Well, I didn't think I'd be turning our Japan blog into the Family/Baby blog so soon, but here we are! Everyone told us that we'd get pregnant in Japan, but we laughed it off and went on our way. "It's a terrible time!" we said, "We're ready to enjoy Japan unburdened! We have years before that's going to happen". And at the end of our tour in Japan as we boarded the flight to our new home in San Diego, we made jokes about how wrong those people were. Fast forward two months, and it appears that the joke is on us. Somehow for 8.5 weeks I managed to ignore all the signs: Nauseous all day? Exhausted? I convinced myself and Alex that it was the stress of moving, climate change, etc. A few weeks in, even the smells of most foods and my lavender soap were making me get sick. But, no. Obviously I wasn't pregnant- couldn't be. We're still on sea duty and Alex is a busy Navigator prepping for a long deployment. All this must just be stress and a winter bug. So I scheduled my yearly physical, and despite my continuous reassurance that all of the above symptoms were just move related, my doctor calmly forced me into the lab. I'm sure you can figure out the rest from here: He gave me that "Big Fat Positive", and, with a grin on his face, handed me a huge stack of paperwork on the way back to the lab. To get eight vials of blood drawn- too bad I hadn't had lunch yet.
Disclaimer: Most of the above (though all true) is written tongue in cheek. Yes, we were convinced it was terrible timing, but are absolutely thrilled that His plans are bigger than ours! We've always wanted a big family, we just weren't expecting to start it so soon :)
Since Alex was underway when I got the "big news", I decided I had to keep it from him until he was home. Who wants to find out they're going to be a dad in an email? So upon his arrival home we walked in the front door and I handed him a package... containing this book:
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| Surprise! |
Post coming soon with all the info and pictures from our first ultrasound!
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