The day that made it all worth it...

We can't believe it but we are finally having a baby! Here's how we found out.

I went in for my blood draw on Friday April 23, 2010 @ 8:30am. Usually they call us around 3pm for results. I went home. I was watching TV and considering taking a nap since the waiting was torture. So I was about to get comfortable and fall asleep and the phone rang, I looked and it was the REs office...but it was only 10:55. This is a little early...
I usually make them leave a message but I didn't I answered it, which I normally don't because Kip wants us to be together when we find out. So I answered and I said "Hi I know what you're going to tell me but don't' tell me because Kip's not here and he wants us to be together." (Imagine that as one word, because that is how it came out). I got sick to my stomach...I was so nervous. I told them I would call them back. Nurse N was very understanding and said that she would take my call when I called. (Also very unusual). I call Kip (10:56) I told him they called and he said "well I guess I can come home before class then and we can call them" I got really quiet. Kip says "Or I could come now if you want" I say "yes come now, I can't wait." Kip comes home and his normal 5-20 minute commute was 12 minutes. WE hung up at 11 and he was home by 11:12. I was totally writhing in pain, my stomach hurt so bad due to nerves. I barely said hi before I started dialing...
Those were the longest two rings ever...then the longest 20 seconds of hold time. (Which in hold time is nothing!) Nurse N gets on the phone and asks if we are together and we said yes and she said "well...YOU'RE PREGNANT" I said "Shut up" she giggled and said "I'm serious!" So then I lost it, wailing I was crying so hard. All that work worth it. In an instant, all my hope, restored. Kip was welling up and had PERMAGRIN! (yes that is a real word). We kind of heard her instructions to continue meds and stop other things and carry on with life this way but not that etc...it was a blur. After that announcement you can't really expect us to hear you anymore!
So when we got off the phone we hugged and cried and I think Kip was about to do cartwheels in our bedroom and I giggled at him he was so giddy! We called Janeen right away because we knew we wanted to tell my parents in person and dad was at work so we wanted to wait until they were together. When we finally got a hold of Janeen she screamed so loud she was so excited! She was screaming and Carl she said was smiling for us! That was a fun moment. We were on cloud nine.
Later that night we went over to my parents. My sister (who knew none of this was going on until this moment) was there. We walked in and my mom is trying to show me all this stuff she bought at Macys and I'm like seriously you need to HUSH, because Kip was giving my dad a gift we had bought him. It was a Barnes and Noble bag and my dad opened it up and it was cigars. He looked at Kip and was like "cigars" with a question mark on his face. Kip said (barely loud enough for my mom to hear) "yeah you'll need those in nine months to hand out in the waiting room" INSTANTLY my mom was crying hysterically. I know you know the kind of crying, where you can't catch your breath you are like stutter crying? That was her. My sister is like "I'm royally confused" but she was excited. So then we filled her in on the experience up until that point and she was like OK I get it now!

We aren't telling the "world" until I am 12 weeks. That will be June 20th. So if you are reading this and it is after June 20th and I'm still pregnant feel free to tell the world!

We are so thrilled that we finally crossed the finish line. And now we can't wait until I graduate from the RE to a regular OBGYN. We are just excited and blessed and still I think a little shocked that we actually made it to this point. The REs office has a tree on the wall, and you get to sign it when you have a baby. I can't wait to sign that thing! The tree, that used to be the wall of "look what I did that you can't do" staring at me every time I sat and waited in the waiting room. I can be a part of the "other side" now and I can't wait. Also Kip and I were talking about how our baby will get to be on one of the bragging walls they have there, the millions of baby pictures. Every time we would leave I would stare because those babies were conceived how mine would be. And it gave me a little bit of hope knowing that.

We are pregnant. Hallelujah!