My step dad passed away at the end of September after battling his 2nd bought of pancreatic cancer so my mom and I took a week long Disney world trip a month after he passed just to get away from all the stress. Well I had gotten my period the day we came back and with all the craziness from coming back from vacation and still finalizing some things with my step dads death I just spaced on picking up my birth control prescription. Well apparently that did the trick. A month after I woke up with the worst cramping ever. Thought it was just a cyst bursting (I have a history of getting them) and my Husband was leaving to go hunting for the day. Told him to leave even though he didn't want to at all since I was in so much pain. But it didn't last too long and he then left. Well called the on call nurse at my doctors office and she suggested just taking a pregnancy test to make sure and to cancel that out. Well I took it and it came back positive right away. I called my husband and told him to come home right away and didn't say why. Poor guy drove like a bat out of hell and took him 2 hours to get home. It felt like forever! We definitely weren't planning it at all but everything happens for a reason. We believe that it was a gift to come at such a horrible time in our lives. Still sad that my step dad won't be around for our daughter he would have been a great grandpa
I had just stopped taking birth control 6 weeks before and we said we will see what happens. It took us over a year to get pregnant with our son. I was doing a bone surgery on a cat and got so sick I vomited in my mask. I had never gotten sick during a surgery and just knew at that moment we were going to have another bundle of joy.
So, this wasn't a real planned pregnancy by any means. My BCP comes in packs of 3 and I could have sworn I had one more to go. When I found out that I didn't, I had to wait a month before going back on and thought to myself, "Ehh, it takes a while to get out of your system...I'll be fine". Well, around the time I was supposed to get AF I just was feeling a bit off. I woke up one morning, super early and couldn't sleep. I rolled over and told DH that I was going to buy a pregnancy test. He asked me to pick him up some McDonald's breakfast "while I was out".
So, between egg mcmuffins, I took the test and it was BFP! DH started laughing and was really happy. I laughed too and then immediately kinda freaked out.
My period was a day late. We were doing natural family planning, using condoms around my fertile time. I bought a cheap dollar store pregnancy test and a box of tampons at the same time. I took the test and it was positive in an instant. I walked out into the kitch and said, well I won't be needing the tampons for a while. We were both sort of in disbelief. It was not planned but after we let it sink in we got more excited about it.
We had been trying for 6+ months with ovulation strips and such so I was basically peeing in a cup with every pee...so I did a pregnancy test as per the usual every day a week past ovulation and forgot about it and went to go make dinner. I came back and saw it on the counter and it was faint but positive...so then I freaked out. And paced my entire apartment 93 times while calling DH (he was 100x more excited than I was because I was freaking out). I squeezed out a couple more drops of pee because I thought it was an evaporation line from leaving the test for 30+ minutes, and they were faintly positive. So I stress-blasted a cigarette (my last one), andddd here we are. I was 3+3, 8-9DPO and apparently can turn a test very early.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
We decided we were going to start trying in the fall. I was still stateside waiting for the cat's papers to clear and DH was on assignment in Korea. I had prepared him with the fact that it may take some time to get pregnant. I'm fat and basically everyone ever has told me I wouldn't get pregnant easily, would have GD, a giant baby etc.(none of these has turned out to be true btw). He of course was very cocky and loved to brag about his powerful swimmers and that he doesn't miss. I even bought ovulation strips and tests to prepare for the process. He came home for a week on a business trip a few weeks after I took out my Nuva ring.
I'm bad at tracking periods and mine are light and not very regular. I was at least 3-4 days out from my general time of the month and I walked passed the sushi stand in the grocery store ( I LOVE sushi btw). And I just got incredibly queasy and remained so for the most of the rest of the trip. I thought it was weird and I began to wonder, but kept thinking, "no way we only just started trying like a second ago!" It was still several days before my period...but I I had a ton of tests (the cheapie plastic strip kind they use at clinics) so why not. I kept telling myself it was too early anyway and not to get my hopes up. Sure enough...faint pink line. I I then proceeded to take at least 10 tests over 3 days, I even got an extra digital one thinking I was just seeing dye bleed and my eyes were bad. I googled and found out there is basically no such thing as a false positive. It was the single most overwhelming feeling of pure joy I have ever felt in my life.
I face timed DH while he was playing basketball. He just started yelling "I told you I told you, my boys don't miss!" I will never live this down and his ego has been permanently inflated ever since. He won the game....
We had stopped BC in September 2012 so last fall marked two years of trying unsuccessfully. After the first year without luck we started seeing a specialist but all they could tell us was that we had unexplained infertility. I knew we should be thankful that nothing was "wrong", but somehow that felt harder because we didn't know what to fix. We did our third IUI (auto correct wanted to make IUI read OUIJA, btw, which would make for a very different story) Sept 12 but I was trying not to get my hopes up because the first two didn't work and I was afraid we might have missed our window due to the ovulation tests being funny. Anyway fast forward two weeks and I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms but I also didn't feel like I was getting my period. I decided to wait until the first day of my missed period to test, so got up earlier than usual that day and sure enough, got my first positive. I took a second test just to be sure, which was positive as well.
My husband was actually out of town for work and due home that evening, so I had to decide whether to call him or tell him in person. I would have preferred to think of a sweet way to tell him in person, but it felt strange not telling him and then I got super morbid and was like, "what if something happens to him while he's travelling home and I never get to tell him and he never knew he was having a baby?" (I don't usually have such dark thoughts, but this convinced me to call him). So I called him 5:30 am ish EST not realizing it was only 4:30 his time but he answered. He told me later he was worried I was calling with bad news and that I'd just be crying over another negative result. When he answered I told him I just wanted to call because "we missed him". He then said something like, "who's we? You and the fuzzy pup?" and I just said, "yea, and...someone else misses you, too". He caught on quickly and asked "are we were going to have a little bean??" and then we were both laughing and crying out of relief and excitement.
Went to my doctor's that day to confirm it, and now what seems like a million blood tests and ultrasounds later (we had more than usual since we were working with an RE) we're less than a week away from meeting the little bean. Scheduled for a C section Friday the 29th due to a breech.
Just posted this as my favorite pregnancy memory but I think it's a great story and love it. We had "pulled the goalie" a couple weeks before and decided to have fun trying. I was a few days late and had taken a test two days earlier that was negative. I had gotten up really early to go to the gym and decided to use our last test before heading out just in case. It was a really feint positive so I woke up my husband to come into the bathroom and take a look. He wasn't quite awake and was convinced I wanted to show him my morning BM. Men are weird. Like I would ever do that...Eventually he got up and just looked and me and said "well so much for trying."
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A month after I woke up with the worst cramping ever. Thought it was just a cyst bursting (I have a history of getting them) and my Husband was leaving to go hunting for the day. Told him to leave even though he didn't want to at all since I was in so much pain. But it didn't last too long and he then left. Well called the on call nurse at my doctors office and she suggested just taking a pregnancy test to make sure and to cancel that out.
Well I took it and it came back positive right away. I called my husband and told him to come home right away and didn't say why. Poor guy drove like a bat out of hell and took him 2 hours to get home. It felt like forever!
We definitely weren't planning it at all but everything happens for a reason. We believe that it was a gift to come at such a horrible time in our lives. Still sad that my step dad won't be around for our daughter he would have been a great grandpa
I'm bad at tracking periods and mine are light and not very regular. I was at least 3-4 days out from my general time of the month and I walked passed the sushi stand in the grocery store ( I LOVE sushi btw). And I just got incredibly queasy and remained so for the most of the rest of the trip. I thought it was weird and I began to wonder, but kept thinking, "no way we only just started trying like a second ago!" It was still several days before my period...but I I had a ton of tests (the cheapie plastic strip kind they use at clinics) so why not. I kept telling myself it was too early anyway and not to get my hopes up. Sure enough...faint pink line. I I then proceeded to take at least 10 tests over 3 days, I even got an extra digital one thinking I was just seeing dye bleed and my eyes were bad. I googled and found out there is basically no such thing as a false positive. It was the single most overwhelming feeling of pure joy I have ever felt in my life.
I face timed DH while he was playing basketball. He just started yelling "I told you I told you, my boys don't miss!" I will never live this down and his ego has been permanently inflated ever since. He won the game....
My husband was actually out of town for work and due home that evening, so I had to decide whether to call him or tell him in person. I would have preferred to think of a sweet way to tell him in person, but it felt strange not telling him and then I got super morbid and was like, "what if something happens to him while he's travelling home and I never get to tell him and he never knew he was having a baby?" (I don't usually have such dark thoughts, but this convinced me to call him). So I called him 5:30 am ish EST not realizing it was only 4:30 his time but he answered. He told me later he was worried I was calling with bad news and that I'd just be crying over another negative result. When he answered I told him I just wanted to call because "we missed him". He then said something like, "who's we? You and the fuzzy pup?" and I just said, "yea, and...someone else misses you, too". He caught on quickly and asked "are we were going to have a little bean??" and then we were both laughing and crying out of relief and excitement.
Went to my doctor's that day to confirm it, and now what seems like a million blood tests and ultrasounds later (we had more than usual since we were working with an RE) we're less than a week away from meeting the little bean. Scheduled for a C section Friday the 29th due to a breech.