Bear with me, this one's going to be painful....
I have always wanted to have children. Since like 5. I loved little babies and I had quite the babysitting business growing up. Imagine my delight when I became a Mormon, where not only was it extremely ordinary to have a house-full of kids, but to be able to stay home with them, was accepted and standard.
I was married at 22, we ran into some road blocks that kept at us at bay for awhile (that's where Randy and his rational thinking stepped in), and then the light turned green at age 25 when we were finally ready to add to our family. It took us 6 LONG MONTHS before we conceived. I took my temperature everyday, I charted, I read books, & belonged to discussion forums. Are you beginning to notice a pattern here? I'm not exactly a haphazard person. (I really need help.)
And here's the psychotic part to the story:
I have always wanted to have children. Since like 5. I loved little babies and I had quite the babysitting business growing up. Imagine my delight when I became a Mormon, where not only was it extremely ordinary to have a house-full of kids, but to be able to stay home with them, was accepted and standard.
I was married at 22, we ran into some road blocks that kept at us at bay for awhile (that's where Randy and his rational thinking stepped in), and then the light turned green at age 25 when we were finally ready to add to our family. It took us 6 LONG MONTHS before we conceived. I took my temperature everyday, I charted, I read books, & belonged to discussion forums. Are you beginning to notice a pattern here? I'm not exactly a haphazard person. (I really need help.)
And here's the psychotic part to the story:
I was at work, I was feeling REALLY tired. I thought to myself, either I have strep throat or I'm pregnant. During my lunch break, I went to Albertson's to buy a pregnancy test, and took it right there in the Albertson's bathroom. I held my breath as I watched the faint blue line appear in the "test" window. I couldn't believe it! I bawled & bawled all by myself in the filthiest of filthy bathrooms. I pulled myself together, went to my car and called Randy who was in California at the time for a medical school interview. He had to contain his excitement since he was riding in the car of the medical student that picked him up from the airport. I think he was more relieved than excited. Finally, his psychotic wife could move on to worrying about something else! Then I called my mom and blubbered to her. Then I went to work and blubbered to my manager and a couple of co-workers. Then I went to the drugstore near my house and picked up a few more packages of pregnancy tests. I took 7 tests just to make sure I was indeed really pregnant.
My pregnancy was non-eventful. Except for the fact that I swelled up like a balloon. It wasn't a pretty sight, proceed with caution:
My pregnancy was non-eventful. Except for the fact that I swelled up like a balloon. It wasn't a pretty sight, proceed with caution:
20 weeks(What happened to my cute hair?)
26 weeks
32 weeks
5 days before delivery. Whoa Nelly.
I'm going to spare you from pictures of my swollen feet. But believe you me, they we so swollen. I had to wear slippers to work and I never thought I'd be able to wear normal shoes again.
To be continued....
6 comments:
I took a pregnancy test in the bathroom at Albertons, too! That is so weird! It's almost the same story - took a while to get pregnant, woke up one morning and just knew I was pregnant so my sister-in-law and I went to Albertson's, took the test right there and called Ike. So funny!
Oh, my dear Nancy! And I thought I was swollen during pregnancy... I'm so sorry to say that you won. But you still looked totally adorable at nine months... you beat me in that one too.
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I went to albertsons to buy my third and final pregnancy test. My mom insisted that we not have any more plus/minus tests and we go get a pregnant/not test. Josh was in vegas. Albertsons must be the place to go.
Well I went to Dan's to do mine. You honestly just can't wait til you get home in your own comfortable bathroom. And why in the world did you spend all the money on 7 more tests!!!??? That's classic.
You did NOT take 7 tests!!! Oh my gosh, that's so funny! I had Julia in March--no swelling at all, and I even wore my wedding ring throughout the pregnancy. But James was born at the end of July, and you should have seen my ankles!!
You've told me before that you get huge in pregnancy, but after seeing the pics, I think you look beautiful pregnant! I believe that your feet might have been out of this world though, I had a touch of that with Jennie, and still can't get over it. 7 tests? That's wild.
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