I’m Pregnant

A lot has changed since my last post. 

On January 6th, I woke up feeling extremely nauseous. I tried everything that usually worked to make my nausea go away (ginger, peppermint, CBD oil) and nothing seemed to help. At around 2:30, I finally decided I would take a home pregnancy test. So I went to Dollar General and bought one of those cheap $1.00 tests.

As a woman, I have never had a regular menstrual cycle. So taking a pregnancy test was nothing out of the norm for me. I got home with my test, took it, and sat it on the side of the bathtub like I always do. I went into the bedroom, to get my work clothes ready for the next day (I had called in sick from work) and walked back into the bathroom to check the pregnancy test. 

What I expected to find was a negative pregnancy test per the norm. But that is not what happened. I walked back into the bathroom and found a positive pregnancy test. I was in absolute shock. 

3 years of using no protection of any kind. 3 years of taking pregnancy tests because my period was a little or a lot late. 3 years of trying but not trying… and the test was positive! 

I walked back into the kitchen, leaving the pregnancy test on the side of the bathtub, looked at my husband and said… “Joseph, I’m pregnant.” Shock guys is how I felt. I did not believe it. I immediately started telling my husband that it was a false positive. I convinced my husband we had to go buy another, more expensive test, because it was a false positive. 

We went to CVS, brought a Clear Blue two pack. You know the pack that has a digit and rapid test in it and we went home. Well both of those tests came back inconclusive due to user error. Yep, you read that correctly. I just wasted about $20 on a pregnancy test because my nerves were shot and I didn’t follow the directions close enough. 

Back out we went, only this time we went back to Dollar General where I purchased a First Response pregnancy test. Took it home and followed the directions to the tee. It came back positive. 

At this point there was no denying the fact that I was pregnant. So I called the doctor. Two days later it was confirmed that I was indeed pregnant. At this point, we shared the news with our close family and started to actually feel the excitement of the fact that we are going to be parents. I was six weeks pregnant at this point. Two weeks later, we got to see our little peanut for the first time. 

I did not think my heart could get any bigger or more excited, but seeing our baby for the first time was one of the most emotional experiences of my life. We cannot wait to meet our little nugget.

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