The joys of pregnancy have begun!

I've been up since about 3:00 a.m. Morning sickness had officially begun! I'm watching my 21 month and 1 month old nephews while my other 4 year old nephew is in Florida with their grandparents. It was an awful day. The boys were good, as always, I just felt very bad. At one point I was getting sick in the bathroom and my 21 month old nephew came in and was rubbing my back and crying for his daddy to help me. It was so sweet!

I've heard that morning sickness is a good sign of a healthy pregnancy so even though it is miserable, I am happy that so far all is looking good! Only 8 more days until the ultrasound!

Shaking with excitement!

It is now the day I go in to get the blood test from the doctor. I was nervous. What if the HPT's were wrong and we got our hopes up for nothing. I get to the doctor as early as I can for the blood draw. The nurse asked if I cheated (they don't like you too because false negatives are common). I admitted that we cheated and that it was positive two days ago. She was very excited as it's rare to have a false positive. She was also surprised how early it showed positive and was excited to get my HCG levels back that afternoon to see what was going on.

I left the doctor and was nervous waiting for the results of the blood test. They told me I should expect them in the early afternoon. I had lunch plans with my mom and of course I get the call as soon as we sit down. I lied to my mom and told her I had to go to the bathroom so I could take the call. The results were positive and my HCG level was 399 (in the office earlier I was told normal was around 150.)! The nurse that called me said with such high numbers to expect multiples! I then scheduled an ultrasound for 3.5 weeks later to see what was cooking.

When I went back to the table continue my lunch with my mom I was shaking and couldn't eat. I had to lie to my mom and tell her I had a stomach ache and didn't feel well. We didn't want to tell anyone until we saw an ultrasound with a good heartbeat.

As soon as I left lunch I called Dale and told him the numbers. He said "OH MY GOSH THERE'S FIVE ISN'T THERE!" I assured him that by my conversation with the nurse to expect twins. We were happy with that and very nervous and excited and knew it would be a long 3.5 weeks.

Oh and by the way, we received this news exactly 4 years after Dale and I started dating!

Tears of joy!

It's October 7, 2008 around 4:30 pm. when Dale comes home from work. I was sleeping on the couch when we arrived, as I had been for the past few days at that same time. For some reason I had just been so exhausted. Dale walked in, went into his office to do something and about 5 minutes later came out and said hello. I was now crying. He asked what was wrong and I said I was upset that he didn't kiss me hello! He said he was sorry he had something he had to take care of before he forgot (this happens often and I never think twice about it). I was still crying and he said "we're getting you a pregnancy test tonight". I said "I'm not pregnant, it's just the fertility medicine making me emotional and tired and it was only tow more days before I went into the doctor to get a blood test."

We then went shopping that evening for new work boots fr Dale and he still insisted that we stop at Walgreen's on the way home and pick up a HPT (Home Pregnancy Test). We arrived home around 9:30 p.m. and decided to take the test. We thought if it was negative then we would be prepared for my blood test two days later. Dale was putting something away in his office as I preceded to the bathroom to take the test. About a minute later I was crying and yelled "I'm pregnant"! Dale came into the bathroom and was shocked because I hadn't even had time to put the cap on the test yet and there was two very dark blue lines in a plus sign. We were so grateful, but didn't want to get too excited until we had the blood test to confirm the results. (And as many newly pregnant women do, the next day I went out to buy a different brand test and the same thing happened!)

We are soooo excited and grateful! And by the way, we got the positive test exactly two years after we were engaged! It was fate!