. I was excited because I had NEVER seen a line there before and I knew this time was different. However, my husband wasn't so sure as I was. He told me to take another test because he wasn't sure that was a real line. So I took another test that afternoon and unfortunately the test was negative and all of that hope was immediately gone and I was super discouraged. I didn't immediately remove that positive test out of my head but just put it on the back burner. That weekend our friends had come over to our house to hang out and I was talking to my two girlfriends and told them the story and they told me not to loose hope yet. My one friend that is a nurse told me that your hormone level that the pregnancy test reads is always stronger in the morning than it is in the afternoon so I just could be pregnant but not far enough along yet that the hormone shows up all the time. She told me to take another pregnancy test in a couple of days. So waited patiently but still hopeful that I could be pregnant. So those next few days went by so slowly and Tuesday (two days after my cycle was supposed to start) finally came around. Unfortunately, I had to wake up and go to the bathroom and 3:00am and decided what better time than then to take a test. So I did and boy I have never seen as bright of a line that I did that day. The time had finally come all of our patience and waiting it out was finally here. We are PREGNANT!! I wasn't sure if I wanted to wake Derek up that early because we had to work the next day but I guess I didn't come into bed quietly enough because he woke up. He said, "are you doing okay?" "Uh-huh!" I said. "Did you take a test?" Derek asked. "Uh-huh!" I exclaimed trying to hide the excitement. Derek then said, "AND...?" All I could say at that moment was "uh-huh!!!" He was shocked! Half deliriousness from it being 3:00 in the morning and half because he couldn't believe that we were actually pregnant. Needless to say we didn't sleep the rest of the night.
One of the first pregnancy tests with the first positive sign!
We are so extremely grateful for this blessing to come into our lives and couldn't be more excited. Also, a little unsure this is actually happening for us now. I am not going to lie I have taken a few pregnancy tests since then just to make sure I was still pregnant.
Since this is so long already I will tell you tomorrow about how we told our families.
