There’s no doubt we were ready to start a family. But trying to get pregnant, actually getting pregnant and then learning you are indeed pregnant is a serious roller-coaster.
We had been trying for months with no luck. Debbie was ovulating around Halloween last year (Oct. 2007). For BD, he knew what that meant. On the morning of Nov. 8, Debbie felt compelled to try a home pregnancy test just to see if anything was cookin’. About 15 minutes later, Debbie had gone into the kitchen to start cleaning out the sink when Brian walked in and saw the pregnancy test just laying on the counter.
“Are you or aren’t you?,” BD said. “What do you think?”
Deb has a sly sense of humor, but considering this was our future and all, she wasn’t real hip to all the guessing games. One laugh and a few expletives later, she got the news she’d been waiting for. The digital (read: more expensive) test had the magic word: Pregnant.
Ady won’t want to hear this, but we traced it back to Oct. 28 or Oct. 30 as the two occasions where she might have been conceived. BD knew that the disco mirror ball and trapeze we installed would come in handy at some point. And sure enough it did.
Never one to doubt the expert medical opinions you can find only on the shelf at Walgreen’s, we met with Dr. Jennifer Staud (a hero if there ever was one) on Nov. 27 and she confirmed the pregnancy with some simple blood tests. Life as we knew it was about to change forever.
Hint to all couples trying to get pregnant: Stop trying so hard, and it will happen
Here's how she looked on the first sonogram taken Nov. 27.
