I found out on the 5th of November 2010 that I was pregnant with baby bug. It was my second pregnancy, I had a missed miscarriage in June 2010. This was obviously a very upsetting and distressing time for us both so we decided not to try again straight away. We felt we would know when the time was right to try again, and we did. Hubby went on detachment with work for a few weeks and while he was away we both had decided individually during our time apart that we were ready to start trying again for the family we have both always wanted. So when he got back we knew the time was right. Having tried to get pregnant for 2 years before my first pregnancy we really weren't expecting it to happen in the first cycle of trying, but it did!
My periods were never reliable so when I was late I didn't think anything of it really but I then started to have this "feeling" like something was different, so I decided to take a pregnancy test. I stumbled to the loo half asleep first thing in the morning, wee'd on the stick, looked at it, no line - negative! So I just set the test on the side, washed my hands, jumped back into bed, mumbled its negative to hubby and proceeded to dose back off to sleep. Shortly after this hubby got up and went to the loo, he shouted through from the bathroom "I thought you said that test was negative?" "It is negative!" I replied. "No its not..." he says, bringing it through to me and showing me the test. I could see there was a VERY faint line in the box, my first thought was it MUST be an evaporation line because it didn't appear straight away. There was another test in the box so I took that and again there was a very faint line. My heart started racing and we both got so excited. I couldn't possibly be pregnant this quickly after deciding to try again, could I?
So we decided the best thing to do would be to go out and get a Clear Blue Digital test, which apparently gives the best results. So hubby went out to the local village to get one, while I went and downed some water knowing that I wouldn't want to wait to wee again and would want to do the test as soon as he got back. That turned out to be a bad idea as I ended up pacing about the house in my pyjamas desperate for a wee! It felt like he was gone forever but eventually he got back and I went and took the test and right enough it was positive! So 3 pregnancy tests later the news sunk in and we allowed ourselves to get excited!!
Over the next couple of weeks I almost forgot I was pregnant really, I was trying not to think about it as I didn't want to get too excited having been through the first 3 months of pregnancy before and getting all excited only to be told on the day of my 12 week scan that there was no hearbeat and my baby had stopped growing at 6 weeks. The thought of going through the disappointment of that loss again hurt too much so I tried not to allow myself to get excited. As the weeks progressed though I had some ultrasound scans and then eventually heard the babys heartbeat and started to feel movements, and I allowed myself to get more and more excited with each of these pregnancy milestones.
Eventually arrived the evening of 12th of July 2011 when those braxton hicks I had been having every night for a week didn't quite go away. I shall write about what happened next in my next post...
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