Sunday, February 10, 2008

Baby?

The second month of trying after the surgery came and I was due to get my period on April 13th - FRIDAY the 13th. I kept telling my mom that maybe Friday the 13th will be good luck for me. The day came and I thought about it all day at work, just like I did the whole week, just like I did every month when that time came close. I kept telling myself that I would just wait and see and not take a test until I was several days late - I told myself that every single month but could never wait. I came home and felt a little crampy like my period was coming so I decided to just go take a test so I knew for sure. I went upstairs, took the test and walked away for a couple minutes. When I went back to look there was a very very very faint line... After taking multiple tests every single month for 2 1/2 years never did I see any kind of line, any kind of indication that possibly...
I called Kevin upstairs and had him look. "Do you see a line there?" I asked, making sure I wasn't just making it up in my head. "Yes, what does that mean?" Kevin replied. And I explained that a line means that you're pregnant. But it was SO hard to see, so I tried not to get my hopes up and tried to go downstairs, do other stuff and get my mind off of it - yeah right! I took another test that night before going to bed hoping that the line would be darker - it was still there but still just as faint. Supposedly taking tests in the morning is a better indication - so I woke up at 6 am and took another test, once again hoping for a darker line... still a line, still very very hard to see, just as faint as the day before. I told Kevin that I was going to go to the doctor and have them test me just so I know for sure because my hopes were really starting to get high and I didn't want to go on thinking 'maybe' if in the end it was just going to be 'no' again. Kevin thought I was jumping the gun just a little and said he thought we should wait a little bit, but I just couldn't do it.
We went to the doctor and they took a urine sample - I remember it so clearly - what I was wearing, how I was feeling, and exactly how she sounded when she came in and said, "It is a definite definite positive," to which we both replied "Really?" with our mouths wide open. She said usually it takes 5 minutes to get a result and it showed positive within a minute. She left the room and Kevin and I stared at each other, I started crying. But we were still in disbelief and after years of trying were very hesitant to believe whole-heartedly that this was actually happening. We started saying that we understood it was still really early but now we at least knew that it could happen - we could actually get pregnant! When we told people in the first days we always followed it up with explaining that we understood it was still early, and a lot of people seemed to think it was terrible that we were thinking that something could happen but we were just so guarded I think, after wanting this to happen for so long and being let down so many times, it was really hard to let ourselves believe that it was finally happening, what we had prayed for for 2 1/2 years was finally happening - our baby was finally on the way!

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