I always have every intention of updating this blog more often than I do, but time just seems to get away from me. It has been a month since my last post, and as you could imagine, a lot has happened. We went in for the ultrasound and Cami had "lots" of follicles that looked like they could be heading for maturity. After that, we headed for IKEA and bought lots of things to get the house and guest room ready for the arrival of the Beaches! We had to schedule a second ultrasound for a few days later, on Tuesday, to which Cami went alone, and we had one follicle that was stepping out ahead of the rest. They gave us instructions to trigger on Wednesday night and come back in for the insemination on Friday. Yep. The same Friday that the crew was arriving from the US. So, we made a plan. I would head to the airport and pick everyone up while Cami took Sally with her to the hospital. Since the hospital is only 20 minutes from the airport and their flight was due to come in 2.5 hours before the appointment, we'd have plenty of time to get there. Well, my favorite phrase of late has been, "If you want to hear God laugh tell him your plans." It has fit in with a lot of things. The Beaches missed their connecting flight in Copenhagen and had no way to contact us, as we didn't make sure they had our numbers and such before they left the US. I was left at the airport for right at 6 hours, having no clue what was going on, while Cami had to do the insemination on her own. It was rough, but they made it, Cami made the appointment and it all began a very busy week.
DT got to go to Dreamhack in Jonköping while his parents stayed at a wonderful hotel and did lots of sight seeing and shopping. (It was there that I got Cami a pretty darn cute one-piece for her birthday!) We went to Gothenburg for two days and shopped and visited museums. We spent the night out on Hönö. On Friday, which was Midsommar and Cami's birthday, we had a big meal with Cami's mom, brother, sister-in-law, the nephews and the Beach family. It was a fun day. Saturday we laid low and on Sunday I took them back to the airport. It was a very fun, exhausting trip for everyone.
During the visit, we talked about baby possibilities some, but this time neither of us were really feeling it. One morning when Cami woke, LE said she looked like she was glowing, but other than that, Cami felt no symptoms. She returned to work on Monday and did an overnight. I brought up how we would proceed in upcoming months on Tuesday night, which was a mistake as it just made us both sad. We had originally planned on testing on Wednesday, but since there were no symptoms, we wanted to save ourselves that two days of, "well, it could have been a false negative!" which it can at that point, so we decided to wait until Friday. Then on Wednesday, the sadness really crept in and we decided we would test Thursday morning. Cami went out to buy a test. When she came home, she had bought two tests and some good coffee. She said, "You make us some coffee and some ice cream while I test, just to get it over with." I was had just finished making the coffee and was putting a tag on Esme's new collar when I heard Cami gasp from the bathroom. I ran in and we both looked in amazement at this:
Neither of us could believe it. It was still flashing for a moment or two, but I kept thinking over and over that it wouldn't say "gravid" (pregnant in Swedish) if she wasn't. There are false negatives, but a false positive 14 days after trigger would be crazy rare. After we finished crying and jumping and freaking out, we tried to call Amy & Christy. We finally got Christy, who was at work (sorry!) on the phone and then Amy called back. Needless to say, they were thrilled. That's when I started trying to call my mom. Then I called Christina and got to hear Lucy babbling in the background. Then I tried mom again. And again. And again. We called the Beaches to thank them for being such good luck and then tried mom again. And again. It took two and a half hours and a call to my dad to get mom on the phone, but we finally got her. She is so super excited! Then we called Nana, who is also thrilled. Then, while doing a little dance and singing, "I'm gonna be a mommy! We're gonna have a baby!" I accidentally butt dialed my mom, so she heard the whole thing, much to my embarrassment. Sigh. This baby is already making a fool out of me.
It's still very early and we are both realistic in that we know anything can happen, but we are pregnant! Snobbit may be on his or her way. Cami tested again when we woke up at 3 AM.
Confirmation sure feels good! I guess the whole nature of this blog will change now. I couldn't be more thrilled!
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