About three weeks ago I started feeling really, really tired. I started taking a nap every day. I haven't had to take naps since I was a freshman in college - when I was still adjusting to such a busy schedule of school and running cross country. Anyway, about a week later I was reading my cousin Heather's blog and she had written that she had just found out she was pregnant. What had tipped her off was that she had been so tired as of late. So, that's when the thought first crossed my mind.
Later that night I was talking on the phone with my husband as he drove home from work. I was telling him how tired I had been feeling, and he said the same thing - that maybe I was pregnant. The next evening he picked me up a home pregnancy test to take. I had read on the box that the results are usually most accurate if the test is taken in the morning, but Rick wanted me to take it right then. I convinced him to wait until the next morning and took it right before he had to leave to work. I took the test and watched to see what the result was. It immediately, within seconds, came back positive! I was really surprised, but excited! When I opened up the door to tell Rick, I asked him what he thought it would be and he said he thought it was negative. I told him it was positive and he was very excited. We've only been married seven months now, but Rick has wanted a baby since the first day! :)
We wanted to make sure that our test wasn't a fluke, so Rick said he would buy another test after work that night. I wasn't going to tell anyone about the test until we took the second one, but I couldn't wait! I called my family a few hours later. That night I took the second test, and sure enough, it also came out positive. The next day I went into the doctor's office and had it confirmed with a blood test. Speaking of blood tests, I hate needles! This was the first time that I have ever had my blood drawn! I was so nervous and I didn't even look at the nurse from the moment I sat down on the chair.
Now I'm about nine weeks along and I'm still getting used to the notion that there is a baby inside my tummy. I keep looking at my tummy and asking Rick when it's going to get bigger so that I can tell it's in there! LOL. Rick likes to call the baby "Blueberry" because I read to him in week 7 or so that the baby was the size of a blueberry. I have been lucky in that I haven't gotten sick or thrown up yet. I can't say that I feel good though. Each day I feel like I do when I'm starting to get sick - like the day before it really sets in, but it just stays the same (just bleh)! I have also continued to be really, really tired, but it feels like this week might be a little better than the last as far as that is concerned.
