a christmas surprise?

Picture it: a long, long time ago, yet a year after marriage, and trying to get pregnant. No, she doesn’t know anything about ANY types of hormones, such as the LH, FSH, etc., and won’t until years later, when she starts the talk of having a second child. By the way, she, this girl is not yet trying to have the second, but going through tests because she has been through numerous surgeries/illnesses, and she’s older, of course. This girl is a hypochondriac to the extreme, but was even more so when she was younger. Every little pain made her fly to the doctor’s, and she was worried about her health, daily, in such an acute paranoid and obsessive way that she needed medication to calm this mental thing. Let’s get back to ttc because this girl thinks that it should take about ONLY ONE time to get pregnant-she’s young, and dumb. The first month comes, and leaves with the end of her period, her menses, and sadness sets in, she KNOWS something is wrong. There has to be something wrong because she should have gotten pregnant, right? Okay, the second month comes and goes in the same manner-UGH! NOW this girl is FREAKING! Depression sets in, but not clinical, and she decides to forget it, for a while because she’s young, busy, most of her friends don’t have any kids yet, either, and she’s having the best time trying (wink, wink…ya’ know what I mean). Secretly, though, she is seeing some doctors, just to make sure everything is okay. “They” say everything is fine. The third month comes and goes, but something is way different. The smell of smoke, cigarette smoke makes her vomit, she’s peeing a lot, sleeping like CRAZY, her boobs are HUGE, and she’s realized that her period hasn’t started. Well, it had been late before, usually due to things such as illness or stress. She does NOT want to take another pregnancy test. *sigh* She can’t bear another negative result, but she buys one anyway. Ah, it says to use the first morning’s urine. Okay, she gets up in the middle of the night to pee, and pees in a jar – to save for the morning. Morning comes, she does her daily routine to get ready for work, and take on the day. Oh, she remembers to get that “test” out of the way before she leaves. She wants to drink after work with the rest of the gals, so she wants to be sure she’s not putting a life at risk. The husband is gone, and he really isn’t aware of what she’s doing because he hasn’t been alarmed, like SHE’S BEEN regarding not getting pregnant, so she continues reading the directions as quickly as possible. Oh, gosh, a three-minute wait ensues. One line shows, it’s pretty and dark pink. The girl finishes up, heads to the door, checks that “thingy” one more time, and there’s a light pink line, too! This has to be a mistake. She WASN’T EVEN TRYING to get pregnant! Oh, it has to be one of those malfunctioned kits, damn it, and she’s paid a lot of money for it! To cut the rest, she gets blood work, ordered by her new OB/GYN, and has to wait until 5:00 P.M. for the results. In the meantime, hubby is out of his mind with excitement, fear, and everything else, but doesn’t want to inform anyone until blood is positive. They call about 4:30 P.M.. “Hello, Ms. Brooke J, please?” “Uh, speaking.” “Results are positive, meaning that you are indeed pregnant.” “Thank you,” I reply. “HONEY, WE ARE PREGNANT!” It was only after I gave up that I got pregnant. That’s a true story, by the way, and after an uneventful, long, but very well worth-it pregnancy, a beautiful, 8 pound baby boy came into the world-one of the happiest days of my life, in fact, I don’t think anything has topped it to date.

I’M SURE you’ve heard that “little moral”, but just reminding you…, but d*mn#t, I thought for sure this was THE month. Well, you’re Christmas list is next in line to be satisfied by Santa, and that’s that!

ME

I saw you on the August board of BBC. I didn’t get a BFP either. Although I’ve been trying for only a month and I don’t think that DH even wants to try this month. It would really help if everyone else around me would quit getting pregnant. I can forget about untill until I hear about yet another that has a little bundle on the way. Good luck and I’ll keep reading.