Thanks for reading our blog! We are both so excited to share with you our completely opposite and quite funny stories of being pregnant. Jillian is due on January 19, 2014 and Gina is due February 19, 2014. We are best friends who grew up together, roomed together in college and are now going to become mamas together. We hope you find this blog informational, reassuring and most importantly, entertaining. Here it goes...
Gina - What the What?!
So, my story and my BFF's story about how we became pregnant are totally the opposite! Keep in mind while reading my posts, that I am extremely excited to have a baby and it's something Charlie (my fiance and the guy who knocked me up) and I are really looking forward to. Happy reading....
It all started when I started feeling sick to my stomach. I had diarrhea and didn't have an appetite for a few weeks, yet I was SO bloated! I decided I probably needed to make an appointment with my doc to see what was up.
It was Friday, and I scheduled my appointment for the following Thursday. In the meantime, my boobs were feeling really sore and I was EXHAUSTED! About 4 weeks prior to this, I decided to go off the birth control pill. I had been on it for about 15 years straight and we both knew we wanted to try to have kids right after our honeymoon scheduled for November, so we decided to go off the pill and be careful around my fertile time. It was our hope that having been off the pill for a few months would help us have an easier time conceiving.
Thanks to the advice of my BFF, I downloaded the P-tracker app for my phone. It tracked when I would get my period and when my fertile days were. I wanted to avoid having sex around my fertile days for the obvious reason of not conceiving a baby. I didn't realize that I should have regular cycles before relying on this app. Instead, I just calculated that last date of my period and didn't think anything of it...until all my symptoms starting coming together.
Before I went to my doctor, I decided to take a test, totally thinking it would be negative. I mean, there was no way I could be pregnant, right? WRONG! 4 positive pregnancy tests later, we learned we were going to have a baby. It also was the day I learned I was going to be a 5 1/2 month pregnant bride. OMG! All the questions started running through my head. What will our parents think? Will my wedding dress fit? Should we postpone our wedding? Am I ready for this? Is Charlie ready for this? And a million more...
Jillian - Timing is Everything!
Opposite is right! :)
My husband, Eric, and I just celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. We weren't in a hurry to start a family for the first few years. We wanted to make sure we had spent plenty of time together as a couple and that we had everything planned out. My type A personality figured that as soon as we started tying to conceive, we would make it happen!
A year long lesson in patience followed... I learned a lot more than I has anticipated, like how to track my ovulation, pee on sticks to find out my #1 and 2 most fertile days during the month, eat the right foods, stand on my head, etc. :)
I set up a fertility appointment with my doctor last October. I underwent blood draws, a procedure to check if my fallopian tubes were clear (one side was blocked, but they were able to unblock it during the painful procedure) and finally started on my prescription for Clomid. Clomid is a fertility drug that forces you to ovulate every month, therefore increasing your chances of conception.
4 more months of negative pregnancy tests and surprise periods followed. At the end of February, my doctor doubled my dose of clomid and the next week Eric and I were off on a week-long vacation to Florida. I figured the relaxation, sunshine and care-free days would most surely produce the baby we were longing for. I was feeling very confident this time. I thought I felt different as the date of my period approached. Fast forward to the PINK concert that I attended with my sister, cousin and close friend for my sister's birthday at the end of March... We were singing, dancing and then I ran off for a quick bathroom break and came back doubled over in tears. My period was a week early and it was HEAVY. It felt like a complete blow to my confidence (and bloated gut). I set up an appointment the very next week with my OBGYN to discuss my options. She told me I had one more round of clomid to go until they would no longer allow me to take it (it is not safe to take this medication for more than 6 months) and if it was her, she would try Artifical Insemination along with this last dose of clomid and give it all we had.
I'm happy to report that we took her advice and the next month brought tears of joy, not failures. :)
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