Shiz No One Tells You about Getting Pregnant

I truly felt and appreciate that we wouldn't get pregnant easily. My parents adopted me when I was a month old and my brothers & sisters in law got pregnant so easily...so we had to be the couple who weren't so lucky. 

After having parent's who couldn't get pregnant and tried for 16 years, I do not take for granted that we are that couple who can tell you exactly when and that it was a one time thing...no not that we only did it once that month, that we were only reckless once that month :) and reckless is a bad word. We couldn't be more thankful to have our daughter. 

When we got married, we decided we wanted a baby but had not fully decided when. We went away for New Years with one of our Coastie couples. I got really car sick which wasn't truly like me. On our way home from the weekend, my hubby told me we needed to get a pregnancy test. I was for sure that it wasn't possible. Nah man, nah were my exact words to him.

We took a test and I was so sure it was negative, I made my hubby look. I wish I had videoed the response as it was the sweetest I could imagine. He looked at our doggies and said, you ready for a human sibling? 

The tears started flowing as we couldn't believe that one wreck-less time would give us the most magical gift that we could ever have been given. Life surely gives you some crazy turns and this was the best twist we could have ever imagined. 

We could barely contain ourselves. Thank God for Clear Blue. No guessing at a time I already didn't think I was pregnant, was essential. 

We didn't wait until our first appointment to tell our families. We told them as quickly as possible. My parents lost it and wanted to proceed with caution since they had never been through the experience before. My in-laws were just as excited for Grandbaby #5 & #7 (My hubby's parents are divorced so Peyton's a different number on each side.)

So I started on the prenatal vitamins NO ONE TELLS YOU to start taking them as soon as you are thinking about getting pregnant. So do it. And now they have a Men's Preconception Vitamin to increase healthy sperm. Finally, something the men can do to help with the conception process. It always feels like we have so much to worry about. One daily vitamin is easy!

and waited the 8 weeks to go in. I had no idea you had to wait that long to go in. It makes sense now but in the moment, I was loosing my mind. They shared with us that insurance won't start covering you until your baby is 8 weeks with a heartbeat, You can't really see anything until 8 weeks on the Ultrasound, and so we waited. Longest 4 weeks of our lives. Seeing that baby the first time and hearing the heart beat! Pure Wow!

Last but not least download an app. We loved Ovia Pregnancy Tracker. My husband used it too. It tells you week by week how big your baby is, what to expect, you can personalize it too. It was so much fun to check each week together. 

​until next time...