I have always wanted lots of babies.... 6 to be exact. So when we started trying I expected to be pregnant the first month. I mean if your gonna have 6 kids, you better start young and make them fast! Well 10 months later and we were still trying. We started to look into fertility options because of some medical problems we already knew about. If you read my August Fertility Update, you know that we had literally no idea that I was pregnant. I didn't even think I had ovulated in July because I couldn't get a positive ovulation test. Oh was I wrong! I was trying to be in charge of when/how we got pregnant the whole time, so the Lord forced us to trust in Him. He is faithful!
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday passed without me even considering that it was anything but a late month. Remember, I thought that I hadn't even ovulated so I wasn't even expecting to start. Sunday I was exhausted, and had crazy lower back pain. I happened to be over at my parent's house and when I complained of back pain my mom suggested I take a pregnancy test. I literally laughed out loud. No way could I be pregnant. I ignored her, went home later that night, and proceeded to watch Big Brother. Daniel was at the station, but I started texting him about whether I should go get one or not. He reassured me that I wasn't pregnant, but that if I really needed to check then to go buy one. At this point I stopped keeping pregnancy tests in the house because I was using them every month at the slightest sign that I might be pregnant!
I headed to CVS at 9pm... buying a pregnancy test is super awkward, even when you're married. I've bought about 20 and it's uncomfortable every time. By the time I got home I didn't even have to pee.... so I went to sleep. When I woke up the next morning I took the test immediately. Before I even finished peeing a positive had showed up on the test! WHAT?!?!? I instantly regretted taking it without Daniel, but I really didn't expect a positive! I called him immediately, even though surprising him that night would've been really cute. I was in tears of joy telling Daniel that he is going to be a Daddy!! I had been waiting 10 months to tell him that!
I was headed to in-service at school, and Daniel was headed to get new tires that morning. We met at the tire shop so I could give him his keys, and share our excitement together for two minutes! Then I headed off to work to pretend like the biggest moment of my life didn't just happen. Anyone else struggle with keeping baby a secret? This is probably the most important secret of my life, and I wanted to tell everyone immediately. I let a lot of people in on our struggles this year so I wanted everyone to know that God is faithful! I held it in though, well besides a few people at work that needed to know, my family, and Daniel's family! So secrets are not my strong suit, but I tried as hard as I could!
Read my next post to hear about all my first symptoms, struggles, and joys!!
Thank you so much for all of my sweet family and friends who loved on us this past year while we were trying to get pregnant! We are so blessed to say that we will be parents in April 2018!
xoxo,
kelsey
