Pregnancy Story

So, I know it's been a LOOOONG time since i've blogged, but I just never really know what to write.  But I have been thinking it might be nice to just document some dates and stuff from when we found out we were pregnant!

Hopefully everybody knows by now, but for those who don't, WE'RE PREGNANT!  That's right, we are having a baby!  Baby is scheduled to be here June 24, 2013, which puts me at almost 18 weeks.  Here is how everything went down...

So, as a lot of you know, (and hopefully this isn't TMI for many) I haven't had the best luck with birth control.  My first one made me super emotional, and with the second one, I would spot for 2 1/2 weeks instead of having a normal period.  I went in for my yearly girly physical at the beginning of September where I talked to the PA about this issue.  He told me that a higher hormone dose of birth control was recommended, so I did what he said, and picked it up from the pharmacy.  I didn't have to start the new birth control for a couple of weeks, so during that time Scott and I discussed me going off birth control completely to see if I could just go back to having regular hormones, and regular cycles, like I did before I started birth control.  (I didn't want to deal with the emotions that my 1st higher hormone birth control gave me)  And we would just "prevent" other ways.  

We made the decision knowing fully well that if we weren't preventing with birth control, it is more likely we could get pregnant.  Haha, and--since my cycles were so off (spotting for 2 1/2 weeks) I wasn't exactly sure when I was ovulating and when I wasn't.  So because of those things we were more careful than not.

So, the week I thought I was supposed to start my period, I didn't.  But I wasn't super worried yet.  But about 5-6 days later, I started getting a little nervous.  So one week later, we decided to buy a test and take one.  << A little side note, buying pregnancy tests in SLC was a LOT easier than it was in Logan because I was a LOT less likely to see people.  It was definitely a little more scary buying one this time!>>

We took the first one when Scott got home from work at like, 01:30 on October 12th, but of course, we weren't sure if there was a line there or not.  Haha.  So we went to bed with a lot on our minds!  The next morning we got up and went and bought 2 more.  Which we took.  And both of them read POSITIVE!  

Okay, so I am going to be honest, and I apologize if anyone reads this who has been trying to get pregnant and has been having a hard time.  But my initial reaction was terror!  I was in shock, nervous, scared, etc.  We had talked about having kids, but we had never actually been trying, so this came as a surprise to me.  I cried.  On the other hand, Scott was ecstatic!  He was so happy and giddy.  He just hugged me and told me that it was a happy thing.  I knew that, but it was still crazy to me!  My doctor just said that I "must just be really fertile" and he kinda laughed :)  I just love him...  But it's true.  We are blessed to be able to have this baby.  I see that now that I have gotten past the crazy stage.

We told our family a couple of weeks after we found out.  Scott's brother Connor, and our bestie Jamie came over to carve pumpkins with us for Halloween.  Connor didn't know yet, so Scott thought it would be fun to tell him via pumpkin that we were expecting.  He carved "We're Pregnant!!!" Into a pumpkin.  It looked great!  We decided that the pumpkin would be a fun way to tell our families that we were pregnant, so we did an impromptu "let's tell the fam!" night.  

Me and Jaim carving our pumpkins!  The boys didn't want their pictures taken :(

We're Pregnant!!!

Haha the night was great!  It was getting somewhat late, so we had to make it quick!  We lit the pumpkin, and doorbell ditched my parents, Neil and Andrea, and Cody and Chelsea, and Jana and the boys.  I'll give you a condensed version of everyone's reaction.

My parents:  My mom answered the door and instantly knew it was me.  She shouted from her front doorstep in her 'I love Elvis' shirt "Heidi!  Where are you?!"  Both she and my dad were ecstatic and said they were just asking each other that very day if they thought I was pregnant.  Weird, right?  Momma's know best!  

Neil and Andrea:  Andrea answered the door (just after she and Neil had gone to bed) and couldn't quite read what it said, so she took it inside and closed the door :)  Haha! I loved that.  She and Neil were super excited, but we think it took a little longer for Neil than Andrea to be excited, because his initial reaction was "I'm not ready to be a grandpa!" Haha, we loved it!

Cody and Chel:  Cody answered the door, and then closed it again thinking it was a prank, and he got it after the second time :) It was great!

Jana and boys:  They had gone to bed, so Connor had to wake Jana up by saying a billion times, "Mom, come here!  Hurry!"  She was wondering what was going on, and then when she saw that she was wide awake and started laughing and clapping!  She was so excited :)  I think that night she claimed it was a boy, right off the bat.  The boys came down later and we had a great time!

Now I have to tell you, I decided to Skype with my sister Toni (in Seattle) so she could know before we told the fam.  The weirdest thing happened--I told her I had something to share with her, and she holds up a piece of paper that said, "June 24" on it in colorful letters!  She ALREADY KNEW!  It must be a sister's intuition.  But she got suspicious and wondered when I started asking her a bunch of questions a while back when I was trying to figure out when I might have gotten pregnant, (such as what day it was when she left Ut to go back to Seattle, etc.) I don't know how even.  But she knew.  She went to work and used her pregnancy wheel to calculate and came up with my exact due date :)  We just laughed and she is so excited for us.  I am still shocked as to how she came up with this!!

So we went to our first doctors appointment, which we thought was our 9-week ultrasound.  The nurses on the phone and in our consultation tried to figure out my date of conception judging from my 2 1/2 weeks of spotting periods.  But it turned out the baby was only about 7 weeks.  But just to be sure there weren't developmental problems, or chances of miscarrying, we had an actual 9-week ultrasound just to make sure.  And everything looked GREAT!  Little baby's heart was beating perfectly and he/she was moving around like crazy in there :)  It was such a special feeling, I loved it so much!

I will  be 18 weeks on Monday.  It has kinda gone by slow--I feel like it was forever ago that we told our families!  But I am feeling great!  Starting at about week 6 or 7, I started getting the "morning sickness" minus the throwing up.  From about 1400-2100 I would get awful headaches, and my stomach would feel super uneasy like I wanted to throw up, but I never did.  Not once.  I was a lot more gaggy though.  And I was (and sometimes still am) SUPER tired.  I could have been content with sleeping 10 hours a night.  Now, I am just feeling bloated, and I can tell my body is changing.  My stomach is getting harder now.  It's a weird, yet really special feeling.  It is hard at times too realizing that you are getting bigger.  But i've been pretty good with it I think.  I haven't felt baby move yet, but I hope to soon :)

We get to find out what it is on February 6th!  I can't wait!  Until then, we have a couple birthdays to keep us occupied--mine on Monday the 21st and Scott's on the 31st!  We just want it to be February 6th already!  I have always felt that it would be a girl.  Most of Scott's family has said boy.  Most of my family has said girl.  I guess we will see!!