"What?!"

As always there are some funny stories about this pregnancy that I would like to share.  There are also some not so funny stories that I will share but I think how we found out that we are going to be parents again is pretty funny. It is also bordering on TMI so be warned ;-)

Well I got all my usual monthly symptoms, sore boobs (see what I mean about TMI), constipated, wanting to rip everyone's head off for no good reason...  But then nothing.  Most of those symptoms went away... well they changed anyway.  My boobs got sorer, still constipated but far from wanting to rip everyone's head off I constantly swung between feeling happy and wanting to cry at the smallest thing.  Still that didn't really twig any thoughts of pregnancy, sounds a bit dumb now but remember we were using contraception.  Anyway a couple of days down the track the thought started to creep up on me that maybe just maybe I was pregnant.  I was talking to my closest friend on email and I slipped a PS in at the end of one of the emails, "PS.  I think I am knocked up".  About 10 seconds after hitting the send button my phone rang and my friend told me, in spite of the evidence, that I couldn't put something like that in a PS.  Later that day I started to get some cramps I told her and we decided that I had been wrong.

That evening the cramps had gone away and my period still hadn't arrived.  I was still feeling really emotional and my boobs hurt to the point were my arm brushing against them almost sent me through the roof.  I hadn't really thought any more about it though until I was cooking dinner.  I was browning some mince, normally a pretty nice cooking smell but it was making me feel ill.  Then I added some red wine to the mince and I almost vomited into the kitchen sink.  Ok that is not normal.  Once we had our kids in bed I asked my husband to go to the store to pick some stuff up and I gave him a shopping list


Milk
Bread
Pregnancy test

He read the list and just looked at me. 
"You're late?"
"No honey I just thought it would be fun and a good way to waste some money", no I just thought that really, I guess I was on the down swing of my hormonal cycle.  I simply said "Yes!"  So he came back with a single pack of the cheapest test on the market, I guess he didn't really believe it either.  I took the test and there was the faintest of faint positive result.   No way!  We both pointed out that I had done something wrong with the test.  Now feeling very agitated I sent my husband back to the shops.  He came home with a three pack of the same brand.  I took another two both with the same very positive result.  Hmm nope still can't be true.  So I saved the fourth and final test for the following morning, knowing that a morning test is the most accurate.  Sure enough the next morning brought a much darker line and a much more convincing positive test.  Oh Shit!

So off to the doctor, still not really believing it.  That was until I was sitting in the waiting room reading a story about a dog that was saved from the bush fires, it was all I could do not to burst into tears. Ok so I was REALLY hormonal, it finally started to sink in.  I walked into the doctors office and said "I'm pregnant!"  I guess the look on my face said it all because she just started laughing at me.

Of course the blood test confirmed it and I have now had an ultrasound too.  Seeing that little heartbeat was the final positive for me.  I am having another baby and I couldn't be happier!