Sunday, April 20, 2008

After 4 years...

We have been trying to conceive our first child for 4 years, 2 months, with not even a hint of a positive test. We have had some amazingly pretty evaporation lines, but nothing with color.

Friday morning I was sure my period would start. I had a bit of spotting the night before, and was just certain it would start. It hadn't so just for the heck of it, I took a pregnancy test. There was a second line!

I yelled for Brian because I didn't believe what I had seen. He came up and said that yes, it IS positive. He went out to Walmart (this was at like 6:45am) to get a digital test. Within a minute of taking it, it said pregnant!!

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We were both in shock! I called the doctor's office as soon as the opened at 9am, and they agreed to get me in for a blood test and an appointment at 2pm that day.

I wasn't thrilled with the nurse. She basically made it seem like urine pregnancy tests aren't very accurate, and although she HOPED I was pregnant, I might not actually be. She kept saying it was way too early for a blood test to show positive. She had me soooo nervous!

Dr. Zhang came in and did an exam. She didn't seem overly concerned about the spotting I've been having. She said they would call with the beta blood test results and that she wanted me to come back on Monday for repeat blood work.
My HCG levels are 238 (which was on cycle day 27, 15dpo). The nurse that gave me the message said that that indicated a definite pregnancy.

I have been soooo worried this whole weekend. I keep wanting to just be happy and enjoy it, but everytime I notice the spotting (brownish) I just get freaked out. If I could put myself on bedrest for the first 12 weeks, I would in an instant...

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