6 weeks - Heartbeat ♥

Anxiety then excitement and relief! 

After our week in Vegas, I started spotting which was very scary and nerve wracking. Nothing was consistent, one day I had more spotting, while the next I would think it had stopped for a short period. My closest friends (who I shared the news with) reassured me what the signs and symptoms of a miscarriage were and that what I was experiencing was different, but I was still very concerned. My doctor ordered an Hcg level for me to get drawn. This hormone "human chorionic gonadotropin" (better known as hCG) is produced during pregnancy. It is made by cells formed in the placenta, which nourishes the egg after it has been fertilized and becomes attached to the uterine wall. The level should double within 48 hours to show the pregnancy progressing, however mine went up but did not double. Again very nervous! Thankfully, my doctor agreed to see me on April 24th, which was 1 week prior to my scheduled appointment. 

THANKFULLY, everything was reassured and we got to see the heartbeat!!! 

Here is the first look at baby wilder the blob:

Where the plus sign curser in the black area is the baby... very very tiny! The size of a sesame seed, crazy enough it has a heart beat!!! 

After the ultrasound and being reassured everything was going fine, we could not wait for our "official" first OB appointment to find out the official due date! 

April 11-16: Sober Vegas!

Spring Break April 2017 

Grand Canyon West, Hoover Dam, & (Sober) Vegas

Now that I am writing this in hindsight I completely understand why people said "at least you didn't feel pregnant while you were in Vegas". I am SO thankful as well. We had an amazing time even without drinking and partying all night :)

Here are some highlight photos:

We rented a mustang convertible to tour The Grand Canyon in style!

Hoover Dam

Jameson at the hoover Dam water plant tour

A hike I did not want to do... Pregnancy actually
has made me scared of heights!

 

First night out! 

All day pool day! Virgin Frozen Moscow Mules

Late night delicious snack!

Never go to Fremont street AKA "old town vegas" sober and during the day... GROSS!

Virgin Cucumber cocktail on left and actual alcohol to the right :)

April 5th - How did this all start?

How did this all start?

Well, I wish we could say we were just casually "not preventing" and then poof! It was a little more calculated than those stories. We were "tracking" which means to know how many days your woman's cycle is and now a days you can do a "ovulation kit" that can sometimes for some women calculate your ovulation window. So that is what we did... and the ovulation kit worked!

I made a plan to test 3 days before my expected period... I literally couldn't sleep the night before when I was planning on doing the pregnancy test, so I woke up at 4am and did the test!
And...

IT WAS POSITIVE!!!! AHHHHH!!!! 

How did I tell Jameson?

Jameson and I had talked about how he wanted to find out and he wanted it to be creative... So while i was awake and freaking out with EXCITEMENT I ordered a one-day prime delivery for a book called "The Expectant Father". So that meant that I had to wait the whole 10+ hours to tell him!!! It was a really long day! But so exciting when the book arrived. When he opened the amazon package with his name on it, he pulled out the book and looked at me, then the book and said, "did you order this? Are you pregnant?" And of course we both were beyond ecstatic! 

Even though I did not get my period 3 days later, I was still nervous and couldn't believe it. As we were headed to Vegas the next week, I did another pregnancy test just to be sure:

And it was still positive! Happily I had to endure a SOBER trip to Vegas for the first time ever... It was fun but a much different perspective! Thankfully I really had no symptoms of pregnancy because it was so early that I found out.