As I’m writing this post I am currently 13 weeks pregnant. We finally told my stepkids this past weekend, and have already told all of our immediate family, as well as a few coworkers/bosses. This probably won’t go up until we officially announce sometime in the first week of October, but I figured I’d start writing now!
The Planning
We decided to start planning for a baby two years ago, then I realized I didn’t have disability insurance which meant I would not get “maternity pay” obviously this was a no go for me, so we decided I would get disability insurance September of 2019 (that is when my insurance renews) that is also when we decided to both get checked up to make sure everything was okay!
We both had some minor issues that we had to deal with, so I started taking prenatals & B12, my husband was also prescribed some medication. That was the start of our journey to conceiving. Over the following months, we changed some of our daily habits and started setting money aside for the future Baby B. We decided I would get off birth control in March to cleanse my body since we had both been told that what we were prescribed would pretty much get us pregnant as soon as I came off birth control unless there were some underlying issues.
Then… COVID happened…
We talked about it and decided we had already put our baby planning on hold once, we were not going to let covid stop us from having a baby.
I got off the pill in late March and we started tracking. April happened and it was negative as I expected due to the cleansing, May came and once again negative, still I knew that the “magic pills” were not a guarantee and that people sometimes take years to conceive. After May we decided to try a fertility diet, lots of stuff happened in June that I swore that would not be our month, but to my surprise, in July I got my Big Fat Positive.
Getting a Positive
The day I decided to test was 3 days before my missed period. Since I thought it wasn’t our month I had not even worried about testing. But the days before I tested I had a metallic taste in my mouth, had vivid dreams, and suddenly the thought of drinking wine sounded gross. the night I tested I was unable to sleep. It was about 1 in the morning I went into the bathroom and decided I couldn’t sleep and it was the first time I was experiencing symptoms so why not test? I took a cheap amazon strip test and to my surprise, I saw a very faint second line, I was so excited when I saw it and immediately wanted to tell my husband, but I decided to wait. I retested the next two days and finally Wednesday after my husband got home from work I told him.
He was overjoyed with excitement at the thought of adding an “ours” baby to our family.
The excitement and the nerves
We were and are both super excited for Baby B, I, however, couldn’t allow myself to be super excited until we went to our first appointment and had our sonogram. A little background, a few years ago I had a molar pregnancy we were told we had to wait two years before even trying to conceive, so I was terrified that it would happen again…
We saw Baby B and were given the all-clear. Baby B looked healthy and I didn’t have to worry about having another molar pregnancy. The days leading up to us even meeting our midwife were terrifying because I didn’t know if my excitement would lead to disappointment. I prayed a lot before getting pregnant and after we found out for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. So hearing the news that there was a baby eased my nerves and made me super excited.
Seeing the baby and hearing the heartbeat have been some of the best moments. There were a few scares in the first trimester, so every-time we hear it we are reassured that everything is going okay.
Next Steps…
clear out the nursery! The room that we knew would one day be the nursery when we bought our house has been used as our “storage” room. So clearing it out needs to start now!
Gender Reveal! Baby B hid from us at our 16 week ultrasound, so we get to go back in two weeks and hopefully find out!
I cant wait to share more about my pregnancy with yall after our announcement. Get ready for baby overload!
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