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Kate's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 5/3/00 -------------------- 4/24/00 4/17/00 4/10/00 4/3/00 -------------------- Kate's Introduction

May 3, 2000

You’re not going to believe this, but I am pregnant. In fact, I am nearly six weeks pregnant! How is this possible? (Well, I guess I know how. The question is why didn’t I know right away?) I guess that DH and I hit the right time before he got the flu. I can’t believe it. Of all the dumb luck.

After I last wrote, I started tracking my temperature again. It did not drop. Then, there was the matter of having to get up three times a night to pee. I described all of this to a close friend who has three kids and she told me to go out and buy a pregnancy kit posthaste. I, of course, already had a kit that I was hoping to use soon. I took the test. Presto-chango, it was positive. I couldn’t believe it. I was just in the process of augmenting my fertility library, as you know. The woman who tracks her cycles like a hawk is caught off guard — proving once again that God has a good sense of humor.

I talked with my doctor after taking the test because I really thought that AF made her visit a couple of weeks ago. I was afraid that maybe I was miscarrying again. As I told you earlier, AF was short and there wasn’t very much to it, but I did bleed a little around the time I usually menstruate. (Now that I think about it, it was more pinkish staining than heavy bleeding, but I thought that it was just a wacky AF.) The doctor told me that this sometimes happens and asked if I had any subsequent bleeding, which I have not had. My OB is pretty relaxed and he told me that it is probably just fine and I should take it easy and let him know whether there is any further bleeding. Otherwise, he will see me at the end of May for my first pre-natal exam.

I am now in the throes of morning sickness. I ate almost an entire bag of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish trying to stave off nausea this morning. I am an ardent coffee drinker — the bigger and stronger, the better, and I feel like losing my cookies every time I smell coffee. I forgot how bad morning sickness is. But how thrilling it is to be experiencing it!

I don’t know what the preconception people will do with me — whether they will move me to Pregnancy Today or stop the diary. Even though this has been a short diary, it has taken a long time to get here — we started TTC again in December. In some ways, I wish that there were a Postconception.com site, where all of the moms early in their pregnancies could sit. I went from being thrilled at the test results to feeling terrified about miscarrying again. I keep poking at my breasts surreptitiously in the office to make sure they still hurt. Breast soreness was the first thing to disappear when I miscarried last month. If anyone has seen me do this, they must think that I am a little off my rocker.

So, that is it. I guess the lesson is that these great moments in life come when you are least expecting them. Say a prayer for my baby please and thanks for listening. Good luck in TTC!