The Pregnancy Story

I have been super excited to write this blog for the last couple of months. And now here it is after much procrastination. As most of you know I am PREGNANT!!!! Writing those words seem so surreal for me. As most of you know John and I have been trying to conceive for a year and a half. It’s been a long year and half full of disappointments and questions. Along our journey I was diagnosed with endometriosis. I was glad to get a diagnosis but bummed to find out it could be hindrance in trying to conceive. After a long time of frustration a book of recommendation was made to me. Two of my FB friends recommended reading TCOYF (Taking Charge of Your Fertility). Abby told me after reading the book she got pregnant. I was a bit hesitant at first; I appreciated the encouragement and suggestion I just didn’t want to get my hopes up. Well sure enough I got pregnant immediately after reading the book!! The book gave me so much info that I just didn’t know. It’s amazing that I have been having my cycle for 14 years and it took one book to really explain everything to me, and I mean everything. Ovulation wasn’t just about days. This blog isn’t about TCOYF but here is the website http://www.tcoyf.com/. I recommend every woman reads this book!! AMAZING!!!

Now let me be honest I was reading the book around the time we conceived so I wasn’t even really thinking about it. I even told John that I thought it would be a good idea to wait until September to start trying again. So you can imagine my surprise when the doctor told me I was pregnant. This brings me to how I found out. The story doesn’t start off good so be prepared.

On July 30th I started feeling really bad. Not pukey bad but severe abdominal cramps. I could barely move that’s how bad the pain was and of course other things didn’t work just right if you know what I mean. So at 4 am on the 31st I had John take me to the emergency room. So they immediately took me back and took my blood and had me pee. Now honestly my cycle was due the next day so we started speculating that the pain was that and the reason it was so severe was because of my endometriosis. All I know is I wanted the pain to stop. While I was waiting on labs I slept and while I slept John went to the car and slept. I wake up to a tap on my shoulder and it is the doctor he takes a seat and says in a serious tone, “Well your labs came back and your pregnancy test is positive.” My response was, “Really? Ok”. After a year and a half of wanting this that was my response. Then my next immediate reaction was, “Oh my God is that what is causing my pain is there something wrong?” Then of course I called John and told him he needed to come back inside. When he came back he definitely had a look of worry he took my hand and asked what was up. I told him my labs came back and I tested positive for pregnancy. I will never forget the smile that broke out on his face. But unfortunately our happiness was replaced with worry. Is this new found pregnancy okay? So over the next 10 hours I had two different ultrasounds. Well the pregnancy was so early they weren’t able to tell anything. So I was released from the hospital and they scheduled me to come back the following Monday to get my blood drawn to test the hCG levels. Then I had to come back on Thursday for a follow up appointment and more labs.

Well that Thursday after all my labs and review of them the doctor looked at me and said, “Yes you are definitely pregnant and if you haven’t had any more problems I am assured things will progress nicely.” So there it is, that is how we found out we were pregnant! Definitely not the way I thought and I always had a different idea for how I would tell John but this is the way the cards played out. It turns out what sent me to the hospital in the first place was most likely food poisoning!! So in short, there you go, and you can expect blogs throughout the pregnancy and lots of pics!! Baby Driskill will join us April 9th, 2010!!