Our drive home from Chicago to Minneapolis (we flew out of Chicago to Alaska) on Aug 19th took about 8 hours and consisted of baby names, downloading baby apps, planning out the due date, reading about the development of our fetus, talking about how much our lives were going to change, realization that I was hopefully done drinking but also thinking about how much i was going to miss it, and talk about being careful not to get my hopes up too much because I may (actually most likely) not be pregnant yet. It takes the average woman ONE YEAR to get pregnant.
I started to notice some things! I was EXHAUSTED. I could SMELL everything. I had read all the signs of pregnancy and these were the main two. I started to assume I was pregnant.
I took FIVE pregnancy tests! Yes, I'm crazy. I started taking tests 6 days before my missed period (like the box says you can do) but didn't know exactly when my next period was supposed to come because of the 24 day cycle that had just happened. After the FOURTH NOT PREGNANT test, my husband made me promise to wait until two days after my missed period! I was crying because I was coming to terms that I probably was not pregnant. August 26th would have been 26 days since my last period so we decided to wait until August 28th to take another test. I continued to "act" pregnant by not putting anything into my body that I wouldn't do if prego. By August 28th I would "know" due to the missed period or I'd be drinking because I had gotten my period. As you can tell, the test on August 28th was positive and brought me happy tears!
All my crazy planning had worked. I couldn't believe it. A miracle was growing inside of me!!!
The journey officially begins!!!!!!
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