Well if you haven't heard already......
I guess it is time to add another little Johns to the family... I never thought that I would be able to say that we got a surprise baby with how long it took us to get Noah. But apparently I was wrong! One thing I am happy to be wrong about. With Noah there was lots of trying, waiting, fertility medicine, more waiting, different drug, then pregnant. With this little one.... I thought I was due have had a period (but it is hard to know when you have fairly irregular periods) so I took a pregnancy test. NEGATIVE... So i carried on thinking Mrs flow would show up any time. Well she didn't and another week passed.. Took another test while Chris was out getting some donuts the morning of March 5th. Watched as it slowly processed... two lines... wait what?? Holy Crap. I was so excited but sooo shocked. We had planned on starting to try in April or May but I guess there was other plans. . This doesn't just happen to someone like me. It happens to super fertile people that don't have PCOS. I hid the test because I had decided long before that the next time I was pregnant I wanted to tell Chris a fun way instead of just "throwing my pee stick at him" like I did the last time. So I acted like nothing was different when he was home. Even though I could hardly eat any of the donuts he had just brought home cause i felt like my stomach was fluttering. So later that day I bought some digital tests. I wanted to be 100% sure if I was going to make a big deal about it. And sure enough there was PREGNANT starring right back at me. So during Noahs nap I hollowed out an egg and let it dry, then rolled up the little note and shoved it inside. The next morning was Chris's day off and I told him that he should mix up some scrambled eggs while i made the pancakes. So he got the eggs out and the first one he picked up was the hollow one. He told me that it was a bad egg and was about to throw it away. I acted like there was no such thing as a empty egg and that he must be crazy. So to show me what it looks like inside he decided to oped it up. And then found this:
Our first appt was March 26th(7 1/2 weeks along). Longest 3 week wait ever! But it was well worth waiting for... We got to see our little bean and hear the heart beat. Noah was so good at the appointment and it really was so fun to get to see our doctor and his nurse again. We talked about what the plan of attack would be this time around and it certainly gave me a lot more confidence. Stitch goes in at 13 weeks and hopefully with it being a preventative one, things should go much smoother.
We decided to wait a while before telling our families. I thought Easter would be the perfect time to announce but after our appointment it was clear that Chris couldn't wait that long. :) So we decided to go for April fools day instead. Because it was conference Sunday we were able to go to my family for breakfast and then to Chris's family for dinner. Both sides are very excited and it was a huge relief for me to finally be able to be in the open about it. Especially since the wonderful morning sickness was starting to kick in full swing!
I have really felt pretty dang good.. At least compared to my last pregnancy, no ovarian cysts this time. It is nice to have a while to feel like a "normal" pregnant person. The sickness started to kick in right at 8 weeks (just like while i was pregnant with Noah) And is still here...... But I haven't puked as many times as i did with him. Felt crampy for the first few weeks but that seems to have settled down. My belly definitely remembers how to look pregnant because by 8-9 weeks I already was growing a little bump... We can't believe that we have been so blessed. We just hope and pray that this little one will make it here to us safely and continue to grow strong!
