OMG We're pregnant!
Yes thats right we're pregnant! Finally I get to tell everyone now that we are officially out of the first trimester. That's a difficult secret to keep let me tell you.
On May 9th 2011, Heather came home from work all happy and glowing. She whispered to me, "I think we have some news." I knew immediately what she was talking about. After all we had been trying for several months to have a child. I just wonder how she knew so definitively before taking a pregnancy test. I am chalking it up to motherly intuition.
We bought a home pregnancy test just to see if Heather's intuitions were correct. Our first test read nothing. No plus no minus, nothing. So does that mean she's not pregnant? I'm not sure how difficult it is to pee on a stick but it must pretty hard, because as it turned out, Heather missed the stick completely! Oh brother!
We weren't sure if the test stick was still usable or not. We decided to retest with the same stick and see what happens. The second test came back positive and we were both pretty excited. Then we started thinking. Was the sticks integrity compromised after the first attempt? Would the long exposure to oxygen cause a false positive? Crap! the instructions make no mention about a mis-fire in the troubleshooting section!
We decided not to get to excited just yet and retest in the morning.
Heather retested in the morning and it we got the unmistakable "+" sign. Now it's time to get excited!
(8 weeks)
To tell or not to tell
We debated at length if we should tell our friends and family or if we should wait until we cleared the first trimester. After all, if anything were to happen, it would most likely happen during the first trimester. We decided to wait on making a big announcement.
We really did try to wait to make any announcements. However, after a few close calls where we almost spilt the beans, we decided we just aren't good at keeping secrets. Especially from our family. We decided that we had to tell our families.
We made some simple announcement cards and presented them to our mother's on the weekend. As you can probably imagine, they were both very delighted with the news. Watching them pull the cards from the envelopes, you can see in their facial expressions that they knew instantly what the big bold letters on the cards cover reading "Surprise" meant! The moment was—to quote a popular credit card slogan—"Priceless"
First Ultrasound
On June 10th 2011, we had a doctor appointment to do our first ultrasound. This would be our 8th week so the baby was a only 2 cm long. I wasn't sure what we would see if anything. To my surprise we actually got to see the tiny heart beating on the black and white ultrasound monitor. I have to say, it was pretty amazing to watch. I had no idea the tiny heart was already beating at just 8 weeks. If I wasn't such a manly man, I probably would have teared up a little.
(12 weeks)
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But onto more important things. I am very excited for you guys. Hopefully I will get to enjoy him/her (its going to be a boy, i just know it) often.
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