Anniversary Surprise!

Welcome to my pregnancy blog!

My husband, Dean, and I were planning to get pregnant in February or March of this year. I'm in a new job and and I have to be there a year before I can get maternity leave. Based on that, we said February at the absolute earliest, would be when we'd start trying to get pregnant.

We talked to some friends about our plan. Everyone said that you needed at least a few months off birth control to get all the hormones out of your system before you really start trying. They said this was what their gynecologists had told them. So, Dean and I decided that I would go off the pill in late December.

Fast forward to late January, and I still hadn't gotten my period. That wasn't a problem, because my cycle was bound to be a little off having gone off the pill, and I was having raging PMS and even cramps.

Dean and I had planned to go to our annual dinner at Etete on January 31. This is the anniversary of our first date, and every year we go to the restaurant where we had our first date.

With my period about 5 days late, and weird symptoms, I decided to pick up a few home pregnancy tests on the way home on the third anniversary of our very first date.

We breezed over the instructions, noticed it said that results would take 3 mins, and I went to take the test. It was a digital test, so it showed a turning hourglass while processing. Within 40 seconds, the test read "Pregnant." But it had only been 40 seconds! What if, while processing, it could say anything, and the test wasn't definite until the 3 minutes had passed? Why hadn't I read the instructions more carefully?

I ran out to Dean and asked to read the instructions again. It said the hourglass would show while processing, but a result could appear in as little as one minute. And it hadn't even been a minute. I must have been seriously pregnant.

I led Dean in to see the result. Even though it was semi-unplanned and we were hoping to wait a few months, he was thrilled and hugged me.

We had a great anniversary dinner that night!