8-Week Update

We went for an ultrasound this morning, due to some unfamiliar cramps I had been having. Great news! Everything is going perfectly! We got to see the baby wiggling it's little arms and legs...and moving side to side, like a dance! I couldn't believe it! We also could see it's heart chambers beating. The heartbeat was 164. She said anything from 110 to 180 was normal. Will started crying, he was so happy! (I don't know if I was supposed to tell you that...) We still have 10 weeks until we can tell the baby's gender, but we seem to think it's a girl. The ring test says girl, and the chinese birth chart says girl. I know those things can be wrong, but for the most part i've heard they're right.

I'm craving mostly carbs, and anything else pretty much grosses me out. Which is not good, because I lost all my weight eating low-carb...and it's already returning at an astonishingly fast rate. I'm hoping my food aversions will diminish in the second trimester, so that I can eat healthier. And i'll be good to work out again once I feel better! I have to keep my heart rate below 140, which will be tough because I am used to pushing myself really hard when I work out...so i'm not sure I remember what "moderate" feels like.

I think the timing of this pregnancy is great, because I will get to wear plenty of fall clothes when I'm huge, and after the baby's born I can wear winter clothes until I get my shape back in the spring. We're already planning a copy of P90X. No bikinis or little tank tops until well after the baby's born!

How We Found Out

I hadn't been feeling well. Exhaustion, queasiness, tenderness...but I thought it was from working two jobs, a stomach bug that had been going around, and maybe a period on it's way. I had jokingly told Will that I wanted to take a pregnancy test, because if I felt this way for no reason, I was going to be upset! I really didn't think I could really be pregnant though.

We had invited our friends Jordan and Erica over for dinner on Thursday, March 4. Erica was with us, but Jordan was still on his way home from work. She and I were talking in the car in the parking lot at Publix...I told her I had these weird symptoms, but after 2 years of trying, I had been dismissing them. I really thought we weren't ever going to become pregnant. I mentioned that I might take my last pregancy test, just to get the thought out of the back of my mind. She agreed that it was a good idea.

So after we made it home, and i'm waiting on the test to process, i'm reading the back of the box, just passing the time. I look down, and it had already processed. But it looked...weird. I had never seen two pinks lines before. I looked at the box, looked at the test, looked at the box, looked at the test. Looked at the box. I screamed for Will. (I later found out that Erica told him "she's yelling for you", but since he was cooking dinner for us, he ignored me.) I then ran into the living room, shaking, saying "what does this mean? what does this mean?"

His jaw dropped. Erica squealed "it means PREGNANT!" She started jumping up and down, while Will and I just stared at each other. "I'm gonna go into labor!", she said, from the jumping. "Don't do that!" Will said. "Well, hug each other or something!!!" So we did = )

I still wasn't sure if I should believe it or not, I mean, two years after seeing negatives...was this really a positive? "You have to get the one that says the word!" Erica beamed. So she and I rushed down to Walgreens, and bought a two-pack. I couldn't pee when I got back home, so I chugged water and continued to shake. They were talking, but I couldn't concentrate. I tried atleast twice before I could pee enough for the second test. To my suprise...it said "Pregnant"! I thought for sure it had been a fluke, but it wasn't!

We tried to wait to tell our parents in a super-creative way, but that lasted maybe 20 seconds. We decided to take a picture of the two positive tests and text it to all our family members at the same time. Ten seconds later, our phones were ringing off the hook! My family cried, his family laughed, both were excited. We confirmed it at the doctor's office the next day!

It took us forever to grasp that we're pregnant...it just didn't seem real! We kept telling each other, "Hey, guess what? We're pregnant!"