Now for the funny story, although I must first start with a backstory... We had been TTC (trying to conceive) for 4 cycles. The Friday before I tested, C asked me if I thought this was the cycle. I had never been so sure that my period was coming and I told him this wasn't our month.
My first 2 cycles "trying" were very odd. I had a cortisone steroid shot in my SI joint (low back) to help with my back pain and I truly believe that the steroid made my cycles go crazy. Cycle number 3 was super short - only 18 days and I ovulated on day 7. Craziness!
So on Sunday, October 17th, I woke up and took my basal body temperature like I do everyday and went back to sleep. (I temp every morning at 5:30 am and then just go back to sleep if I don't need to get up right away.) 8:30 rolls around and I decide to see what my temp was and I was expecting it to take a nose dive like it normally does as my period is about to begin. To my shock, my temp had gone up and was higher than it had ever been. This can be an early sign of pregnancy, so since I was 12 DPO (days past ovulation), I decided to test.
The first test I dipped was messed up and the control line did not even appear. I figured that I must have not dipped it long enough, so I re-dipped. Sure enough, 2 lines appeared. Then I figured that I must have messed up the test and started with a new test. Sure enough, 2 lines appeared again.
It is now about 8:45 am, so I decide to go wake Chris up. (I had always thought I would do something creative to tell him, but I was too excited, shocked, and in disbelief to not tell him.) So I go to Chris and say "I tested and there are 2 lines." The poor guy was so confused and had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. I told him he just need to come with me and he begrudgingly agreed. He looked at the tests, scratched his head, and said "So does this mean we need to have sex?" WTH? My response was "no, we already did that and this is the result - I'm pregnant." :)
Back to Chris's comment - one of the things I was doing while charting was using OPKs (ovulation predictors). These things drove me batty! I had convinced myself that there was something wrong with me b/c I NEVER got a positive OPK. For the record, a truly positive OPK has a darker test line than a control line. So all of those people that I see saying that they have 7 days of a positive OPK really need to read the instructions.
Well that's all for now, I'm sure there will be plenty more to come.
p.s. My EDD is June 28, 2011.
Congrats!!!
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