On April 22, my husband, David was attending a Dave Matthews Band concert. A week earlier, I had taken a pregnancy test which turned out negative (so I thought), but since a week had gone by, I decided to take another test. Again...the same result, but this time I was a little suspicious because I noticed that the exact same thing happened as the first pregnancy test - my negative result was the opposite line of the negative result in the picture, but still it was only one line, not two. After doing some research online, I realized that no, the lines don't get mixed up, but if your HCG levels are very high, the test will actually pull all of the color from the control line, and put it on the pregnancy line. So, yes! I was pregnant - very much so :) Just to be sure, I went and bought a digital test, and it confirmed "PREGNANT".
So, now I had to tell David, but he wouldn't be home until very late. I decided to leave a surprise to let him know when he got home. I left him a note on the door to remember to take the trash to the road and to check the kitchen counter before he came to bed. And this is what he found :)
The next few weeks were hard. We told our immediate family, but decided to keep it a secret until our first doctor's visit. At 8 weeks, we had our first visit and ultrasound! It was very exciting to hear the baby's heartbeat - an unbelievable 184 beats per minute! Everything went well, and we decided to go ahead and tell the rest of our family and friends.
I will post the ultrasound picture as soon as I can figure out how to get it to work. It wouldn't let me add the PDF version I have.
