We're Pregnant!

This has to be the best birthday present EVER.

I didn’t find out until this past weekend, and even then, I was completely unaware it might be possible because I really don’t track my periods that closely. (Brian does, thankfully.) When he told me off-handedly that I was 5 days late, I ran upstairs and opened up one of the free pregnancy tests that I received when ordering ovulation testing strips a month or two ago. When the damn thing was positive, I couldn’t believe it.

My eyes kind of bugged out of my head and my mouth made this uber-surprised little “O” shape and I kept slapping Brian’s arm in disbelief. He, of course, was beyond thrilled and he actually started giggling. Yes, giggling. If you haven’t seen a man giggle before, you’re missing out, because it’s too amusing for words.

We immediately ran out and bought three more tests, and performed another one that night, another on Saturday, and another on Sunday morning. All were positive

We were both ecstatic— we bought a book that has a day-by-day account of what’s going on (currently on Day 35), which tells you that the baby’s umbilical cord is just starting to form and it’s still inside a yolk sac (the placenta still hasn’t developed). Fascinating, just fascinating

I think after the third positive test, it kind of sank in, but I really wanted to wait for a doctor to confirm it before telling everyone. I don’t know if it’s common practice to wait 3 months to tell everyone in case something bad happens or what, but that’s not for me. I suck at keeping quiet, and could only valiantly fight the urge to spill the beans for a mere 48 hours.

I called my mom and asked her out to breakfast on Sunday morning. She said she’d already eaten. Snicker. Just when I thought she was going to blow it, she said she could meet us for coffee for a few minutes! Hee

I didn’t say a word, we just stuck that positive pregnancy test in her face and waited! It took her a few seconds to register what she was seeing, and then she said, and I quote: “Are you shittin’ me?!”

Hahahahaha. My mom’s a trip. She still doesn’t believe it, by the way. Hasn’t even come close to sinking in.

After that, we came home and hooked up the webcam to tell Brian’s parents. Coincidentally, his grandparents were also there, so the whole family was sitting there when we placed the test in front of the camera.

They all leaned in really close to see what it was, and again, it took a few seconds for it to register. When it did, they all flew backwards and clapped and laughed. It was pretty funny. Brian’s grandpa said “It’s about time!!!

But the best response of all had to be my sister’s. I called her and immediately said “Guess what? I’m pregnant!” and she screamed

“OH MY F****** GOD! THAT’S F****** AWESOME! YEAH! THAT F****** ROCKS!

Bwahahahahahaha! I was laughing so hard I was crying. She is SUCH a dork. She is INSANELY excited— you’d think she was having a baby! She made such a commotion that my nephew Arden ran over there and said “What, what?!” And she said “Aunt Candi’s going to have a baby! You’ll have a little cousin!” and then she started screaming all over again! Bwah

She even called my mom yesterday and was rambling on and on for about half an hour about how she couldn’t believe it, she was going to be an auntie, and she hoped it was a girl, and how much crap I was in for, yadda yadda. She cracks me up

I spent all day Monday doing research on the various local hospitals, and quickly settled on one that has LDRP rooms (private suites for labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum). Then I had to cross reference doctors who had access to that hospital; who were in my PPO network; who were board certified; who were AMA members; and who were women who had over 20 years experience. Only one fit the bill, and her name is Dr. Saroj Bavishi. She’s Indian (as in from India, not Native American). Just this year she received a Physician’s Recognition Award for completing over 50 hours of continuing education work for dozens of years in a row, a fact which I found most impressive

I was worried that I wouldn’t like her (you know how I am with doctors), but she’s great. Concerned about my blood pressure, my weight, my smoking, but NO lecturing whatsoever. She even commended me on the dramatic cigarette reduction (more on that later)

She didn’t keep us waiting AT ALL, and she was very straight-forward, kind, considerate, and she took the time to explain a few things. She performed a pap smear and breast exam, made sure everything was okay with my uterus (I believe she said it was nice and soft like it’s supposed to be- ha!), took blood for a bunch of tests, etc. They are putting me on a better blood pressure medication that is safe for pregnancy and she also prescribed prenatal vitamins

She also confirmed what I thought already— that I’m five weeks along and my due date is June 26th! They said they’d call in a few days with the results of all the comprehensive blood tests, and I have another appointment scheduled for November 21, the day before Thanksgiving. I’ll be nine weeks at that point… will have to look up what kind of goodies I can find out at that appointment. (I’ve counted ahead and I think I can find out the sex of the baby in February.

Yay!!! This is all so exciting…. it’s all we’ve been able to think about since we found out! Makes it hard to get any work done!