By now many of you know that Chris and I are pregnant! Our 4th donor insemination attempt was successful! Here are the details:
Two weeks ago, Monday, was our insemination. On Friday we decided to go to Columbus, spur of the moment, to have one last hurrah before school started and to celebrate my birthday. I took a test with us to take on Saturday morning. We had a great dinner and went to bed. I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to use the restroom and took a test. It has always been my belief that if you don't see a positive result right away, it isn't positive, I never wait the 3 minutes you are supposed to. I also, however, never throw a test out for a few hours. So the test wasn't positive and I put it on the sink. At 7:30 I woke up again to use the restroom and when I went in the bathroom, the test was positive. I, of course, freaked out and yelled for Chris to get in the bathroom. Now, if you are as intimate with pregnancy tests as I am, you would know that the directions always say you can't read the results after like 10 minutes. So, I told Chris we had to go buy another test. We got dressed, and walked 6 blocks to a CVS but it was closed! I was ready to throw a rock through the window, but Chris talked me out of it. We walked back to our hotel and I remembered that there was a little convenient store in it. We went there and there was ONE box of tests left! Of course it cost like 10 times what a normal box would cost, but I couldn't have cared less. I, of course, told the clerk our whole story and she told us to come back down and tell her the results.
So we went up to the room and I had Chris start the timer when we took this test, but it turned positive right away! After I cried, I called the clerk and she was screaming, "I knew it!" She also told me it's a boy :) Chris says she apparently moonlights as a psychic. We drove home from Columbus in a daze. We shared the news with our family, and made an appointment to get a blood test Monday.
Sunday was a very difficult day. I felt excited, unbelievably scared, and everything in between. Chris tended to just hover on the unbelievably scared side (shocker, I know). After everything that happened the last time we had a positive test, we just really wanted that blood test level.
Monday morning (the first day of school!) I had the blood test and we got the results very quickly. A nurse called and said she had good news! I immediately started hyperventilating. My levels were 152, last time they were 86 and they like them to be over 100. With this level they do not want me to come back for a second blood test. Instead, we will do an internal ultrasound in 2 weeks to find out if there are one or two babies (levels point to one, so take a sigh of relief!). I called Chris and told him we were good. I didn't hear anything and said, "are you there?" He was crying and couldn't talk. First time he cried since we found out so it was a really cool moment.
I don't have an official due date, but according to the internet I'll be due end of April/beginning of May. We truly cannot say thank you enough for the amount of prayers, support, and love we have received. We still have a long journey ahead of us before our dreams are truly realized, but I can't spend everyday worrying so I'm celebrating every moment I can!
I'm feeling fine... had some cramping which the doctor explained is normal. I told the nurse I wasn't feeling any symptoms yet and she told me not to complain! :) I'm definitely not complaining, but would love to feel different so I know everything's ok.
We will, of course, keep you updated. Please keep us in prayers, we certainly aren't out of the woods yet!
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