The results are POSITIVE!!!!

I am sorry about the blogging break, it wasn't intended but lately I have been so busy. Well, more like sick and extremely tired. When the girls are napping I have been napping, and at night after they go to bed I usually eat dinner then lay on the couch and fall asleep immediately. I just have no energy and if I am up then I am nauseated with some dizziness.


After a looooong weekend, wish some confusion, worrying, and planning it all out in our heads; we finally got a call yesterday afternoon at 4:30 that went like this,
nurse: "Kristi, your lab results came back. And your progesterone is a little low so the doctor wants to call in some medicine. Which pharmacy......"
me: "So I am pregnant?"
nurse: "well, I guess so. That is what he is saying. Let me look back at your lab. hmmmmmm...Yes you are!"
me: "OMG, ok....so what about the medicine?"


It started last Wednesday night, well the nausea and sickness. I didn't think anything about it, just took a phenergan and went to bed. When I woke up Thursday morning I started eating some cereal, and got sick again. At that point some crazy thought popped in my head, when was my last period? I couldn't remember. I have never been regular, and haven't been on birth control since the girls were 6 months old. We did infertility treatments for a year, and then finally got pregnant with them by IVF. So what was the point in birth control? We knew we wanted more children but also knew IVF is expensive so it would be several more years before we could do it again. So, anyways, after I got sick last Thursday I decided to take a test. If I ever question a delayed period, then I usually take a test, see that it is negative and I start my period that day or the next. So I was thinking I would go ahead and test, see the negative, start my period before we went out of town for the holiday, and then self diagnose a stomach bug.
But to my surprise, the test quickly showed positive. However, I thought it might have been a little messed up so I got another test, and it too quickly showed positive. I called Ben, who didn't even know I was feeling sick or testing, and told him "I think might be pregnant." He was quite confused! Then, I was doing some research on the medicine I was on, and came across a website that said it could cause a false positive. Since it was a holiday weekend my OB and my PCP are closed on Friday's and they were closed on Monday for the holiday. I had to wait until Tuesday to go get a blood pregnancy test. In the mean time, I took 6 tests and they all kept reading positive! I have been sick the whole time, not actually throwing up like I did with the girls, but extremely nauseated with NO appetite. After yesterday's phone call, we finally know and it all makes sense now!

Although this wasn't completely planned, we are so excited and couldn't be happier that God has chosen us to carry and parent another angel! My progesterone is low, but that isn't uncommon and it was with my first pregnancy so I am on some medicine to help with that. We are praying for guidance on our insurance issue, a much healthier pregnancy than the first, and a healthy baby!