!!! I'M PREGNANT!!!
I'm so excited! Scared, confused (not really confused, but that word always seems to fit in somewhere), and a whole bunch of other things... anxious? Yeah, I'd put that one in there, too.
How do I know? I did the EPeeingT test (yes, I know that's not what it's called)... twice. The first one I took had a faint second line, which means "yes, you're pregnant." But because it was faint, I wasn't sure. So I went out and bought another one, the digital read out. It was proof positive. I was so excited. I didn't know what to do. The news was bursting at the seams to get out, and I still had the Memorial Day BBQ to get to. I stayed as quiet as I could with my extended family on the way. Finally, after a bit of food, Chris called. I told him and we both got really excited. But I had to keep it down because I was at the Memorial Day get together. I'm glad I got to tell someone that day, but the excitement was still there. How much longer do I have to wait to tell everyone?! (apparently as long as it took you to get to this site, because by now I've told you).
This was also the day that Clayton got burnt really badly. So this kind of news slipped quickly to the back of my mind. The "here and now" is more important. Besides, Chris and I had talked a while back, when we first talked about a family, that we didn't want to tell everyone right away.
My suspicions: Well, the most obvious was that "hmmm, no period?" phase. But I think the one that showed up even before then was my break-outs. I was never one to have bad acne problems, so when my face suddenly looked like the moon I started to worry. When it gets close to my period I usually have one or two bad spots, but this was ridiculous! And nothing was taking care of it.
That and cravings. Yeah, the real crazy cravings don't happen for a while (thank goodness), but before I took the test I had stocked up the fridge on all sorts of foods. Mainly ice-creams. The doc says that this is because early on women get vitamin cravings to get their body prepared. I was apparently in desperate need of calcium and iron.
