As I mentioned in my last post, Weston and I started talking about expanding the family in the middle of 2012. In October, I had my yearly check-up with Dr. Gilliam. Weston and I talked about it before the appointment deciding to move forward. So, when I went to visit with her, I told her that we were going to start trying. She gave me all the speeches, gave me prenatal vitamin samples, and even made me take the flu shot. I had already stopped birth control at that point. We were ready to move forward. Well, it wasn't as easy as I thought. Everyone I had talked to at that point made it seem like it would be so simple. One thing you will learn about me is that I am a type A person. I love to have control over everything and be on a schedule. I am almost OCD about certain things. I wanted to be pregnant in a certain time of the year where I would not have to miss out on a lot of things at work. We def could not deliver during tax season! I was running out of time. I didn't really want baby Tanner to be born during the holidays. I have always heard the holiday takes away from the birthday.
One day I was emailing with my best friend Erin. It is funny, we are so open with one another. We also never talk on the phone. We either text or email each other at least every other day. It is a super close relationship we have. When I emailed her, I was telling her about us trying. She said that I should try out this website...fertilityfriend.com. Basically it is a site that you take your temps every day and post them on it. It will tell you all kinds of things. Plus it has other charts that you can compare your chart to and see if that person ended up being pregnant. It has chat rooms with questions from other people who are either trying or pregnant. It is very helpful! I loved it. I ended up getting a 3 mo membership in Dec after two months trying unsuccessfully. I probably bugged Erin to death over this chart. I was talking to her daily asking her a million questions.
So I started temping every day. I followed what the chart told me. Well, the chart gives you a line when it basically tells you that you are ovulating. During the middle of the month, it decided to change the line on me! I was super bummed. I thought that I had it all figured out until it decided to do that on me. I was sure that we were not going to be pregnant. I still made sure I was taking my prenatals, not drinking, only taking Tylenol. Haha-so hard to do all this when you are still going out with friends. The questions all started. Are you pregnant? No. I was certain I wasn't since the line changed on me. Well then I was late. I figured it was all the stress of being pregnant that was making me late. I was still temping every morning. On Saturday, Feb 2nd, my temp went down. When you are charting your temps, that is not a good sign. I was sooo upset. That was on a Saturday. I went on with my day. Thank goodness I was busy that day to keep me occupied between tax season, Junior League Mardi Gras decorating, and helping a friend Meagan choose her wedding dress. On Sunday though, my temp shot up!! I woke up that morning to temp and get ready for church and believe it or not, it was up. So, I quickly took a pregnancy test (oh I already had these because I had taken one on the 29th of Jan when I was late). It was positive!!! I started crying. I went and woke Weston up. I said "guess what?" Then I showed him the test and said "we are having a baby". He just held me while I cried. It was a sweet moment. Then I had to go to church!! I had to see my parents!! I almost couldn't control myself not telling them. I was so excited! I remember crying a lot at church that day. I hide it well. I was just overwhelmed with happiness.
I ended up taking another pregnancy test the next day just to make sure it was real. I kept temping just to make sure my temps stayed up. Then on the next Sunday, I took ANOTHER pregnancy test to once again make sure I was not hallucinating. I just didn't believe it.
I waited until Valentines Day to tell my parents. Yes, that I was a long couple of weeks not telling them. I ended up telling them in a Valentines Day card. I can still see the shock on my mom's face when she read the part where we would need to add another place to the table at Thanksgiving. She said "What?!!? You're pregnant??" I think she teared up.
I had a scare early on in my pregnancy. During that time, I was doing Sean Miller's Body Boot Camp. On Friday the 15th of Feb, he had me jumping up and down off this tall box. I felt something pop. Then for the rest of that day, I was cramping bad and started bleeding some. The bleeding stopped on Saturday, but the cramping was all weekend. I called my doc on Monday. They told me to immediately come into the office. I went all by myself because it was such a last minute thing. I was so nervous, I thought I might throw up. I was 6 weeks along is what I found out at the appointment. They did an ultrasound. I got to see baby Tanner!! I started crying again. Of course he was a white line at that point. They said everything looked good. His heartbeat was 156. I was relieved!! The doc said that I might not want to do the Body Boot Camp, so I never went back. Didn't have to tell me twice!
So that is the story of how you came into being here in my belly. Now I am 7 months along. Not much longer until I get to me you. I can't wait!
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