I'm thinking my blog is in need of an update :)
Actually, I did update it. A few months ago I decided to add a new entry and I typed it all out on Judds old Iphone, which I now use as a Ipod with internet, and I lost it all. I typed this long thing, viewed the preview, and when I went back it had all deleted. It was such a pain to type it in the first place, so I got frustrated and didn't type it again. So here I am, typing it on a real computer. Much nicer!
So now for our update. We've been having lots of changes going on in the Jewkes home. I know that with my first blog entry when I was introducing us I said we weren't going to have kids for awhile. Well, I guess we are! We wanted to wait until I was further along in school to start trying, but decided that it was the right time for us regardless of what else was happening in our lives. It was actually a sudden decision. One day I told Judd I was 2 weeks late filling my prescription, and I asked him to go get it for me because I had to go to work. He had to go hunting of course, so he said he couldn't. Later that night I got a text from him suggesting we don't fill it anymore, and just see what happens. This was on a Tuesday. So in a short text conversation we were suddenly ready to be parents. It was kind of scary, but seeing as I've always wanted to be a mommy I was more than thrilled. That Thursday I went to my doctor to get checked out and recieve the "okay to start trying for a child" bill of health. Everything went great and it was full steam ahead! I guess I can't say we really started "trying" at that point, because it was going to be a few weeks before it was possible. So I got excited, got a fertility app on the Ipod, and was determined to start tracking once a new month started. I wasn't exactly sure when that would be, but I had an idea. Well that day came and I was abnormally crampy, meaning I was barely crampy at all. (I just decided that this might be a little TMI for a blog, but... well.. it's the story. This is how it happened and I guess I'm sharing all the lovely details!) For some reason I decided to grab a pregnancy test on my way to work. Don't ask me why. I did not think for a second I was pregnant, but the thought came to me to get one and I rolled with it. So stop by the store, grab a box of 2, and head to work. I took one right when I got to work and the dumb thing wouldn't register. The window never showed that it had recieved my lovely sample and so I threw it away. I went about my shift at work not even thinking again about the other test, until about 3 hours later. I had to pee again, so this time I decided to just take the second test. Again, not really knowing why I was and calling myself ridiculous for even wasting my money on them. So I pee and dip the stick in and it won't register either! Ugh. I tried for a little longer, moving the darn thing around until it would move up into the window. When it did... BAM... instant positive. Oh. Okay. This has never happened to me before. Um.....
So at this point I'm kind of freaking out, but not really because I was sure it was an error. I went back to the floor and the nurse I was working with was like "what's wrong?" I was very flustered and pulled the positive urine pregnancy test out of my pocket (lid was on, no worries) and was like "Uh, is this a positive?" Her response? "Oh my hell." Haha. She makes me laugh. So I explain to her that I think it's an error because it wouldn't work, yadda yadda. Well, I work in a hospital so she tells me to run down to the outpatient pharmacy and buy a test. I boogey on down there and I can't find them! I asked the guy behind the counter and sure enough, they are out. Oh good gravy, don't they know this is an emergency!?! So I run back to the floor, tell the nurse they are out, and she tells me to clock out and run to the store. Done. I go to the store and come back with 4 more pregnancy tests. Yes, 4. I bought 3 of the high tech, way too much money, digital screen ones, and another of the cheaper one line is no two is yes one. The whole time I'm driving there and back I'm drinking a can of Mt. Dew so I can provide another life altering sample once I return to work. So I get there, grab a cup, pee in it, and stick the tips of all 4 pregnancy tests in them. I lay them out in a row and I get Pregnant, Error, Pregnant, Pregnant. Wow. That means I've had a total of 4 positive pregnancy tests and 2 error tests. Something tells me I'm pregnant.
Now, this was Thursday Oct. 6th. Judd sent me the text saying we shouldn't go back on birth control on Tuesday Sept. 26th. 9 days before I found out I was pregnant. I was shocked to say the least. I had no idea my life was going to change so fast. I knew Judd was going to be shocked, and I was kind of scared to tell him! I mean, I knew he wanted this, but so fast? When he told me we should start trying he said "You've been on birth control for 12 years, I bet it'll take a long time before it actually happens". I sure thought the same thing too! So was he going to be ready for a baby so soon? I sure hoped so.
So now for how I told Judd. Wow this sure is a long blog update. Thanks if you're still reading :) I was sitting at work wondering how I was going to tell Judd. I was going to go to the store and buy a cute little outfit and think of a fun way to give it to him. Or maybe I should do it with the positive pregnancy test? I just wasn't sure. Then about an hour or two before I was to get off work I get a text from him telling me how sick he is. Like flu sick. He was miserable and throwing up and was going to go to bed, but he'd see me when I got home or in the morning. Darn. Now I'd either have to wake up my sick husband, or wait until the morning to tell him. Ha, ya right. So I decided I'd just head home and wake up my sickly man. When I got home I made sure to make a big ruckus so he would think I woke him up on accident. He had his back turned to me and I asked him how he was feeling, not good. What did he think he had? He wasn't sure, maybe the flu. Then I said "Well I don't think it's the flu, I think it's sympathy morning sickness." .... why, are you pregnant?... Well you see the thing is... yes! Then I show him all the positivie tests and tell him my story on how I took them and so on, so forth. He was so shocked, but so excited! I felt bad telling him such exciting news when he felt so icky, but he was thrilled and I'm sure he wouldn't have wanted me to wait until the morning.
So... there is the long (again, sorry) and sometimes too much information (and again, my bad) story on us finding out that we are pregnant! It was a rough first trimester. Being a first time mom and freaking out about everything, plus the nausea! Oh the nausea. I've been very lucky though, and have had a healthy pregnancy and so far a healthy looking baby boy! We will be 20 weeks this coming Monday, the 23rd of January. We were told at 14 weeks that it was a boy, with a confirmation (a definate confirmation, he wasn't shy) at 18 weeks. Our anatomy scan will be Feb 1st and we will make sure then that everything is still looking healthy on our little guy. We already love him so much and can't wait until June (the 11th is our due date) to meet him. I will try harder to update my blog more often, now that I have interesting stuff to blog about :)
