In Case You Haven't Heard. . . We're Having a Baby!!!!

OK, so even though almost everyone knows that Nathan and I are having a baby, I've been waiting to post it on here so I could upload the first ultrasound pictures. Well, we've been pretty busy the past couple of weekends and when we are not going, going, going, I'm exhausted, nauseous or just don't feel good. I finally got around to asking Nathan to scan the pictures last night, which he did willingly, but he couldn't get them out of the HP Wizard to email them to me. So. . . long story short (not really, at this point!), we're having a baby but I can't post the ultrasound pictures as of yet. :) :(

As of today, June 16, 2009, I am 8 weeks, 5 days pregnant. I'm not really sure when people ask if I should say I'm 8 weeks at this point or 9 weeks. I get these weekly email updates and the one I got this week is Week 9 because it says I'm 8 weeks, 5 days. Very confusing if you ask me. Anyway, my due date is Jan. 21, 2010. It was pushed back from Jan. 13th at my last appointment.

Many people ask how I knew I was pregnant. I guess I had early symptoms but they were the symptoms you might read about but the ones that most people don't experience. First, I had a metal taste in my mouth. I had it every morning for about a week and a half. Yuck! Then, my gums were bleeding every time I brushed my teeth (and once when I was checking out at the grocery store!). I really didn't know these were symptoms at the time. I think the one that gave it away the most was, as Nathan puts it, my super-sonic sense of smell. The new ceiling tiles in our basement smelled so bad to me and everytime I opened the refridgerator, I thought something smelled bad (I think it was that our Brita pitcher needed to be cleaned). Then finally, I had a few more normal symptoms that I won't go into. :)

I decided to take a pregnancy test on Mother's Day. Even though I wondered, I thought for sure it would say "Not Pregnant". When it said the opposite though, I about fainted. Nathan was still in bed and I ran in there. He pretended he was asleep. I was shaking him and he finally said, "I can ignore you all day" (nice, huh?). I said, "No you can't because I'M PREGNANT!" He opened his eyes realy quick then. I cried as we hugged each other. I kept looking at the test to make sure I had read it right. I was just in shock. We had to quickly move on though because we had our families coming over to celebrate Mother's Day and there was lots to do.

We told my mom, my brother and Nathan's parents that day. We wanted to tell everyone but we knew I should go to the Dr. first to confirm everything. The weird thing is that when I sent the email to invite everyone to the Mother's Day BBQ, Nathan's sister, Heather, asked me if we were hosting it to annouce that we were pregnant. She said her psychic just told her that that someone close to her was pregnant. When she sent me that email though, I didn't know I was pregnant but obviously, her psychic did!

Another weird thing along those lines is that once I made the annoucement at work last week, one of my co-workers told me that this girl who works in another department at our work, had asked his wife (who works in the same dept. as this girl) if I was pregnant. And she had asked the week before I found out. So I was pregnant but had no idea. I asked her how she knew and she said one day I was standing at the copier and she just looked at me and thought I was pregnant. She said she can usually tell by the eyes. Crazy! I now call her the "Baby Whisperer". (BTW, she says I'm having a girl!)

Anyway, I know this is a long post but there is so much I want to remember and have in writing about this whole experience. But all in all, we are very excited and feel very blessed. I'm excited for Graham to be a big brother because I know he will be great. And I already know that Nathan will be a wonderful dad because I see how he is with Graham. It's comforting to know he's been through this once before and we both won't be total newbies at this.

We will found out the sex of the baby when we can. I think that will be sometime in Sept. Nathan and Graham are pulling for a boy but I'm pulling for a girl so we can even out our household. But really, we just pray for a healthy baby either way. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers that everything goes OK. I'm sure that I'll be posting a lot as we continue this journey through the birth in Jan. and beyond!

And hopefully, one of us will figure out how to get the ultrasound pictures on here sooner or later!

Love,
Dawn