To Tell or Not To Tell?

Christmas is such a happy time of year, and the only way to make it more exciting would be to tell everyone about the pregnancy. We went back and forth about whether to tell them or not. I'd had a miscarriage already so we were still a little worried that it could happen again, but ultimately we decided that with my HcG levels rising like they should it was probably okay to tell our family about our good news!


I toyed with different ways to tell them, but finally settled on giving them a picture frame with a picture of my pregnancy test in it. On the picture I wrote, "And Baby Makes Three! Baby H's Due Date 8/18/07! Oh I couldn't wait for everyone to know our little secret!




I sat there with my camera ready so that when they opened it I could catch their initial expression! My mom squeeled with excitement. J's mom looked at us in disbelief and then talked about how excited she was. Our grandmothers were so excited to be great-grandmothers again. And our siblings couldn't wait to be aunts and uncles. And we were bursting at the seams!

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!

Today was supposed to be the day with Aunt Flow reared her ugly head, but when I woke up this morning she was nowhere to be found. So I took a test, and this is what I got within seconds of taking it.

I ran in the room to show J the test. He was still sleeping so I gently rubbed his arm to wake him. I handed him the test, but the room was too dark for him to read it so I flipped on the light. He looked at the test and looked back at me with this huge grin on his face and said,"Really? We did it?" I sat down next to him, we looked at the test in silence for while, and then we started talking about how nervous we were but how excited we were at the same time. We just couldn't wipe the smiles off our faces.

Now the trick will be to keep this little bit of information to ourselves. Yeah, I don't see that happening. I'll have to tell S, L, and M before the end of the day!

The Beginning of Our Journey

J and I started TTC in December 2005 with high hopes of becoming parents rather quickly. Boy were we wrong! By April 2006 I had only had 1 cycle on my own so I went back in to see my ob/gyn, Dr. K, who after running a few tests, diagnosed me with PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). PCOS is a hormonal imbalance that affects ovulation. Rather than releasing an egg every month, my immature folicles were turning into cysts on my ovaries which in turn were producing too much testosterone. And because I produce too much testosterone and not enough progesterone, I wasn't have normal cycles.

The remedy for the annovulatory cycles was to put me on 50 mg of Clomid. So in May I took the Clomid on cycle days 5-9, and to my surprise a few days later I ovulated! We didn't catch the eggie that month so we tried again in June. Low and behold, in August I turned up pregnant!!!! We were so incrediby excited! But soon that excitement turned into fear when I started spotting a few days later. I had what is called a chemical pregnancy. We were crushed, but determined to give it another try.

We tried again in September with no luck and again in October, but still had no luck. So Dr. K bumped me up to 100 mg. Over the Thanksgiving holidays I ovulated. Yep, we were trying to catch that eggie while out of town visiting my folks!

In early December I had a positive pregnancy test, and while we were excited, we were worried at the same time. I guess you could say we were cautiously excited. My first HcG at 16 days post ovulation (DPO) came back at 127. A little on the low side, but only time would tell whether this pregnancy was a keeper. Two days later I went back for another HcG test, and the numbers doubled just like they were supposed to! Praise God!!! At 24DPO I went back in for another HcG, and this time it was 1522. We could breath a sigh of relief! Everything looked good!