Well, the news is out! Clay, and I are having a baby!!! Expected due date is March 9, 2015 :-) We're so excited, and as we wrapped up our first trimester we couldn't believe how fast time has been flying by! I'm using this blog as a progress tracker, and to have something to look back on with the future baby, and to compare my future pregnancies to. Lets start from the beginning!
When/How we found out:
We were planning on either going to the lake or camping for the 4th of July weekend. As I was supposed to "start" that weekend, I knew I was going to take a pregnancy test before just to be safe, and not drink if there was, in fact, our first baby in progress. At this point in our relationship we had just started shopping around for a house. Of course, before we decided to buy a house together we had quite a few talks about our future, and were both happy to say that we were each others future. The baby talk was a big one with regards to when we would start trying, and it was decided that we didn't want to wait until I was 30 to have our first. That would be the case if we were engaged for a year, did the wedding first, then tried within the first year or marriage. A fear of mine was if it took 1+ years to conceive, as I've known this to be the case for many of my friends. So we decided to leave it up to fate, to not necessarily try, but also not avoid. We anticipated it happening sometime within 6 months-year. HA! One month later, we got the shocking, but oh so exciting news. This baby was meant to be, and it made that abundantely clear.
Thursday July 3rd 2014 I woke up, and immediately took a test. I honestly didn't expect it to be positive. Everyone always says they "knew" they were pregnant, or were already experiencing nausea before taking the test. I didn't have any feelings or sickness. I felt normal, and was sure that I was just being safe before drinking over the weekend. There was no ifs, ands, ors, or butts, about it though! Those two pink lines popped up immediately! First words out of my mouth were, "WHAT?!" Then a huge smile appeared. I always thought I'd tell daddy in some cute way, but instead I grabbed the test, ran into our bedroom, and just threw it at Clay. As he was still half asleep, he was utterly confused, and took a minute to figure out what was going on. He looked at the test, and the first words out of his mouth were, "I think the lines have to be closer together like in the picture." Oh my goodness! I calmly explained to him in a squeaky, not so calm voice, that that's not how it works. It's 2 lines, regardless of their distance from each other. He broke out in a huge grin, and pulled me into bed for a perfect hug. It was a very exciting, short morning together as we both had to work shortly after finding out. That day will be engraved in my memory forever. July 3, 2014, the day my life changed forever.
When/How we broke the news:
The plan was to wait until we were completely done with the first trimester to tell anyone. That didn't go so well! This was the hardest secret we've ever had to keep. I told my room-mate and younger sister almost immediately. We see Clay's family quite often, so we told his mom after about a month. It was so hard seeing her in person, and not telling her. She knew something was up, and guessed it before we officially told her. Crazy how mother's intuition is always spot on! Other than that, we kept the news locked up for the most part. It was really important to me that my family know before we did a big announcement. For fear of the worst thru the first trimester, we waited until we were almost done with it, and had been to the doctor with the "all-clear". We had our first doctors appointment at 10 1/2 weeks, and were told everything looked great. We also got the first glimpse at our baby, and there really are no words that can ever describe the joy of that moment. I sent out my parents present/ announcement the next day. My younger sister, who knew already, arranged to have both sisters at my parents house for dinner on that Friday night. She took the package with her, and put me on speaker phone as they were opening it. My dad was opening the card, while my mom was opening the present. I heard my dad start reading the card out loud. The first sentence was, "There's a grandbaby on the way!" Once that sentence was out, the receiving end of the phone got VERY loud. Everyone was screaming, and laughing, and so excited! It was perfect! The phone was passed around the room, and I got to talk to everyone individually. Everyone was so great, and supportive, and HAPPY! That was the biggest thing for me. We aren't doing this the traditional way, neither one of us is very traditional anyways, and I just wanted my parents to be happy/ understanding. They absoultely were, and I couldn't be more grateful. This baby is so lucky to come into two amazing families. We're lucky to have Clay's family here in New Mexico with us, and I know for a fact that baby will have me seeing my family more than the standard once a year visits. Another fantastic news breaking visit was with Clay's grandparents! This is the first great grand baby, and they were thrilled as well! Clay's grandma is really big into ancestry.com and researching her family tree so we made her a craft, that said we're adding another nut to our family tree. When she opened it, she had to scramble to find her glasses because she couldn't read it at first. It was so adorable, and just added to the butterflies in our stomach! When she realized what was going on, she immediately jumped up, and hugged us both. It was very sweet!
We feel so incredibly blessed to be surrounded by so many loving friends, and family throughout this journey to parenthood. This baby is coming into an incredibly loving community.
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