Making a Baby

Anne and I decided late last year that we wanted to work on trying to get pregnant. I learned thru the process that there are an awful lot of things that have to go right in order to get pregnant. I don't think they went into quite this much detail in health class in high school - or at least I wasn't paying attention. Periods, cycles, ovulation, etc, etc, etc. I joked with a friend the other day that if I'd known that getting pregnant required this much precision - I would have been sowing more wild oats earlier in life (I'm kidding Mom)......

Anyway, regardless of the necessary precision, it didn't take us too long. We took a home pregnancy test on Wednesday Feb 17th. It was positive. Well.....I'm pretty sure it was positive. Some genious that works for EPT decided it's a good idea to put two windows on those tests. One has a hash mark that supposed to let you know it's working. The other window is where you get a plus or a minus. Now, I'm not going to tell these people how to run their business - they've been making home pregnancy tests longer than I have......But didn't they realize that a hash mark in one window can look a lot like a minus sign in the other window?

Now, they tell you which window is which, so you know that hash just means the test is working. But come on.....I'm already nervous......the last thing I need to see is ANY minus sign, regardless of which window they put it in. Anyway, there was a faint plus sign in the other window. Not wanting to get too excited, I was complaining about how one line of the plus sign was darker than the other (and natually the faint one was the up and down one that would turn a minus into a plus). So, between the faint plus sign, and the stupid negative has sign 1/2 inch away in the other window......I was just not liking this test.

So, into the car and off to Walgreens we went. (Not to get off target here - but I really wish they wouldn't put the home pregnancy tests and ovulation detection kits right next to the condoms, etc. This is a happy time for me - I don't want to feel like a guilty teenager buying condoms when I'm trying to get to find out if I have a baby coming).

At Walgreens, we see these very nice DIGITAL pregancy tests. Fantastic! Not plus, or minus, or dash, or equal sign, or slash. If you're pregant - it says PREGNANT. If your're not, it says NOT PREGNANT. Now we're talking.

A bit later - we're back at home......and we're looking at a test with a nice, clear, digital "PREGNANT"!

So, that was one week ago as I write this. We've since been to three doctors appointments, and everything looks very good. We are 5 weeks pregnant today and have estimated delivery date of October 27. HANG IN THERE ANNE.......ONLY 35 WEEKS TO GO!!!!