rewind...tuesday, june 2

june 2.

the 2 week wait is over, i got my blood drawn this day.


i went to dr k's office after working monday night, got my blood drawn, and drove home. not really feeling anything, not knowing what to feel....happy? anxious? hopeful?


i had fully prepared myself for the call later that day to tell me i was not pregnant. after all, these past two weeks, i felt normal....no pregnancy symptoms whats so ever...no nausea, no hunger, no cravings, no tiredness, no nothing. and after 2 1/2 years of trying, i was getting pretty used to the "negative" each month!


i hadnt cheated and taken a pregnancy test either. dr k told us not to do that cause i could very well get a false positive because of all the fertility meds that were hanging around in my body...so i didnt. id HATE to get my hopes up with a FALSE positive....that would be horrible!

when i got home, matt was up and getting ready to go to school. i went in to get ready for bed...and decided to take that pregnancy test (i had bought one eons ago! not the one with the lines....but the big dog! the one that actually says "pregnant" or "not pregnant") so i could be prepared for the call later when they told me i wasnt pregnant....so, i peed on the stick and set it down and planned on waiting the 3 minutes for it t change. i started brushing my teeth, and 30 seconds later, just casually looked down at the stick and saw this....

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my thoughts were..."hum, that says im pregnant....damn fertility drugs giving me that false positive dr k warned me about! " i finished brushing my teeth and walked out to the living room where matt was...

the conversation went something like this...

"so i took a pregnancy test so i am prepared for the nurse to tell me that we arent pregnant when she call later"

"yeah...and?"

"well, it says im pregnant" and i held up the test and showed him.

"but dr k said not to take a home pregnancy test because of all the meds i have taken. they could give me a false positive"

"huh...yeah, she did say not to take a test. do you think the meds are still in you?"

"i dont know..."

"lets take a picture....you know, just in case..."

"ok"

so we took our picture...still not really thinking anything of the "positive"...and matt left for school, and i took a few more pics of me...you know, "just in case"....


then i went to bed...with my cell phone next to me so i wouldnt miss T.H.E. call!

at 12:12 my phone rings. its sandy from drk office..."jennifer?"

"yes"

this is sandy from drk office"

"hi sandy"

"your blood work came back at 748.."

"ok?" i had NO CLUE what that number meant...still waiting for her to tell me sorry, but it didnt work

"we want anything above ONE HUNDRED"

"what?" a little (ok, a LOT confused) "so im pregnant?"

"YES, YOU ARE DEFINITELY PREGNANT!"

she about made me shit my pants! i explained to her how i thought there was no way i was pregnant cause i had felt totally normal and i was fully expecting her to tell me my blood work was negative...

she assured me that i was pregnant, told me my next appointments, and that was that.

we hung up and i couldt stop smiling! and i couldnt go back to sleep!

i was 4 weeks 4 days P.R.E.G.N.A.N.T!

FINALLY!

its finally happening! its our turn!

i got online and googled everything....

our due date...2/5/10

the size of the baby....a poppy seed

and of course took pics...my first belly pics....complete with a little bloat from the IVF meds i had been taking!

jue 2, 2009

4 weeks 4 days

the day we got that long awaited POSITIVE

matt called around 2 while driving home from school. i told a fib and told him that i hadnt talked to dr k office, that they had called the house phone, left a message, and i was waiting for him to get home so we could listen together (a little fib, i know, but i wanted to tell him in person! forgive me!). it took some convincing, but he finally believed me.

when he got home, i heard him come in and walk to the living room (where our answering machine is. thank goodness we did have a message blinking, a telemarketer had called right before he got home!)
i was still in the bedroom, he yelled down the halls "come on! lets listen to this message!"

"no, come here for a minute"

"no, lets listen to this message!!!!"
"matt, just come back here for a minute..."

so he came back to the bedroom and sat down on the bed...."wHaT?"

i handed him a card and a box. it was a card and a willow tree figurine i had bought at least a year before...waiting for this moment to happen. the card was a WERE PREGNANT card, and the willow tree was a man and woman, standing together holding a baby...

"were pregnant?!?!?!?!?!"

"YES!!!"

we both were overjoyed! hugged, smiled! hugged some more. i told him the entire conversation i had with sandy..and confessed to the fib....

we had baseball tickets that night....

the first game i had been to and not had a beer! but i was totally cool with it!

OH HAPPY DAY!
finally, our wait is over..