I peed in a cup and did the pink dye FRER first. Sure enough, there was a visible second line. Then I dunked the digital in the cup for 5 seconds (upon further reading I should have left it in there for 20 seconds), then watched the hour glass on the screen. 3 minutes later I was quite modernly informed that I was pregnant. I took a picture of the digital and shared with my TTC support group online. They were excited!
Yesterday I was up from 2:30am (had 4 hours of sleep) until 9pm--quite the long day. During the time between BFPs and DH waking up, I set up this little surprise for him.
Inside the note reads, "We have a secret to share with you. Love, Mommy & Baby Reeske." I also put a copy of "What to Expect When You're Expected" in his briefcase, but he found it before even leaving the house. He's been looking forward to reading that book because of how hilarious it is. DH's reaction was less than stellar, but only because it takes him a long time to wake up mentally.
I was so proud of myself that only DH and I know (plus my TTC group). I spilled it to any one else, lol. I'm waiting until Friday to share it with my friend Candice, who lives in Austin and is due in September, and my best friend Heather, who lives in NC. I'm waiting until Friday only because I'll consider myself "late" by then as AF would have arrived on Thursday on 12DPO.
I called the Austin Birthing Center and told them our good news. Stacy the receptionist remembered me from my March 1st tour, pulled my file, and told me that a midwife would call me later in the afternoon. It was around 5pm when Vikki called me to go over my file and ask me routine questions about this cycle. According to my LMP, my EDD is 1/3/13 but since I ovulated on CD17, my EDD would be 1/5/13. I've told DH just to tell people, such as some of his college classmates who knew we were trying, if they ask that we are due the first week of January. My first prenatal appointment is Friday, June 1st at 11am, and it should last a hour. Hopefully Marshall will still be in town (instead of being away at his internship) and can go with me. I know there won't be much for him to do, but he can get a look at all of the rooms. We'll also do a scan at that time to determine if I'm having one baby Reeske or two baby Reeskes. I'm very concerned because twins run in my family, and the Birthing Center will only take low risk patients. We can afford the BC, but not afford a hospital birth as my insurance does not provide any maternity coverage.
For dinner DH and I went to Texas Roadhouse. I ate way more than I was should have and I knew it. Then we went to Amy's Ice Cream, and I had white chocolate ice cream with crushed in Oreos--yum. We took our ice cream and sat on a rock bench near a playground and water play area that had little kids having a good time with the water jets that shoot up from the ground. I told DH that I was going to focus on having a fit and happy pregnancy. I want to be active and make decisions that will lead to me being happy instead of feeling deprived. I also told him that I was concerned over how emotional I'll be since I wear my heart on my sleeve as it is. I asked him to be conscious of whenever we're talking about something and he feels like I'm overreacting, being irrational, or making a mountain out of a mole hill, to just stop and do something to calm me down. We decided that he would say, "Come sit on the couch with me," and that would be my cue that I need to calm down and regain control of myself.
Another thing we talked about was what we would do after our baby arrives. DH will have three semesters left in college, so a guaranteed 18 months left in Austin before we may move to wherever he can get a quality job. We can't afford daycare, and it isn't our desire to go that route anyway. DH expects to still be telecommuting for his computer programming job 20-30 hours per week and going to school. Him working 30 hours per week is equivalent to my take-home pay with a 40-hour work week. I want to stay home full time, and after our baby is a few months old and I've gotten into a routine, maybe watch another child during the day. One coworker's daughter would be 20 months old in May 2013 plus she lives 5 minutes away, and my neighbor's youngest will be closer to 2.5 years old.
All in all, DH and I are both really happy, but it hasn't sunk in fully yet. I think it might when I start experiencing morning sickness--how could it not?!
