Happy New Year!!

I wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year! Dan and I have some wonderful news --- as some of you know, Dan and I will be expecting our first baby in August of 2009. We found out we were pregnant right before Christmas. It is such a blessing and we couldn't be happier!

It has been a long road but I am thankful for answered prayers. I went off birth control in April of 2007. After going off birth control I didn't get my period until January of 2008. It was extremely frustrating and confusing but my doctor said that can be normal at times. When I started getting my period last year my cycles were very long. A typical cycle would be 40-45 days long! I saw my OB-Gyn in November of 2008 for a regular routine appointment. I explained to her that I had been getting my period but my cycles were very long. I had kept track of how long each month was and showed her my record. She said that I am most likely not ovulating, which basically means you cannot get pregnant. I was devastated and was more confused than ever! She gave me a couple options to think about including going to see if my fallopian tubes were open, then from there if they were open then I could start on clomid. If it turned out that my tubes were closed, having a baby was out of the picture. Clomid is a drug used to make you ovulate more but there are a lot of side effects. One included a risk of multiple births! It made me laugh because we have twins on both sides of our families, so that risk was already in our heads.

I drove home from that appointment crying the whole way. I called Dan and explained everything I found out. I told him on the phone that it is probably time to explain our situation to our families. It needed to be a matter of prayer at this point. Everyone was so supportive when we told them and we new it was out of our hands at that point. I felt a sense of peace because I knew God was in control.

A few weeks went by and I really wasn't feeling that great. When I had my appointment I was on day 43 of my cycle so in my mind I thinking my period would come soon. Days went by and still nothing. After feeling really bad for a couple weeks I thought I should take a pregnancy test just in case. I took the test on a Monday and I was surprised to see that there was a slight line there!! I wasn't sure because I have taken a lot of tests and nothing ever shows up! I called Dan and said, "I think I might be pregnant!" He said are you sure....and then I told him that there was something there but I wasn't sure. I decided to not get my hopes up but I would re-test later that week. Dan was traveling that week for work so when I picked him up on Friday I wanted him to be there when I re-tested. He had to run to work that morning for a little bit and he said don't take it until I get back! I called him a couple hours later and said I couldn't wait anymore..LOL...so I took the test but I didn't look at it (I swear I didn't!!) When Dan got home he was the first one to see it and it was a definite positive!! AHH! I just hugged Dan and started crying because I was so happy! We knew that big prayers were answered. This baby is truly a miracle, we are so thankful!

My pregnancy is going very well. We had a doctors appointment on December 30, 2008. She wanted to do an ultra-sound because she didn't think I was as far along as she thought. She did the ultrasound and it turns out I was 6 weeks 5 days. My due date is August 19, 2009. Tomorrow (January 15) I will be 9 weeks along! I am really tired, I have had a little nausea but I have never been sick. I am definitely hungry all the time:) Finding out you are pregnant over the Holidays did not help...LOL.

Pictures to come later...