Home test slash the real test results.

I wrote the first part of this entry on Saturday and help off posting until today so that I could include both pregnancy tests. :)

So... It's 11 'o' clock on Saturday night.  Well, technically 10 'o' clock because it's daylight savings tomorrow.  Anyway, there are three days left until I go in for my pregnancy test.  I have one test left from when Jared and I were trying to get pregnant a couple of years ago, and I thought to myself, "why not?".

I asked Jared if I should take the test and he goes "YEAH! I want to know if you're pregnant!"  So I went for it.  I peed on the stick and watched the little hourglass 'think' for what seemed like forever.

And then it happened.

It said pregnant.

Now, I'm trying REALLY hard not to get too excited over this because there is the chance that this could be a false positive.  It happens.  But this test is the kind that you can take up to 4 days before your period... and this is the day after my period would have started... so in MY mind this thing has got to be pretty accurate and it's hard not to be excited.  The reason that I'm worried it might be a false positive, is because I'm taking estrogen and progesterone... but my dad says that these tests check your HCG level and I'm not taking anything for that.  Your HCG level is something that naturally increases when you're pregnant.

So here's to hoping this thing is right!

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

 Today was the official pregnancy test.

At 5 this morning I was woken up by the phone ringing.  Confused, Jared and I started searching for the phone and missed the call. 

{I always forget to put the phone back on the charger, oops!}

When I found the phone I checked the caller ID and found that my family had been trying to reach me.  See, we have this tradition in my family that on your birthday everyone wakes you up by singing 'Happy Birthday'.  With the 2 hour time difference from Cali to STL, I usually get my call anywhere from 4-5 in the morning, haha.  So I called them back so they could sing to me and then went back to bed.

Got up at 7 and decided to take my time getting ready for the day.

I was told to come in any time between 7:30 and 11:30 for the pregnancy test and that since it was just blood work I didn't have to schedule a specific time.

So I had a big birthday worthy breakfast and took a nice long shower.  I didn't want to rush to get ready because I was already kind of freaking out about going in.  It felt sort of surreal that the day was finally here.  Plus what if the pregnancy test I took the other day was wrong?  I wish I had never taken that test... too late now.

I got to HRC at 10:00 and was in and out within 10 minutes.  The lab tech was funny, she asked which arm felt more pregnant and that she would take the blood from that one.  When she was done she told me to expect my phone call sometime after 3 this afternoon.

So I waited...

and waited...

I'm pretty sure that time actually slowed down.

I don't know how pregnant feels... but I think that I feel pregnant.  The doctor said that if I got pregnant my HCG level would go up, which would stimulate my ovary and make it swell a little bigger which would give me some cramping.  I've had cramping.

I've had cramping and a positive pregnancy test {so what if it expired in May? It will still be right... right?} so that means I have to be pregnant.

These were some of the thoughts that plagued my mind for 4 hours.

The call finally came at 12:56.
So glad because I seriously felt like I was going to puke from waiting.

Ana told me that my HCG levels needed to be higher than 50 order to be considered pregnant.  Mine are 546.2.  So I am quote "very pregnant"

YYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Today is definitely one of the best days of my life.

I'll go back for a retest in one week and I will have my first ultrasound a few weeks after that.

Best. Birthday. Ever.

The number 8

The number 8 has played a significant role in my life.

I was born on November 8th.

I met Jared on October 8th.

He proposed on February 18th.

We were married on July 28th.

Our first apartment was #8.

And today, the 8th of November, I will find out if I am pregnant.

Hopefully I will get my best birthday present ever today :)

Last weekend

I didn't do much last weekend because it rained a lot.  I did one secret thing I'll tell you about tomorrow but the only other eventful thing was that I got my hairs did.

You like?

I think I like it.  There aren't many people that I trust with my hair.  I trust my Aunt Krissy, my dear friend Hailey and this one lady back in STL that does my dads hair.  

Basically, this was kind of a big deal for me.  I had to trust a complete stranger that she wouldn't butcher my hair.  I might be a little vain when it comes to my hair.  I always want it to look good.  Hair is one of the first things I notice about people {and their teeth} and if it looks like they don't take care of those two things... ew.  I can't help but be a little grossed out.

I'm involved with the youth group in my church and a couple of these kids have the most terrible hygiene on the planet.  I feel really bad for them, because sometimes they just don't have the parental support at home, but come on, parents, you can make your teenager take a shower.  PLEASE make your teenager take a shower!  For the sake of the rest of the world make your teenager shower.  But furthermore... why wouldn't you want to shower?!  I've never understood people that have bad hygiene and I never will.  You are one of the most important people to you and you should treat yourself like it!

Okay I'm done with that rant now.

One more day until the pregnancy test!!!  

I may or may not be completely freaking out inside.  And I better be pregnant, because I practically pee every hour {including getting up at least 4 times during the night... too much info? sorry} and I have been completely exhausted 24/7 {my grandma told me that she was tired all. the. time. during her pregnancies}.

I'm pretty sure there's at least one baby in there.

I just have to wait one more day to find out for sure.

P.S. Forgot to post husband's Halloween costume the other day.

Here it is! :)

Did I mention he wore this to his softball game?  

And played the entire game in it?

I love this man!

Getting anxious

I was doing so good!  

I haven't been thinking about if I might be pregnant or not 24/7 like everyone told me I would be.  Of course I have the thought every day "Am I?" but I haven't been obsessing over it... until now.  

I feel like almost everyone I know is either pregnant, or just had their little baby.  I LOVE looking at pictures of the new babies and I love seeing pictures of mommy to be's with beautiful big bellies.  But I think the last blog I read was, hmmm, how do I even say this?  It was just so beautiful that my jealous level became higher than my 'I'm so excited for you that I'm not even thinking about me' level and I started thinking about me.  I want a baby sooooo bad.  I want to know if I'm pregnant.  I want to know if I get to be a mommy soon too!  I don't know how Jared can be so cool about all of this.  He acts like it doesn't even phase him.  Maybe it doesn't.  Apparently things affect men differently than women so maybe he really doesn't have a million different thoughts and feeling raging through his mind right now.

Oh well.  At least the first week of waiting didn't feel like forever.

I have 4 days left.  It doesn't sound long, but just saying it feels like it's forever away.

For the pregnancy test, they'll do bloodwork to check my HCG levels and such and that's how they can tell if I am pregnant or not.  Which means I won't get the call with the results until later in the afternoon.  Which means I'll have to wait allllll daaayyyyyy.

It will be the longest. day. ever.

But it will be worth it.

All of this will be sooooo worth it.  Now if I can just find something to distract myself with for the next 4 days....

Counting down...

Six days.  

I'm down to under a week before I can go in for my pregnancy test now!  I thought that the 12 days between the embryo transfer and pregnancy test would draaaaaag, but so far they feel like they are flying by.  Before I know it I'll be getting the phone call with the results of the test.  It's probably helped out that I did things for Halloween and that distracted me... {I made some awesome delicious chili and watched Jared carve pumpkins} Here are pics of his amazing pumpkins.

 The big pumpkin was originally $85 but since he bought these ON Halloween, the pumpkin patch was clearancing everything out and he got both pumpkins for $35.  Not bad.

Jared is very proud of his pumpkins that he carves every year.  They weren't quite so elaborate this year because he did everything the day of.  Here are some from past years.

The kids that come trick or treating to our house always freak out about how "cool" the pumpkins are.  This year we heard lots of "eewwwww"'s as kids approached the throwing up pumpkin.  We told them that it ate too much candy and felt sick, haha.  And every year about 1/3 of the parents take pictures of the pumpkins because they like them so much, and this year was no exception.  Jared seriously loves it.

This Halloween was very laid back, but it was fun.  We had the in-laws over and we all watched Hocus Pocus {They'd never seen it before!} and they loved it.  Then they went to bed {because they're old, haha j/k... kind of} and Jared and I watched Predators.  That movie was alright.  I didn't think it was scary, and I didn't like all the swearing {pretty sure the f-bomb was dropped 500+ times} but I think the predator's capabilities and technology is super cool.

That was it.

We're just a boring old married couple now, haha.

Hopefully next year we have a little one that we can dress up all cute :)

And I'll find that out in SIX days!