5 Weeks Pregnant

Posted after announcing our pregnancy to family, but written before the announcing. :)

We have been trying for a few months now and over the past couple months with the help of the doctor that helped us get pregnant with Tre, we found out we are pregnant. On Monday, January 4th I took a pregnancy test and got a slight positive, I say slight because the second line was SO light that I wondered if it could've been inaccurate. So I called my doctor and told him the scoop (well told his nurse who told him, hehe). The nurse told me to come in that morning for a blood test to check my levels and see if I was in fact pregnant.

That afternoon while Jammer, Tre and I were leaving Costco I got the phone call. My doctor said that my levels are where they should be for a pregnancy but since it was pretty early he wanted to know if I wanted to get another blood test the following week to make sure the levels were still going up. I was a little thrown off by the conversation we were having since it wasn't one of those typical, Congratulations, you are having a baby, type things. So I asked if I needed a 2nd blood test to see if I was in fact pregnant and he said, no, not necessarily, you are pregnant according to this test but some women like to get a second test just to make sure they continue in the pregnancy, which makes sense I guess since on Monday, January 4th I was only 4 weeks and 2 days pregnant. However, since our doctor's office is in La Jolla I decided to not request an additional blood test, but instead I will take a couple more pregnancy tests and see how those turn out, if the line gets darker I think I will feel better about everything that way and can confirm by ultrasound. Which brings me to my next step, he asked me to call the office the following day to schedule my first ultrasound to check the baby's heartbeat. So Friday, January 22, 2010 will be the date of our very first ultrasound.

As I am typing this and thinking about all this stuff it all seems so surreal, even though I have done this before, it is still just as exciting and nerve-racking as the first time. Hehe.

I tried to surprise Jammer a little bit in telling him and make it a bit more exciting (even though he knew that I could possibly be pregnant, I didn't tell him when I was going to take a test). I placed the test in his bathroom (he was asleep still while I took the test and then I got Tre up for the morning, so I knew he had to head into the bathroom as soon as he woke up). I put a note underneath the test that said, "Guess what this could mean?" Then I waited patiently for him to get up and I had the camera right next to the bathroom so I could grab it and capture his face expression. It was a funny one! He looked confused. I think because the test was so light he was like, is this yes or no. Also, I had been doing ovulation tests throughout the process and one time I forgot to throw one away right away and he went into the bathroom and was like, what is this? I had forgotten about that until after we had talked about his funny face expression. Ultimately, he hugged me and was like, Wow!

To help me confirm the pregnancy I decided to take another test today, this day it would be 5 weeks and when I found out I was pregnant with Tre it was right at 5 weeks as well, the test was much more convincing that time around so I needed some reassurance and thought I would pick the exact time frame as last time to confirm. Hehe. So I took the test as soon as I woke up and YEP, it was VERY convincing, the lines both showed up very quickly, just like last time. It comforted me to see that because I knew that things were going in the right direction. This time I just showed Jammer the test when he came into the bathroom since I had already attempted the surprise thing, he wouldn't let me take a picture of him this time (well he didn't let me last time but I just did it, this time he covered his face). Ha. But he was much happier to see the results and didn't have a confused look this time.

Funny part about this pregnancy is already I feel super tired and hungry and I have a little tiny belly sticking out. Thank goodness it's winter and I can wear layers. Even though the weather has actually been BEAUTIFUL lately. Actually somewhat warm and very sunny out. Amazing for January.