Monthly Archives: November 2007

We had our first ultrasound today. It was awesome! We got to see the little heart beating away. Sometimes the picture was so clear Jim saw the two flaps of the heart beating one after another. I can’t describe the feeling of seeing that tiny being living inside me. We are reminded of God’s amazingContinue reading “First Ultrasound”

It worked out just perfectly that Jim’s parents, my parents, and my brother and his family were all together for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We were pretty excited to share the news with all of them! (We were only missing Jim’s sister, who was in eastern Washington with her boyfriend’s family.) After we were finished eatingContinue reading “Thanksgiving Surprise”

On Monday I visited my friend Emrie at Mill Creek for work. At the end of my appointment with her, she mentioned that she’d like to get her book back if I was done with it because someone else wanted to borrow it. What book? Taking Charge of Your Fertility, an amazing book about naturalContinue reading “Telling Two More”

Nurse Nancy called today to let me know that my hCg levels are “appropriate” for how far along I am. That is good news. I looked on the American Pregnancy Association website, and I’m actually at the high end of the week 4 range. (Yes, I’m a total data nerd.) We get to go inContinue reading “Even Better”

This morning, Nurse Nancy called and confirmed that my blood test results from last week were positive for pregnancy. My hCg levels were a little low, but she wasn’t surprised since I was so newly pregnant when I took the first test. She asked if I would come in and get another lab done toContinue reading “Confirmed”

Today when I pulled into church at Antioch, Jen Shuck was in the car right behind me (no husbands: mine was at home asleep since he works nights right now, and hers is in Hawaii on business). It was a sign! She was headed to her Sunday School class and I was walking into churchContinue reading “Babies R Us”

Jim just couldn’t wait to tell someone, so we picked our good friends Adam and Sarah. Actually, we told their daughter (our god-daughter), Aly, first… but since she’s ten months old, she couldn’t tell anyone else. We babysat Aly on Friday night and when we took her home, Jim broke the news that she wouldContinue reading “Spreading the News”

After I got off the phone with Nurse Nancy, I felt really disappointed. I had told her on the phone, “I just wish I’d seen it [the positive test].” Then I remembered that I had one here at home! So I marched myself to the bathroom and took it. Less than the required two minutesContinue reading “Just Checking”

When we went to PacLab in Issaquah to get the blood work done, they hadn’t received the work order from the doctor’s office. Jim said, “Can’t we pull the pregnancy card?” So the nice man at the front desk made some phone calls and decided that we could go ahead and get the blood drawnContinue reading “Waiting for the call”

I had already called Jim and told him a little bit about the appointment, including that I had taken a pregnancy test and that it was negative – just as we expected it to be. Erin had joked that now I could find a really creative way to tell him, since he wasn’t with meContinue reading “Telling Jim”