Our trying to conceive journey!

We decided we were ready for baby number two after Jessalyn's second birthday. I was planning on getting my birth control removed anyway from a few complications I had just recently started having from it. That was when we decided it was really time.

I wasn't sure how long it was going to take us since Jess was a surprise. So this was going to be our first attempt at actually trying to conceive. I got my birth control removed in the middle of November. I didn't have a period for the whole two years since Jess was born because of nursing the whole time and because of my birth control. So I had a feeling it might take us a while since I'm sure everything had to regulate and get back to normal.

We decided to start 'trying but not trying' at the end of November. We just wanted to go with the flow and whatever happened happened without a lot of stress of actually trying. Of course my cycle was completely off and I was spotting every two weeks for the first month. Then I got nothing for a few weeks so I took about 2 or 3 pregnancy tests to see if pregnancy was a possibility. But they were all negative. A month had past with out any spotting or periods and all I got were negative pregnancy tests. So I figured everything was just all messed up from just recently getting my birth control removed so I decided to make an appointment to my midwife to talk to her about what I should do to regulate my period again since we were trying to conceive.

We spent our 6th wedding anniversary on January 14 at hotel for a few days. I was a little more tired than usual and was feeling a little nauseous after everything I ate but I really didn't think anything of it. My appointment with my midwife was the day after our anniversary on January 15. I figured I was just going to talk to her about what was going on and she was going to give me a few ideas about what to do. I waited what seems like forever in that waiting room. Watching all these pregnant moms and moms with their newborn babies. Finally the nurse took me back and asked all the usual questions. Then she sent me to pee in a cup. Just a standard thing at the doctors office. I went and sat back in the room and waited some more. A few minutes later the nurse walked in with a pregnancy test in her hand and said "We did a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Do you want to keep it?" I was shocked of course. That was not what I was expecting at all. All I remember saying was "are you serious?!" And took the test from her hand. Once my midwife came in and congratulated me. We then calculated my estimated due date to be September 9.

I didn't tell Jordan right away. I wanted to see him so I could show him the pregnancy test. I talked to him on the phone as soon as I left and told him I was given something to regulate my period and I would show him what it was when I saw him. I had the test wrapped in a paper towel and when I met up with him later and told him to look at what my midwife gave me. So he unwrapped and was a bit confused. Then I told him to look at it again closely. Then he figured it out and was as shocked as I was! Neither of us expected it to happen so soon. But of course we were extremely excited!

Stay tuned for part two. The first few months of my pregnancy.