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July 20, 2001
TTC#1, C#13, CD#30 – PREGNANT!!!!!
Yes – you read right – I am indeed pregnant. It really hasn’t sunk in yet. I didn’t believe it, even after two positive HPTs, I still needed to get a blood test and the definitive word from my Dr. before I’d believe it!
Here’s the scoop.
I thought I was having my first annovulatory cycle this month. I started using an OPK on CD16, and never got a positive. I started looking for CM around then as well – and nothing. But as I was getting toward the end of the cycle, I began to wonder “what if” I actually Od early. So even though I have no symptoms at all – I went ahead and tested. I almost did a double take when I saw that faint line. And it wasn’t really that faint, it was just lighter than the test line.
So I fretted for a day, thinking that it must be because I used such a cheap PG test. So I went out and bought a Confirm test – the most expensive one in the store. I woke up this morning early and couldn’t “hold it” any longer so I groggily tested in the dark. I thought I waited a couple of minutes (I was VERY sleepy) and I saw nothing. So I placed it on the counter and went back to bed. DH asked me how it went and I grumbled about how I let myself be fooled by a cheap PG test, and I dozed back off. He had to get up 15 minutes later, and he calls out something to the effect of, “but I thought there was supposed to be two lines??” I literally LEAPED out of bed and sure enough – there was a nice dark line in the PG window!! I couldn’t say a word. I just squeaked, “I’m pregnant.” DH hugged me for a while and we talked about it and how we just didn’t think it was real and that I should go to the Dr. and get everything confirmed. I went yesterday and got the blood test and now I know for sure. I am pregnant!!
I can’t believe that after 15 months and 13 cycles, that I am finally pregnant. I can’t tell you how shocked I am. I expected to feel different, but I don’t. I have VERY minor cramps, but they could be AF cramps. But that’s it. I’m sure it’ll come. You know how people always say, “you’ll just know….” Well, I didn’t know! Oh – and the kicker is – I got the call from the fertility clinic on Monday and they got me in earlier than expected – my appt. is July 30th. I guess I’ll be canceling!
Right now I just hope for a healthy first trimester culminating in that precious heartbeat on the ultrasound. I know there are so many things that can go wrong during these first three months; I just hope that they don’t!
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me during the past 13 cycles through the ups and downs of my TTC journey. I literally don’t think I could have been as upbeat without this outlet and through the friends I’ve made. I haven’t told any of my “non TTC” friends or family that I’m TTC – so this is the only place I could talk freely about it. For my friends still TTC – the only thing I did differently this month is take False Unicorn Root (supplied by Amy B – with good luck PG vibes attached!!). I think it takes a few months to take effect, but hey – it was the only thing that both Amy and I did differently!
I want to stay on this site until I’ve heard that heartbeat – and then I plan on writing a pregnancy diary.
So now I want to stop at the bookstore on the way home! Any suggestions for good reading material on early pregnancy??
Talk soon and positive thoughts to all!!
Jennifer and Baby
EDD March 28, 2001
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