From January 2010 to August 2010
my periods were out of whack and all over the place. I put off going to my
gyno, well, because you know, it’s the gyno. I knew my annual was coming up in
August and I just held on until then. I explained to her what was going on and
she suggested I try a different birth control pill to help regulate my periods
better. I was to call back in a couple of months and give her an update. So,
after 2 months I called back to tell her that I haven’t had a period at all
since being on the new pill and she said that some women have experienced this
and that I more than likely wouldn’t have one if I haven’t yet. So, I was like
YEA FOR ME and never gave it another thought...looking back now, perhaps I
should have. J Several more months go
by and over Christmas break I just felt awful. I was really tired and just
didn’t feel right. For a split second I thought oh my goodness could I be
pregnant but then decided no because I had been religious with my birth control
pills, my doctor told me I wouldn’t have anymore periods, I hadn’t gained any
weight and in fact I had lost a little, and that just couldn’t be it because we
weren’t planning on having anymore. I just chalked it up to doing so much over
the holidays and not really resting much. About 2 weeks later I was getting
ready for work and was putting make up on and I felt something in my belly. I
kind of just stared at myself in the mirror. I knew what that feeling was, I
had felt it before 5 years earlier when I was pregnant with Makenna. But no,
that’s not possible. It was just some gas bubbles or something. This went on
for a week…keep in mind I didn’t tell anyone about this, not even Chuck. I
mean, I didn’t know for sure if this was what I was thinking it could be or
not, why jump the gun? Plus, after 4 years I had finally gotten Chuck to join
the “we’re not going to have anymore kids” bandwagon (I had been a member since
shortly after Makenna was born J). But I knew that if I
wasn’t pregnant then something seriously wrong was going on inside of me. So,
one night on the way home from a class I stopped and got some of those digital
pregnancy tests (I wasn’t going to mess around with deciding if it was one line
or two). It was late when I got home so I decided to just zip it up in my purse
and deal with it in the morning. I got up kind of early because it had snowed
and I wanted to see if we had a snow day. Of course that decision wasn’t made
until 6AM. I was already up and there was no way I was going to be able to go
back to sleep until I took the test. Within 3 seconds of my pee hitting that
thing it showed the word PREGNANT. I just stood there and stared at it and said
OH MY GOSH about 10 times behind the closed bathroom door. I decided to go
ahead and shower in case we did have school and even if we didn’t I was going
to call as soon as my doctor’s office opened and get in to see them. School was
canceled at 6AM, I had already been up for 2hrs at this point, going crazy
because Chuck is still asleep. He wasn’t supposed to get up until 7:30 but I
went ahead and woke him at 7 anyways. Here is how the next 20 minutes went.
ME:
Chuck, wake up.
CHUCK:
It’s only 7, I have 30 more minutes.
ME:
I know, but school is cancelled and I wanted you to get up and talk to me
for a little
while before you go to work.
(15 min later)
ME: CHUCK, wake
up.
CHUCK: Why do
you keep waking me up when I don’t have to get up until
7:30?
ME: Because I
want to talk to you.
CHUCK: Is it
important?
ME: It. Might.
Be. Can you just get up and come in here!?
(Chuck is
pretty, well, stupid when he first wakes up…)
ME: Do you want
to smoke or get something to drink or something first?
CHUCK: No, I’m
okay. Well, let me get some grape juice.
(as he proceeds
to take a drink)
ME: I think I’m
pregnant.
CHUCK: (sits the
juice down slowly) Are you serious?
ME: Yes I’m
serious, why would I joke about something like that?
CHUCK: I’m too
old for this…I’m too old for this, I’m just too old for this.
(and proceeds to
walk to the garage not even looking at me)
(comes back
inside)
CHUCK: Well, at
least next year we’ll get more back on our taxes.
So, I go to my doctor hoping to
get an ultrasound that day but that wasn’t happening. She did say that if I
felt like I could feel the baby moving then she could probably hear the
heartbeat already so we went to another room to see and sure enough! This was
on Thursday, January 20th and she scheduled me for an ultrasound on
Monday, January 24th. We go to the ultrasound and find out that we
were 22 weeks along and having a boy all in the same day! Chuck’s comment was
“Boy, this is going to be quick!” You think!? The next 4 months were pretty
much a blur trying to get things ready for a baby that we never intended on
having. We were literally starting over because we gave away everything that
was Makenna’s, and even if we had kept it most of it was pink.
And that’s how this whole crazy
pregnancy started… J
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