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March 28, 2000

At about 8:30 a.m. this morning I confirmed a few things. That my body hasn't totally failed me. That I'm not going to go through life not knowing what being pregnant is like, or not knowing what it's like to give birth. That's right, I confirmed that I'm going to be a mother! I'm pregnant!

I'm still in shock. This is the first month that I ovulated and we actually did it?!? We conceived?! I just can't believe that a little plastic stick was staring me right in the face with a second blue line. It can't be this easy! There just has to be something more to this all!

Well let's see where I last left off. I had just ovulated and we BD'd the day before O, the day of, and 2 days after. I ended up getting a bladder infection because after BD'ing I stayed in bed for 45 minutes and then just fell asleep. I usually urinate afterwards which helps cut down the chances of getting a bladder infection. So I was in sooo much pain. I finally went into a walk-in clinic on Sunday, I just couldn't wait to make an appointment on Monday with my family doctor. So I told the doctor at the clinic that I was trying to get pregnant and I may actually be so she gave me some antibiotics that were safe to take during pregnancy.

I kept thinking during the two-week waiting period that I wasn't pregnant. I just didn't want to end up convincing myself only to be let down when AF arrived. The weirdest thing happened though. At about 9DPO I just woke up feeling different. It's not "flu like symptoms" everyone talks about. I just really can't explain it. I just felt different. At that point I knew I was pregnant but once again I wasn't going to get too excited until I saw a plus sign on a test. So we waited and waited.

Last Thursday we ordered in Chinese food and with it came the fortune cookies. Now I normally don't take the fortunes too seriously but this time was different. I had two cookies. I cracked the first one open and two fortunes came out! The first one read "Tuesdays & Thursdays stack odds in your favour" and the second one was "Your deepest desires will be granted". Wow, I read them out to Jason right away. I just couldn't believe this! I cracked open my second cookie and the fortune read "Good news is on the way". Three fortunes all saying good things about the near future.

Jason told me that I had to wait until Tuesday to take a home pregnancy test which I agreed. Why fight the fates right? The weekend was sooooo long. Finally I woke up Tuesday, creeped into the bathroom and took a ClearBlue Easy HPT. It says to leave it for a full minute. So as I was cleaning up the wrappers and such I glanced at it and out of the corner of my eye I saw a second line. For some strange reason I didn't look back, I didn't want to confirm it until the full minute was up so I stared at the ceiling. When the time was up, everything seemed to go in slow motion. Here I was staring at this second line. It just couldn't be this easy. There had to be something more to this whole process.

Oh yeah that's right! Tell Jason! So I quickly walked back to the bedroom and sat down beside Jason and woke him up. I said, "Here!" and stuck the HPT in his face. It took him a couple seconds to clue in. I don't think he had any doubts as to whether I was pregnant or not. Of course being the man that he is, after a few cute words of, "There, are you happy now?" with a reply of "YES!" from me. He said, "Good, me too." and rolled over and went back to sleep!

No real symptoms yet. My nipples have been very sensitive since ovulation, though. I have an appointment with my GYN tomorrow so she can verify my pregnancy.

So that is all for now. :)
Erin and "Little Embryo" EDD December 5th 2000



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