Baby OH Baby!

Guess who's pregnant?!?! ME!!!!!!!!!!

I wasn't exactly expecting it, so I bungled my way to finding out and went two weeks thinking I was definitely NOT pregnant, but surprise, surprise - I am :) What happened was I went off birth control knowing that we wanted to get pregnant in a few months and thinking that it might take awhile for that to happen (so I heard...). When I started noticing that I wasn't "regular" (you know what I mean) I thought, hmmm, I must be one of those people that needs a few months to get their cycle back on track again. Then I also noticed that I was dizzy sometimes in the early morning, my chest was tender constantly, and I got out of breath easily. So I bought a First Response pregnancy test. It said that one pink line meant no, two pink lines meant yes. So I took and it came back with one bold pink line and one teeny tiny almost-impossible-to-see line. So I thought, "not pregnant." When I still wasn't back to normal a week later, I took another one. Same thing. One bold line.

Then that week my brother and sister-in-law came to visit with their baby and I shared with Rochelle that we wanted to get pregnant but "couldn't" because my cycle was messed up. She gave me a hard time about already being pregnant, but I said no way, I had checked. It got me thinking though that maybe the test I took was defective, so I went back to Walmart and bought the Clear Blue digital kind (it was more expensive which is why I didn't get it in the first place.) That night (Thursday May 29th) I took the test and it said PREGNANT! Cole and I both started yelling with excitement! But wait - what if this one was defective and the other ones weren't??? So, I took the second Clear Blue test and we held our breath as we waited for the outcome. PREGNANT!!!

So gosh, there we were with two that said not pregnant and two that said pregnant. One more test to try. I had one of the First Reponse ones left over, so I said "Alright Cole, this one determines the truth." I took this last test, praying for it to say pregnant, but once again it came back with one bold pink line and one teeny tiny almost-impossible-to-see line. I showed it to Cole, all disappointed, and he started laughing at me! He was like "Julia, it doesn't matter how big or small the lines are! You've been pregnant the whole time! You're five for five!" So yep, turns out that the test tries to trick you.

The next day my doctor reassured me that I was indeed expecting and that I was actually six and a half weeks along! Woo hoo! Since then, I've seen several advertisements for the Clear Blue pregnancy test which start out with, "Did you know that 1 in 4 women misread their first pregnancy test?" Why yes, I do in fact. Be clear. Choose Clear Blue. :)