We saw the heartbeating!!!

Today we had our second ultrasound! Chris was slightly more comfortable although most of what he said was for me to stop asking things I'd read online and that it didn't matter that they call me Kathrine..yes it does...to me at least. If I'm going to have someone looking at my vagina for the next 9 months they are going to call me Katie, end of story!
Today we saw a little blur on the ultrasound. That cute little blur with the pulsing heart was our baby and it's beating heart. It's such a weird yet awesome feeling to have someone growing inside of you. I can understand why mom's feel like nobody knows their child the way that they do. It's so much responsibility though!

Pregnancy's a B**ch or at least I am

So far Chris does not like pregnant Katie. I'm snappy and emotional and kind of moody.  I really feel like I can't help it. Normally things that would annoy me but I'd ignore I can't let go. Is it the realization that this person is going to be helping raise your children? I have started having dreams where they all gang up on me and don't like me. It's terrible! I can't wait till my hormones even out.  Between this ongoing cough to the point of vomiting and my mood swings and exhaustion I feel like a freak!

His friends told him that it's his demon seed coursing through my veins like poison. At the moment, I agree

Sick and Pregnant

When Chris returned from the Bahamas I was developing a bad cough and chest tightness and I had absolutely NO idea what I was allowed to take.  We had our pre pregnancy consultation set up for that Friday but now that we were pregnant, I wanted to change it to our first prenatal/I'm sick visit.  I was able to get an appointment for that Wednesday but only because of the fact that I had chest pain.
We met with a different ob/gyn than I normally saw. Chris came in with me.  The moment we got in and they had me disrobe from the waist down, Chris' eyes spotted with horror the transvaginal ultrasound wand and he said he needed to leave because he couldn't stand to watch some man assault me with that... I asked him if it made him feel better that it was some woman as all the dr's in the practice are female and before he could answer, she walked into the room. 
We spoke briefly with her and decided that I most likely was experiencing acid reflux and that the chest pain was probably costochondritis ( I web md'ed it before I got there).  When she started to do the ultrasound, Chris decided to weigh himself for the next 5-10 minutes and played on the scale during the entire ultrasound. 
The Doctor confirmed that we were pregnant and showed us on the ultrasound where the baby would be growing over the next 9 months.  We determined the due date was somewhere between Sept 15 and 20.

Chris tells the World

Chris had been the one to suggest we wait awhile to tell people about the baby... He left the next day after we found out, on a bachelor party cruise to the Bahamas. Before he had even gotten on the airplane to fly down to Florida to cruise out he called me to tell me he thought we should tell people.  I disagreed and said if you have to tell, then only tell one person...too late. He'd already told all 10 plus mutual friends of ours that I was pregnant! Now I know he was proud of his super man powers but I started worrying that when all these guys got back and told their wives and girlfriends there would be no way the secret could stay under wraps because I was not ready to tell people yet and didn't want my friends and family to find out on facebook!  He's already calling me Baby Mama.

What are you? Pregnant?

We had our first big snowstorm today at least since we've been back up here from warm sunny Florida. It was really pretty and wow did it come down but all that snow meant that we were stuck in the house together alone all day. It wouldn't normally be a problem but I've been soooo moody and teary lately.  Finally at about 9 o'clock Chris yells what are you?? pregnant? and I decided to take a pregnancy test.  The bleeding I experienced Sunday was a one time thing that never even recurred throughout that day and I'd heard about implantation bleeding which takes place about 11 days after conception. 

We are PREGNANT!!!!! I took two tests before I even told Chris because I knew he wouldn't believe it! His first comment was, " Well, I guess this means we aren't going to be able to "try" for a boy".  Not the response I was hoping for, but at the same time I think he was pretty shocked! I wanted to call my mom right away but Chris said he thought we should hold off on telling people for awhile....like maybe a few weeks.  I agreed that we should wait to announce it till after the first trimester, but that I was telling my mom right away. So he said we tell all parents or no parents!

I immediately called my mom (my dad was asleep) and told her the news.. she was in total shock! I could almost hear her calculating when this baby would have been conceived...Yes mom, we conceived the baby in your house over our holiday stay. lol

Chris' mom and sister thought he was kidding and both made me swear he wasn't making it up.  He is kind of a joker so I wouldn't put it past him!

Chris's dad found out a few days later when we were able to get in touch with him but what was so hilarious was that he had posted on our facebook wall publicly earlier that day that the blizzard was great baby making weather! ha!

I got it....

I thought I got my period today, but it was really weird and really light. I have to admit I'm really surprised b/c I feel pregnant. I'm moody and more exhausted than I've ever been in my entire life. It could just be the weather up here though. It's so cold and miserable.

He felt a tingle- December 28th 2010

So, I stopped taking the pill on December 10th and had a couple days of what I called spotting but will later be considered my LMP (last menstrual period). I thought we were in the clear to try without added protection at least until I had gotten my period once, so when I got down to Florida on December 17th practice we did for the next couple weeks.  Chris started (intelligently) doubting my no risk of pregnancy theory and on December 28th insists that we just made a baby. He says he felt a tingle which at the time made me laugh hysterically.....in hindsight maybe men have good intuition also.