The husband and I are pregnant...again! Well, I am pregnant again, he just gets to come along for the ride - and no, I do not have a quiver full of children. I have one and just one adorable baby girl :)
I had that "sense" that I was pregnant. If you've ever been pregnant before, you know what I am talking about. You just know, just have that intuition that you're expecting. This started soon after our fated night, up until I took a First Response (FR) analog pregnancy test a week before my "missed" period (it wasn't missed yet!). The test actually came back negative, but of course I knew differently (and of course I spend about $60-$70 of money that I don't really have to spend because I am frugal, to buy more pregnancy tests of all types to see how the results varied).
Of course I took a FR test the day after, and the day after....All negative, until one day, the first day of my "missed" period, I saw an extremely faint pink line, and that was enough to make me try other tests to see what the results were. WELL...I took "Clear Blue" digital, which simply tells you "pregnant" or "not pregnant" and removes your interpretation of lines by interpreting your pee for you, but I read that a lot of women who took CB tests didn't count them as reliable, so I went with EPT this time, only to see a very faint blue line, creating a "plus" sign over the control horizontal already present (if you're not pregnant, the vertical line never appears, giving you only a "minus" sign). Well, this was 2 or 3 days into my missed period, and the fact that the line was faint worried me, of course. Why did it worry me? With my first, I took an EPT the day of, or a day after the first day of my "missed" period and that plus sign was a bold statement you could probably see across the room! This time, I took the EPT about 3 or 4 days into my missed period and it was very faint (but noticeable). This disturbed me because I know that if you have a fertilized egg that hasn't implanted itself in the uterus, it still gives off the growth hormone present in your urine that these tests read, but in small amounts, and never increasing. After a few days, a woman may have some abdominal cramping, bleeding, and just assume her period was late and never know the wiser. I am not a doctor of obstetrics (or a doctor at all), but true to my persona in real life, I read a lot and like learning.
....of course, sometimes we read too much and self-diagnose ourselves inappropriately.....not that I'm guilty of that ever....
*ahem*
So a couple of nights ago I did the whole gamut - E.P.T analog, Clear Blue digital and First Response analog.
Peeing on these sticks, is quite an expense - but when you are trying to find out if you are going to face a certain life changing event, the expense seems a little more justified!
All told me that I'm pregnant again! This time, E.P.T gave me that dark blue "plus" I was hoping for!
haha
I remember fondly those 3 months of marriage when it was just me and my husband....We celebrated his birthday, went through a corn maze, went to Iceland, took short road trips, both had full time jobs...I blinked and I was pregnant, 9 months later a beautiful baby came into the picture, 7 months after grueling education on being a new parent, we find out we are expecting #2 bundle of joy....
Oh, don't misunderstand me! This is WONDERFUL news! We haven't the space for another baby, but we'll take him! (or her)!
I am still a working mommy, but we live near family and friends now, so the support system is there - and money may not be abounding in our happy home, but it flows in, and we have all we need (even things we want)! I hope that the day comes soon when we can afford that I be a complete stay at home mom, but that just won't happen until divine intervention comes in (as it will, and Brian and I have been "praying it in" you might say).
If you come across this blog and are a praying individual, please pray for the health and viability of this little life in my body who is but the size of a small grain of rice right now (cute little grain of rice!) Little vital organs are developing now, and we want the heart to divide into it's appropriate chambers, we want the CNS to be covered and protected and functioning well - we want EVERYTHING to function well, be separated appropriately...etc. God bless this little life in me, in the name of Jesus. Thank you!
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