I am currently 30 weeks as I post this- it has been sitting in my drafts for some time now, but nevertheless here is our pregnancy story!
I’m 13 weeks as I’m writing this but let me take it back to the beginning…
Michael and I knew that we wanted to have kids right after we got married and the baby fever was real let me tell ya! We weren’t really actively trying at the end of 2019 but as 2020 began we started talking about it more and decided that we were going to actively start trying and I had now been off of birth control for like six years or so, and I didn’t think it was gonna be a problem for me to get pregnant. *We are truly thankful that we were able to get pregnant without any interventions as we know that’s not the case for many.*
I was tracking my cycle and my ovulation schedule and really just being consciously aware of my body and everything that I was eating and doing and exercising. I know so many people say to not really get all worked up about it because it kind of stresses you out, so I wasn’t really putting too much stress on myself, more so just trying to live a healthier lifestyle and just tracking my cycle basically.
Month after month passed by with negative test after negative test and come early July, late June I had my annual women’s check up which I brought up my concerns to her that we have been trying for quite some time now and if I should be concerned and she basically told me “no once you guys have a year of fully trying then come back and and we’ll talk about what your options are.” So I went on my merry way, I did mention to her in June that my period was a week earlier than it had been before and only lasted three days and was super light, she said if I took a pregnancy test and if it was negative don’t worry about it my body is just probably changing cycles and it might just be something I did different in my lifestyle, which I did start doing hot yoga twice a day so I thought that maybe that had a impact on my period.
So I left that day and thought nothing of it and just went home and told Mike like it is what it is maybe we should actually stop trying since you will be leaving within the next couple of months to BCT for the ARMY. So we thought about just to stop actively trying and once he got back from BMT, and AIT then we would pick back up, little did we know I was already pregnant and that’s why my period in July was late two weeks.
So my period in July ended up being two weeks late and I had all the normal period symptoms, my boobs were hurting and I was cramping and I was moody, and emotional! I had all the symptoms of being on my period, but Michael kept saying I know you’re pregnant, I know you’re pregnant and I just didn’t believe him and I told him, OK at the end of this next coming week if I haven’t got my period then I’ll take a test on that Friday but not anytime sooner.
It was a Wednesday, 22nd of July, the week I was going to take a test, that Friday and I had an appointment at a new salon that afternoon and it was in the morning and I had just woken up and got ready for work and went to my office to have my morning meeting and I remember feeling like I was going to pass out, I was so dizzy and nauseous, I just didn’t know what was going on with my body and I thought to myself, “oh crap I think I need to take a test.” I had to go run some errands for work so I had to go to Office Depot and target is right next to Office Depot so I stopped at target and bought three test and I came home and I took them. I was so nervous because I didn’t wanna disappoint myself and I didn’t want to tell Mike, because I didn’t want him to get his hopes up but it was positive and I freaked out. I was super emotional, as anyone would be if they are actively trying to get pregnant. So I took the second one and it was positive too!
I was in the middle of cooking because Mike was on his way home for lunch and I called him because I wanted to surprise him with a pregnancy test but I was too excited to wait so I wanted to tell him right then and there when he got home for lunch. I called him and I asked him “oh where are you I’m just checking in I’m making lunch and whatever” and he was like “oh I am on X Parkway” and I was like “oh OK like no worries and I’ll see you when you get here.” My heart was racing and I had no clue what to do so I got the letter board and I put on it baby Acero 2021 and I taped the two pregnancy test to it and I hung it on the wall- he knew that I had to run errands for work so I figured I would just tell him that I got a new sign for the house, did you see what I got and let him read it.
So as he walked in the garage door, of course the dogs swarmed him and I was just awkwardly standing there not knowing what to really do and he came to the living room dropped off the mail on the island and he’s playing with the dogs and I said “oh did you see the new sign that I got from target” and he said “new sign from target?” And as he read it he ran up and picked me up off the ground and was like “Whattt, are you serious!” So yeah as any other announcement goes, he was excited and I was excited and crying of course and yeah that’s pretty much how that happened. We are so excited for our first baby to come in 2021 and the first grandchild on his side and his family super excited and so is mine.
It’s such a new and exciting time in our lives and I can’t believe we are parents! This baby is already so loved.
XO|Essence
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