Yes, its official...we're having a baby! My eggo is preggo. There's a bun in the oven. A pea in the pod. I'm 100% knocked up.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me tell you the whole story, for those who are interested.
Many of you know that I've had baby fever for almost a year now, which was the answer to many of my sweet husband's prayers as I wasn't so gung ho to have kids when we got married. The Lord definitely changed my heart, pretty rapidly, and gave me an intense desire to procreate.
Due to my contract at UNC, we wanted to "schedule" a baby around the time that contract was drawing to an end to allow some flexibility with work as a new mom. With my contract set to end in Sept of 2010, we figured on 3 months or so of trying, which meant getting pregnant in November or December and delivering in Aug or September next year. It was all planned so perfectly.
Little did we know that it would take far less than 3 months to get pregnant. In fact, by all calculations, it took about 3 weeks. Fertile Myrtle over here.
I knew pretty much right away that I was pregnant. I could just tell. I felt weird. By weird, I mean...well, weird. Chris thought I was just having hysterical pregnancy symptoms because I wanted a baby so bad, and we'd been watching Glee and that's what happened to Mrs. Schuster, but I kept saying, "I'm not like that crazy mean lady. I really think I'm pregnant!"
Man I love when I'm right.
So for a week, I peed on a stick every day, watching and waiting for that line to show up. For a few days, it remained blank or showed up as "not pregnant". Ugh! It was awful.
Then one day, a FAINT line appeared...I mean, I could just barely see it. But there was something. Chris didn't get excited yet. He wasn't convinced. I decided to try again in three days, but couldn't bear the suspense so I did a test every day up to day 3, when a pretty good solid line finally appeared to announce, PREGNANT! He finally believed me :) I wasn't hysterical!
That was 7 weeks ago, and now I'm 9 weeks along with a confirmed heartbeat by ultrasound. Everything looks good so far.
Unfortunately, I'm in the throws of early pregnancy and when I say throws, I mean throws. Nausea like I didn't know was possible, complete exhaustion to the point of pulling over and sleeping in my car, and a changing body that's freaking me out. So far, God is good and I haven't puked in public, which is one of my biggest fears. I have, however, fallen behind in housework, so pray for Chris as he has to pick up my slack and deal with me moping around feeling gross all the time.
I keep hearing it gets better, and today was a small glimpse into that as I felt OK for a few hours and actually got excited about food. Yeah! So we're 9 weeks down, hopefully about 30 to go.
For you praying people out there, we would love if you could pray for a happy, healthy little one and some wisdom for two very inexperienced parents. Thankfully we had great examples growing up and lots of friends to offer advice and hopefully some babysitting as well.
Finally, for those of you who were wondering, our plan so far is to not find out the sex, not tell the final name decisions, and have a natural labor and delivery at UNC, where I work.
So that's that. We're very excited about this new chapter in our lives and very thankful for what's to come.
OH, OH, OH!!!! Katie I am so excited for you!!! And Chris, of course. Please know you can call me anytime with any weird preggo questions (I think by now I should have professional pregnancy status:) hehe)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, girl! I am very excited for you and Chris and I am VERY happy to FINALLY (no reflection on you) welcome my good friend Susan into the Gramma Club.
ReplyDeleteI have SO much to teach! Here are my first few topics:
- M&M and Sweet Tea...Works for Snack, Why Not Breakfast?
- It's Not Gramma's Job to be Sure Her Precious Grandbaby has Broccoli...Cookies Work Just as Well
- Don't Tell Mom or Dad...About Anything!
- Effective Eye Rolling Lessons for the New Grandchild: Get What You Want From Mom and Dad (but don't try this on gramma!)
- The Best Places to Get Kid-friendly Chocolate Snack in Preparation for Returning the Kid to Mom and Dad.
All KINDS of great stuff! Woo-hoo!
And remember...I've been at this for FIVE YEARS already! I'm a pro!
Doin' the happy dance. : )
(Really, congrats. May your nausea disappear, may you not get elbow pokes in the bladder EVERY day, and may you find the perfect name for the perfect baby.)
Hip hip hooray! Praying for your growing family!
ReplyDeleteKatie, I am thrilled and so excited for you guys! You will be fabulous parents. I was NOT a fan of being pregnant, but trust me - it is SO worth every barf epidosde at work, every sleepless night, etc. YAY!
ReplyDeletelol to the hysterical pregnancy suspicions - we're watching Glee too. congratulations to you and Chris!
ReplyDeleteI took 3 pregnancy tests and they all came back negative, so I figured they were right. And I waited a week and still no period, so I sent Josh out for another test and decided to wait for the first pee the next morning. I dreamed twice that I got a positive test result, so when I got up that morning to test and it was actually positive, I was shocked and wondered if I was still dreaming. And then Josh and I went to work like normal because you have to keep it a secret until you know everything is ok :) I really wanted to call in "pregnant" that day and skip work, ha!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations again Katie. God's blessings to you Chris and your lil' one. The Flint family will continue to pray for you all. What a wonderful time this is for you. Sorry to hear about the sickness, but as you know that's a good sign.
ReplyDeleteAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! We're SO excited for you guys, Katie!!!! Yippee!!!!!!! Love you, love you, love you!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats!!!
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