Our life with our two girls...: Pregnancy Journal: month #1

First Month 10/09/09 to 11/09/09: finding out…

Surprise! We’re pregnant! God knows how shocked we were to find out! After all the issues we had while trying to conceive and after undergoing IVF to become pregnant with Lila, we thought we wouldn’t be easy to get pregnant again. The doctors had told us it COULD happen naturally, because sometimes the fertility issue “cures” itself after delivery, but we certainly didn’t think it WOULD happen! And I think the funniest thing was that I had all my doctors’ appointments this month (OB annual, endocrinologist) and both of them asked me if I was trying to get pregnant and if so, that I didn’t have to wait a year before getting help because they would immediately send me to Boston IVF.

What I felt: I got really suspicious when I started getting up at night to go to the bathroom, because that only happened when I was pregnant. The funny thing is that, although I was suspicious, when I went to the store to buy a pregnancy test I also bought ovulation tests to see if my cycles were on schedule! How funny is that?! So on October 28, 2009 we got our surprise miracle…we couldn’t be happier. We’re going through a messy mixture of emotions: happy, scared, shocked, excited, nervous, and everywhere in between!

How dad found out: So I “peed on the stick” and left it on the bathroom counter for a couple of minutes not giving it much thought. After 5 minutes I went to check and sure enough, there were two lines! I started shaking so bad and grabbed Lila and started kissing her and hugging her and jumping up and down…LOL… she must have though her mommy was crazy. Dad was at work and I didn’t want to call him to give him the news. I took a picture of the test and saved it on his computer’s desktop as the wallpaper. As soon as he gets home, the computer is the first place he goes to. That day he called to say he was coming home late so I couldn’t wait that long. I emailed him a picture of the test and wrote “surprise, DAD!” He called later in the afternoon asking if it was a joke…typical! Like I would joke about that! Needless to say, he was so happy! We certainly are so BLESSED! God is awesome!

The pregnancy test