So I'm Pregnant..

Let's start from the beginning. My husband, James, and I have talked a lot about having children. But our biggest fear was having one before we finished school. The option to having children is something we both wanted, so I stopped taking birth control back in January 2008. Well, we both graduated in May 2008, and decided to cease preventing the making the children. We didn't think that we'd get a baby right away!

We found out on Friday, June 13th. Granted, it was a bit early for us to find out, but a lot of the symptoms were already there. I couldn't even get out of bed in the morning because I felt so nauseous. I decided to take a pregnancy test that night and James and I both found a very faint line. Well, not so long ago, I bought the book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. And in the book, there is a section talking about the faint line. All pregnancy tests have a control line, and a line that shows it detects the hCg hormone. This is the hormone that all women get when they are pregnant. In fact, there is almost no case in which the line shows up and the woman is NOT pregnant. No matter what, no matter how faint the line is, you're pregnant.

See, I KNEW this. But I really didn't want to believe it. Seriously, I didn't accept the fact that I'm pregnant. I'm a very visual person, and I still can't grasp the idea that I'm pregnant. I think it'll become more real to me when I hear the heartbeat and I see the ultrasound. So when I saw my faint line, I didn't want to believe that I was pregnant. But James was already excited. We started talking about the baby and what we need to do. James already felt bad for calling the baby "it" and so we dubbed it "Baby Byerly" or Baby B. So it will be Baby B till we know the sex of the baby.

We decided to wait to tell people. We told a few folks at first, but I couldn't contain myself as I got use to the idea of me being pregnant. So now, it's public knowledge that we're with child and I am between 4-5 weeks along. I haven't set up an appointment yet with a doctor, which I will do soon. But according to Baby Center, I may be due between February 16th-23rd. We're both very happy and very excited. And I plan on blogging more about how I'm doing and any pictures that we accumulate.